White supremacists use Ancient Greece to insert themselves and their beliefs, completely erasing an accurate Ancient Greece and actual Greek people and culture from the narrative. There's a reason why when discussing the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, they only show pictures of blonde, blue-eyed, Germanic, or Anglo-Saxon women, and never actresses who are actually Greek or of Greek descent. Just like how a black woman playing Helen is an issue to them, a Greek woman playing Helen is also an issue to them.

Since the very beginning of the concept of whiteness, beginning in the 19th century, white supremacists have excluded Greek people from whiteness, like they did for other ethnicities that you may now consider white, such as the Irish and Italians. Whiteness did not exist before the 19th century. When whiteness was conceptualized, it was purposefully created to not just view people native to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania as lesser than, but to also view other Europeans as lesser than.

A lot of Western idealization of Greece was built around a fantasy of Greece, not Greece as a real place with real people, language, history, occupation, displacement, and survival (this part is important to me, because we survived over 1,000 years of occupation).

The idealized version of Ancient Greece that white supremacists (and many non-Greeks more broadly) love to fetishize and fixate on is largely a fantasy constructed by European powers and intellectual movements, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was used as an imperial and racial ideology at a time when Greece itself had been under foreign rule for centuries and had very little control over how it was being represented.

In fact, European travellers who journeyed to Greece in the wake of Greece's War of Independence frequently reported disappointment because they did not match the idealized image of “ancient” Greeks that existed in their imagination.

White supremacists use Ancient Greece to insert themselves and their beliefs, completely erasing an accurate Ancient Greece and actual Greek people and culture from the narrative. There's a reason why when discussing the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, they only show pictures of blonde, blue-eyed, Germanic, or Anglo-Saxon women, and never actresses who are actually Greek or of Greek descent. Just like how a black woman playing Helen is an issue to them, a Greek woman playing Helen is also an issue to them.

Since the very beginning of the concept of whiteness, beginning in the 19th century, white supremacists have excluded Greek people from whiteness, like they did for other ethnicities that you may now consider white, such as the Irish and Italians. Whiteness did not exist before the 19th century. When whiteness was conceptualized, it was purposefully created to not just view people native to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania as lesser than, but to also view other Europeans as lesser than.

White supremacists also use Greek mythology to prove their supremacy and have been ever since WWII. The Nazi party believed that Atlantis was an Aryan city and would try to prove it through expeditions with their pseudoarcheology organization.

This may sound long gone in the past, with a silly belief only the Nazi party held as it is not proudly shouted from the rooftops anymore, but,

The Daily Wire recently released a show retelling Arthurian legend. Despite the topic of the show being about the Matter of Britain, the show includes a bit of Greek mythology, specifically within Lady of The Lake, who they place her origins to be Atlantis.

"There's people on islands in the Indian Ocean. They only got hair on their heads, bones that bend like rubber, large valved ears, and two tongues that make it so they can say two things at the same time.... They were so beautiful."

Meanwhile, the Potamoi:

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Look! He even has his goatee!

I was looking back at Hermes' myths, and I forgot how head over heels he was for Pan when he was born until now. Pan was abandoned by his mother, but Hermes was all giddy and excited from how cute he thought Pan was that he immediately wrapped him up and brought him back to Olympus to show him off.

"Thank goodness I am wearing boots, or else I'd be losing a foot along with my missing arm with how much your feet are aiming to stomp at mine!"

Ares teaching Harmonia how to dance.

Ares had to learn how to dance quite thoroughly in his youth, with both war and celebrations in the intention, so she would've been a great teacher for Harmonia and his other children.