Sunday, November 7, 2010

Ovid Book Eleven

Orpheus
“The poet was like a stag who, in a spectacle, is doomed to die by morning light, when dogs surround him in the bounds of the arena.”

The Bacchantes
“the god at once bound fast with twisting roots all those who’d shared in such a crime.”

Midas
“But Midas’ wits are what they always were—not sharp; his mind, as it had done before, seeks stupid things that are to do him harm.”

Troy
“And again a task was left unrecompensed.”

Peleus & Thetis
“You never could have won, had you not had a god as your ally.”


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