#greece is gay

[mamamiriamxo]

Guys I'm having a crisis I can't remember if I ever posted about Artemis not being a lesbian but instead being aroace. Did I post it???? Did I dream it??????

Whatever it is, forget it anyways because I might've been wrong!

*gasp!* Shocker!

Artemis, aroace or lesbian?

Ahh, Artemis. Goddess of wildlife, hunting, protecting women, and virginity!

And not only Artemis, but Athena and Hestia too. Together, they were the only sacred virgin godesses in Olympus that even Zeus didn't dare to bone. Now, I want to state that Greek mythology is very inconsistent, and sources vary for literally everything. Not to mention, labels are overrated and if we absolutely have to, it's safe to say most gods are queer at best.

Artemis is often depicted hunting with a group of nymphs that she trained and regularly hung out with. Said women were also required to never marry and always be virgins, but that last part is kinda iffy. You see, virginity in ancient Greece isn't what we consider virginity today. The ancient Greek word for virgin, parthenos, roughly translated to maiden/unmarried woman. A "virgin woman" most likely meant just an unmarried woman who didn't have heterosexual penetrative sex.

In several myths, it is stated that Zeus, in order to seduce Callisto, a worshipper/hunter friend of Artemis, turned into Artemis to fool her, and took her to bed, which implies that Artemis may or may not have been more than friends with Callisto, or at least Callisto had the hots for Artemis.

In conclusion, Artemis was either technically a virgin goddess or literally a virgin goddess.

Does it matter either way? Nope! Do with this info as you will.

[politijohn]

Source

Some good news

[sloanslone]

My FINAL Artemis x Aeolus fa...(My EPIC designs-Y'all really made me do this...)

(you'll see Artemis's antlers if you get pumba off her head ig 😭, I just didn't wanna draw a dead dog or fox on her....)

[historyofmemes]

News everyone! Greece is now the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize civil same-sex marriage!

The same bill also gives same-sex couples full parental rights!

[todayontumblr]

Friday, February 16.

Some good news.

News of a good disposition seems more than a little sparse right now, so you really have to make the most of it, as and when.

There is some news, however, from Greece. And this news is pretty, pretty good. So we are going to break this particularly good news to you the only way we know how. Enjoy it y'all.

[saintianthe]

🥳🎉🍾

[destielmemenews]

source 1

source 2

source 3

[four-otters-in-a-trenchcoat]

It's fucking legal

[k-wame]

Pythagoras & Icarus ATLANTIS (TV Series) ‧ 2015 ‧ S2

[keirahknightley]

(x)

[galaxies-mesamou]

How are y'all doing? I haven't been active on here in ages. I come back even gayer somehow.

[mamamiriamxo]

Ok I know no one gives a shit about any of this but I'm rewriting an old fic!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28998657

Idk how I should proceed with it tho? Should I edit over the old one? Make a new work straight up?

Nejse, there's not enough love about Hestia in this world so I'm here to remedy that.

Aroace legend, hello??? She and her fellow sacred virgins Artemis and Athena were literally defended by ZEUS of all people if anyone tried to touch them.

Not even Sky Daddy ™ tried to bone them because literally everyone would be on his ass in a minute.

She's one of the richest goddesses because many greeks used fire to give their offerings to other gods, and since she was literally the goddess of fire and the hearth (private and ritual) she would always receive a portion of those sacrifices.

So like. A bank.

Her laughter sounded like the cackle of fire which is hella cute.

One time, Rhea hosted a party where she invited a shit ton of people and everyone got wasted and Hestia passed out.

So Priapus (look him up I dare you) tried to SA her but even a nearby donkey was like "EYO THAT'S A SACRED VIRGIN BACK OFF" and yelled right in Hestia's ear so she'd wake up. The rest of the night was spent by the entire pantheon chasing after Priapus to punish him.

Which is why it's tradition for the bride to ride a donkey to the chapel.

Jk jk I don't know the actual reason but it makes sense right????

There's very few myths ab her, which sucks ass, and she's constantly being forgotten in modern literature.

PASS MY GIRL HESTIA THE SPOTLIGHT FOR ONCE!

[cosmicdandeli0n]

Telemachus and Nausikaa first meeting

[diarydoll14]

the fact that when ur looking at mythology art sometimes u cant tell if its patroclus x achilles or apollo x hyacinthus is interesting to me

[zeldahime]

Anacreon, poem 358

I read this poem in Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (Sandra Boehringer, 2007, translated to English by Anna Preger in 2021) in the section on representations of female desire in archaic Greek poetry and went OH MY GOD

[bunny-banana]

*blows a kiss into the night sky* Sappho, this is for you