#hypsipyle

Jason with Medea and Hypsipyle (granddaughter of Dionysus)

He managed to pull the best baddies twice like how?

@superkooku Only read this post if you want to get angry at something today

"I signed my name to that enterprise for love, yes, but not love of a man. I fell in love with a ship: the Argo, a beautiful lady in the hands of a captain who never deserved her."

You know the writer got below the bottom of the barrel when she's trying to put Atalanta with a piece of wood and removing the character's clear interest in men

WHY is Perseus here?! He's a mortal man and as great-grandfather of Heracles should either be too old or dead by the time the Argonauts were created

Just to inform this whole story will be "Jason is a bad person and leader but nobody stop him for reasons"

"Thus we arrived on Lemnos: the isle of women. All their men had left, in boats that never returned."

And of course the massacre of all the men and boys is removed in place of this dumb explanation that they all leaved at the same time for no reason

Jason never promised to marry the queen, who's name (Hypsipyle) you refused to mention. For some reason....

He made it very clear that the crew couldn't stay there but guess can't have a positive interaction between men and women in a "feminist" story, right?

"No hero ever claimed to be a good person."

Atalanta done nothing during her whole stay in the Argo from how far i've read

"Clytius of Troy reckoned it was more likely Jason lost the sandal while shagging a wine maiden. You can guess for yourself which version sounds more authentic to my ear."

I don't even like Jason but the way you're changing the story to make him the worst™️ is absurd

Also interesting to say Jason ruined things by getting involved with Medea and then few lines later say that this witch was essential to your survival and to the success of the mission

"In truth: he did not throw apples, but rocks. There was no godly work in this. He broke my leg."

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I had to put down my phone and walk around to relax.

Tansy Rayner, what's your problem? Why you believed Hippomenes breaking Atalanta's bones was a good change to the myth?

Not reading more or i'll throw my phone against the wall

Here's the source (if you're insane)...

The Lemnian maiden Hypsipyle, with Jason and her nurse.

Hephaestus:

Ovid, Heroides VI “Hypsipyle Iasoni” lines 151-164

But if Jupiter the just from high heaven Heeds my prayers at all, What Hypsipyle groans over, Let the usurper of my bed mourn too; Let the lady herself feel The terms she’s laid down. And, just as I am abandoned – I, wife, mother of two – Let her, with an equal number Of children, be stripped of her man! Nor let her keep long Her ill-gotten gains, and let her Give them up on worse terms; Let her be banished And seek through all the world A place of flight. As bitter A sister as she was to her brother, As bitter a daughter To her wretched father – So bitter let her be To her children, to her husband! When she’s used up sea and land, Let her try the air; Let her wander without goods, Without hope – bloody With her own slaughter. These things I, Thoas’ daughter, Cheated of my marriage, ask for. Live, bride – live, bridegroom – On a cursed marriage-bed! …quod si quid ab alto iustus adest votis Iuppiter ille meis, quod gemit Hypsipyle, lecti quoque subnuba nostri maereat et leges sentiat ipsa suas. utque ego destituor coniunx materque duorum, cum totidem natis orba sit illa viro! nec male parta diu teneat peiusque relinquat: exulet et toto quaerat in orbe fugam. quam fratri germana fuit miseroque parenti filia tam natis, tam sit acerba viro! cum mare, cum terras consumpserit, aera temptet; erret inops, exspes, caede cruenta sua. haec ego, coniugio fraudata Thoantias, oro. vivite devoto nuptaque virque toro!