Two Incidents of Venus' Anger - that's a poem in ovid!.
Amathus, a town of Cyprus, is rich in metals,
But never ask that town about her daughters,
Whose foreheads once bore horns, or the other ones,
Turned, later, into stone!. The former had
An altar at their gates, sacred to Jove,
The god of host and guest: if any stranger
Had seen it, stained with blood, he would suppose
That sheep or calves were slain there, and how wrong
He would have been! That blood came from the murder,
Always, of innocent guests!. Venus, offended,
Prepared to leave her Cyprian plains and cities,
And then reflected: 'But these lovely regions
Are not at fault, the cities are not guilty!.
Let these Horned Girls, these wicked creatures, rather
Pay for their sins by exile or by death
Or by some punishment halfway between,
Let us say, a change of body!.' As she wondered
What change, her eyes fell on the horns they carried:
Those they might keep!. They were big women by nature,
Let them be bulls!
And even so, the others,
The foul Propoetides, would not acknowledge
Venus and her divinity, and her anger
Made whores of them, the first such women ever
To sell their bodies, and in shamelessness
They hardened, even their blood was hard, they could not
Blush any more; it was no transition, really,
>From what they were to actual rock and stone!.
Okay, I get that Venus took her anger out, but what two incidents wer ethe cause of Venus's anger!?!.!.!.I don't understand!. If you could explain this poem, it would be great!. Thanks!Www@QuestionHome@Com