#ancient greek suggestions

[finelythreadedsky]

it's so great that in greek tragedy there are only three paradigms for a woman leaving her house (her wedding, her funeral, and maenadic rites) and they're all kind of the same thing also

[neptunesize]

𝓐𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓟𝓪𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓬𝓵𝓾𝓼

a playlist

꩜ You know Me Too Well - Nothing but Thieves

꩜ Daylight - David Kushner

꩜ Empire Now - Hozier

꩜ Mountain at My Gates - Foals

and more! Listen here

[unboundprompts]

Hey! Would you do a list of names from Greek mythology? Male, female, and gender-neutral! Thanks!

Greek Mythology Character Name Ideas

-> feel free to comment suggestions, I'll do my best to add them to the list.

Male:

Damon

Hector

Jason

Zeus

Hermes

Adonis

Apollo

Argus

Linus

Helios

Mentor

Midas

Nestor

Achilles

Alexander

Eros

Hyperion

Theseus

Simon

Patroclus

Prometheus

Myles

Diomedes

Troy

Female:

Athena

Daphne

Helen

Penelope

Phoebe

Selene

Iris

Clio

Cassandra

Thalia

Gaia

Anthea

Larisa

Harmonia

Aella

Chloe

Calypso

Adrasteia

Medea

Cora

Hermione

Melia

Hera

Rhea

Acantha

Melete

Gender-Neutral:

Atlas

Paris

Ajax

Leander

Neilos

Lykos

Priam

Xanthos

Zephyr

Dione

Ione

Circe

Pallas

Themis

Anthen

Carme

Echo

Xanthe

[beatingdrumspouringwine]

Hymn to Womanly Dionysos

I praise the God who runs with wild women, She who takes joy in their forms, Who Herself bears long hair, soft skin, delicate lashes, Dionysos of womanly epithets, Who wore long dresses in Her youth. I praise Dionysos who runs with the Maenads, Who surrounds Herself with ever-present holy wild women, Reveling in their company, Dancing under the sacred darkness at night, By day feasting on wine and honey and milk. Come to me now, O gently blessed one, Whether Your head is laid in the lap of Your beloved wife Ariadne, Who traces Your lips with Her own gentle hands, Or whether You are lying in flowered meadows with maenads, Who themselves rejoice in Your feminine form. Bless me with an ever-present sense of peace, Bless me with the love of women, Bless me with perfect joy in my own gender. May Your gentle cow-like eyes always behold me with kindness, May Your hands hold mine when I sorrow, And when the world raises a hand against me, May I hide behind Your flowing skirts, And may Your thyrsos be raised in my defense.

[s0mb0d7]

this isnt what i usually post, but im trying out hellenic polytheism worshiping Apollo. im very new and dont really know what im doing but i did do a fair amount of research and made a basic altar. i still need help/suggestions, so dont hold back.

[sarafangirlart]

Medusa wasn’t a priestess??? What?! They’re too many versions OF ONE FUCKING MYTH. (Also, Athena w/ a gun.)

Yup, idk how this idea got so popular, it wasn’t made up by Ovid either, in fact he implies the opposite saying she had many suitors, it was incorrectly stated in Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes, by Basil L. Gildersleeve (1885)

What’s ironic is that this was just a passing comment in a note toward the end of the book, not in the main part, kinda like how Ovid’s tragic backstory was passingly mentioned in a few lines and wasn’t the main part of the story, funny how that works.

While I don’t know the how, in how this misinformation became so mainstream, I have a general idea of the why. See this is part of a very old trend where ppl feel that the only way to make a character sympathetic is to make them the most innocent, perfect and tragic character possible, especially if they were a woman. It wouldn’t be all that dramatic if Medusa was an average girl who had tons of suitors and wasn’t particularly religious and fled to Athena’s temple for sanctuary. She has to be this pure devoted priestess who seeked protection from the goddess she devoted her whole life to only to be horribly betrayed.

[zebedeezing]

Doing a project on archaic Medusa (pre-ovid Hesiod double wings scary Medusa) and can’t get over Poseidon and Medusa having sex in a meadow. I know it doesn’t say exactly what Medusa was getting up to in the Theogony, but I like to think she was running around petrifying people, making a dragons keep of statues bodies, eating raw cattle, scaring the kids etc etc -

And Poseidon bruhhh Poseidon you know he dgaf about non of that miscellaneous loss of life, bad bitch detected, he really pulled out all the stops with his charm magic - ‘a soft meadow amid spring flowers’ uknow

There’s no art of this by the way. None!!

[cosmicourple]

A.U where Chaós shits itself so hard that Greece becomes a Primordial Nuclear Apocalypse, lands & natural life twisting n mutating to become, like said Soupy Creator, Pure Chaos, Gods included. their having it rough rn

Uhhhh- the only reason I’m proposing this idea is bc I wanna imagine Super-Ultra-Kool-Demigod-Trickster-Survivor Odysseus running around surviving n killing Eldritchifid Monsters & other ppl while trying to take care of a traumatised feral Telemachus and two soon to be three in a few months feral Fankid Bastards he had thru Manwhoring two certain brothers :),,,

Yes, he’s Preganant w/ a third child of both Zeus n Poseidon’s Ichor, and no, it is not helping w/ his own feral urges 🫃.

