#virginia woolf was shocked when she spoke ancient greece in freaking 1900 greece and no one understood what the hell she was saying | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ratnix · 3 months ago

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People who have read Percy Jackson to Greeks who have been studying Greek mythology and history since the third grade, have analyzed the Odyssey, the Iliad and multiple ancient texts and plays in middle and high school and have studied Ancient Greek in detail in order to pass their university entrance exams: Erm actually 🤓

#greek mythology #pjo #ancient greece and especially greek mythology has become an empty canvas that anyone can use #the victorians shit on modern greece so bad that they thought modern greeks #didn't deserve to be called “descendants” of ancient greece #thackeray called modern greeks ugly #virginia woolf was shocked when she spoke ancient greece in freaking 1900 greece and no one understood what the hell she was saying #em forster hated modern greece and derogatorily called greeks “modern greeks”#and now it feels like ancient greece and mythology is for everyone #but you never see greek authors writing about ancient greece #or you never recommend greek authors that write about greek stories #you only talk about the american retellings #it's madeline miller and rick riordan and persephone and hades retellings #not to mention ancient Greece is not even the most interesting part of greek history #you talk about representation and yet you mess up the stories #you use the wrong letters in the alphabet to make your text look aesthetic #and greek people are never involved #also PS greece is a shithole and only greeks are allowed to hate on it #me an ανθελλην vigorously supporting greece when a non-greek makes a derogatory comment

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