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Day 25-Anchises

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Aeneas being unable to embrace his mother, his wife, and his father (twice)

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The two mortals Aphrodite marries in some versions. These are my old designs but I am pretty sure I never posted them here

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i was listening to an elizabeth vandiver lecture on the greek pantheon where she points out the theme in greek myths where male lovers of goddesses often end up suffering in some way, and how that can be seen to tie into the ancient greek preoccupation with who penetrates who (the higher status person may penetrate the lower status person, and never vice versa). within that framework, someone like ganymede is "safe" from narrative punishment because being a passive mortal eromenos of zeus is in accordance with the hierarchy, while tithonus, willing or unwilling, commits an offense against the "order of things" by penetrating and impregnating eos.

vandiver uses the union of aphrodite and anchises to illustrate how consent is not a factor at all (in the hymn, anchises is very aware that he mustn't have sex with a goddess, but aphrodite tricks him into it). even unknowing, he commits an outrage by sleeping with a goddess, and is in various traditions eventually struck lame, blinded or killed by a thunderbolt.

i think this theory adds an interesting facet to the beginning of the odyssey, where calypso then has odysseus basically locked into a perpetual outrage-against-the-gods loop by forcing him to be her lover. are the seven years trapped on her island a narrative punishment for that? is it why he needs literal divine intervention to break the loop and escape?

#just thinky thoughts. interesting angle #my takeaway is that so many problems in greek myths could have been solved through pegging.#i'm embarrassed i never considered that the reason aeneas CARRIES anchises out of troy isn't just because anchises is old #like. priam is old and nobody's carrying him everywhere. but if anchises is LAME or BLIND that makes so much sense #also i remain tithonus' number one fan i'm glad to have an excuse to talk about him again #also wild extrapolation: what does this say about who was the active partner between apollo and hyacinthus?#analysis #tithonus #ganymede #anchises #odysseus #🏷️

William Blake Richmond - Venus and Anchises APHRODITE/VENUS LOOKS SO PRETTY HERE OH MY GOD??? THE FLOWERS AND ANIMALS AND OH MY GODDD THE WAY HER DRESS IS PAINTED HERE OH MY GODDD I'M INLOVE

And Anchises is here ig, he's staring with much intent, i think

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Venus in the Forge of Vulcan, (n/d), (Detail) by the Circle of Jean-Simon Berthélemy (French, 1743 – 1811), oil on canvas, 77 cm (30.3 in); width: 63 cm (24.8 in), Private Collection

Illustration by Patryk Hardziej for the Mondadori edition of Virgil's Aeneid

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❁ the bride and the ugly ass groom ❁

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