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brother-emperors · 9 months

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something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

#it's all greek to me #perseus #danae #komiks tag #long post #every other week i start to say something about how greek heroes are a good case study in diaspora and exile trauma #but man perseus makes me so sad. so does danae. she loves her son :(#perseus turning a whole island to stone is a huge mood. i would also do that if i were him #anyway (salutes) take care everyone i gotta watch yunho's new video it looks like a fucking movie im so excited #(i singled out ovid bc i remember the fucking shit perseus discourse that ran through this site. i remember #im preemptively loading a gun and pointing at it before it can touch this post #it hasn't died out either i see it on twitter all the time in the most ANNOYING ways possible i am TIRED #esp bc they're actually doing medusa a narrative disservice like congrats! you made it worse! stop telling me it's better!!!!)

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munchymunchkin · 10 months

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ultrvmonogamy · 1 month

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socrates sophocles euripides pentacles n testicles

#it's all greek to me #dp #oc

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kinsey3furry300 · 3 months

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#not my image #Not my meme #It's all Greek to me #Ancient Greece #alexander the great #Queer history #Bisexual #bisexuality #lgbtq+

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wellesleybooks · 1 year

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Bookseller on Vacation

Jerry sent these pictures of a book stall in Athens, Greece featuring so much Colleen Hoover.

#booksellers on vacation #greece #athens #book stall #colleen hoover #it's all greek to me

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lovemewednesdays · 5 months

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The concept of Aristophanes' The Frogs is absolutely wild because it would be like if Coppola or Scorsese died and a year later, Mel Brooks made a movie about Dionysus – played by Caan, or de Niro* – bringing them back from the dead because it's all gone to shit.

*I just found out that Sigourney Weaver and Meryl Streep were in the ensemble in the original production of the Sondheim musical – which was put up in a Yale swimming pool – so Weaver or Streep should play Dionysus in this hypothetical Brooks film, just to go full circle.

#the frogs #aristophanes #i'm listening to the musical #and i love the original play #it's all greek to me #theatre #nic speaks

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jrtouchshriek · 9 months

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Takayuki Yamada - Summer (All I want is you)

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Okay, first of all - this is a 15 year old earworm and I can't seem to stop playing it.

Two, what is happening in this video? Why is the guy chasing him? Why is the guy shooting at him?

Brb, the internet had better not fail me now...

#takayuki yamada #music video #summer #earworm #but #japanese #it's all greek to me #what is going on?#happy but clueless #my life right now #Youtube

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perseusapologist · 1 year

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Sophocles’ Ajax (commentary, & notes: P. J. Finglass)

#ajax #it's all greek to me

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chthonic-cassandra · 6 months

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Actually we should say that Cassandra screams outside of language. The scream is to gash the fabric of normal life, to rend it into strange tatters. Then it is open to prophecy. Then Cassandra lives in her own future.

Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

#cassandra #yes we have all read elaine scary #god of many names but only death to me #greek girls #classics

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bebx · 22 days

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calling the fact there isn’t a pomegranate emoji as of now a crime

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brother-emperors · 10 months

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DO NOT BE AFRAID

this is combining Ovid's Heroides and the Excidium Troie because I can't stop thinking of Hermes telling him not to be afraid. what the fuck!! Ares is wearing the crown that Paris gave him.

I have. thoughts. about Paris. he's almost got this Troilos parallel in my mind, that the event that defines him in detail exists in a lost narrative that we don't have (the Cypria), but everyone else knew. the event that defines Troilos is his death (murdered, butchered by Achilles, the violence of which haunts everything after. Achilles, child killer, you can't escape that!), and the event that defines Paris is the Judgement. what's a lost text but a kind of grave!!

idk I don't think that Paris before the Judgement would recognize himself after bc when you become god touched, it rearranges your guts. you become transformed in the worst way possible! how could you recognize yourself! but I also think that all the Parises after the Judgement would recognize each other because that event is so locked into the trauma of war and the scar it leaves on the land, it's like a scar on the narrative too. it exists like this forever, over and over again, so you exist like that forever too. Troy collects grief and despairs.

Troy as trauma: Reflections on intergenerational transmission and the locus of trauma, Andromache Karanika

and Paris is like. a miserable little god/corpse-puppet or something, like a match for the gods to throw onto gasoline.

The Excidium Troie + Ovid's Heroides:

Excidium Troie, trans. Muhammad Syarif Fadhlurrahman

Ovid, Heroides 16 (trans. Harold Isbell)

a collection of things regarding Paris that made me go 😬 but under a cut bc this is getting. very long.

The Divine Twins in Early Greek Poetry, Corolla Torontonensis

Iliad 24 and the Judgement of Paris, C.J. Mackie

Elegy and Epic and the Recognition of Paris: Ovid "Heroides" 16, Elizabeth Forbis Mazurek

Ennian Influence in "Heroides" 16 and 17, Howard Jacobson

Paris/Alexandros in the "Iliad", I. J. F. de Jong

#long post #paris of troy #komiks tag #it's all greek to me #like. DISTANTLY. its #the iliad #drawing tag #listen i know it's fun to dunk on paris. but im a chronic killjoy. i know its cringe. mea culpa etc #i would love. I WOULD LOVE. to draw a comic and not have the commentary notes be longer than the comic itself #unfortunately i like to read and i cannot stop talking about things that i read. so this will not be changing.#ngl i keep hearing the last line 'my brother says you are a just judge' as 'and brutus says he is an honorable man' and that's smth for sur #god i wish this was shorter but then i remember it could've been longer bc i started drawing this while watching #some excellent korean horror but then i looked at myself in the mirror and said 'no. get your shit together.'#but that show is what sparked this. the themes. god i love shows. a round of applause for tv shows.#in a different world theres a version of me that didn't exercise self restraint and there's 30 screen caps from a horror show here too

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xoxo-bunnydumpling · 2 years

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Eli takes issue with my wanting to name this kid Themistoclea and I just think he's basic because that name's cool as frick.

#baby number 2 #baby names #the list is long #it's all greek to me

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a-god-in-ruins-rises · 2 years

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Could you ask the goddess to drop her hair care routine? 👀 it's lovely

she doesn’t really style her hair often or have much of a routine other than the hair products she uses and likes: Jack59’s Citrus Shine shampoo bar, Vitality conditioner bar, and Liquid Gold hair oil; Olaplex’s No. 3, and No. 6; Redken’s Smooth Lock heat protectant; DesignMe’s Puff.Me volumizing powder.

#idk what any of this means #it's all greek to me #except i understand greek a little bit

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deathlessathanasia · 4 months

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Tip: If you claim that you like a particular figure from Greek mythology, but you feel the need to change almost everything about them, rewrite their personality, ignore those aspects of them that you find uncomfortable, , and in short turn them into your original character, consider that you probably don't actually like that figure from Greek mythology.

#ramblings #greek mythology #greek myths #greek gods #of course this goes for all characters in general not just mythological ones #but I find it particularly insufferable when deities receive this treatment #imagine me saying that Hera is my favourite goddess #but then it turns out that the version of her I like is one that loves all of Zeus's kids and is happy to play mommy to them #is BFFs with his side chicks and is an excellent mother to her own children and has never done anything questionable ever #I'd sound pretty damn ridiculous and people would be right to question why on earth I pretend to like this goddess when II so clearly don't

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notacluedo · 7 months

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