If I may once again dip my toe into the discourse surrounding Greek Mythology, a lot of people like to rewrite or reframe the story of Medusa, and that’s great! Highly encourage it. But, DON’T YOU DARE GO AND DEMONIZE MY BOY PERSEUS!

Perseus isn’t some vile misogynist who hunts down and murders Medusa for the hell of it. He’s a scared kid who’s trying to save his mom from a forced marriage (whom herself has been a victim of terrible abuse from her father) to a creepy evil king and gets duped by the Gods into cleaning up their mess for them. He’s not the villain, he’s just another pawn. So if I see one more motherfucker trying to make him out to be the “real monster” I will throw hands.

You know what would be way more interesting?! Medusa sees Perseus rolling up to her crib and freaks out cause ‘holy shit this is a fucking kid. a fucking toddler with a sword and shield.’ and they hash it out and then TEAM UP to kill the evil kind trying to force marry Perseus’ mother! Think of the dynamics that you could write! The interactions that could occur. I mean, one of ‘em is gonna have to wear a blindfold but hey, minor problems.

What I’m saying is, gimme a buddy cop movie where Perseus and Medusa team up to fight evil in Ancient Greece.

I’m just picturing Perseus as this fairly well built sixteen year old kid, who looks a little underfed, and he’s like ‘ma’am I’m so sorry, I have to bring your head back to save my mom’ and medusa is like ‘okay, start over. We can work with this’ and compare trauma over some watered wine.

Danae and Medusa can get married and Perseus can have TWO Badass Moms

I mean, if Perseus was tasked to bring back the head of Medusa…. there’s no rule saying her body can’t be attached to that head

YOOOOO BIG BRAIN

I firmly believe what ever you're obsessed with at 11/12 years old becomes a core part of who you are, regardless if you lose interest in it or not. Maybe some of you were lucky and were obsessed with warrior cats or smth, and if you're real unlucky it was probably twilight.

— olympus v. hades | m.j. | commission a poem (via blakesgriffins)

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her

I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.

Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW. 

Odysseus: Regret it why?

Cassandra: You won’t believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.

Odysseus: … I’m Nobody. Fill me in. 

*A couple of months later* 

Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, she’s great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother who’s not going to treat you like shit. 

Penelope: … I’m going to need more details, but okay, sure. 

Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family. 

Brb gonna go attempt to write a poem abt this

(here ya go lads, hope you like it)

O Muse! Find the beginning of these myths

And show us the truth of misfortune forced upon former heroes

Who were turned to greed by gods and to death by jealous lovers,

Who were lost at sea for forever and were unseen by disbelievers

O Kassandra! Priestess to the bitter Apollo, 

Daughter of Hecuba, Queen of Troy,

What did You do to deserve this fate?

Does not loving a god deserve You his hate?

Deserve You a long life of losing the belief of Your family,

And knowing what would befall Troy, the truth

To have seen the Greeks tear down Your beloved city

And Your life, for the stolen love of Helen in her youth?

O Muse, can you imagine how much love must have hurt and

Burned Her? Her life taken apart by mortals and gods alike

For the absence of love from another?

Given, after everything, only Her home and city set alight.

O Kassandra! Did You ever regret Your response to Apollo

Before he spit in Your face and sentenced You to this?

Before he reflected his disbelief of Your distaste for him

And made it so no one would ever believe Your words, remissed?

Nobody will ever hear Her words, and believe,

Listen to Her predictions of horror She had no choice to see,

Take Her prophecies true as what will befall,

Looked into Her eyes and understood what She saw.

Do you understand what She was forced to do?

Understand what it’s like for not a soul to listen to you?

She tried to save Her foolish father and king,

But what use is that when you are not believed?

O Muse, how could this happen,

Why are gods able to alter our fate?

Turn women into liars and to madness,

Turn heroes into thieves and wanderers, late?

O Odysseus! Husband of Penelope,

Why did you have to wander so?

When you gave the name of Nobody,

You didn’t have to let the cyclopes know.

Forced to stay and sail at sea,

Drift further and farther still

Poseidon interfering, as always, and blocking

You from returning home, which you will.

Seduced by Madea, almost sunk by Monsters at their pass

Tempted by the sirens, who called out about Your future and past

Do you not remember the want you felt, to return home after the war?

Do you not remember hoping to see your wife, when you return, at the door?

