What this project is about.
This one is from Book 8.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 12 mins 49s
What it’s “about”: “We’re going on a Boar Hunt…” (And I am Team Boar, obvs). Spoiler – The poor boar eventually cops it (where was Diana?) and then there is some gruesome battle over the division of spoils…
Words I didn’t know:
Quotable quotes: xx
That land was troubled by a giant pig,
A wild boar who ate everything in sight
And took his orders from an angry goddess —
Diana, who had cursed all Calydon.
AND
He was a creature huger than the bulls
Who feed on grass-grown plains of Epirus,
And bigger than the beasts of Sicily.
Both blood and fire wheeled in his great eyes;
His neck was iron, his bristles rose like spears,
And when he grunted, milk-white foaming spittle
Boiled from his throat and steamed across his shoulders.
Only an elephant from India
Could match the tusks he wore, and streams of lightning
Poured from wide lips, and when he smiled or sighed
All vines and grasses burnt beneath his breath.
AND
Even a brave man fights at proper distance;
Only a careless fool like poor Ancaeus
Makes courage seem his doom.”
AND
They snatched the spoils from her and damned Meleager,
While the hot son of Mars boiled up with rage
And cried, “I’ll show you thieves the greater distance
Between a feeble threat and men of action!”
At which he thrust his bright and wicked steel
Straight through the chambers of Plexippus’ heart,
And the boy died before he knew what happened.
And as Toxeus wondered what to do —
Fearing his brother’s fate, yet hoping for
A moment of revenge, Meleager left
No time for doubt, but warmed his blade again,
Still feverish red with the first brother’s heat,
In the fresh blood that poured from Toxeus’ side.
How it lands to my eco-sensibility:
Apex predators gonna asshole…
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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