What this project is about.
This one is from Book 10.
How long it took to read this (aloud): 2 mins 9s
What it’s “about”: Another boy who will not listen (Phaethon, Icarus) to good advice. Gets gored by a boar. Flowers are planted.
Words I didn’t know: None
Quotable quotes:
“Since she believed her warning had been heard,
The goddess yoked her swans and flew toward heaven —
Yet the boy’s pride and manliness ignored it.
His hunting dogs took a clear path before them
And in the forest waked a sleeping boar,
As he broke through his lair within a covert,
Adonis pricked him with a swift-turned spear.
The fiery boar tore out the slender splinter
And rushed the boy, who saw his death heave toward him.
With one great thrust he pierced the boy’s white loins
And left him dying where one saw his blood
Flow into rivulets on golden sands.
AND
She cupped her hands and poured bright streams of nectar
Above the pale remains of Cinyras’ son,
And as low fountains spring from yellow sands,
The drops of nectar seemed to move, and flutter,
Red as the pomegranate seed in fruit.
Soft echoes of the wind — ‘anemone’ —
Are in the flower’s name; yet at one touch,
The fading petals scatter — all too soon.”
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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