What this project is about.
This one is from Book 4.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 9 mins 2
What it’s “about”: A girl has needs…
Salmacis (Ancient Greek: Σαλμακίς) was a naiad of Greek mythology. She rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favour of vanity and idleness.
Words I didn’t know: none
Quotable quotes: xx
The heir of Atlas struggled as he could
Against the pleasure that the girl desired,
But she clung to him as though their flesh were one,
“Dear, naughty body,” she said, “to torture me;
But you won’t get away. O gods in heaven,
Give me this blessing; clip him within my arms
Like this forever.’ At which the gods agreed:
They grew one body, one face, one pair of arms
And legs, as one might graft branches upon
A tree, so two became nor boy nor girl,
Neither yet both within a single body.
How it lands to my eco-sensibility:
People getting turned into bats too!
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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