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mask131 · 10 months ago

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Do I respect people who choose to use Ovid's retellings of the Greek myths rather than Ancient Greek sources? Absolutely.

Will I judge people who use Ovid's retellings of the Greek myths without using Roman names or without placing them in the context of Ancient Rome? Absolutely.

Will I hate the people who will for example take elements of Ovid and project them onto Homer's Iliad or Odyssey? Definitively.

#ovid #homer #greek mythology #roman mythology #ovid is literaly the polar opposite of homer #one from the distant past another from after the end #one preserving a primitive form of religion and pantheon that was else lost to us #the other completely reinventing the stories of another nation for purely aesthetic literary and political reasons

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