#i'm a greek mythology nerd

[the-gentle-jellofish]

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

<3

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

I love how Epic is a story about how sometimes, you change in ways you can't undo. Sometimes it's a choice, and sometimes it's something that happens to you; often, it's both. And in some ways, you may be made worse. You may make mistakes. You may become someone you don't recognize, and you may not like who you now see in the mirror. You might lose your old self in the process of surviving.

But when you do, the people who love you will still be there. Not because of who you used to be, or how you might heal or become better, or out of ignorance of who you now are. Just because they love you, and you do not need to be perfect to be loved. You just need to be there.

And they'll be waiting for you.

[suzu-kun22]

Making Akihiko and Shinjiro's Personas Pollux and Castor respectively is actually so fucked up like seriously

Akihiko is Pollux and Shinjiro is Castor. Because the two of them grew up together and, in many ways, they're still all each other has. Because Akihiko lost everything when their orphanage burned down and Shinjiro is all he's got left. Mitsuru is there too, of course, but it's not the same. Because she didn't live there with them. She isn't family the same way.

And then he loses Shinjiro too – just like in the myth. As Pollux lost his brother Castor – and I wonder if Akihiko wanted to rip out a piece of his life and give it to Shinjiro, just so they could stay together a little longer

I wonder if this is also why his Persona's evolution is Caesar. The leader who was attacked from all sides and died a tragic, miserable death surrounded by people. Saying "You too, Brutus?" To someone who was a trusted friend. Though the symbolism is a bit different, Akihiko must have been thinking it. As his best friend died in front of him. "You too, Shinji?"

[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 💙

[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!!!

[msmc-796-official]

---------------------------------------- >>Terminal Connected - Welcome to the Omninet<< ----------------------------------------

"NO COUNSELLOR NEEDED COUNT FOR A MOMENT OF RAGE"

"ON HANDSOME AMENDS AT THE ENDS OF THE MURDERER;

"THE MONSTER OF EVIL FIERCLY DID HARASS THOSE WHO WRONGED HIM;"

"WATCH FOR BEOWULF, AND HIS TRAITOROUS SHADOWS."

---------------------------------------- >>Omninet Connection Terminated<< ----------------------------------------

These lines are from... the saga of Beowulf? Old Cradle literature may yet be unforgotten. (I of anyone should know, my own mech is named for Old Cradle mythos as well.)

You must be Grendel, then; greetings to you, and to the rest of Black Torrent Mercenary Company as well. MSMC-796 welcomes you to the Omninet, and takes heed of the warning given us.

Now, how to respond in kind... ah, I know. A different mythos than you may be familiar with, perhaps, but I think you'll understand.

"But when for the fourth time they were come to the springs,

Lo then the Father lifted on high his golden scales,

And set therein two fates of grievous death,

One for Achilles, and one for horse-taming Hector;

Then he grasped the scales by the midst and raised it;

And down sank the day of doom of Hector,

And departed unto Hades; and Phoebus Apollo abandoned him."

-- Angel

[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.

[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)