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I am loving Ovid’s style of writing and poetry, it’s very quick moving (I don’t know if I’ve explained this right, but it flows really well, not just from story to story, but also within a few lines it’s quick) and funny at times while also being dark
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I love this quote from the introduction: “life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. One attitude is as philosophical as the other, and neither calls for apology.”
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Adding more to this because I can’t stop thinking about it: the depictions of body horror in this are crazy too, it’s so interesting. It never fails to fascinate me that these ancient writers and poets come up with these things. Really think about it, this was written around 8 CE/AD what have you, that’s 2000+ years ago and Ovid was writing this incredibly engaging, dark, witty, fun, poetry. It’s so good it’s hard to wrap my head around it… I’m not really explaining it the best, it’s difficult to put into words what I mean rn
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Also one more thing, this is making me want to deadass learn Latin so I can experience this epic poem in its original language and poetic style. Maybe even just learn one part/story and I’ll be happy to experience that. If I had one superpower it would be to speak any language instantly