A lady

[sapocipo]

How people dumb down Aphrodite's kids to be vs how Aphrodite's kids were moving in the myths

[zaraasays]

Menelaus + Helen

[fleurbleedinghearts]

Apollo's kids: Asclepius being the best doctor, Aristaeus living his best rural life being the farmer god, Hymenaeus celebrating weddings, & the mortal kids doing normal prince/princess stuff. Overall being well adjusted.

Helios's kids: Circe turning people into animals, Pasiphaë getting cursed and giving birth to the Minotaur, Pasiphaë cursing her cheating husband to ejaculate scorpions, four of the Heliadae killing their brother Tenages out of jealousy and fleeing the island, one of the non-kinslayer Heliadae Cercaphus killing his niece's fiance and kidnapping her from her father Ochimus his only living non-kinslayer brother, Phaethon nearly crashing the sun into the earth and getting himself killed, the Heliades turning into trees out of grief for their brother Phaethon, Aeëtes having a murder prone daughter who killed his son, & Electryone being the sister of the mostly awful Heliadae.

[byjove]

I hate when I’m watching a period drama set in a pre-industrial time period and they’re ripping through shirts like it’s NOTHINGGGGGGG.

[emmikay]

Eurycleia: Are you emotionally okay?

Penelope: Thank you so much for asking! Um, no.

[theodysseyofhomer]

odysseus & nausikaa text posts be upon ye

[escapedaudios]

Bad retellings of classic fsirytales and mythology fall into one of these camps:

1. What if the bad guy was the good guy

2. What if the bad guy was sexy

3. What if the morally flawed female protagonist was actually not flawed at all and actually perfect from the beginning

4. I'm going to bravely say what no one else is brave enough to say: what if the Greek gods were big meanies

5. What if the whimsical and innocent story was actually evil and twisted 😈😈😈😈😈

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

[cescalovestowrite]

Penelope, Clytemnestra and Helen.

Commissioned art, made by @ube-kun

[mushyooms]

mama's beauty and papa's anger

[poetryofapollo]

People are highkey underestimating Penelope's unhingeness. That woman waited for twenty years, she is not stable. A rabid dog deprived of it's bone.

[simugeuge]

Honestly how many people can be against Thebes? Can't be more than six.

[simugeuge]

Not that it's unimportant, but people lean wayy too much on the repercussions of Telemachus not having a father, to explain his behavior.

Diomedes didn't have a father and he's a model of all achaean values, meanwhile Achilles had a mommy and a daddy and he's the blond disfunctional bitch he is.

Let me set this straight: the series of unfortunate events that collided into Telemachus being who he is now, starts with being Penelope and Odysseus' offspring.

[when-the-pawnn]

There’s always this debate on whether Menelaus or Paris purely loves Helen and doesn’t see her as a property.

The answer is simply that it’s both. The whole war isn’t just about Helen; there are also the factors of pride and one party being insulted.

To Menelaus, that’s his wife who was stolen from him. To Paris, that’s a woman given to him by the goddess of love, and of course he will think she belongs to him now.

This doesn’t mean that they harbor no love for Helen, because they do, but the war doesn’t become solely about her anymore.

[dilutedh2so4]

Retelling about a character who's actually unknown and underrated? I'm scared, but we'll see where this goes

[restlesskeychains]

As I read more ancient greek plays I am becoming more aware of Odysseus sheer shittiness but also like I love him so much never stop being shitty

[wolfythewitch]

Telemachus's strained relationship with his mom and dad, but the one with his dad seemingly getting resolved once they reunite reminds me a lot of how in some cases, you'll find the kid in a family getting along with the more distant/negligent parent because there's less of them to hate