May 1
currently reading the apology of socrates by plato and omg?? christianity cut and pasted socrates message what the hell😭😭
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currently reading the apology of socrates by plato and omg?? christianity cut and pasted socrates message what the hell😭😭
is it
her-ROD-o-tuhs
or
herod-OH-tus
something they don’t tell you about getting into classical literature/philosophy (cough cough…plato’s symposium) is the amount of songs that remind you of extremely niche scenarios and stories that you can’t really discuss with those around you bc They Won’t Get It™️
a poem for apollon🌅
classics revision thoughts from a potential hellenistic polytheist
I do think that a lot of the Classics' word's issues could be fixed if we stopped treating certain practices as a monolith for all attitudes at the time.
Even beyond city-states, I guarantee people didn't look forward to blood sacrifices in Athens, and there were people who didnt really see a point in one of the festivals because they didn't feel like it that day, but they had to go or else they might face the divine consequences.
Not to mention, some playwrights at the time even included the detail that to get some action, it wasn’t uncommon for a guy to claim to be Zeus for a woman to sleep with him.
Were then considerably move brutal than us? YES! There was a whole other culture that we clash with all the time when reading about it . But do we think in the distant future, scholars will think we worshipped pedophiles because we were ruled by them? Or we deified celebrities due to stan culture? Would they think we agreed with all of the policies of whoever’s in charge? I hope not! But that's how people discuss individual ancient people.
Also not to mention, MYTHOLOGY is not reflective of the same figures they worshipped. They worshipped epithets sometimes associated with mythology, but I guarantee when they worshipped Zeus Herkeios they weren’t thinking he was a rapist!
The lore was shaped by the literal events happening at the time, hence why it was always changing. Arguably that’s more healthy than what we have now, where Abrahamic religions basically believe god has left us to our own devices bc we annoyed him!
anyways rant over ily guys
me in the future when i’m indoctrinating my kids to my fav books + inadvertently making them woke classicists
(they won’t have any choice, i’ll finally have people to ramble about my interests too in disguise as bedtime stories)
i did that tiktok trend of “take a pic and let your deity choose the audio”
apollo gave me “what do the women who beat men look like?”
dionysus gave me “computa! make these guys super gay and horny!”
happy 1 year to my school trip ending with eleusis!
+ the national greek museum in athens where i saw the ninnion tablet and the heads of the philosophers
+ of course apollon showed up at the end