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| Peter Paul Rubens' The Fall of Phaeton |
- Deucalion is the son of Prometheus. (I can use this if I do my storybook over Prometheus)
- The flood resembles the flood in the Bible
- I think it is very interesting that there is an acknowledgement of the uncertainty of the goddess’s meaning
- Juno: “‘Either I am wrong, or being wronged” Clever wording
- “Shame urges him to it, Amor urges not. Amor would have conquered Shame.” Does that mean that love is more important/powerful than shame?
- Mercury is super gentle and friendly with Argus until he lulls him to sleep, then immediately off with his head.
- Clymene is the mother of Phaethon. Isn’t she the mother of Prometheus and his brothers too? So she is an oceanid?
- Gods swear by the River Styx
- What? Lucifer is in this?
- Apollo seems to be a very concerned father. This is really surprising
- A lot of the stories in Ovid are connected in small ways.
- Phaethon is buried in Italy
- Apollo is deeply upset by his son’s death. He basically quits bringing the sun and daylight into the sky
- ‘Here, surely, my wife will not see my cunning, or if she does find out it is, oh it is, worth a quarrel!’ Jupiter = massive creep
- Yeah, the gods of Olympus should not be giving out quite so many rash boons.
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