Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses Book XI
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Fucking Death of Orpheus
"I was feeling really horribly this week because hormones are awful and having a uterus can sometimes make me want to tear a man like Orpheus apart with my bare fucking hands," she says. This is Obad's Metamorphoses, translated by Brooks Moore, Book 11. "One of these women, as her tangled hair was tossed upon the light breeze, shouted, See, here is the poet who has scorned our love."
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