#Clio doesn't have to be sexy librarian; she could be anything from 'elderly professor obsessed with old coins' to tabloid journalist | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

the-busy-ghost · 1 year ago

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Look I respect the art of past ages, but it's the 21st century and personally I'd like to see less depictions of the Greek Muses as ethereal sexually objectified fairy women, and more art of Thalia doing stand-up

#I mean both can coexist don't get me wrong #You want to do the muses as ethereal sexy women you do you #And again ancient Greek comedy differs from modern day approaches of course #But also they provide a great opportunity for more modern treatments #Unlike Aphrodite or the Graces you really do have the opportunity to present them as ordinary people #(Nothing wrong with interpreting Aphrodite in that way either just it's more obvious with the Muses)#Thalia in a dumb t-shirt microphone in hand half-grinning while picking on the front row of the audience at the Fringe #Or like #Idk Hannah Gadsby-esque comic- though I haven't seen enough of her stuff #Clio doesn't have to be sexy librarian; she could be anything from 'elderly professor obsessed with old coins' to tabloid journalist #I may resent the latter but at the end of the day history relates to everyone #We each have our own particular relationship with her #The ancient Greeks for a start probably had a very different conception of what history is to us

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