Thick Skin

Genre/Style: The White Stripes

Touchstones: “Icky Thump,” “Seven Nation Army”

Themes:

Myth: Caeneus transition from Caenis

Notable Telling: Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Metamorphoses 12.429-535 (8 CE)

Read in Latin at the Perseus Project (ed. Hugo Magnus, 1897)

Read in Latin at the Perseus Project (ed. Hugo Magnus, 1897)

Read Kline's 2000 English translation through the University of Virginia's Ovid Collection

Read Kline's 2000 English translation through the University of Virginia's Ovid Collection