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This week I decided to read more classical material, and chose more of Ovid's Metamorphosis because previously I read Pygmalion. I went ahead and started with the first book because that seemed logical. So notes will follow, but first I just want to throw out there that Juno and Jupiter are both horrible, and I think that they make better villains than they do gods. Which honestly, could be a pretty good story, so maybe I could do something with that. Okay, now for the notes:
Because this is the second week that I have read classical stories, I thought I would do some digging into classical characters, places, and beings that I'm not familiar with by following any available links and such.
Nereid: (female) Nymphs of the sea (Aegean particularly) that are associated with the beautiful and kind things about the ocean. They are the daughters of Nereus and Doris, and unlike the more familiar sea creature Sirens, they can be helpful to sailors. One of them, Thetis, is the mother of Achilles, and they carry Poseidon's trident. Fittingly, Nereid is also the name of one of Neptune's moons.
Mount Parnassus: One of the tallest mountains in Greece just above Delphi, Mount Parnassus is home to Pegasus, muses, and a city that was destroyed in the flood. It is sacred to Dionysus as well as Pan, and Apollo. You can see the mountain labeled in the map below.
Map By MaryroseB54 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Themis: A goddess of justice, order, good council, and divine law. One of the twelve Titans, she is the daughter of the primordial god and goddess, Uranus and Gaia. She is capable of seeing the future and is an Oracle of Delphi. She had children known as the Hours and the Fates supposedly with Zeus.
Triton: Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, herald of Zeus. He is described as what we would think of as a merman.
That is all I have for this reading. See you next time!
The Metamorphoses by Ovid, Translated by Tony Kline
This week I decided to read more classical material, and chose more of Ovid's Metamorphosis because previously I read Pygmalion. I went ahead and started with the first book because that seemed logical. So notes will follow, but first I just want to throw out there that Juno and Jupiter are both horrible, and I think that they make better villains than they do gods. Which honestly, could be a pretty good story, so maybe I could do something with that. Okay, now for the notes:
Because this is the second week that I have read classical stories, I thought I would do some digging into classical characters, places, and beings that I'm not familiar with by following any available links and such.
Nereid: (female) Nymphs of the sea (Aegean particularly) that are associated with the beautiful and kind things about the ocean. They are the daughters of Nereus and Doris, and unlike the more familiar sea creature Sirens, they can be helpful to sailors. One of them, Thetis, is the mother of Achilles, and they carry Poseidon's trident. Fittingly, Nereid is also the name of one of Neptune's moons.
Mount Parnassus: One of the tallest mountains in Greece just above Delphi, Mount Parnassus is home to Pegasus, muses, and a city that was destroyed in the flood. It is sacred to Dionysus as well as Pan, and Apollo. You can see the mountain labeled in the map below.
Map By MaryroseB54 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Themis: A goddess of justice, order, good council, and divine law. One of the twelve Titans, she is the daughter of the primordial god and goddess, Uranus and Gaia. She is capable of seeing the future and is an Oracle of Delphi. She had children known as the Hours and the Fates supposedly with Zeus.
Triton: Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, herald of Zeus. He is described as what we would think of as a merman.
That is all I have for this reading. See you next time!
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