Ovid’s Metamorphoses #028/111: “Ino and Athamus”

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 4.

In Greek mythology, Ino (/ˈaɪnoʊ/ EYE-noh; Ancient Greek: Ἰνώ [iːnɔ̌ː][1]) was a Theban princess who later became a queen of Boeotia. After her death and transfiguration, she was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the “white goddess.” Alcman called her “Queen of the Sea” (θαλασσομέδουσα thalassomédousa),[2] which, if not hyperbole, would make her a goddess parallel to Amphitrite.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 10 mins 38s

What it’s “about”: Juno goes on a road trip to Hell. Bad things happen, Venus intercedes and people get turned to stone.

Words I didn’t know: xx

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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’: 

Ixion within his wheel – In Greek mythology, Ixion (/ɪkˈsaɪən/ ik-SY-ən; Ancient Greek: Ἰξίων, romanized: Ixíōn) was king of the Lapiths, the most ancient tribe of Thessaly.[1] Ixion desired Hera, the queen of the gods and wife of Zeus, and his arrogant attempt to have sex with her led to his eternal punishment in Tartarus….  Ixion was expelled from Olympus and blasted with a thunderbolt. Zeus ordered Hermes to bind Ixion to a winged fiery wheel that was always spinning. Therefore, Ixion was bound to a burning solar wheel for all eternity, at first spinning across the heavens,[17] but in later myth transferred to Tartarus.[18][19]

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