Status Updates From Orpheus in the Underworld

I can’t go read Ovid’s Metamorphosis!

I thought this would be focused on Orpheus and Eurydice but it surprisingly didn’t. I’m not complaining though, I really enjoyed reading about all the other stories.

I really did like Ceyx and Alcyone’s story the most! It was beautiful.

“and though the sea does not have me, still it holds me in its depths.”

Ceyx and Alcyone are quite a sweet couple

I didn’t know that the story about the king who could turn everything into gold by his touch was from Ancient Greek/Roman mythology. This is cool! I remember the modern version where he even turned his own daughter to a golden statue and it was a cautionary tale of greed. This is interesting! So he is King Midas of Phrygia.

I need to reread Madeline Miller’s Galatea! I think I’ll appreciate it more after reading her story here. I might wait until I’ve read Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

I find it funny that people are turning into flowers left and right! It happened only three times I guess (Hyacinthus, Minthe, and Adonis) though two of them were done as acts of immortalization and one as a humbling punishment (and I don’t even have to say that the latter is a woman)

The story (and characters), however, have so much character and vigor! I can’t wait to see what happens now! think I’m going to enjoy Ovid’s Metamorphoeses a lot!

There’s also the glaringly obvious bias to the male gender (both mortals and gods) and also how rampant pedophilia was but I guess it is a product of its time and place.

I’m enjoying the little stories interspersed throughout Orpheus’s journey through the underworld a lot! I should really read more Greek/Roman mythologies. I find it fascinating how cruel the gods are and also how creative their punishments are. Venus/Aphrodite in particular is quite vindictive and not equally just (punishing Atalanta too for Hippomens’s sins)

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