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seriousfic) wrote2010-01-11 11:21 am
seriousfic) wrote2010-01-11 11:21 am
Today in Greek mythology...
Pasiphae wed King Minos of Krete, and bore him a number of sons and daughters. However, as punishment for some offence against the gods committed either by herself or her husband, she was cursed with the desire to be coupled with the king's finest bull. The Queen conscripted the great artisan Daidalos to assist her in the endeavour, and he built for her a hollow wooden cow, wrapped in a bovine skin and endowed with mechanical life. Hiding herself inside this contraption she conceived and bore a hybrid child, the bull-headed Minotauros.
That's not the craziest part.
Pasiphae's husband Minos also proved unfaithful. When the Queen learned of his indiscretions she cast a spell on him which caused him to ejaculate poisoned creatures and so destroy his lovers.
She's pretty judgmental for someone who's been in a donkey show. Oh, wait, the gods did it. Olympians: The original sex pollen.
Pasiphae herself, being an immortal, was alone immune.
So, wait, so... wait... so... no, wait... is it just me, or does she still have (nonpoisonous) creatures in her vagina?
At some point, you have to stop excusing it and just admit you're a goddamn furry.
Minos was eventually cured by the Athenian girl Prokris who devised a remedy for his strange afflication.
Ironically enough, Prokris sounds like a pill you would take to cure an erectile dysfunction. If Prokis were a pill for venomous ejaculate, I think every man would buy that, afflicted or not, just to ward off the possibility. After all, it's bad enough to have it burn when you pee. You don't need it to sting and bite too.
That's not the craziest part.
Pasiphae's husband Minos also proved unfaithful. When the Queen learned of his indiscretions she cast a spell on him which caused him to ejaculate poisoned creatures and so destroy his lovers.
She's pretty judgmental for someone who's been in a donkey show. Oh, wait, the gods did it. Olympians: The original sex pollen.
Pasiphae herself, being an immortal, was alone immune.
So, wait, so... wait... so... no, wait... is it just me, or does she still have (nonpoisonous) creatures in her vagina?
At some point, you have to stop excusing it and just admit you're a goddamn furry.
Minos was eventually cured by the Athenian girl Prokris who devised a remedy for his strange afflication.
Ironically enough, Prokris sounds like a pill you would take to cure an erectile dysfunction. If Prokis were a pill for venomous ejaculate, I think every man would buy that, afflicted or not, just to ward off the possibility. After all, it's bad enough to have it burn when you pee. You don't need it to sting and bite too.
Prokris was not just an Athenian girl...
(Anonymous) 2010-01-11 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)Here is a list o Painters and Sculptors that created works inspired by the love story of Prokris and Cephalus:
Pierro di Cosimo (1462—1521)
Bernardino Luini 1480 - 1532
Rosso Fiorentino (1494 - 1540)
René Boyvin (1525 - 1580)
Karel van Mander (1548-1606)
Frans Spiering (first half of the 16th century - carpet weaver)
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Prokris Poussin image
«Kefalos and Aurora», Nicolas Poussin (c. 1630), 96,5 × 130,5 cm , National Gallery , London
Alessandro Turchi (1578-1649)
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)
Joachim Wtewael (1595-1600)
Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)
Godfried Schalcken (1643–1706)
Maître de Flore (Second half of the 16th century)
Johan Michael Rottmayr (1656-1730)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806)
John Flaxman (1755-1826)
Fulchran-Jean Harriet ( 1776-1805).
John Rodham Spencer (1829-1908)
Benjamin Clemens (1875-1957)
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Today modern artists are still inspired by Prokris
Here follows a list with the works of music about Prokris (that we know of):
"Il rapimento di Cefalo" - Opera (libretto by Gabriello Chiabrera, music mostly by Giulio Caccini). First performance in Florence during the wedding of Henry IV of France with Maria dei Medici - October 1600.
"L'Aurora Ingannata" (1605) - Opera Giacobbi, Girolamo (1567-1628).
"Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne" Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676). Opera with Foreword and three Acts. Libretto Giovanni Francesco Busenello.
"Tsefal i Prokris" (In Russian: Цефал и Прокрис – Cephalus and Procris) is an opera seria in three acts by the Italian composer Francesco Araja. Dating to 1755, it was the first opera written in the Russian language. Araja composed the opera to a Russian libretto by Alexander Sumarokov after the Metamorphoses of Ovid.
Kephalos und Prokris, Alessandro Turchi (1578 -1649) 187 cm x 266 cm
"Celos aun del aire matan" (“Jealousy, even of air, kills”) Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) και Juan Hidalgo’
Written around 1660 to celebrate the marriage of the Infanta María Teresa to Louis XIV of France.
"Procris und Cephalus" Opera Reinhard Keiser (1674-1739) (Braunschweig 1694)
"Céphale et Procris" 1773, Grétry André (1741-1813).
A suite from the opera on Ovid's Metamorphoses 7, composed for an aristocratic wedding celebration.
"Cephalus and Aurora" 1789 Georg Benda (1722-1795). A "cantata" in which Procris is not even introduced in this retelling of the Greek myth
"Aurora" 1812 Hoffmann (1776-1822)
An opera on Ovid's Metamorphoses 7 and Hyginus' Fabulae with a happy ending for Cephalus and Procris
"Procris" 1958 RalphVaughan Williams (1872-1958).
Music for medium voice and piano for one of Ursula Vaughan Williams' Four Last Songs, inspired by a painting.
"Cephalus and Prokris" Alberto dal Pino 1994
Composed the symphony for the ballet based on the poem by Maura del Serra
Here are just 2 very interesting poetical collection:
Cephalus and Procris - Songs from the Classics - Series 2 - Charles F. Grindrod - London 1907
Cephalus and Procris, Narcissus - by Thomas Edwards London MDCCCLXXXII
By the way, I am I winemaker in Kefalonia, Greece, creator of the medium dry white wine "Prokris"
Yangos Metaxas
www.metaxaswineestate.com
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(Anonymous) 2010-01-12 04:59 am (UTC)(link)As I am Greek Mythology geek, I can't help but add that in the original (as original as you can get for a myth anyway), Pasiphae was a Cretan goddess and the bull she mated with was actually a Cretan god. Then the Cretans were conquered by the Greeks and the Greeks took the myth way too literally.
Also, why would Minos have sex a second time, after venomous creatures came out his dick? The hell?
-days