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Pic 1. Hellen, grandfather of Melanippe and son of Zeus, delivers the twins Aeolus and Boeotus to a shepherd to be taken away┃Pic. 2 An old woman (labelled Trophos, ‘nurse’) comforts Melanippe after she failed to save her babies

South Italian vase, ~330 B.C

#melanippe the wise my gorgeous girl 💔#greek mythology #tagamemnon #euripides #melanippe #art

This sequence is so sad and it also reminds me of Metope and Melanippe, princesses from Greek mythology who were blinded by their abusive fathers.

#Ragatha’s mom probably didn’t straight up use a huge kitchen knife to stab Ragatha’s eye tho #I think I’ve read that Melanippe’s father used #a brooch to stab her eyes #I think maybe I’ll have that as the backstory for Agatha #in my The Amazing Ancient Circus au #greek mythology #metope #melanippe #Ragatha #tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc ragatha

I think the reason why some characters are ignord, or thought of as boring by both retelling writers, and people who like to talk/make takes about Greek mythology is because those character's can't be fit, or rather mold into the trops, aesthetics as easily, or at all.

The reason why Persephone and Hades have the most retellings, and are this popular is because they are easy to mold into trops, and aesthetics, and fethished. Most of them ignore any type of complexity that's in the myth, in order to fit into a trope, and aesthetic. They can't really do this this easily, or at all with other couples. They can't fit Ariadne and Dionysus into these. They can't do this with Andromeda and Perseus, or with Hephaestus and Aglaia, or with most other couples in Greek mythology, this easily or at all.

Same with Medusa. The reason why she is so popular among these people is because they can easily fit her into whatever narative, trope, or aesthetic they want to. They have an easy time doing this with her in they fake feminist retellings (even if they ignore most stuff about her to begine with), because they would have a harder time with other female characters. They can't do this as easily or at all with women like Danae, Andromeda, Cassandra, Io, Melanippe, Nyctimene, Andromache, Helen, Atalanta, Electra, Hecuba, or many others, and when they try they usually try to do Olympic gold medal worthy mental gymnastics during the writing process, and explanations when someone asks a question about it.

Euripides wrote two plays based on Melanippe's daughter (also called Melanippe) titled Melanippe The Prisoner and Melanippe The Philosopher. Both of them survive only in fragments aaand... I don't have access to the Loeb Library.

#greek mythology #chiron #melanippe #ramblings

Apollo, Poseidon and Dionysus

That's only the second book where the woman in the story actually got involved with Apollo

It's sad to point that out

He's not the sun god, and stop using the word "alpha" in greek myth retellings

"Can he repress the forbidden passion that is eating away at Canace?"

Considering that Canace had 5 kids with Poseidon, I would say the answer is no

Well would you look at that! A retelling about Dionysus that doesn't make me scream in frustration

@margaretkart hello

#apollo #psamathe #coroebus #poseidon #melanippe #canace #dionysus #ampelos #greek myth retellings #greek mythology retellings #greek mythology retelling

Rip Chiron's daughter, Melanippe, you would have loved Cant Catch Me Now by Olivia Rodrigo

#wolffox speaks #Greek mythology #melanippe #kheiron #Chiron #pjo #Pjo Chiron #<- pjo because that was what I was thinking about when writing this but its more of a myth thing as she isnt mentioned in pjo #shitpost

Hi! Do you have, by any chance, any informations about the child of Melanippe (Chiron's daughter)? Both Theoi and Wikipedia gave me a headache, especially because there are different figures with the exact same name, as well as figures with different names whom Wikipedia identifies with each despite the fact that the sources they give do not seem to suggest any connection between them?...

Ok, I tried to look this up and I got hopelessly confused. It seems that the source that provides most accounts of this particular Melanippe is Hyginus' Astronomy, where her child by Aeolus remains unnamed. However, there are too many women named Melanippe and waaay too many men named Aeolus. I mean, just in this account there are three guys whose name is Aeolus:

"In the times before that which we are discussing the rest of the sons of Aeolus, who was the son of Hellen, who was the son of Deucalion, settled in the regions we have mentioned, but Mimas remained behind and ruled as king of Aeolis. Hippotes, who was born of Mimas, begat Aeolus by Melanippê, and Arnê, who was the daughter of Aeolus, bore Boeotus by Poseidon. But Aeolus, not believing that it was Poseidon who had lain with Arnê and holding her to blame for her downfall, handed her over to a stranger from Metapontium who happened to be sojourning there at the time, with orders to carry her off to Metapontium. And after the stranger had done as he was ordered, Arnê, while living in Metapontium, gave birth to Aeolus and Boeotus, whom the Metapontian, being childless, in obedience to a certain oracle adopted as his own sons." (Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.67.3-4).

I hate mythological genealogies! There is a Melanippe here as well, but is she the Melanippe daughter of Chiron? The first Aeolus mentioned here, son of Hellen, is the father of Chiron's daughter's child in the account of Hyginus, whereas this Melanippe mates with Hippotes, son of Mimas and gives birth to another Aeolus. They are likely different figures even though the theoi site suggests otherwise.

In Euripides' fragmentary "Wise Melanippe" it seems that the eponymous character is a daughter of Aeolus the son of Hellen while her mother is Chiron's daughter, here named Hippo. So Chiron's daughter, Melanippe/Hippo/Hippe/Thetis/Ocyrhoe or whatever her name may be, is the mother of another Melanippe.

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