#perseus

[sarafangirlart]

You can’t love Danaë while hating Perseus BUT you can love Thetis while hating Achilles, does that make sense?

[ditoob]

The fact that Perseus was willing to fight a sea-monster and possibly die in an unmarked grave for the chance to marry Andromeda lives in my head rent-free btw

[aliciavance4228]

🤣💀

A friend of mine wrote that summary, so I'll credit him for this brilliant idea.

So far the best summary of this myth:

[steampoweredwerehog]

It’s time for Knight Posting

When mages keep creating homuncului out of dead knights, they’re eventually gonna become their own whole species, & someone’s gotta take care of ‘em. That’s where the Knightrearers come in!

Knight Bite Ratings based on this

[without-ado]

Atik, Omicron Persei in Perseus l Lee-Anne Gibbon

[tinymusicalgeek]

Perseus vs Medusa

I don't know if anyone has pointed it out before, but i really like the parallel of Percy holding up Medusa's head the same way statue Perseus does.

Like, the ⭐️symbolism⭐️ of Medusa meeting the same exact fate, despite having her story rewritten and told.

And the foreshadowing of Percy becoming as great of a hero as his namesake.

[sydney-empire]

Vent comic about female beauty

[sforzesco]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

[sarafangirlart]

Perseus and Dionysus

[spacewonder19]

NGC 1333 Embryo Nebula in Perseus © Martin Voigt

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Clash of the Titans (1981)

[britney-rosberg06]

“Sally named Percy Peseus because he lived happily ever after” no FUCK that Sally named him Perseus because Perseus and Danaë fucking suffered. Their lives sucked. They were cast out literally and figuratively left to fend for themselves but despite all of that they fought for every bit they earned and accepted no shit from anybody and when Sally Jackson was handed her precious baby boy she was feeling particularly powerful that day. She was a penniless orphan turned single mother and despite not having a fucking clue about what her and her child’s life would become she decided she wasn’t going to quit. She was drowning in grief and worry just like Danaë, drowning in a sea pitted against her, was and both women decided to brave the fucking storm.

THATS why his name is Perseus. Because both their mothers fought a different kind of battle and won

[mushroomstairs]

cleaning up a storyboard that's very minotaur-centric, so im starting to spread pro-minotaur propaganda

[the-evil-clergyman]

Cover of Scena Illustrata Magazine by Ezio Anichini (Feb. 1916)

[randomness-is-my-order]

so this might be a bit of reach but this scene had been bothering me for a while because why tf was sally jackson’s face not visible for the first few dialogues??? the initial answers i could think of were: a dramatic reveal or showing us young percy’s limited perspective on things, both literally and more figuratively.

but then i started thinking of how medusa tells percy that sally and her are kinda like sisters and how their stories have similarities and then my mind decided to connect sally’s head not being visible when she's first introduced to medusa being eventually beheaded, not only as a foreshadowing but also as an ominous warning of what could have been sally’s fate in an adjacent alternate universe if things didn’t go the way they had.

they have this entire conversation with the same angle, the same shot, with percy talking with a headless sally and then when they finally reveal her fully, THIS is the shot and THIS is the dialogue:

i mean percy and sally are roughly alligned with perseus and medusa’s head in the statue, a sort of twisted parallel of myth and reality.

i don't even care if this wasn't how it was intended but it seems intentional to me and i really adore this show’s cinematography and subtle hints through imaging and motifs and wkiqpwodkqlfk just had to get this out somewhere.

[toherlover]

life imitates art or something like that