#i'm a greek mythology nerd

[the-gentle-jellofish]

Th story of the son of prince of Troy, Astyanax...

<3

[oscar-wilde-wannabe]

The Iliad, colourised

thank you @a-system-of-nerds for inspiring me to make this-

[bugwolfsstuff]

Hey tumblr, why the fuck do yall keep making all the virgin goddesses lesbians?

when they're probably ace? or like nuns, are just sworn to not date at all because they're devoted to whatever they do?

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

The mythology-lover part of my heart is SO FREAKING GRATEFUL that everyone in this fandom seems to love it as much as I do. We've got @raayllum's Callum-Icarus parallel as well as one of their MANY metas, @sagegreenfrogs's Sorvus Apollo + Hyacinth AU, my Rayllum Hadestown AU and Daedalus AU in the works, @darkmagicmirror's Norse Mythology meta, and @corcracrow's Egyptian Mythology Ask. And the list goes ON.

I love us so much like nothing else can compare to this fandom

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Something has been on my mind since I got into GoW back in 2018 and I'm just now remembering that I'm technically an internet personality so now you all have to deal with it.

It totally could've been Heracles in Kratos' spot.

Mortal who learns he is the son of Zeus and is imbued with great power who, at the hands of a cruel God, is tricked into murdering his own wife and child(ren).

Hell, Herc's got a fucking brother too.

And Kratos has to do a bunch of stuff to make up for his sins...

And collects useful armor and weapons from his opponents...

Was-

Was Kratos originally supposed to be Heracles?!

[theflowerwithnoname]

If the Led Zeppelin guys were greek gods, Part 1:

Jimmy as Hades/Pluto:

Into the occult

Pretty shady sometimes

Romantic in a dark and somewhat disturbing kind of way

Shy and introverted

Artsy

Can seem cold or aloof but has also a sweet, child-like side

Robert as Apollo:

Sun God

He's gorgeous and he knows it

Warm-hearted

Loves to sing

Highly intelligent and knowledgeable

A huge flirt

[djcoinlaundry887]

So, I'm going to share something that bothers me about when people discuss ancient gods, especially so of the Greek deities.

The common thing that I see is people trashing on the gods for their cruelty in myth. It certainly happens in a lot of myths, especially those written down by Ovid (I'm looking at you, the myth of Medusa in the temple). And, in a lot of circumstances, these can be seen as valid critiques. What I have an issue with is when I see these myths and tend to paint the entirety of the ancients' views on these gods as viewing them as cruel, petty, and vindictive beings with no morality or positive aspect. Which makes no sense!

Think about it, even though the rituals and amount of deities (in the western world at large, anyhow) has changed since ancient times, one thing hasn't: we wouldn't worship a being that we don't see as moral to some degree!

A great example is Zeus. Often, we see him as a great sexual predator and not much else. However, we can tell by surviving sources that the thoughts towards Zeus weren't solely or even partially focused on that. Part of this is because ancient Greece as a whole was a pretty sexist society who saw consent in a very different (and very gross) way than we do now. This being said, people sang his praises and worshipped him for aspects that we find respectable! Zeus, as the king of the gods and cosmos, was seen as the ultimate authority on hospitality, to the point where when Tantalus broke sacred rules of hospitality by murdering his son and trying to trick the gods into eating him the first reaction was to cast him into Tartarus for that incredible misdeed. In fact, there are at least two other myths that deal with Zeus punishing people for breaking the rules of hospitality, and it was likely seen as just action!

Now, this being said, not all worship at that time was in order to foster favor. There was worship done out of fear for the gods' abilities as well, such as the fact thar people setting sail would pray to gods to ask them to let them sail in peace.

I guess I'm just tired of people slandering gods from a culture we no longer have direct access to instead of trying to examine why people of that time period would worship those gods.

P.S. Before anyone comes after me, I know that there are branches of modern day paganism that focus on the Greek gods, but that would've been a whole other rant.

