Reading Notes: Metamorphoses II, Reading A

"You might see her limbs becoming softened, her bones seeming pliant, her nails losing their hardness." - I like this description of Cyane becoming water. I is a very visual and tactile description.

I think it is interesting that within the larger story there are often smaller ones mixed in. For example, Ceres turned a boy into a creature while looking for her daughter.

Plot points:
  • Venus asks Cupid to shoot Dis
  • Dis takes Proserpine
    • Cyane turns into a sacred pool
  • Ceres searches for her daughter
    • Boy into creature
    • Makes the lands infertile
  • Arethusa saw Proserpine in the Underworld as queen
  • Ceres asks Jupiter if Proserpine can return to heaven
    • Yes if no food has touched her lips (Fates)
  • Proserpine ate some seeds
    • Ceres turned messenger of this into a bird (bad omen)
  • Jupiter: Proserpine will divide the year between the two - Dis and Ceres
Setting the scene:
I liked how for the Proserpine and Dis story that Calliope was always setting the scene with her song. Often, it would start out with a description of the place. 


I like how the story begins in the future, then goes to the past for the story of why the men are fearful. The emotion leads the reader into the story. I also like the description of how the men turn into frogs. At first, I couldn't guess what they were turning into, which I thought was cool; it kept the mystery for a little longer. 


Bibliography: 
Ovid's Metamorphoses: Dis and Proserpine, translated by Tony Kline (2000).
Ovid's Metamorphoses: Latona and the Lycians, translated by Tony Kline (2000).

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