make it whole again if you can

I think something that's also relevant is the way that as time progressed within Ancient Greece, while the Trojan War was originally seen as happening within the time period where everyone still shared the same culture and such, there started to be application of "eastern" (relation to Greek region) culture to the Trojans (eg Sappho 16 & 44 using specifically "eastern" loanwords).

(the above is brought to you by edith hall's 'inventing the barbarian')

Now, Zendaya is playing an Athena apparently taking the form of a Trojan priestess. Which for so many reasons is very strange to me, but also I have not seen Nolan's Odyssey myself yet so I don't know the justification.

I also can't help but think about how the Trojan War was used as a setting to make political commentaries surrounding contemporary wars by playwrights. Like, the suffering of Trojans was used to condemn acts of war (such as pillaging!)

(the above is admittedly brought to you by information i was told by various tecahers and professors and i don't have a specific source for this)

So. Ignoring the whole Turkey =/= Iran and Hittites =/= Persians thing, which is its own form of Orientalism but I won't get to that right now, you have this actress playing a goddess who actively fought against Troy and (in Nolan's Odyssey) primarily took the form Of A Trojan.

Which to me, all of this makes the earrings a uniquely ignorant form of cultural appropriation. It's disrespectful in so many ways that it's almost impressive. You're disrespectful to Ancient Greece by ignoring the lessons they tried to learn from their own stories, disrespectful the idea of Troy by ignoring its memory for an aesthetic you don't even understand, and disrespecting Iran for wearing and modifying stolen cultural artifacts to represent a culture that isn't even theirs.

Spin the wheel. This Greek mythological figure is trying to kill you

Spin the wheel again. This Greek mythological figure is trying to protect you