Met. 1.270-3 – The Rain Cometh
NUNTIA IUNONIS VARIOS INDUTA COLORES
CONCIPIT IRIS AQUAS ALIMENTAQUE NUBIBUS ADFERT;
STERNUNTUR SEGETES ET DEPLORATA COLONIS
VOTA IACENT, LONGIQUE PERIT LABOR INRITUS ANNI.
IRIS, MESSENGER OF JUNO, CLOAKED IN HER VARIOUS COLOURS,
TOOK IN WATER AND BROUGHT IT UP AS NOURISHMENT FOR THE CLOUDS;
THE CORNFIELDS ARE SCATTERED, THE COMPLAINING
PRAYERS OF FARMERS GO UNHEEDED AND THE USELESS LABOUR OF THE YEAR PERISHES.
What’s this?? Actual comics??! Yes, I have been off schedule for a couple weeks now. Today’s is a short one, but I was working on a longer page with two different major parts to it, and I though it was better to split the page than leave y’all waiting another week… As for why I am so off schedule: I was power-slammed by a paper on Juvenal (an author I don’t work on usually) on the one side, and a deadline for a chapter draft on the other. Admittedly, this was all entire my fault, but I had fun with the Juvenal paper, and I am proud of my progress on my PhD dissertation (even if I should have done this chapter a lot sooner…) As you can tell, some things had to get put on the back burner, and the comic was one of them. I try not to get behind, especially because I know that I need continual progress in any project I work on to keep the momentum going. However, the “real life” stuff must come first, and I wouldn’t have all this awesome Ovid knowledge if not for my doctorate.
Part of what took me so long was the complicated design I came up with for Iris, the messenger of Juno and goddess of the rainbow. But, I mean, come on: was I going to depict the goddess of the rainbow any other way? It would have been sacrilege I’d say…
Anyways, a short page, plus over-worked Charlie means this blog post will be short too. I hope to have something more for you on Monday. In the meantime, I hope you have a great week!
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