Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Book 11 and the 5 sentences

Midas: a foolish man to ask for a golden touch but even more foolish to say the god Apollo was no match for pan now has ears of a jackass.

Troy: Fail once to pay a god in gold and have your walls fall, but fail again to pay for one such as Hercules and be ruled by the man you did not pay.

Peleus & Thetis: a prophecy fortold brings a mortal like Peleus to wed such a goddess like thetis from the help of another god to tie her up during transformation.

The Wolf: Peleus being punished asked for forgivness and not until his wife convinced Psamathe that the blood guilt was cleansed.

Ceyx & Alcyone: a man with a mission sails to find an oracle while the wife relented and asked for him to stay only gave her words of comfort and of coming back. But he dies when in sail, juno so sad and to see of his wife not knowing asks for the king of sleep to tell her of her husbands death. finding out goes to shore and sees his body finally home and before the story ends they turn to birds having everlasting love.

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