#yes right now theoi is my primary source. but they source everything that they have

[seeminglyseph]

I actually want to make a bigger thing of this so you can make fun of me. I've been reading summaries of myths written in the modern day, so a lot of them list Dionysus going to war or conquering India. Which in my little tired not thinking about real geography and politics went "shit that's weird gonna write around that" and carried on. Then there's a piece where Ariadne died

And I was like "why is Perseus fighting Dionysus?" Because I am reading summaries first and then segments because there's a lot of information to take in.

Then I saw it referred to as the "Greco-Persian" war and I was like "oh riiight Persia. Istanbul is not Constantinople and all that. Got it."

And then it still took me reading "Pereus founded Persia" for me to click "oh fuck he's fighting Dionysus because he's leading Indian forces. Which were Persian forces but got translated probably?"

So you can all laugh at my complete inability to understand or comprehend obvious things.

That still doesn't explain how Perseus is here when I think Heracles is also there and Perseus is like his great-great-grandfather as well as brother because Zeus? Some sources say Heracles was like 800 when he died maybe Perseus was similar?

Learning is a prolonged process of not knowing things I feel like I should know... and then understanding better things I already thought I knew.

Let's go on an adventure through ignorance together lol