Metamorphoses (Hackett Classics) by Ovid & Stanley Lombardo & W. R. Johnson

Author:Ovid & Stanley Lombardo & W. R. Johnson [Lombardo, Stanley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2011-02-28T07:00:00+00:00

There was a log of wood which, when Althea

Was in labor, the three Fates threw into the fire

As they spun the thread of Meleager’s life.

“We give to you,” they said, “and to this log

The same span of time.”

When the three sisters

Had chanted this prophecy and disappeared,

The mother snatched the burning log from the fire

And doused it with water. It had long been hidden

In the depths of the house, and, kept safe there,

[520] Safeguarded your life for years, young hero.

Now Meleager’s mother brought out this log,

And had her servants pile up pine and kindling.

She lit the unfriendly fire. Four times

She was about to throw the log in the flames,

And four times she stopped. Mother fought sister,

Two names tugging at the one heart she had.

Her cheeks would pale at what she was about to do,

Then her burning anger would glow in her eyes.

At times she was an ominous, threatening figure,

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