Week 3 Reading Diary

Reading Diary Week 3 – Ovid 2

• Pretty sure Cerses didn’t give you laws
•  Giant being held down almost sounds like Loki chained to the rock as punishment with venom dripping in his eyes
• See? Pluto only cares about what goes on affecting his underworld
• Pretty sure Venus is capable of doing this on her own – she certainly did with Dido
• Love is swift as kidnapping? Ovid, you have issues
• People didn’t start marrying for love till modern times. Plus, he’s under Venus’ spell and no one is really gonna blame him for that
• Pretty sure that’s not how it happened in the Greek
• No seriously, Ceres has a problem – I can’t find my daughter, no one shall eat ever again! – separation anxiety is strong in this one
• Don’t feign ignorance, Jupiter, you allowed this match in the Greek
• Can you get nothing right Ovid?
• So… you can do bad only if no one sees?
• Huh, that’s a new thing to the siren origin myth.
• OMG, a peasant is skillful? Gasp, what shame!
• That’s never a good idea, what are you doing?
• That’s an awesome bargain, take it.
• I wonder if this is the one where Arachne beats Minerva.
• Oh look, long descriptive passage – definitely epic poetry
• Look, the Roman’s couldn’t decide what name to call Pallas either
• Wait Saturn did what? Man, the parallels between him and Loki keep growing
• Oh, she won. Probably wasn’t a good idea to flaunt the gods mistakes in her face though
• Wait, that’s different. I’m gonna hang myself, good idea kid, but Pallas apparently thinks living as a spider is a great reward. No wonder Greeks were pessimists
• Pride – never a good thing, especially when boasting and gods are combined
• You might not wanna brag about being descended from titans and people who are stuck in Tartarus for all eternity
• Oh, oh no, don’t say that. Never challenge your ability to be taken down several pegs – it normally ends in a blood bath
• Wow twins, bloodthirsty much? Then again not surprising, it is Diana.
• Why are they going in a circle?
• Oh don’t name your kid Tantalus – you do know that man is punished with eternal torture in one of the three worst punishments in Tartarus right?
• Wait you’re astounded? How is this surprising? DO YOU PEOPLE NOT KNOW YOUR OWN MYTHS?
• Yay crying stature, cuz those aren’t creepy at all.
• Woman with kids dying of thirst – oh no, you can’t drink here. I get being scared of Juno but seriously, these men are jerks
• Huh, a very Dante-like punishment. It’s the bog of wrath
• Yep, challenging gods is NOT a good idea
• Uh-oh, that’s not good. The furies are bad news
• Oh there’s a kid now? Crap
• Rape then war, great idea
• Nah, I’m okay with not being pretty. It only ever gets you into trouble
• Why didn’t she go to Philomela if dad is so heartbroken at her being gone?
• She vows to tell gods and brooks? Should have killed her.
• Uh-oh, it’s Bacchus time. ‘Savage king’ is probably gonna get ripped to shreds
• Okay, feeding people’s kids to them is way too common a theme in Greco-Roman myth for my liking
• They all become birds? Okay then…
• Yay Jason! He’s a jerk, but the only hero Juno ever liked. It pays to be nice to the queen of gods
• I love Medea, she’s so eloquent and down to earth
• Hah, she beat Cupid! Go girl!
• There’s a reason Jason is so popular
• He did marry her at least, that puts Jason one up on the others
• Well, she’s certainly powerful. Raising the dead and all
• Give him 40 more years by slitting his throat, okay then
• Ah, there’s a Greek drama about this one. Very good, actually
• Seriously, did Jason think spurning the woman who spelled his way to victory could possibly be a good idea? Idiot