Reading Notes: Metamorphoses I, Reading B
Pyramus and Thisbe:
Plot points:
"As he lay back again on the ground, the blood spurted out, like a pipe fracturing at a weak spot in the lead, and sending long bursts of water hissing through the split, cutting through the air, beat by beat." - I like this description of how the blood spurts out of Pyramus's wound. I think describing something in this way adds gore indirectly, because it is much easier to visualize the movement of something that we are more familiar with - burst pipe vs spurting blood.
Perseus and Medusa:
Description of Medusa: snakes for hair,
Attack on sea monster (Andromeda): described like a struggle for life and food between predator and prey animals.
Plot points:
Note: I was meant to do Reading B of Metamorphoses II, but I accidentally clicked onto Metamorphoses I. I read the whole unit and took notes before realizing it.
Image information: 15th Century woodcut illustration of Pyramus and Thisbe; Penn Libraries. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Bibliography:
Ovid's Metamorphoses: Pyramus and Thisbe, translated by Tony Kline (2000).
Ovid's Metamorphoses: Perseus and Medusa, translated by Tony Kline (2000).
Plot points:
- Both describes as "on fire"
- Spoke throw a fissure in the wall
- Plan to meet at Ninus grave
- Lioness tears Thisbe's veil
- Pyramus sees and plunges his sword into his side
- Thisbe sees this, mourns, and does the same.
"As he lay back again on the ground, the blood spurted out, like a pipe fracturing at a weak spot in the lead, and sending long bursts of water hissing through the split, cutting through the air, beat by beat." - I like this description of how the blood spurts out of Pyramus's wound. I think describing something in this way adds gore indirectly, because it is much easier to visualize the movement of something that we are more familiar with - burst pipe vs spurting blood.
Perseus and Medusa:
Description of Medusa: snakes for hair,
Attack on sea monster (Andromeda): described like a struggle for life and food between predator and prey animals.
Plot points:
- Begins as a story (story within a story)
- Used shield to see Medusa
- Medusa in deep sleep
- Pegasus and Chrysaor born from her blood
- Medusa origins
Note: I was meant to do Reading B of Metamorphoses II, but I accidentally clicked onto Metamorphoses I. I read the whole unit and took notes before realizing it.
Image information: 15th Century woodcut illustration of Pyramus and Thisbe; Penn Libraries. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Bibliography:
Ovid's Metamorphoses: Pyramus and Thisbe, translated by Tony Kline (2000).
Ovid's Metamorphoses: Perseus and Medusa, translated by Tony Kline (2000).
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