Monday, July 18, 2011

Appetite for destruction

"After that Phorbas, the son of Metion from Syene, and the Libyan Amphimedon, who were both eager to join battle, slipped and fell in the blood with which the ground was warm and sodden all around. As they tried to rise, Perseus' sword prevented them; for he drove it through the ribs of Amphimedon, and through Phorbas' throat. Erytus, son of Actor, whose weapon was a broad-bladed axe, met a different fate. It was not with his hooked sword that Perseus struck him, but instead, he lifted in his two hands a huge drinking-cup, weighty and massive, with decorations in high relief, and brought this crashing down on his opponent. Erytus vomited up a stream of scarlet blood and..."

Alrightey then, that's Ovid off the Lunchtime Reading List.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for helping my weight loss program by posting this just before lunch!

Though you did get me thinking of Ovid as the Martina Cole of his times, or maybe as a script writer for the much maligned "Spartacus , Blood & Sand"....

To think that some day in a distant century , your the heirs to your blogging tradition will post....

"Micky had been savagely beaten to death. His mutilated body would not have looked out of place at the scene of a train wreck or some other terrible accident. But lying in a pool of his own blood, face stuck to the plush carpet, he looked wrong. All wrong. His neck had been snapped, one savage twist of bone and muscle by a strong man the only explanation."....

Hmmmmmm......

Orlaith said...

I haven't seen Spartacus yet, and I'm okay with that :-)

Gift for violent description! Eugh...

Anonymous said...

Well I haven't made it past the trailers for the Martina Cole stuff but in terms of a gift for violent description, I'm thinking Ovid something of a standard.