The greatest trick ever pulled

    I decided on doing my next blog on the which story or myth was the worst (gruesome/most evil). After trying to find a certain story I quickly realized that this was nearly an impossible task. There are so many stories in Ovid's book it is too difficult to pick one over any other story.
    Then in my Seminar class my professor Ben Luebner asked us if we had seen the movie The Usual Suspects. Almost none of my classmates, me included, had not seen it. After this he told us we should all watch it ASAP. So that night I found myself with a little extra time so I pulled the movie up on the internet. After watching this movie one of the characters, Keyser Soze, had shown me what my blog was gong to be about.
    First watch this clip  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgkBpWc8ngI. After seeing this I recognized that not one particular event could be singled out but one type of crime was the worst. Many of the stories in Ovid's book had are surrounded by deceit and disguise. This is what I have found to be the most evil thing of all. As we are told "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist."  This raises the question, how can you be scared of something that doesn't exist? And if you don't believe in the devil (I am not advocating one way or another) then there is nothing to worry about.....or is there?

Anemonemeonomemneoem...?

Last week when we were preparing for the test, someone brought up the story of Venus and Adonis. As the myth goes (simplified) Venus took the blood from Adonis and turned it into an Anemone flower. Immediately after the question was posed three or four people where trying to get their two cents in about how to pronounce the word. In class people argued for several minutes over which pronunciation was more correct. To this day I am not sure how to say the word, I will probably never know. This reminded me of a movie I had seen where a certain character couldn't figure out the pronunciation of a similar word. Watch this and you will understand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ1KDf3O-qU.
Now the word the that Nemo was trying to say was Sea Anemone, which is more of a jellyfish than a flower even though it is classified as a flower. Although they are describing different plants/animals the word still gives man and animal alike a hard time with pronunciation.

Book XV

Myscelus- A mortal man favored by the gods and great Hercules built the city on Italian soil.Pythagoras- He gives use many reasons not to be carnivores and he maybe the first to be a vegetarian. Egeria and Hippolytus- Drug and scattered was his body all over the ground, so much so that he was recognizable as just one giant wound.Cipus- The once feared horns that sprouted on his brow had brought him to be the ruler of the city of Rome.Aesculapius- The god needed to find a place for his shrine and for this he went to the ground.

Book XIV

Glaucus, Circe, Scylla- Even someone on as great and powerful as a god can fall under the emotions of jealous and envy, this Circe proves.The Sibyl- A mortal was given great power and yet she was not specific with her wish and now will die an old old woman.Aeolus, Ulysses, Circe- After they found their lost (and almost forgotten) Greek, they retold their gruesome adventures.The Fountain of Janus- This story shows that even help form the "hand" of a god does not ensure victory.Hersila- Love can be so great that it is in life, death, and even immortality.