I am doing remedial accumulation of cultural capital - (having done Bill Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes and the New Testament I've moved on to other fiction - Ovid's Metamorphoses. Mostly this stuff goes in one eye and out the other, because you don't use it so much in Day to Day life. Occasionally though, it's sooo... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #020/111: “Semele”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 3. How long it took to read this (aloud): 4 mins 34s What it’s “about”: Juno, who really doesn’t understand that Jove has decided they are in an open marriage, disguises herself as an old woman, and convinces the preggers human Semele to ask Jove... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #012/111: “Jove and the Arcadian Nymph”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 2. Trigger warning - sexual assault. How long it took to read this (aloud): 8 mins 54s What it’s “about”: Jove raping a human, again (Callisto). Callisto gets punished, again (turned into a bear). Jove’s wife, Juno, for whatever reason blames the human rather than... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #009/111: “The Pipes of Pan”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 1. How long it took to read this (aloud): 4 mins 45secs What it’s “about”: Argos the 100 eyed-beast gets disposed off. Juno is mad-jealous and makes life for Io-Cow miserable. Jove calms her down, and Io is de-cowed. Words I didn’t know: none Quotable... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #008/111: “Io and Jove” (don’t have a cow, man)
What this project is about. This one is from Book 1. How long it took to read this (aloud): 8 mins 18 seconds What it’s “about”: Jove’s eye likes to rove When Juno’s almost found them in a grove Well Jove turns Io to a cow How’s she supposed to cope right now? She tells... Continue Reading →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses #005/111: “Deucalion and Pyrra”
What this project is about. This one is from Book 1. How long it took to read this (aloud): 5 mins 36s What it’s “about”: Jove is happy with the Flood, but then sees the somewhat insipid Deucalion and his equally insipid wife. He relents. Themis gives Deucalion (son of Prometheus) and Pyrra (for it... Continue Reading →
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