What this project is about.
This one is from Book 9.
Isis and Telethusa by Picart, 1732.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 9 mins 32s
What it’s “about”: A dad really wants a boy. His daughter is raised, unbeknownst to him as a boy. 13 years later, it’s time for a wedding. Trouble ensues and the gods intervene to save the day.
Words I didn’t know:
Sistras
Quotable quotes: xx
Girls cause great trouble in their bringing up;
Fortuna makes them delicate and wayward.
AND
Ianthe looked toward marriage and a man
Who practised noble husbandry in bed;
AND
And if the great gods keep me as I am,
Why don’t they rescue me from hope
AND
The goddess moved,
The altar shook while temple doors swung wide;
Blue flames of lightning struck her crescent crown,
And in the darkness warning sistras sounded
Still touched with nameless worries and yet cheerful,
The woman turned toward home and Iphis followed.
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
“I’m a girl I’m a girl but my daddy won’t admit it…”
Cavafy’s poem On the Alexandrian Kings
marchudson.net 
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