Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XII

IPHIGENIA:       The fleet in pursuit of Helen cannot continue until the sacrifice Agamemnon's virgin daughter but she is spared at the last second.
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RUMOR:     She lets the Trojans know that the Greeks are coming!
ACHILLES & CYCNUS:     Two men who seem to be immune to physical pain in a fight.
CAENIS/CAENUS:      A beautiful women gets raped and wishes to be a man so that nothing can hurt her again, Neptune grants the wish and also gave her immunity to wounds.
LAPITHS & CENTAURS:      Being drunk has its consequences for the centaurs who get a little too frisky; they all get killed rather grotesque and violently.
CYLLARUS:     A handsome centaur also perishes and his wife, distraught, casts herself on the same spear.
CAENUS:     The massacre is ended when the centaurs gang up and suffocate their killer, but before he is crushed completely be becomes a bird and flies off.
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HERCULES & PERICLYMENUS:       The old storyteller confesses his hatred of Hercules for killing his brother while he was in the shape of an eagle flying away.
THE DEATH OF ACHILLES:      Neptune is still angry over Cycnus' defeat that he calls upon Apollo to guide one of Paris' arrow into the susceptible spot.
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