What this project is about. This one is from Book 10. How long it took to read this (aloud): 10 mins 6s What it’s “about”: Venus tells Adonis a story - Atalanta can run and says only a man who can run faster than her can be her husband. Try, but lose, you die. Eventually... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 10. How long it took to read this (aloud): 13 mins 25 What it’s “about”: A daughter wants to shag her dad. Tries to reason from ‘nature’. Tries to top herself, is cut down by her nurse, who then colludes in the shagging of the... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 10. How long it took to read this (aloud): 3 mins 52s What it’s “about”: Wow, Pygmalion goes full Mary Sue, with the help of Venus Words I didn’t know: None Quotable quotes: "Pygmalion knew these women all too well; Even if he closed his... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 10. How long it took to read this (aloud): 5 mins 1s What it’s “about”: A boy favoured of the gods get thwacked with a discus and dies - discuss. Words I didn’t know: none Quotable quotes: The god went ranging after boyish pleasures And... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 10. How long it took to read this (aloud): 1 mins 23s What it’s “about”: Humans, especially the good looking ones are literally playthings of the gods. Words I didn’t know: none Quotable quotes: I ask a lighter touch, a softer strain. My theme is... Continue Reading →
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,... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 10. How long it took to read this (aloud): 8 mins 13s What it’s “about”: Eurydice steps on a snake, her husband takes a trip, they don’t come back together… Oh, and he teaches child abuse. Words I didn’t know: xx Viburnum Viburnums are versatile,... Continue Reading →
How we got here; I am reading Ovid's Metamorphoses (just finished book 9, 6 to go). At the end of book 9, Iphis and Ianthe, the translator I'm reading (Horace Gregory) mentions a poem by Constantine Cavafy. Cavafy is perhaps best-remembered for his poem Waiting for the Barbarians, which provided the title for a slender... Continue Reading →
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.... Continue Reading →
