#as if gorgon heads weren't on basically every building | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

themoonking · 6 months

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see someone spreading misinformation about ancient greece online, gently correct them, they say "well discerning whats canon and whats fanon in greek mythology is really difficult". i am killed instantly.

#my brother in christ contemporary texts are free online <3 #sometimes by multiple different translators #trying to correct people who believe that in the '''''original myth'''''' persephone just walked to the underworld of her own accord is hel #fyi i was saying hell on earth and ran out of letters #i was not trying to be quirky and reference a completely separate culture's myths i prommy #if i ever use 'hel' in like a casual context instead of when specifically talking about norse mythology i need to be put down #greek mythology #i speak #reminds me of that post that claimed that gorgon heads were used to mark womens shelters in ancient greece w/ no source #and everyone believed it #as if gorgon heads weren't on basically every building #(being hyperbolic obv but. basically)#like i don't get this modern urge to give power and agency to women in mythology by either #(a) pretending nothing bad ever happened to them and everything was of their own volition (bad. stop it.)#or (b) pretending that they have uniquely bad stuff happen to them and no one else had bad stuff happen to them and its only this lady #so therefore everyone else involved is evil (also bad. also stop it.)#like when one of those modern 'feminist retelling' greek myth stories w/ the same covers about ariadne #it actively adds bad stuff to happen to ariadne when shes a mortal woman in greco roman myth who actually gets a happy ending #like whats the point of that??

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