#minthe greek mythology

[daughterofzeus-the-novel]

Young Eris (ft Nyx and Echo)

I let go of her sleeve, teeth flashing in what might’ve been a smile.  Us goddesses of the dark were not skilled in such arts, the ones of Aphrodite and the nymphs above.  I was not born to lure gods to my bed.  I was not born to fall in love.

My fingers twitched.  The nymph I saw on the mountain flashed before me, her gaze sparking like flint against stone.  I knew not why I felt so drawn, why my heart beat as it never had before.  Perhaps she knew something.  Perhaps she had the keys to my fate, and was only waiting for me to grasp them.

Morpheus can wait.  I brushed past Mother with a softer, less toothy smirk.  I need to . . . I trailed off.  Wander.

Why I was keeping this secret, I didn’t know.  If it was important to me, surely it would be important to her.  But Mother only waved a hand, pointing to the mountain in the distance.  Hurry.  Gone was her warmth, and even amusement.  Eos is beginning to rouse from her rest.

I hiked up my chiton and made for the rocks, stumbling over them as my eyes scanned for my nymph.  There she was, clustered with her kin, perched on a stone as a river flowed at her feet.  She tossed back her hair, green as the moss dotting the jagged ground.  “Minthe!”  Her voice was high and bright, a lotus in full bloom.  “Have you heard what Ouranos said to Mother Gaia?”

@heleniad @helen-of-sparta

[messymoonmad]

I'm the suitors are your jam rn, rightfully so. They are unfortunately cutie patooties with smooth voices. But I just love love love your Persephone. I love all your wives.

I imagine her voice like Betty boop here idk why

[dream--interrupted]

Minthe, underworld river nymph. Too outspoken and uninhibited (especially around royalty) for her own good.

[aliciavance4228]

"Hades never cheated on Persephone. Minthe raped him."

"Hades/Persephone/Minthe Threesome."

"Persephone felt bad for Minthe."

Meanwhile Persephone after finding out the truth:

[imcastingspellz]

Hermes ft. Minthe

In character design hell again :')

His wing ears can fold into little hair things when he's not using them!

Hermes and Minthe are so iconic and funny bro clown on clown violence!! I can't wait for you to meet them :') They are always arguing about who is shorter (It's Minthe by just a millimeter, but Hermes wears shoes so it looks like he's an inch taller)

Hermes: I used to think I was the shortest in the pantheon...

And then I met Minthe.

Minthe: Angry cat noises SHUT UP!!

[astroaaron]

Hades: Morning honey. Have you seen Minthe?

Persephone: (Drinking mint tea) Earlier.

[smolartdork]

Some lore Olympus art!

Persephone and Hades (2021)

Demeter (2021)

Random mortal realm nymph (2022)

Persephone Dread Queen (2022)

Aaaaaand some panel edits!

[aloozerontheinternet]

SAVE ME TOXIC YURI

TOXIC YURI SAVE ME

(My redesigns for Minthe and Thetis)

[olgadealexandria]

🪴🪴MINTHE🪴🪴

In Ancient Greek mythology, Minthe is a nymph with a minor role in the story of Persephone and Hades. This is my interpretation of her, inspired by Pre-Raphaelite art 💙💙

Check to see my drawing of Persephone!!

[thatsauceysauce]

I understand the age gap in lore olympus is weird but when you think about it real greek mythology age gaps aren’t that different, not to mention how most greek gods and goddesses are related anyways. the comic was a romance story and wasn’t going to be exactly persephone and hades story, i feel like once the comic was over a lot of fans switched up on it, which isn’t totally reasonable but when you do bring up the fact they made persephone so helpless and hades so powerful it is weird in a way, but again— greek mythology also had moments like that. i do wanna say tho, they both were overcoming issues and problems which i think drew them together.

another thing i wanna bring up was persephone being sa’d/raped (i believe) the actual greek god is nothing like what the comic made him out to be which sets a bad standard for what people expect him to be. another thing is that i hate how people bash the art style of the creator, if the style isn’t what you like then simply don’t read the comic, don’t bash the artist. but i do agree the characters share so many similarities it is hard to keep up with who is who. i do wanna also bring up that i do see how weird it is for the author to made persephone so childish looking, but then again she had stopped aging, not only that but the height difference is not a 19 year olds, more like a child’s.. but there was no reason to make her stay that young.

also why is minthe so hated on??! she got cheated on and had to find out through news paper articles, not to mention how she had to be with hades knowing that his family hated her was in my opinion not okay, and so many people bash her. she was a complex character and was bashed for it.. going into the topic of the art style once more minthe and persephone also share many similarities, so many of the comic strips involving them with hades look alike, another thing is minthe was slut shamed for wearing a black dress but when persephone wore it she was totally praised, which in my opinion is quite odd..