You said your name was Nobody, 

And nobody you became

Wandering for a decade across the Aegean Sea, 

Followed by misfortune, fear, and pain.

O Muse, what would have happened, 

If they both would have met?

One cursed to be disbelieved and 

The other cursed to never rest

Kassandra’s prophecies were believed by Nobody, and well

Odysseus went by that name

So if he could believe Her then

Wouldn’t they have both avoided their bane?

I implore you, O Muse, goddess, daughter of Zeus,

Mother of stories and inspiration and heroes

Of music and love and everything that is known

Please listen to this, listen close

I implore you, please

No longer let their stories be tragedies

Forged by bitter gods twisting fate’s thread;

Change their paths from where they’ve been lead.

And maybe the ire of the gods was deserved

Likely not, but still, did they deserve to suffer for the rest of their lives?

As Wilson said, tell the old story for our modern times.

Find the beginning; and change it.

honestly why do all modern retellings of the iliad make paris and helen out to be star crossed lovers who doomed the world because they were too horny to consider the fallout of their elopement?

i’m all for adaptations giving the women of the iliad more agency, but not at the expense of their characterisation and cleverness. even though she’s not in it much helen is one of the iliad’s most fascinating characters because she defies the reader’s expectations by not just being a pretty face. she’s as clever as she is beautiful and crucially, she knows that paris is a useless idiot. she’s not shown to have a single drop of affection for him. not only that, she knows that everyone in troy hates her and blames her for their troubles (instead of, you know, the man who kidnapped her) and yet she manages to survive 10 years in a city full of people who want her dead.

give me a modern adaptation that portrays helen as a captive, as a woman so used to being bartered and objectified that she knows she had no choice but to marry menelaus and no choice but to leave with paris. give me a helen who, for survival’s sake, is polite to her captors in public but privately despises troy and greece alike. give me a deceptive and tricksy helen whose true alliances are unclear - a helen whose only true loyalty is to herself. give me a helen who has little to no agency and very few friends, but still makes the most of her circumstances, and manages to survive in a hostile city for 10 years. show me the helen who saw that troy was falling and rather than wait to die at menelaus’ hands, managed to seduce menelaus into taking her back after 10 years of war, as he had his sword at her throat.

give me an adaptation which shows what the trojan war was really all about: men fighting over the ownership of a woman who doesn’t want to be owned by either side.

Game of Thrones POV Women as Greek Goddesses » Cersei Lannister as Hera

my students react to greek mythology

hey quiz lovers

which greek god are you?

reblog with your result in the tags.

(i got dionysus)

Persephone 🌹💀

Poem by: @softspokenspells Edit by: @witchglitch

Tits out for Aphrodite

I just love the myth of Persephone, i mean the real, original version of it, because it’s not like she got kidnapped, no, this bitch was la-de-da-ing in a meadow and she just happened to find an entrance to the Underworld and she was like “Imma check this out”. And she just wanders into the Underworld and discovers that hey this place ain’t too bad.

Meanwhile Hades is in the background “????? UM??? PRETTY GIRL??? WHY ARE YOU HERE?????? YOU AREN’T DEAD???” 

And Persephone (who was originally called Kore just a little fyi) just looked at him and said “I like it here. I’m staying.”

And Hades kinda just went with it, until Demeter started throwing the temper tantrum of the millenium upstairs and Zeus had to intervene because this shit was getting out of hand and its actually his job to be admistrator of justice. Which considering the shit he gets up to is kinda histerical but that’s another story there. 

And basically Persephone wasn’t a prisoner or kidnap victim at all she just really loved the Underworld and her (eventual) husband, and the Greeks feared her arguably more than her husband because Hades could be reasoned with but Persephone was the one laying the smack down on sinners, and really, who wouldn’t be at least a little scared of someone who’s name means something along the lines of “the destroyer”

Basically, Persephone is amazing and everbody needs to get on her level

i think the best part of that myth is that Zeus decided to change Kore’s name to Persephone (basically “the one who brings chaos”) only because she wanted to stay in the underworld and SHE WOULDN’T FUCKING LISTEN then Zeus, all-mighty king of the gods, kinda gives up and goes “fine, but you’re going to visit your mom” “also, I changed your name” “get rekt”

Also, if I’m not mistaken, Kore means “little girl” so imagine going from that to “chaos bringer”

I mean, going from little girl to chaos bringer sounds like a p solid deal to me, sign me up.

