#epipole

[blue-lotus333]

Underrated Acheans

[nerdasaurus1200]

Behold, the Iliad's Mulan!

[holy-mother-of-whumpers]

Favorite character from Greek mythology + favorite myth from Greek mythology?

That is a really hard question😂 like what's your favorite music THERE ARE SO MANY!!!

I like to obsess over forgotten minor characters like a true nerd (like Epipole, the Greek Mulan, Thersander, Diomedes fellow Epigone) but except for that, I'm basic.

It's Odysseus ok 😂 he has a lot of whump and a happy ending! All I could ask for.

Also Perseus, the non Ovid version in which Medusa was always a monster.

My favorite myth is Pandora, the interpretation in which Hope is one of the evils, or the worst of them, because it forces you to endure all others for no rational reason. Sometimes you gotta cut your losses, not hope it'll get better.

Plus it's so rad that she got created like this super woman, with all the gods gifting her something, and her job was to open a box?? She didn't even need higher cognitive abilities for that, legend.

I can tell you my least favorite may be Herakles, or Theseus, who looked up to him. I cannot avoid interpreting the 'divine madness' as an excuse for a mean temper and being too cuddled by the gods to suffer proper consequences for his actions. He killed his family and in exchange he became The Hero™️. Rip Megara and kids I suppose, fridged for character development.

I'd love to let a Herakles stan change my mind though.

My least favorite myth(s) are the modern retellings twisting the original's meaning and agency to make a cheap fake feminism point or an over-edgy tragedy in which everybody sucks.

I know people think Miller but I mean more Jennifer Saint, super dry narration, no positive character, the pointlessly saddest endings in the canon wtf

That was a lovely question! Thank you! 🥰🥰

I'd like to hear your opinions too if you feel like coming out!

[palamedestragedy]

Thoughts on Epipole and Palamedes?

i mean. i don't think of epipole or the sources she's written in all that much but they're there! they exist! it's interesting that palamedes was very by-the-book / a conformist when it came to the achaeans' ground rules and his story with epipole only proves that. i do apologize if you expected more than that lol 🥲

[cescalovestowrite]

I didn't know about Epipole until your post, where can I find more about her?

Hi😊

Basically the only source is the work of Ptolemy Chennus (I hope translating his name makes sense) but summarized by Photius in his "Bibliotheca". Unfortunately there is only one sentence on Epipole.

For intellectual honesty it must be said that Ptolemy wrote a lot of bullshit imaginative things. Photius tells us that Ptolemy had tried to group together various stories (historical and mythological) and explain their origin, but it is clear that he often invented them himself, citing non-existent sources.

However, in the context of myth where nothing can be said to be canonical, Ptolemy's additions can also be taken into consideration. I really like Epipole's story and so I'm keeping it ehehe.

I found Photius on this website, I hope it helps.

[15pantheons]

Epipole: Why are you guys acting like this?

Achilles: Oh, we’re not acting. We really are like this.

[greek-mythos-retold]

Epipole Moodboard

"Epipole of Carystus, daughter of Trachion, hid her sex to go on campaign with the Greeks; denounced by Palamedes, she was stoned"

[effulgentpoet]

mythology aesthetics

EPIPOLE

In Greek mythology, Epipole was a woman from Carystus in Euboea. In the disguise of a man she went with the Greeks against Troy. But when Palamedes discovered her gender, the Greeks stoned her to death.