Sunday, October 10, 2010

Ovid Book Two

   Phaethon
"The road was steep, but when the boy had reached the palace, he went strait to face the sun" (Ovid 37)


   The Heliades
"joining Clymene in her lament, her daughters, the Heliades, now wept sad tears (the useless gift one gives the dead)." (Ovid 50)

   Cycnus
"a swan-- a strange new bird, who does not trust his wings to seek the sky of Jove, as if that bird recalled the cruel lightning bolt." (Ovid 51)

   Callisto
"But, shameless, you shall pay; I'll take from you the shape that gives both you and, too, my husband such delight." (Ovid 55)

   The Raven
"Phoebus' sacred bird was changed because his tongue was far to talkative: once white" (Ovid 58)

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