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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)
— Aug 25, 2026 04:37PM
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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.
— Aug 27, 2026 10:07AM
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I really did like Ceyx and Alcyone’s story the most! It was beautiful.
— Aug 27, 2026 10:05AM
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“and though the sea does not have me, still it holds me in its depths.”
— Aug 27, 2026 10:04AM
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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.
— Aug 26, 2026 06:14AM
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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.
— Aug 25, 2026 04:51PM
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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)
— Aug 25, 2026 04:48PM
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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!
— Aug 25, 2026 04:43PM