Daedalus and Icarus:
The creator of the maze was unable to recover the entrance?
That is a great maze. It makes me think of the maze from Once Upon a Time for
the episode in Wonderland. Origin of Corona Borealis. Deadalus told Icarus to
travel a specific path- not too high, not too low. This sounds like another
story from Ovid. I liked that the story names an island and sea after Icarus.
Philemon and Baucis:
I thought it was really inspiring that the couple worked as
equals in the home despite being in extreme poverty. They even have such a
regard for other people that they tell the Gods to sit and rest their limbs
while pulling out a bench and placing a blanket on it for comfort. These people
have values that everyone should aspire to have.
The Transformation of Philemon and Baucis
The Gods refilled the mixing bowl and wine. Philemon and
Baucis said a prayer, in the presence of Gods, which is funny. The Gods invited
them to escape punishment and walk with them. Of all the things they could wish
for, they asked to watch over the Gods temple and to die at the same time so
they didn’t have to live without one another. I loved the final quote, “Let
those who love the Gods become Gods: let those who have honoured them, be
honoured.”
Ceres and Erysichthon
Why would he want to kill a Goddess so bad? Blood poured
from the tree when he made a gash, like another story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
He decapitated someone just for trying to stop him? He is a little crazy.
The Famine
Erysichthon was punished by Ceres by being starved by
famine. I didn’t think famine would have looked as described. I thought Famine
was going to stay with him until he was starved or even passed. Instead, she
put him to sleep? The more he eats, the hungrier he feels, that is miserable.
He tries to sell his daughter?! She lost her virginity to Neptune? Instead of
helping her in a rational, normal way, Neptune changes her into a fisherman?
Her father sold her, knowing she could change her shape? That’s very dishonest.
Finally, Erysichthon began eating his own limbs.
Achelous
Achelous lost a fight to Hercules, where Hercules tore off
his horn. Is this the origin story of the cornucopia?
The Shirt of Nessus
I never realized there was so much rape in mythology, geez.
The Death of Hercules
The imagery in this story is gory. The poison makes his blood
boil? I think it is sad that he tells his mother, Juno, to take happiness in
his destruction. All of the Gods, upon Hercules’s death, agreed to grant him
entrance to being a God, including Juno.
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