(reread a bit and minthe and hades were not exclusive)

they also made persephones mother out to be such a bad mom when in the actual story her and her mothers reunion was them sharing hugs and their love.

i do wanna add that this is just my opinion and no hate!

[sarafangirlart]

Ypu know I have seen anti hades people say in order for persephone to be fully freed she must be let go of the underworld which misses the point of the myth of marriage and erases persephone historical ties to the underworld. Sure, there are too much woobifying hades and demonizing demeter but I also think they victimize persephone too much they forget her importance in the underworld and again how powerful she became because of it.

The thing is, it’s undeniable that the kidnapping of Persephone was a forced marriage and a rape, however rape back then wasn’t viewed how it is today, if woman is given to a man by her father she’s supposed to accept it, if he rapes her then shes supposed to accept it bc that’s her job as a wife (oversimplification but you get the idea). You know how Briseis was Achilles slave but wanted to be his legal wife for the small protection and rights it would give her? Even tho he killed her family and enslaved her? That’s probably the same idea with Persephone, where she had to accept Hades as her husband bc her options are rather limited. Like there is also a myth where Demeter is the one to turn Minthe into a plant bc Minthe tried to take Hades away from Persephone, not exactly the reaction one would expect from a mother trying to protect her daughter bc why would she want Persephone to stay with her kidnapper?

So while I understand ppl being upset over Hades being woobified, I completely understand why others would want to remove the rape aspect, since after the kidnapping they seem to have a mostly harmonious marriage with Hades treating Persephone as an equal in authority and idk about you but I’d rather not read a story about a woman loving her rapist bc he’s nice and respects her. Kidnapping alone is bad enough and at least kinda forgivable since Hades lets her go. Tho that sort of revisionism could easily be done without demonizing Demeter, bc again, some say she was the one who cursed Minthe.

I probably got some information wrong tho pls kindly correct me if I did.

[iloveallmyocs]

oh god i hate lore olympus

[0lympian-c0uncil]

Minthe, *bad at flirting*: You have a wonderful name.

Persephone,*equally bad at flirting*: Thanks! I got it for my birthday!

[aliciavance4228]

Pretending that Hades and Persephone never cheated on each other and erasing Adonis and Minthe is something, but portraying Adonis and Minthe in a negative light and turning them into some generic villains in order to show how pure and superior Hades and Persephone's marriage is makes me go buy a gun.

I can somehow understand that when it comes to Minthe, since we have this fragment where she's turned into the mint plant after boasting about how she's more beautiful than Persephone, and how Hades will soon get rid of her:

„Mintha, men say, was once a maid beneath the earth, a Nymphe of Kokytos, and she lay in the bed of Aidoneus; but when he raped the maid Persephone from the Aitnaian hill, then she complained loudly with overweening words and raved foolishly for jealousy, and Demeter in anger trampled upon her with her feet and destroyed her. For she had said that she was nobler of form and more excellent in beauty than dark-eyed Persephone and she boasted that Aidoneus would return to her and banish the other from his halls …” (Oppian, Halieutica)

However, I will still criticize 99,99% of the fanfictions and retellings where she appears, especially because in many of them a) Demeter is a toxic mother who asked Minthe to sleep with Hades in the hope that in this way her daughter will divorce him, despite the fact that in some versions she was literally the one who punished Minthe in order to protect her daughter's dignity and status as the Queen of the Underworld and b) she's usually the only one who's blamed for sleeping with a married man and Hades is still viewed as this innocent little being, as if it doesn’t take two to tango.

But demonizing Adonis? The guy who was groomed by almost every deity who found him handsome, including Persephone aka the one who raised him and was supposed to be only a mother figure to him? The character who's perceived as an object of desire rather than an actual human being and yet so many people fail to see the abusive undertones behind his relationships and still make Adonis x Aphrodite content? I've even seen fanfictions where the authors kept the part where he was raised by Persephone, but twist the sexual nature of their relationship and write Adonis as a jerk who finds himself worthy of sleeping with a goddess like Persephone, and Persephone as this loyal wife who would never cheat on her husband. Are you guys really willing to go that far to the point of giving Adonis an Oedipus Complex?!

Yes, this myth is already very disturbing, yet there's no need to ignore Adonis' abuse by pretending that he enjoyed it, or that he was the abuser all this time.

[imcastingspellz]

My girlsssss!!! 💗💖💞💕💘💝 Can u tell how much I love them???

[sephsbat]

not my girl minthe's wikipedia pic being a photo of a mint plant.