[starlightseraph]

i mostly post about silly gay brainrot on here, but in real life i tend to be a pseudo-intellectual tartt-dostoevsky nightmare girl who spends her time reading things that no one’s cared about for centuries.

anyways, may i present my favourite ancient greek comedy, Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, premiered in 411 BCE:

in this play, the women of athens and sparta (cities leading opposite sides of the peloponnesian war) band together and occupy the acropolis, taking possession of all the public money of athens and going on a sex strike until their husbands/lovers end the war. it’s hilarious, and if you read about the original performance (produced by aristophanes’ friend, callistratus) and costumes, it gets even more absurd. featuring: athena, the closest thing ancient greeks ever got to feminism, a character named σκοροδοπανδοκευτριαρτοπώλιδες, and sex jokes that would make a stripper blush.

below is a photo from a modern production, and trust me when i say that this is… not inaccurate to how it was originally performed over 2 thousand years ago. it’s not at all decent, so beware lol

they performed it like this in 411 BCE.

i’ve been thinking about lysistrata a lot recently because it was the topic of an episode from my all-time favourite podcast. the episode is a few months old by now, but i’ve had a summer, so i only just got around to it. linked here.

then, just after listening to the episode, i was in an absolutely magical used bookshop that was like an eclectic, authentically developed maze that went on forever in all directions. the kind you imagine being owned by a witch or mysterious old man. they also had 6 cats. anyways, i was playing with one of the cats, and lo and behold, my eye falls directly on a copy of lysistrata. i’ve read lysistrata multiple times, but i didn’t have my own copy, so i bought it. now, i was already in the ancient section of the shop, but what are the odds? i’m the most materially analytic person you’ve ever met, but sometimes i do feel the gods that i don’t believe in (it would be athena, in this case) smiling on me.

[pelideswhore]

Zeus: Am I in trouble?

Hera: Take a guess.

Zeus: No?

Hera: Take another guess.

[yousaytomato]

Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus (1774, Oil on canvas) - By Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807)

[persephoneflowerpetals]

So, I had this little incorrect quote with Hades, Persephone, and Mother Gothel in the Dreamlight Valley universe in my head all day yesterday and just had to post it lmao

CW: suggestive dialogue 🔞 (minors dni)

Mother Gothel: Oh, Hades! Glad I found you, dear. You do plan on returning that bottle of olive oil I let you borrow yesterday, don’t you?

Hades: Oh right, the olive oil I had to trade ya 30 shiny citrines for just so I could borrow it to make a meal for my dinner date with Persephone last night. Yeah…about that…

Mother Gothel: Ugh, please. Don’t tell me you’ve lost it.

Hades: No, I just uh…used all of it. Sorry ‘bout that, babe.

Mother Gothel: All of it!? You mean to tell me that you used up an entire bottle of olive oil for a meal that serves two…deities? I know Persephone has a rather…hearty appetite, but —

Hades: Yeah, I’m gonna cut ya off right there before ya say something you deeply regret. But, no I didn’t use that much for our dinner…I uh…needed it for something else. Well, actually Persephone and I needed it for something…after dinner.

Mother Gothel: (skeptical) You both made a dessert with olive oil?

Hades: Not exactly.

Mother Gothel: Then what on earth did you need it for?

Hades: *smirks* Whaddya think we needed it for?

Mother Gothel: I don’t… *expression quickly switches from confused to disgusted* Oh my god.

Hades: Funny, y’know, Persephone said the same thing to me last night. Good thing it wasn’t extra virgin, know what I mean, eh?

Mother Gothel: I wish I didn’t. Consider this the last time you borrow anything from me.

Hades: (sarcastically) Aw, what a shame.

Later that day…

Persephone: So, did you talk to Gothel about the olive oil?

Hades: Yeah, I had the displeasure of chatting with her earlier today.

Persephone: She wasn’t upset about you accidentally knocking it off the counter and breaking it, was she?

Hades: Eh, she was a little peeved, but she’ll get over it. She usually does.

Persephone: True, but she’s probably never gonna let you borrow anything from her ever again after this.

Hades: Yeah, probably not.

[queeringclassiclit]

Iphis

from Greek and Roman Mythology

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[florasstudyjournal]

commonplace journal, 06.08 FRI

big ole yapping session after the break

‼️‼️ YAPPING ‼️‼️

normally i wouldn’t post big sections of this journal, because usually it doesnt have so much content. however today i needed quick notes in class, and i am a slow, SLOW, typer. (learning to touch-type and type quickly never really stuck with me…)

Anyways!! today was really good content-wise, though i did have to leave early because my computer was about to go flat. the unfortunate circumstances of forgetting my charger. However, i do want to talk about what i did cover, becasue it was interesting!

today’s tut covered greek colonisation, which was the expansion of greece. though from lecture; as it does differ from imperial colonialism, it is not innocent (this pertains to how some colonies were founded and maintained through violence)

activity #1: independent reading task (with class discussion)

prophetic colonisation - through the oracle of delphi and declartion of apollo, there was reason to form colonies. though, there was also overpopulation and war to account for in colonisation. a specific war that was made mention of in the reading was a war between Chakis and Eretria (and how different ancient historians attributed different allies, and the wars that surrounded when this war occurred).

activity #2: small group reading: cyrene

so as a group, the Decree of Cyrene was read. what we found was that the justification for founding the colony was under religious reasoning (declaration from Apollo, and they would honour apollo at a sanctuary in cyrene). an interesting few points was that if there was no success at cyrene, the travellers were to return to Thera (the colonisers) within 5 years. refusual to return would be seen as rebellion, and order the death of the rebel (and the wording went on to suggest those related to the rebel? though i’m not to sure on that). there was also the notion of equality to an extent — any who arrived at any time, even after the original settlers, were equal in their existance. though the extent of this is questionable.

that’s all for this update(?) thanks for reading so far if you get to this! take care!!

[tweedfrog]

[sarafangirlart]

You should definitely make a YouTube video or a podcast dragging those retellings left and right 😅

I would but I don’t actually read them lol I have a low tolerance for bad books and would just give up part way, so where is the fun in that?