#There’s definitely a dichotomy in ancient sources where those who were sworn virgins it was seen as Awful to try to rape them | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

specialagentartemis · 11 months

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love to log onto tumblr and immediately see neopagan revivalist polytheists defend their religion by spouting a whole load of nonsense about the ancient world when a simpler defense is Right There if they actually knew anything about Ancient Greece

#‘Why worship Zeus?’ like if you’re gonna defend worshipping Zeus you can point to his attributes as King; as All-Father; as Storm-Bringer #as the patron and upholder of hospitality and divine justice #And say that as king he was seen as having leeway and sometimes having understandably uncontrollable temper and desires #Like the thunderstorms do #And the myths where he raped random women weren’t seen as necessarily wrong because he was kind of taking them for a bride #With the power and passion of a god #There’s definitely a dichotomy in ancient sources where those who were sworn virgins it was seen as Awful to try to rape them #Whereas if you’re making them a bride that’s basically normal #Zeus As King contained many aspects and that was part of the worship #As well as—I will give this person credit—a lot of the myths were tales that exemplify the gods’ personalities but not taken as Literal #However. All of that is different from ‘well Zeus didn’t ACTUALLY do any of those bad things. And anyway in Ancient Greece women were seen #as objects for men’s pleasure and not people so the misogynistic men who wrote those Zeus rape myths were just writing their sick fantasies #Like Come The Fuck On #rape tw #rape cw

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