What this project is about.
This one is from Book 10.
And
How long it took to read this (aloud): 3 mins 1
What it’s “about”: Bambi gets barbed – a lovely deer had no idea…
Words I didn’t know: xx
Quotable quotes:
His eyes were shaded by broad-branching antlers
Which shone in burnished gold, and at his throat
A collar breathed of many coloured jewels;
Even at his birth he wore a silver crown,
And glinting round his head and from his ears
Were strung the daintiest of Orient pearls.
And
Not knowing that the deer had strayed so far,
And glancing carelessly through shuttered leaves,
The boy thrust a quick spear through the deer’s side,
And when poor Cyparissus gazed and saw
The blood, the open wound, the dying deer,
He knew his love was lost and wished to die.
Yeah, cry me a river. Still an asshole.
How it lands to my eco-sensibility:
If the asshole loved one deer, why’d he go casually killing another/ Has he not heard of charismatic megafauna and all that shit? The vegetarian society? Sheech.
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
In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, Cyparissus (Ancient Greek: Κυπάρισσος, romanized: Kupárissos, lit. ’cypress’) was a boy beloved by Apollo, or, in some versions, by other deities. In the best-known version of the story, the favorite companion of Cyparissus was a tamed stag, which he accidentally killed with his hunting javelin as it lay sleeping in the woods. The boy’s grief was such that it transformed him into a cypress tree, a classical symbol of mourning.
The myth is thus an aetiological tale explaining the relation of the tree to its ancient cultural significance. The subject is mainly known from Greek-inspired Latin literature and frescoes from Pompeii.[1] No Greek hero cult devoted to Cyparissus has been identified.
marchudson.net 
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