What this project is about.
This one is from Book 8.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 7 mins 16s
What it’s “about”: Althaea is mildly annoyed at her son Meleagar because he went and slaughtered some of his uncles (her brothers) at the end of the hog hunt. She dithers over whether to kill him off by retrieving a magic stick and throwing it in the flames (spoiler, eventually she does)
Words I didn’t know: xx
Quotable quotes:
Then turned, saw the bodies of her brothers.
She beat her breasts, and all the city streets
Grew loud with her wild tears and cries of sorrow;
She tore away her cloak of twinkling gold
And dressed herself in cloth of darkest night;
But when she heard of how her son had killed them,
Love’s tears gave way to hate, grief to revenge.
There’s some nice will-she-won’t-she…
Her face grew pale with what she planned to do,
Then feverish red rage lit up her eyes;
One moment all her features turned to evil,
The next she looked like someone pleading pity,
And as the heat of anger dried her tears,
Still tears rained down again. She, like a ship
Caught between wind and tide and tossed by both,
Dispels her rage and makes it leap to flames.
And
Even his last word seemed to echo “Mother.”
Fire and pain flared up, then both turned chill and grey,
And as red embers fell to smouldering ashes,
Slowly his spirit wandered into air.
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’: xx
To my knowledge, who’s used it why/how (RACC): xx
Further research questions: xx
Anything else: xx
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