#aegisthus

[just-1-scorpio]

Things that happand in the sources, but people would hunt you down, if you chose to incorporate it in your retelling

-Medusa X Poseidon

-Achilles marring Medea in the afterlife

-Persephone and Hades cheating on each other

-Clytemnestra not being a loving mother and letting Aegisthus abuse her dauthers

-Andromeda loving Perseus

-Medusa being born as a monster

-Priests and priestesses not being like Christian priests and nuns

-Artemis, Hestia, and Athena being imune to romanc and such

-Dionysus being the god of madness

-Persephone having power, and friends before marring Hades

-Persephone and Demeter having a good mother dauther reletionship

Fell free to add more

[palamedestragedy]

elektra with aegisthus

[katerinaaqu]

I'm sorry I have to say this but I think this is what double standards looks like in Greek mythos talk;

Them: Clytemnestra did nothing wrong! Ever! Me: You mean...apart from cheating, murder, coup and child abuse? Them: Shut up misogynist! She was a grieving mother and any mother would do that for her child and men cheat too and Agamemnon is a piece of trash and had it coming! Me: And Cassandra too, I presume...and her other children Them: You do not understand! She was traumatized and she has been through a lot! She was forced to marry Agamemnon even if he killed her husband and child so of course she would turn like this! They made her do that! Me: So...if trauma excuses any horrible behavior shouldn't that also apply for the Atreides too? Them: Fuck no! They are men! They can never have it as hard as Clytemnestra! Meanwhile the Atreides: Their mother was sold to a relative by her own father to drown because she was having a fling with a slave and then she was married to Atreus whom she proceeded on cheating on him with his brother Thyestes. Thyestes being a man wishing to do anything for power even to cheat on his own brother thus using his lover to collaborate with him. Atreus arguably being one of the scariest figures of myth takes revenge for adultery to the sickest level by killing his nephews and feeding them to their own father and taunting him for it. Thyestes raping his own daughter so he can have his revenge. Atreus raising Aegisthus under his own roof. They becoming exiles when their father got killed and Aegisthus did the full coup after arguably facing the most traumatic childhood a child of myth could go through and had to claw themselves back to their original place... Me: ... Me: Yeah they had "La Vie en Rose" playing at the background of their childhood alright. Trauma definitely doesn't apply to them...

Just to be clear I am NOT saying that Clytemnestra had it easy or that her emotions are not valid but if one always uses the trauma as an excuse rather than an explanation for someone's bad deeds in myth then I have to say that the Atreides had all the reasons to become villains and they chose not to and I believe we do not appreciate that enough

And no Agamemnon did NOT want to sacrifice Iphigenia. It was a dictation of the gods and he had no way of refusing that.

[scuorge10]

Clytemnestra drawings (featuring Aegisthus and Helen)

[thhouseofblack]

people using "Agamemnon cheated on Clytemnestra!" to hate on Agamemnon are so fascinating to me, like what do you think Clytemnestra was doing with Aegisthus? Playing ludo?

[asha-dasha]

I think electra should be downright abusive right back to aegisthus i want him calling her lazy and her retorting by calling him an inbred fuck, i want her looking a little suspicious anytime he's eating meat, i want her laughing at him the first time he hits her until he's going back to clytemnestra panicking that shes going to murder him, i want her telling his kids about his family line just to piss him off, I want half of the damage control clytemnestra does to be between electra and aegisthus

[hermesmoly]

Elektra stronger than me because if my dad was murdered and the guy who co-killed him ended up living in my house wearing my dad's clothes pouring his libations and sleeping with my mom who betrayed me and forced me to rejoice in his death every month, kept me from any good marriage and makes fun of me, all the while my youngest brother is away for his own safety and losing my sister inch by inch because she ended up obeying them I would actually go through killing myself

[distantlydreamingofwater]

Grace and Rocky are orpheus and eurydice, space is the underworld.

Rocky and Adrian are Odysseus and Penelope. The other crew members are Odysseus's men.

Stratt, Carl and Grace are Clytemnestra, Aegisthus and Agamemnon. The astrophage is Cassandra.

If we want to throw in Bloodymary Au, Ryland is Perceus and Simon is Andromeda.