Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Metamorphoses VII

"Medea, you are doomed to fail: the force you face must be some deity. I wonder if this power (or something like it) is not the power known to men as love."

"I am aware of what I do; if I'm undone, the cause is surely not my ignorance, but love. You shall be saved; but when that's done, maintain the vow you made."

And if Medea had not soared on high with her winged dragons, she'd have had to pay a bitter price.

The foreshadowing of the arduous, ill-fated life of Medea is nicely placed here by Ovid.

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