Friday, October 1, 2010

Book 3 sentences.

Actaeon - Fate acts upon Actaeon as he stumbles across the nymph Diana naked, through this wretched site she transforms him into stag to be chased and eaten by his hounds he once hunted with.

Semele - Jove impregnates Semele she asks him for one wish, which he grants, and so she wants to see Jove in guise of saturina, he must comply and makes a huge scene with thunderbolts and such which kills Semele but the baby boy got taken out of the womb and put into Jove's leg, where the baby would be born.

Narcissus - Narcissus one day was traveling in the woods and say his reflection in the pond, it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen, he was so captivated by his beauty he just withered away and died by the pond.

Tiresias - Was both a women and a man to see who had more pleasure making physical love, he concluded that it was the woman, Juno blew this way out of proportion and made Tiresias blind, but Jove seeing that this was unfair gave Tiresias the power to see into the future.



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