[Homestead] For all latter-day male hippies

Gene GeRue genegerue at ruralize.com
Thu Sep 13 20:34:36 EDT 2007


     The cyclops Polyphemous to his beloved, Galatea:

         Abundant hair hangs over my fierce face
         and shoulders, shading me, just like a grove;
         but don't think me unsightly just because
         I am completely covered in dense bristles:
         unsightly is the tree that has no leaves,
         the horse without a mane; birds have their plumage
         and sheep are most attractive in their wool,
         so facial hair and a full body beard
         are really most becoming in a man.

     Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XIII (trans. Charles Martin)


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