Ovid’s Metamorphoses #025/111: “Mars and Venus”

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 4.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 1 mins 46s

What it’s “about”: Adulterers are caught in a net…

Words I didn’t know: xx

Quotable quotes: 

Then Vulcan’s mind went dark; he dropped his work 

And turned at once to subtle craftsmanship, 

To make a net so light, so delicate, 

So thinly woven of fine-tempered bronze 

The casual, glancing eye would never see it — 

Less visible than sleekest threads of wool 

Or nets that spiders hang from tallest beams.

How it lands to my eco-sensibility: xx

Obvious allusions, ways it was used (that I am aware of already) : xx

What I know I didn’t ‘get’: xx

To my knowledge, who’s used it why/how (RACC): xx

Further research questions: xx

Anything else: xx