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i’m reading seneca’s medea right now and honestly his medea is the most iconic character i’ve ever seen. she’s working on a plan to get back at her piece of shit husband jason for leaving her and she’s like “hm should i slaughter some people and destroy some stuff…nah i did that stuff when i was a little girl, i’m a wife and mother now so it’s time to bring in the big guns and make heaven itself tremble at me” like when will your girl ever

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some asshole: “Why do you even like that character?”

me: “Because they’re a great character.”

asshole: “But they’ve done so many shitty and problematic things, you can’t just excuse-”

me: “I said a GREAT CHARACTER not a GOOD PERSON you imaginationless wet napkin, this character is an asshole and a human disaster who deserves everything coming to them but they c a n s t i l l b e m y f a v o r i t e”

theoikos

Everyone who gets like really into Greek mythology either ends up worshipping the gods, studying classics, gay, or somehow all three at once

thatbyoulike

This should have its own version of the Hogwarts acceptance letter. For the gays, Iris could deliver them via rainbow.

#allthreeatonce

mashamorevna

‘No one wants rain,’ said Cersei. For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.

vivelareine

Marie Antoinette, the former queen of France, was executed on October 16th, 1793. Over the past nine months, she had endured the execution of her husband, separation from her children and sister-in-law, and finally a grueling trial designed to break her down, which lasted with few breaks from the morning of October 14th until just hours before her execution sentence was carried out on the 16th.

Unlike Louis XVI, who was taken to the guillotine in a closed carriage and did not have his hands bound until the final moments of his life, Marie Antoinette’s hands were roughly tied before she was place on a common prisoner’s cart so that the people could see–and jeer–her as she went to her death.

Upon reaching the scaffold, she climbed lightly up the steps before accidentally stepping on the foot of her executioner. “Pardon me, monsieur,” she said. “I did not do it on purpose.”

olive2004

mood

cruvcio

Hogwarts Houses as Latin Phrases [click to enlarge ⚡ info]

takealookatyourlife

Athena blessed her with the ability to protect herself and men beheaded her for it.

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That’s actually a really intetesting intpretation of it I hadn’t thought of. Most people seem to think Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon as punishment for defiling her temple, but thinking that she did so to protect her from being abused again is interesting and I like it!

gabyluvsxena

Athena’s hands were tied. Yes, she was a powerful Goddess, but she was very much a woman in a “boys club”, and the true offending party (don’t think for a moment that Athena blamed Medusa for being raped in the temple, Athena knows better) held all the cards. There was nothing that Athena could do to punish the true criminal, and she was expected to punish Medusa by everyone else. What’s a Goddess to do when she cannot punish those who need to be punished and is expected to punish not only the truly innocent party, but her most beloved follower? Use that incredible brain power she had to protect Medusa at all costs, and of course the men would see it as punishment, to be have her beauty stripped from her and sent to live in the shadows. Medusa should have been KILLED for supposedly defiling the temple, whether she truly did or not, but she was given the gift of life, and the ability to protect herself and her daughters (who she bore thanks to Poseidon). This is why Medusa’s image was used to signify woman’s shelters and safe houses.

Medusa means “guardian; protectress”, and she was.

heartbreak-pudding

excuse me while i write the novel

mmarkle

ithelpstodream

cookie-sheet-toboggan

so is Victory

thoodleoo

this is possibly one of my favorite pieces of medieval art for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to:

the fact that this depicts the conception of alexander the great (yes, that alexander the great)

the fact that in the story this comes from (one of the alexander romances) alexander’s dad is actually a dude disguised as a dragon

olympias getting her netflix and chill on with a fucking dragon

the dragon’s gentle embrace

the fact that the dragon and olympias are both all snuggled up under the covers

olympias’s Perfectly Perky Teeny Tiny Titties™

the fact that olympias apparently wears her crown while getting it on

the guy looking in on this whole scene, who is philip II of macedon btw

philip II of macedon making eye contact with the guy cucking him, who, as i mentioned earlier, IS A FUCKING DRAGON

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bekksrich

Regina Mills, professional wedding crasher.

thoodleoo

that moment when you’re trying to find greek myths for your elementary school education project and you realize you chose the wrong god to teach to children

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i’m running out of myths

thatbyoulike

I had the end portion of Baucis and Philemon read at my wedding because they are basically the only myth about a happy couple.

#they still die at the end #but at least they die together #greek mythology #truelove

agnesfieldforest-deactivated201

fun fact: the reason that the plural of goose is geese but the plural of moose is not meese is because goose derives from an ancient germanic word undergoing strong declension, in the pattern of foot/feet and tooth/teeth, wherein oo is mutated to ee. however ‘moose’ is a native american word added to the english lexicon only ~400 years ago, and lacks the etymological reason to be pluralized in that way.