Sunday, October 10, 2010

Ovid Book Three

   Cadmus
"And so he roamed the world in vain; what man could hope to bring to light the secret loves of Jove?"
(Ovid 77)

  Actaeon

"But then she set a long-lived stag's horns on the head she'd drenched" (Ovid 84)
   Semele
"She's glad to get a gift that will bring evil: in being free to choose at will, the girl will die because her lover must comply." (Ovid 88)

   Tiresias
"to mitigate Tiresias' penalty, his loss of sight, gave him the power to see the future, pairing pain with prophecy." (Ovid 90)

   Narcissus & Echo
"And when she asked the augur if her boy would live to see old age, Tiresias replied: "Yes if he never knows himself."" (Ovid 91)

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