Ovid's Metamorphoses
Feb. 5th, 2009 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethAm reading more Ovid. It's got all the stories in there. And some really wrenching stuff,
Also some LOLs, though usually the sort followed by 'wait, not funny.
Erysicthon's daughter: first he sold her as a slave (not funny) but she did praying and got to be a shapeshifter, turning first into a fisherman and quite decieving her new owner. Then presumably she went home and told her father, because he found out about her new shiny powers and had a bright idea: sell her again! And not just once - sell her as a horse and a cow and a rabbit and all sorts of other things! Then she can change and run away again.
... it's sort of facepalm and LOL at once.
He comes to a gruesome end, of course. Three things that can happen to people in the Metamorphoses so far: gruesome end, changed into something permanently, or turned into stars. Usually the turning into things is instead of a gruesome end, like being thrown off a tower and turning into a bird on the way down.
That was really dramatic when Ladyhawke did it.
Clearly this story store is full of useful and interesting.
Also some LOLs, though usually the sort followed by 'wait, not funny.
Erysicthon's daughter: first he sold her as a slave (not funny) but she did praying and got to be a shapeshifter, turning first into a fisherman and quite decieving her new owner. Then presumably she went home and told her father, because he found out about her new shiny powers and had a bright idea: sell her again! And not just once - sell her as a horse and a cow and a rabbit and all sorts of other things! Then she can change and run away again.
... it's sort of facepalm and LOL at once.
He comes to a gruesome end, of course. Three things that can happen to people in the Metamorphoses so far: gruesome end, changed into something permanently, or turned into stars. Usually the turning into things is instead of a gruesome end, like being thrown off a tower and turning into a bird on the way down.
That was really dramatic when Ladyhawke did it.
Clearly this story store is full of useful and interesting.