Corōnis
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Reading level
The intended level is unclear. The author’s introduction states that this novella was written “for an 8th-grade Latin class, with whom I had been working for almost half a year when I decided to create it.” As of this writing, it is not rated by Comprehensible Antiquity.
Diverse & Multicultural Identities
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No depictions identified.Gender
Features one cis female main character (Coronis) and one cis male main character (Andromachus). Features no transgender main characters.Sexual identity
Features a depiction of heterosexual identity: Coronis, a woman, is romantically involved with Andromachus, a man, when Apollo, a male god, comes to flirt with her.SES/class
No depictions identified.Religion
No depictions identified.Disability
No depictions identified.Language Statistics
Vocabulary
Word List
A complete word list for Corōnis can be found here.
Glosses
This novella contains no glosses.
Glossary
This novella contains a Latin-English glossary, with words listed by headword only. The glossary is very incomplete. Of the 437 total words used in the story, only 45 of them are included in the glossary. Teachers including this book in their FVR libraries are encouraged to use the word list feature of LNDb to provide a complete word list to students.
Syntax
The ratio of complex sentences indicates what proportion of the total sentences are complex sentences, on average. A complex sentence is defined as a sentence with one or more subordinate clauses or verb phrases.
Summary
Genre & Sources
This novella is in the genre of mythological (Classical).
It is an adaptation of the story of Coronis and Apollo, found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (2.531–611). It also contains a brief retelling of the story of Proserpina's abduction by Pluto.
It is an adaptation of the story of Coronis and Apollo, found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (2.531–611). It also contains a brief retelling of the story of Proserpina's abduction by Pluto.
CONTAINS SPOILERS
Coronis is a beautiful girl who lives in Greece. She has a boyfriend named Andromachus, who always gives her gifts and treats her nicely. One day Coronis tells Andromachus that she wants blue pearls instead of the white ones she has, and she promises that if Andromachus brings her blue pearls, she will marry him. Andromachus goes out in search of the pearls, and his search takes him down to the underworld. Meanwhile, on a walk through the woods, Coronis is visited by Apollo, who flirts with her, and she says she has no man in her life. Apollo returns to Olympus, and his white crow tells him that Coronis has lied to him about this. In the underworld, Pluto agrees to give Andromachus the blue pearls, but only on the condition that Andromachus give up his soul in exchange. Meanwhile, Coronis has a dream where a despondent Andromachus laments her unfaithfulness to him. Coronis wakes up, and when Apollo offers her the blue pearls she so desires, she starts to cry and shuts the door on him. Coronis hears another knock on the door, but this time it is Andromachus holding the blue pearls. They go into the woods, where Coronis confesses that she loves Andromachus, not Apollo. Apollo sees this, and shoots two arrows at the couple, but due to the tears in his eyes he accidentally kills Coronis as well as Andromachus. Apollo in anger turns to the white crow who informed him of Coronis’s lie, and asks Jupiter to strike the crow with his lightning. Jupiter reluctantly agrees, and the crow is so scorched that it turns black.
First 100 Words
Underlined words are glossed in the text.Corōnis pulchra puella est. Corōnis habitat in Graeciā. Corōnis habet amīcum. nōmen amīcō est Andromachus. Andromachus Corōnem amat. Andromachus cotīdiē Corōnem ōsculātur et complectitur. Corōnis autem Andromachum nōn amat.
Corōnis sīc putat: “Andromachus est fortis et Andromachus est pulcher. placent mihi fortitūdo et pulchritūdo. Androcmachus etiam pecūniam habet. placet mihi pecūnia!”
Corōnis putat Andromachum esse fortem et pulchrum. Corōnis Andromachum nōn amat. quamquam Corōnis Andromachum nōn amat, cotīdiē Andromachum ōsculātur et complectitur quia placent Corōnī fortitūdo, pulchritūdo, et pecūnia.
Andromachus pecūniōsus est et multa mūnera amīcae dat. Andromachus cotīdiē gemmās Corōnī dat. Corōnis igitur multās gemmās habet. Andromachus multās margarītās Corōnī dat. ...
Supplementary Materials
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| Illustrations? | no |
| Illustrator | N/A |
| Macrons? | yes |
| Font | Calibri Light, 16 pt |
| Pages of story | 45 |
| Total pages | 61 |
| Chapters | 10 |
Key Information
| Publication date | March 8, 2020 |
| Publisher | Independently published |
| ISBN | 1661893287 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1661893286 |
