What this project is about.
This one is from Book 4.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 6 mins
What it’s “about”: A woman being punished for enjoying consensual sex – turned into a flower, poor petal (after her jealous younger sister snitches).
In Greek mythology, Leucothoe (Ancient Greek: Λευκοθόη, from λευκός, “white”, and θοός, “quick, swift”) was a Babylonian princess. The daughter of Orchamus, a king of Persia, Leucothoe was either a lover of the sun god Helios or a victim of rape. A nymph or Leucothoe’s own sister, named Clytie, who loved Helios and was jealous of Leucothoe, informed Leucothoe’s father that Leucothoe, despite being unmarried, was no longer a virgin, whereupon Orchamus buried his daughter alive in punishment. Helios then transformed Leucothoe’s dead body into a frankincense tree.
Words I didn’t know: xx
Quotable quotes:
“At which she trembled, yet could not resist it;
She welcomed the invasion of the sun.
A flower came
Where once herself had been, now fast in earth,
Though less than human, yet her love unchanged,
She turned her face always to meet the sun
How it lands to my eco-sensibility: Some krynoid action…
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
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