Ovid’s Metamorphoses #067/111: “Venus and Adonis”

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 10.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 3 mins 12s

What it’s “about”: Venus loves Adonis, doesn’t want him mixing it with nature red in tooth and claw.

Words I didn’t know: none

Quotable quotes: 

“Time slipped away: there’s nothing more elusive 

Than Time in flight, more swift in flight than he 

Who steals our years and months, our days and hours.

AND

Nature has armed her monsters to destroy you — 

AND

Huge, hungry creatures 

Who tear and bite and have wide, staring eyes- 

The boar whose crooked teeth are lightning flashes, 

The stormy lion and his raging jaws.

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): 

Well, there’s the poem by the Bill..

Further research questions: xx

Anything else: xx