In a tremendous tour-de-force, Virgil describes an incredibly powerful storm at sea as Aeneas and his men fight for survival.
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Photograph of Roman Mosaic in the Musée de Sousse by Habib M’Henni.
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Thunder from a clear sky reveals to Horace the real presence of the Father of the Gods.
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Erysichthon’s terrible hunger, the punishment inflicted on him by the Goddess Ceres, drives him to sell his own daughter: she finds a way to escape her new master, but there is no way for Erysichthon to escape a terrible death.
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The Thessalian King Erysichthon holds the Gods in contempt. He has not only cut down Ceres’s sacred oak and killed the Dryad within, but boasted that he would do the same for Ceres herself, given the opportunity. We have already met the agent that Ceres has chosen to revenge herself on him: Fames, the personification of Hunger. Now, having received her orders, she slips down to the Earth to carry them out …
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Erysichthon has offended the Goddess of plenty: now Ceres chooses as the instrument of her terrible revenge her antithesis, Fames, who personifies famine and hunger.
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Erysichthon, the blasphemer, begins Ovid’s horror-story about crime and punishment in his metamorphoses. The oak-tree in the picture, the Fredville Oak, has a roughly similar circumference to Ceres’s sacred tree, which Erysichthon is about to profane.
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Philemon and Baucis’s goose has a narrow escape, as Ovid tells the story of the old couple who became legendary for their generosity and proverbial for love between wife and husband.
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Photo by VladoubidoOo, licence details at photo credits.
Philemon and Baucis are the poorest of the poor, but when the immortals arrive in disguise and ask for hospitality, their response is immediate and their generosity boundless. Ovid in the Metamorphoses sometimes plays the rather rickety old gentleman and his kindly wife for laughs, but their open-handedness and the warmth of their welcome are heartwarming nevertheless. The next post will tell the end of their story.
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