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Not enough variations focus on the story of Demeter and Perseophone as one of loss. When everything dies around grief and how pomegranates resemble blood. How she died because a man loved her too much. No god can justify that to a mother
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The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.
The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.
Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.
After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.
But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.
He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.
It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.
I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.
And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.
One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he'll cheat the gods next.
...too soon.
a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:
-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings
-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)
-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)
-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)
-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same
-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well
-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped
-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt
-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians
-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be
-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia
-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that
-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told
-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions
-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect
-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think
greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!
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that said, sophocles in particular is so clearly interested in women's silence and the silencing of women! not, like, to the point where i would think that it might've had anything to do with the way he thought about or interacted with real women in real life, but in so many of his plays he's preoccupied with the point at which women stop speaking, and the ways that a (woman's) silent life is akin to death. i'm talking the classic "she exits silently into the house to die" of jocasta and eurydice and deianira, i'm talking the women who fall silent and let the men do all the talking when they're replaced by non-speaking actors halfway through their plays (tecmessa and ismene), i'm talking the women like iole and philomela rendered completely voiceless by the violence done to them and also structurally denied speech by the performance conventions that do not permit them a speaking actor.
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temple of poseidon, sounion, greece
"Was it really Hector, Achilles?"
Calypso & Odysseus :’)
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hera’s son
more of the sunshine guy, he’s just such a cutie
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mythology parent & child: demeter & persephone
demeter is the goddess of agriculture, grain and bread who sustained mankind with the earth's rich bounty. persephone is the goddess queen of the underworld, and the goddess of spring growth.
The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Roman before 79 AD.
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1. One of several water nymph statues in York House Gardens Twickenham along side the River Thames and near the Dial House Riverside.
2. Nymph of the Grot at Stourhead. Modelled on a figure of Ariadne in the Vatican gardens.
Hello vea !! Just wanted to ask if you by any chance has a Hestia design, its just that she's one of my favorites and I feel like she's really underappreaciated
I actually do! (+ young Apollo and Artemis)
