What this project is about.
This one is from Book 5.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 17 mins 05s
What it’s “about”: Perseus’ wedding to Andromeda gets interrupted by a guy who was supposed to marry her, but didn’t save her from the sea monster. Father-in-law tries to stop a battle, unsuccessfully. Perseus does some killing but vastly out-numbered, pulls out his trump card – Medusa’s head.
Words I didn’t know: none
Quotable quotes:
Chromis struck off his head, which dropped straight down
The tongue still crying doom among the flames
Until it perished in the altar fires.
And
And Aethion, once apt
At knowing what’s to come, now fooled and broken
By false designs…
And
Yet Tyrant Polydectes of Senphos
Ignored the boy’s spectacular successes,
His bravery, his trials, he turned steeled hate
And everlasting anger at the hero.
He could not praise him and he thought aloud
That dread Medusa’s death was storytelling.
“We’ll give you ample evidence for that,”
Perseus replied. “Now shield your eyes,” and wild
Medusa’s face turned Tyrant into granite.
How it lands to my eco-sensibility: Yeah, it’s a gore fest.
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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