#like. this is Peak Ovid Behavior.

[splendidemendax]

The formal irruption of tragedy into the elegiac texture directs us to the Sophoclean model — only to discover that the Deianira of the "Women of Trachis' utters no lament, either for Hercules or for herself. With an exceptional dramatic solution, she vanishes wordlessly (Trach. 813) from the scene and immediately kills herself on the marriage bed. Ovid has his Deianira speaking in this blank of the Sophoclean model. The Ovidian refrain "What is keeping you from dying, Deianira" sounds like an implicit self-reproach - not only because she is crushed by shame and guilt, but because by her delay she is swerving from the path laid down by the official model for this letter, the Trachiniae. Once again we see, and I shall come back to this later, how intertextual irony could be linked to a kind of self-referentiality. The text sees its future reflected in the mirror of its model, and at the same time sends its reader backwards to that model. —barchiesi, "future reflexive", 342

[eucanthos]

Lycanthrope (Gr: wolf-man)

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Lycanthropy refers to both the mental disorder and the supernatural physical transformation of humans into wolves. One who suffers from Lycanthropy is called Lycanthrope. Since neither of these terms appeared in medieval usage, Werewolf is the relevant term of the era.

Ovid’s Lycaon has a prior immoral behavior that enables his physical transformation into moster. The idea of a link between biology (i.e. appearance) and “immoral” behavior developed fully in the late 20th century. - https://greekreporter.com/2022/08/22/ancient-greek-origins-werewolves/

In Middle English, “werewolf” (“werwolf,” “warwolf,” etc.) refers to both a person who has been or is capable of transforming into a wolf as well as “an exceptionally large and ferocious wolf”. The etymology of the term is somewhat unclear, although “were” has often been identified with the Old English wer, “man.” - Medieval Disability Glossary. Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages https://medievaldisabilityglossary.hcommons.org/lycanthropy/

Stories of men turning into beasts go back to antiquity. In parts of ancient Greece, werewolf myths, presumably stemming from prehistoric times, became linked with the Olympian religion. In Arcadia, a region plagued by wolves, there was a cult of the Wolf-Zeus (Zeus Lycaeus). Mount Lycaeus was the scene of a yearly gathering at which the priests were said to prepare a sacrificial feast that included meat mixed with human parts. According to legend, whoever tasted it became a wolf and could not turn back into a man unless he abstained from human flesh for nine years. - Britannica https://www.britannica.com/science/lycanthropy

Lykaia (Greek: Λυκαία) was a yearly archaic festival with a secret ritual on the slopes of Mount Lykaion ("Wolf Mountain"), the tallest peak in Arcadia. The rituals and myths involved cannibalism and a werewolf transformation for the epheboi (adolescents) participants. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykaia

Herodotus, in his Histories (430 BC), wrote that the Neuri, a tribe he places to the north-east of Scythia, were all transformed into wolves once every year for several days, and then changed back to their human shape. This tale was also mentioned by Pomponius Mela.

In 380 BC, Plato told a story in the Republic about the “protector-turned-tyrant” of the shrine of Lycaean Zeus. In this short passage, Socrates remarks: “The story goes that he who tastes of the one bit of human entrails minced up with those of other victims is inevitably transformed into a wolf.” - greekreporter

In the 2nd century BC, Greek geographer Pausanias related the story of King Lycaon of Arcadia, who was transformed into a wolf because he had sacrificed a child in the altar of Zeus Lycaeus. In the version of the legend told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, when Zeus visits Lycaon disguised as a common man, Lycaon to test if he is really a god, he kills a Molossian hostage and serve his “entrails” to Zeus. Disgusted, the god turns Lycaon into a wolf. In other accounts of the legend, like that of Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, Zeus blasts him and his sons with thunderbolts.

Pausanias also relates the story of an Arcadian man called Damarchus of Parrhasia, who was turned into a wolf after tasting the entrails of a human child sacrificed to Zeus Lycaeus. He was restored to human form 10 years later and went on to become an Olympic champion. This tale is also recounted by Pliny the Elder, who calls the man Demaenetus quoting Agriopas. According to Pausanias, this was not a one-off event, but that men have been transformed into wolves during the sacrifices to Zeus Lycaeus since the time of Lycaon. If they abstain of tasting human flesh while being wolves, they would be restored to human form nine years later, but if they do they will remains wolves forever.

Lykos (Λύκος) of Athens was a wolf-shaped herο, whose shrine stood by the jurycourt, and the first jurors were named after him.

Pliny the Elder quoting Euanthes, he mentions that in Arcadia, once a year a man was chosen by lot from the Anthus' clan. The chosen man was escorted to a marsh in the area, where he hung his clothes into an oak tree, swam across the marsh and transformed into a wolf, joining a pack for nine years. If during these nine years he refrained from tasting human flesh, he returned to the same marsh, swam back and recovered his previous human form, with nine years added to his appearance. Ovid also relates stories of men who roamed the woods of Arcadia in the form of wolves.