This may not be the version of the myth that’s commonly known and taught. But is is the original, from before it was altered to scare Greek/Roman girls into submission. Persephone was a badass bitch.

ah yes, the solar eclipse, that glorious event every few years when apollo does something so incredibly stupid that artemis has to yell at him in broad daylight in front of half of the world

THE LEGENDARY STORY OF THE TROJAN HORSE DOES NOT INVOLVE THE GREEKS GIVING THE HORSE TO THE TROJANS AS A GIFT. THE GREEKS’ DECEPTION WAS ACTUALLY THAT THEY LEFT THE HORSE AS AN OFFERING TO THE GODDESS ATHENA. 

IN THE LEGEND, THEY BASICALLY SENT SOMEONE TO TROY TO SAY “THIS HORSE IS FOR ATHENA, NOT YOU, SO OUR RETREAT BACK TO GREECE IS SAFE. DON’T TRY TO TAKE IT. IT WON’T FIT THROUGH THE GATES OF YOUR CITY, SO THERE’S NO WAY YOU DICKS CAN STEAL IT AND PRETEND YOU GOT IT FOR ATHENA. NOT FOR TROJANS.”

AND THEN TROY WAS LIKE “YOU’RE NOT OUR DAD. WE WON THIS WAR AND WE’RE TAKING YOUR STUPID HORSE AS A TROPHY SO WE’LL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW BAD GREECE IS AT DESTROYING TROY.” 

AND A FEW TROJANS WERE LIKE “THIS IS A TRICK” AND TRIED TO EXPOSE IT AS A TRICK BUT THE REST OF THE TROJANS WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT BECAUSE EVERYONE WAS SWEPT UP IN THE THRILL OF VICTORY, AND ALSO BECAUSE THE GODS KEPT SENDING SNAKES TO STRANGLE ANYONE WHO SAID ANYTHING, BECAUSE THE GREEK GODS HAD NO WORD FOR “SUBTLETY”

THEN AT NIGHT ALL THE GREEKS JUMPED OUT OF THE HORSE LIKE “WE TOLD YOU NOT TO TAKE THE HORSE, WHY ARE YOU SUCH PRIDEFUL DICKS” AND BURNED DOWN THE WHOLE CITY

Name Aesthetics | Greek Gods & Goddesses

Millennial Sisyphus keeps entering all the information from his resume into the web form, only for it to delete everything when he tries to move to the next page. He just goes back and types it all up again, over and over again, forever, and he never gets a job.

Millennial Tantalus has been promised that his unpaid internship will become a paid position as soon as the company has space for him. Every week he sees their new job posting. Every week he asks his boss if he can have a real job. The boss shrugs apologetically and says he’ll just have to make do with being paid in experience a little longer. He goes back and keeps working, over and over again, forever, and he never reaches the fruits of his labors.

Millennial Persephone can’t get a job without a degree, but because she had to take out loans to pay for college, she must spend 1/3 of her life working just to pay them off.

Millennial Cassandra’s title is Social Media Coordinator, she was hired to be the expert, but every time she tries to explain the problems in her company’s social media decisionmaking, the managers don’t listen…and end up hiring expensive PR flacks to repair the damage to their reputation when things blow up exactly as she predicted.

Millennial Medusa uses multiple shades of primer and opaque foundation to cover the scars snaking across her face, hiding the bruises, aligning the asymmetry in her broken nose and jaw. Red matte on the lips, green shimmer on the lids. Flawless liner on the first try. She’s had lots and lots of practice. She films her transformation in secret for all to see and learn, and again, men are turned to anonymous stone faces screaming in horror. “Liar!” “Witch!” “Take her swimming on the first date!” These words do not discourage her. These words are a challenge. GlamGorgonXx posts another video.

Millennial Prometheus uploads another PDF to his site. He’s lost track of the printing and edition of this textbook. He knows they just rearranged some of chapters then charge 150 dollars per copy, and the professor wrote the book himself. the ZIP fills uploads successfully, and he starts uploading the next one. He isn’t afraid of the potential lawsuit. knowledge shouldn’t held out of reach like this. 

Millennial Circe screenshots all the lewd messages she gets from men on online dating sites and posts them on her very popular Instagram along with their pictures and usernames. When people accuse her of attempting to destroy their reputations, she insists she’s just revealing them for the pigs they truly are.