Ovid’s Metamorphoses #083/111: “The Death of Achilles” (We’ll always have Paris)

What this project is about.  

This one is from Book 12.

How long it took to read this (aloud): 4 mins 12s 

What it’s “about”: Achilles makes some powerful enemies (Neptune and Apollo combined)

Words I didn’t know: None

Quotable quotes: 

Nor had his hatred of Achilles dwindled; 

And as the days went on, it grew to madness.

AND

And yet Achilles 

More heartless, violent than war, lives on, 

He who undoes all that we hoped to do.

AND
At last — it was the first breath of true pleasure 

Old Priam knew since Hector fell to death. 

Then great Achilles who outfought the bravest, 

Had fallen prey to one whose best performance, 

Timid at the best, was stealing wives of Greeks!

AND

The great Achilles came at last to ashes, 

A scant half handful in a polished urn.

How it lands to my eco-sensibility: Hmm, nothing about him needing to be shot in the ankle?!

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