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Artist/ Omani 🇴🇲/ Hera and Hephaestus divorce attorney/ Athena and Perseus Defender/ Obscure Myths enjoyer

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Every resource I could find with information about Andromeda

Introduction:

Perseus by Daniel Ogden is the perfect introduction of Perseus and his surrounding mythology, which includes Andromeda

Primary sources:

Theoi is generally a great website if you wanna research mythology in general:

In Greek mythology Perseus was one of the most celebrated of the heroes. This second page in the Perseus series begins with the story of his

Topostext is also pretty good, tho it’s super slow for me for some reason:

ToposText

Fragmentary plays. These sorts of writings are usually behind a subscriptions, these are screenshots I got while subscribed to Loeb Library:

Euripides Andromeda fragments: https://www.tumblr.com/sarafangirlart/778560413612883968/euripides-andromeda-fragments-part-2

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Sophocles Andromeda Fragments:

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Analysis:

Maritime-Related Cults in the Coastal Cities of Philistia during the Roman Period Legacy and change by Simona Rodan. This book is mainly about ancient Palestine but chapter 2 is about Jaffa, which is actually heavily tied to Andromeda’s myth.

Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources by Timothy Gantz. Again, Andromeda isn’t the main focus but her chapter along with Perseus is insightful.

Brill’s Companion to Euripides, Chapter 41, Affective Attachments in Some Late Tragedies of Euripides by Francis Dunn. This chapter talks about other plays too but has some pretty insightful analysis. It’s the first time I’ve learned that Euripides Andromeda was one of the first ancient Greek plays *ever* to depict two ppl (Perseus and Andromeda) falling in love on stage.

Euripides' Escape-Tragedies: A Study of Helen, Andromeda, and Iphigenia among the Taurians by Matthew Wright. We don’t know much about Euripides Andromeda but it has some parallels to Euripides other non-lost plays, which this book analyzes.

Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity by Sarah F. Derbew. This book doesn’t talk much about Andromeda but it’s great for ppl who want to know more about blackness in antiquity.

Retellings (that are actually good):

Andromeda Unfettered by Muriel Stuart

Perseus (1973)

Aphrodite’s Blessings by Clemence McLaren

Aphrodite's blessings : Clemence McLaren : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Aphrodite's blessings : Clemence McLaren : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[sarafangirlart]

Random design judgment: Athena from Shin Megami Tensei

Oh hell yeah red Athena

[sarafangirlart]

u may have been asked this before but what r ur thoughts on the upcoming ilium musical?

i remember being on tumblr before epic blew up. i rlly liked telemachus so every single day i would wake up and check the telemachus tag to see if anyone had posted under it😭 it was kinda dry and then epic got popular and suddenly there was new stuff every day. i was excited at first and then i listened to epic and was not a fan of like… any of the characterizations. but it was inescapable.

anyway i guess what im saying is that im scared… especially for the female characters😭😭 one of my biggest gripes with epic was the complete erasure of the slaves, which i get was to make the story more palatable but it took away a lot of nuance in the text and characters. however the slaves in the iliad are SO crucial to the story. like there’s no way u can write them out esp to make the male characters more likable. and if he’s going to go the tsoa route to make the whole owning slaves thing more palatable it would be… certainly a choice… but idk how else he’s going to do it. the trojan war is just SUCH a hard thing to adapt masterfully. and then the royal women too… the “fire” snippet was beautiful sonically but why was priam asking cassandra for advice?😭

okay one more thing… i was also bothered by epic’s impact on discussions regarding other retellings or characterizations. like madeline miller’s circe wasn’t perfect by any means but i really really enjoyed her interpretations of the ithacan royal family. i was lowkey living for the angst between them. odysseus was very morally gray but it made his character soooo intriguing. and not everybody has to agree but just bc he wasn’t portrayed as a “wife-guy” or a perfect father doesn’t mean the whole book was trash like some ppl were making it out to be😭 in terms of ilium, i personally rlly enjoyed the silence of the girls (and the second book as well) but almost all of the men in it were jerks (as expected) so im hoping it doesn’t get the same treatment.

this whole ask has been me complaining and i don’t mean to sound pretentious but i am rlly not ready for the incoming influx of fans😭 i love ur blog and will be clutching onto it like a lifeboat no pressure tho

Honestly… I’ve never made it a secret I did not care for Epic so I understand how you feel. I’m actually so scared of how the slaves would be written.

[jejesoso]

Found a new unconected trilogy

These will be short stories of about 25 pages

Not sure if the mythology of the Pleiades counts as "untold stories"

"Within the seaside realm, Queen Cassiopeia bore the title of the Queen of a Single Sentence"

That's the first time I hear Cassiopeia getting such title

Why the title of the book has Andromeda and the synopsis is focused on Cassiopeia?

And honestly Pegasus isn't compeling enough to get a retelling partially centered around him

This one I'm worried about

I wonder if this retelling will dwelve on the tragedy that Arcas had a family that now doesn't know why he's missing

All 3 books have ai generated image on the cover 😐

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Recently found this

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How I feel bringing up that Andromeda retelling every few days when that trash should be water under the bridge by now

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Yo since when was this the most liked review lol

[sarafangirlart]

Perseus (a Greek) and Andromeda (an Egyptian) making a Persian baby from scratch

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Dionysus being raised by nymphs from all over the old world

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Saw an ai video of a woman saying “put a white woman in a room full of Muslim men and put a Muslim woman in a room full of white men and see what happens” obviously insinuating that the hypothetical Muslim men would hurt the hypothetical white woman but I just imagined myself (a Muslim woman) in a room full of white men and the mere idea frightened me so much lmao what if I get hate crimed bro

[sarafangirlart]

Me if I was in a room full of white men

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I brought my sketchbook with me to Vietnam so I can draw but every time we go back to the hotel and I get some me time I’m too tired and it ends up like this

[sarafangirlart]

Saw an ai video of a woman saying “put a white woman in a room full of Muslim men and put a Muslim woman in a room full of white men and see what happens” obviously insinuating that the hypothetical Muslim men would hurt the hypothetical white woman but I just imagined myself (a Muslim woman) in a room full of white men and the mere idea frightened me so much lmao what if I get hate crimed bro

[garlicnoodle1]

Me if GLITCH told me to write a season of my project in a span of only two weeks

[garlicnoodle1]

Fuck it. I’m shipping Rabid Jax and Ragatha. Calling them RabidDoll.

[frogmoisturethief]

ohhh. I am with you

[sarafangirlart]

This random ass comedy play has better dress than the ones in Nolan’s Odyssey lol

[asparklethatisblue]

children of any species are very good at being annoying and very cute while doing that

a sphinx child based on this post

[sarafangirlart]

If I didn’t know any better I’d think Dracula was super protective of and in love with Jonathan, it doesn’t help that he acts like a billionaire in a y/n fanfic in that he is super controlling of Jonathan and prevents him from leaving, also doesn’t help that Dracula got jealous of Mina bc Jonathan tried to write to her.

Also awwwww Jonathan and Mina have a secret writing system that’s so cute.

[sarafangirlart]

Dracula disguising himself as Jonathan to wreck havoc on surrounding humans so it would be even more difficult for Jonathan to escape and find help… wow this mf is evil.