Ovid’s Metamorphoses #056/111: “Hercules’ Birth”

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 9.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 3 mins 25s

What it’s “about”: 

Hercules’ mum recalls her own labours (it was not an easy birth, thanks to step-mum Juno sending a goddess to slow things down. A midwife tricked that goddess, but then got turned into a weasel for her good deed.

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I went mad with pain: 

I cursed Jove and his mischief, begged for death 

So pitifully even stones would weep.

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In Greek mythology, Galanthis or Galinthias (Ancient Greek: Γαλανθίς/Γαλινθιάς, romanized: Galanthís/Galinthiás) was the woman who interfered with Hera‘s plan to hinder the birth of Heracles in favor of Eurystheus, and was changed into a weasel or polecat as punishment for being so insolent as to deceive the goddesses of birth that were acting on Hera’s behalf.