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Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses Book XI

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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Phoebus and the Night Star

My brother had a daughter, Keeney, so beautiful she pleased a thousand men. It happened by some chance that Phoebus and the son of Maya beheld this lovely maid both at the same time. Hermes could not endure the delay, and with the magic of his wand that causes sleep, he touched the virgin's face. She lay there fast asleep, and suffered violence from the ardent god. When night bespangled the wide heaven with stars, Phoebus became an aged crone and gained the joy he had deferred until that hour. What benefit in life did she obtain because she pleased two gods and bore such twins? Was she blessed by good fortune then because she was

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