Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Ovid Book XIV

GLAUCUS, CIRCE, SCYLLA:     Circe tries to woe the creature but fails so instead turns his love into a sea creature feared by boats.
THE CERCOPES:     The father of the gods turned his people into monkeys and stripped them of speech.

THE SIBYL:   Aeneas enters the underworld to get the Golden Bough and learns that Sybil was granted long life but forgot to ask for youth.
ACHAEMENIDES:     A survivor of the monstrous Cyclops was shown mercy from a Trojan ship and escaped the island.
AEOLUS, ULYSSES, CIRCE:       Right as the men were about to get home they got greedy and opened up a bag of wind which pushed them in the opposite direction and landed them with Circe who turned them to pigs.

PICUS & CANENS:     A nymph told of a story where Circe captured a beloved husband and the wife filled with grief withered away in a spot that then was named in remembrance of her.
DIOMEDES:     Explains that he cannot help in a fight because his men pissed of Venus who sends storms and turn all his men into birds.
THE APULIAN SHEPHERD:     An arrogant douche is turned into a tree for mocking nymphs.
AENEAS' SHIPS:    The ships destroyed at sea were turned into Naiads who still hate the Greeks.
ARDEA:       A city falls and as it does a bird rises from the ashes and gets its name from that place.
AENEAS:     Aeneas is made into a god by his mother Venus' plea.
VERTUMNUS & POMONA:      A satyr dresses in disguise to talk to a gardening nymph.

IPHIS & ANAXARETE:     A young man falls in love with a bitchy tease and then kills himself to appease her and she turns to stone, cold like her heart.
VERTUMNUS & POMONA:     He reveals his true self to the nymph and she falls for his godly beauty.
THE FOUNTAIN OF JANUS:      Venus asks the Naiads to flood the fountain and add hot sulfur so as to stop an attack and let the other side have time to prepare for a bloody battle that ended in a tie.
ROMULUS:     A great King is made into a deity--Quirinus
HERSILIA:     Romulus' wife is filled with grief and begs to be reunited so it also turned into a deity--Hora

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