Cait Corrain

I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains.  Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does.  Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be.  Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does.  This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.

as someone who is partially a classicist, this is a better analysis of Greek mythology as a whole than 99.95% of the takes I’ve seen on here (and a substantial number of the takes I’ve seen in ~academia~)

this post was a good reminder that Greek gods aren’t ‘humans but with godly powers,’ they are godly powers personified into a human form.

Hi, my name is Dionysus Bacchus Zagreus Iacchus Eleutherios and I have rich dark hair that waves about me and dark eyes and I look not like mortal men but like the gods who dwell on Olympus (that's how I got my name). I'm not related to heaven-nurtured kings because I am an actual son of Zeus (if you don't know who I am turn into a fucking dolphin!) I usually look like a stripling in the first flush of manhood but sometimes I change into a lion or bear. For example today I wore a dark purple robe on my shoulders and a vine and ivy spread out around me. I was walking on a jutting headland by the shore of the fruitless sea. The sea was sparkling, which I was very happy about. A lot of Tirsenian pirates stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

All day every day I think about this art 🤩

FINALLY listened to Nona the Ninth and boy howdy am I gonna need everyone to leave me alone with my agonies. THIS SERIES ISTG.

I was saving it as a little treat for finishing my edits. I ended up listening to it as a little treat for getting out of bed despite my burnout. Weirdly? Even though I bawled multiple times while listening, I think it helped.