Virgil, in his poetic work Eclogues, wrote about a man called Moeris, who used herbs and poisons picked in his native Pontus to turn himself into a wolf. In prose, the Satyricon, written circa AD 60 by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, one of the characters, Niceros, tells a story at a banquet about a friend who turned into a wolf (chs. 61–62). He describes the incident as follows, "When I look for my buddy I see he'd stripped and piled his clothes by the roadside... He pees in a circle round his clothes and then, just like that, turns into a wolf!... after he turned into a wolf he started howling and then ran off into the woods."- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf

IMG: Loup garou devouring a woman. Engraving, 19th c. From the Mansell Collection, London. - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loup_garou.jpg

[bigyack-com]

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That means all the deals. The F.T.C. wants the companies to provide documentation on “the terms, scope, structure, and purpose” of every transaction. No clandestine acquihire is too small for scrutiny under this order.• Last year, Alphabet spent $1 billion on deals not deemed big enough to name.• Apple reported more than $600 million in costs related to a bevy of small deals in its latest fiscal year.Go back a decade, and the number of deals caught in the F.T.C.’s net will number in the hundreds.The big threat: Ultimately, the F.T.C. could unwind mergers if it thinks they harmed consumers by stifling competition.Facebook has been here before. The company has been in the F.T.C.’s crosshairs for a while, with the regulator opening an antitrust inquiry into its acquisition practices last year — around the same time it was hit with a $5 billion fine for data privacy breaches. As a result, it changed its behavior in “pre-emptive and defensive ways,” the NYT’s Mike Isaac wrote at the time. Will the other tech giants also now reconsider their acquisitive ways?On the other hand... This week, a federal judge approved Sprint and T-Mobile’s mega-merger against the wishes of state attorneys general, and President Trump praised trillion-dollar tech companies for pushing the stock market higher. And the F.T.C.’s words may not match its deeds, says Shira Ovide, writer of the NYT’s forthcoming tech newsletter:Here’s a hard truth about legal investigations, particularly antitrust cases involving multiple tentacles of state and federal government: They take FOREVER. Today’s American tech stars could be irrelevant by the time there is any resolution. Insert cliche that “this time could be different,” but predicting government paralysis or inaction isn’t a bad bet these days. What are the odds that all this amounts to three years of shouting, and then nothing?Oh, the irony: At the end of the F.T.C.’s press release, the agency asks readers to like its page on Facebook.

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[mastcomm]

Business Is Worried About Bernie. Should It Be?

That means all the deals. The F.T.C. wants the companies to provide documentation on “the terms, scope, structure, and purpose” of every transaction. No clandestine acquihire is too small for scrutiny under this order.

• Last year, Alphabet spent $1 billion on deals not deemed big enough to name.

• Apple reported more than $600 million in costs related to a bevy of small deals in its latest fiscal year.

Go back a decade, and the number of deals caught in the F.T.C.’s net will number in the hundreds.

The big threat: Ultimately, the F.T.C. could unwind mergers if it thinks they harmed consumers by stifling competition.

Facebook has been here before. The company has been in the F.T.C.’s crosshairs for a while, with the regulator opening an antitrust inquiry into its acquisition practices last year — around the same time it was hit with a $5 billion fine for data privacy breaches. As a result, it changed its behavior in “pre-emptive and defensive ways,” the NYT’s Mike Isaac wrote at the time. Will the other tech giants also now reconsider their acquisitive ways?

On the other hand… This week, a federal judge approved Sprint and T-Mobile’s mega-merger against the wishes of state attorneys general, and President Trump praised trillion-dollar tech companies for pushing the stock market higher. And the F.T.C.’s words may not match its deeds, says Shira Ovide, writer of the NYT’s forthcoming tech newsletter:

Here’s a hard truth about legal investigations, particularly antitrust cases involving multiple tentacles of state and federal government: They take FOREVER. Today’s American tech stars could be irrelevant by the time there is any resolution. Insert cliche that “this time could be different,” but predicting government paralysis or inaction isn’t a bad bet these days. What are the odds that all this amounts to three years of shouting, and then nothing?

Oh, the irony: At the end of the F.T.C.’s press release, the agency asks readers to like its page on Facebook.

Counting the cost of the coronavirus

The coronavirus, now officially known as COVID-19, may have peaked, but the global economy will need time to recover.

Chinese officials reported the lowest number of new cases since the end of last month, and suggested that the outbreak may end by April. Other experts aren’t so sure, and the World Health Organization said the virus should be “public enemy No. 1,” with a vaccine at least 18 months away.

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[mastcomm]

DealBook: Business Is Worried About Bernie. Should It Be?

That means all the deals. The F.T.C. wants the companies to provide documentation on “the terms, scope, structure, and purpose” of every transaction. No clandestine acquihire is too small for scrutiny under this order.

• Last year, Alphabet spent $1 billion on deals not deemed big enough to name.

• Apple reported more than $600 million in costs related to a bevy of small deals in its latest fiscal year.

Go back a decade, and the number of deals caught in the F.T.C.’s net will number in the hundreds.

The big threat: Ultimately, the F.T.C. could unwind mergers if it thinks they harmed consumers by stifling competition.

Facebook has been here before. The company has been in the F.T.C.’s crosshairs for a while, with the regulator opening an antitrust inquiry into its acquisition practices last year — around the same time it was hit with a $5 billion fine for data privacy breaches. As a result, it changed its behavior in “pre-emptive and defensive ways,” the NYT’s Mike Isaac wrote at the time. Will the other tech giants also now reconsider their acquisitive ways?

On the other hand… This week, a federal judge approved Sprint and T-Mobile’s mega-merger against the wishes of state attorneys general, and President Trump praised trillion-dollar tech companies for pushing the stock market higher. And the F.T.C.’s words may not match its deeds, says Shira Ovide, writer of the NYT’s forthcoming tech newsletter:

Here’s a hard truth about legal investigations, particularly antitrust cases involving multiple tentacles of state and federal government: They take FOREVER. Today’s American tech stars could be irrelevant by the time there is any resolution. Insert cliche that “this time could be different,” but predicting government paralysis or inaction isn’t a bad bet these days. What are the odds that all this amounts to three years of shouting, and then nothing?

Oh, the irony: At the end of the F.T.C.’s press release, the agency asks readers to like its page on Facebook.

Counting the cost of the coronavirus

The coronavirus, now officially known as COVID-19, may have peaked, but the global economy will need time to recover.

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