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wilberave · 1 year ago

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can we please stop blaming Ovid for the fact that ppl on the internet don’t know how ancient literature/mythology works :( it’s not his fault. if we’re gonna blame anyone it should be madeline miller and whoever did that ugly lore olympus comic

#please… the met was not about him taking a bunch of greek myths and purposefully distorting/ruining them #my man just wanted to write about the mutability of the human body and the intrinsically human elements of the soul/spirits #like yes he’s gonna make the medusa myth fit into his narrative of metamorphoses and changing forms #because medusa is already differentiated in greek myth from her sisters by being the only mortal so she has that element of humanity #that he can dive into and explore #you people just don’t understand that stories serve a purpose other than ‘haha entertaining’#there’s a reason these myths change there’s a purpose to why they were told over thousands of years they MEAN SOMETHING #and that meaning changes based on the culture and time and author that is producing them #and also that characters aren’t real people and finding out the Truth of what happened to them is an insane idea #there are a million medusas just like there are a million agamemnons and achilleses and odysseuses #every single time their story is retold they are new characters who serve a new narrative purpose #augh #anyway #ovid didnt ‘ruin’ greek myth he wasn’t writing fan fiction and everyone just keep my dead roman boyfriends name out of ur mouth

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