[gayest-classiclit]

ROUND 1 - survivors

[speakergame]

Hello! A bit of a random question; do you have your own names for the Speaker, Seer and the dog? My names for the twins change constantly, but I always name the dog Grim

I have a test game that I use to play through and make sure everything's working correctly, and I've been using the same names for them since the beginning. mostly because I don't want to give myself the added pressure of making up more names 😅

but my test Speaker's name is Calliope "Cal" Frost (she/they), Seer is Cassandra "Cass" Frost, and Dog is Rex 💙

[ilovettrpgs]

I just remembered I probably will get to explain greek mythos to my friends next ghostbusters campaign session, such fun

[girlwithherheadinthestars]

Heyaaa just found your blog, i am still looking around but I am loving what I am seeing<3

I see that you love stars, may I ask what is a star/constellation that you always wanted to talk about but you don't get much chance(s) to?

Love,

-Kura

OMG I LOVE THIS QUESTION

i love stars for so many different reasons. they're so ancient, if you think about it, some of them are the exact same ones that alexander the great or hypatia or like pythagorus or aristotle once looked at. the constellations we observe today are the same ones they used to make stories about. it's a terribly unifying experience that we all live under the same sky and see the same stars and the same moon.

the constellation i always want to talk about is technically two -- andromeda and cassiopeia.

so in the story, cassiopeia was a queen and she said she and her daughter was more beautiful than poseidon's nereids (minor sea goddesses) and poseidon got angry and unleashed a sea monster on the queen's city. so she chained her daughter up as a sacrifice to the sea monster so the sea monster would leave them alone.

then perseus (yes the dude percy jackson was named after) saw andromeda chained up (when he came back from killing medusa, ironically) and saved her and they got married and lived happily ever after (not sure about this part i just like to pretend they did) and when cassiopeia and andromeda died they were made into constellations of a mother and daughter constantly arguing (i don't see it personally but the greeks did and that's so beautiful to me that you can see dots and draw a picture in your mind.

why do i like this story? it's symbolic. it's literally rapunzel but the greek mythology edition. in fact, so many fairytales can be traced back to greek mythology. beauty and the beast is like eros and psyche, for instance.

the symbolism behind this story is huge. medusa was killed because she was ugly and andromeda was going to be killed because she was beautiful. women can never win. if you're ugly they won't like and if you're pretty they'll think you're self obsessed. furthermore, medusa used to be beautiful but was turned ugly by athena because medusa was romantically involved with athena's rival, poseidon. it's all jealousy. the fact that the gods in greek mythology are so jealous and selfish and human shows that the greeks were self aware which isn't something most people can say today.

[the-gentle-jellofish]

I invite everyone to go see Kaos on netlfix.

This serie's AWESOME, it's got gay, trans, queer, black and disabeld people.

There's only one season for now but I can tell you that it's worth watching. It's about mythology but even if you don't like greek myths, you will like this serie!!!

[bugwolfsstuff]

I love how out of all the myths Cú Chullain has the ireland school system (or atleast my primary school) decided to tell us about the time he killed a guys dog cause he was late to a party

who thought that was a good choice? Can you imagine the conversation in the meeting for that decision? Like:

Person 1: You know our lad Cú Chulainn ? What's a myth we could tell our children about to show how much of a cool man he was?

Person 2: How about the time he fought the phantom queen herself ?(An Morrigan, but thatd mean they'd actually have to teach us about our gods, the horror!)

Person 1: Nah how about we tell them about the time he killed a guard dog with a sliotar cause the dog attacked him after he was late to a party? I'm sure that'd be a hit with the young children who probably love doggies!

Person 2: Ah yeah awesome idea! And while we're at it, how about we tell the christanized versions of our countries myths while we're at it! (again, might have just been my school)

[frauleinfunf]

my age is really showing bc i haven't read the percy jackson books since i was in middle school in the late 2000s (well except for the lightning thief which was one of the assigned readings for my genre class in college and i was very happy to bring my childhood copy to the discussion, think i was the only one with that sick illustrative style cover that had the green spine). so while everyone else is arguing about the changes the show made and details and plot points i've forgotten about, i'm just sitting here going "oh i remember that!" or "ooh i forgot about that part!"

[toxictoad]

He is my baby I love him

[astrxealis]

I ADORE GEN INFORMATION AND HISTORY STUFF SOOO MUCH ... and etc etc etc and and and :(( <3 god i love the plethora of information ik and. etc.