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Aurora (L'Aurore) (c. 1884) by Jules Lefebvre (French, 1836 – 1911), signed lower left: Jules LeFebvre, oil on canvas, 81 1/8 by 42 ¾ in. (274.6 by 108.5 cm), Private Collection
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Aurora (L'Aurore) (c. 1884) by Jules Lefebvre (French, 1836 – 1911), signed lower left: Jules LeFebvre, oil on canvas, 81 1/8 by 42 ¾ in. (274.6 by 108.5 cm), Private Collection
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i was listening to an elizabeth vandiver lecture on the greek pantheon where she points out the theme in greek myths where male lovers of goddesses often end up suffering in some way, and how that can be seen to tie into the ancient greek preoccupation with who penetrates who (the higher status person may penetrate the lower status person, and never vice versa). within that framework, someone like ganymede is "safe" from narrative punishment because being a passive mortal eromenos of zeus is in accordance with the hierarchy, while tithonus, willing or unwilling, commits an offense against the "order of things" by penetrating and impregnating eos.
vandiver uses the union of aphrodite and anchises to illustrate how consent is not a factor at all (in the hymn, anchises is very aware that he mustn't have sex with a goddess, but aphrodite tricks him into it). even unknowing, he commits an outrage by sleeping with a goddess, and is in various traditions eventually struck lame, blinded or killed by a thunderbolt.
i think this theory adds an interesting facet to the beginning of the odyssey, where calypso then has odysseus basically locked into a perpetual outrage-against-the-gods loop by forcing him to be her lover. are the seven years trapped on her island a narrative punishment for that? is it why he needs literal divine intervention to break the loop and escape?
Eos straight up caring Tithonus. Go get your man through morally questionable means babe lmao
from Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Every now and then over the past 30 years, I’ll be reading something unrelated and have an “oh, so that’s why that X-Files episode is called that” epiphany.
Lekythos with Depiction of Eos and Tithonus, Achilles Painter, 450-430 BCE.
Source: The Nelson-Atkins Museum
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Rotating Laomedon's thought process in my mind... When the gods asked him for payment in building his walls, did he think of Ganymede and Tithonus?
The latter is consistently his son, and some sources say the former was too. The gods gave divine horses as recompense for Ganymede, but did they ever give anything for Tithonus? Ganymede received eternal youth, whilst Tithonus was immortal but continued aging into a living death through the gods' trickery
Then, Apollo and Poseidon ask payment for building Troy's walls. Laomedon refuses, even threatening them. The gods had already taken so much. In his mind, why should he give anything more to anyone?
Of course, this leads to calamity. To appease their wrath, he is forced to sacrifice another child, his daughter Hesione. When the demigod Heracles rescues her, he wants Laomedon's divine horses in return – those same horses given in exchange for Ganymede....
Obviously it was foolish, but I can see why he crashed out again
The X Files 6x09: Tithonus (Michael W. Watkins, 1999).
6x10: Tithonus
Scully is assigned to an unusual case with a new partner, they investigate a crime scene photographer who seems to capture the exact moment of death.
Mulder has big FOMO about this X-File, he looks up the case and keeps poking around
I wonder why Kersh didn't give this case to Fowler and Spender?
The photographer, Alfred Fellig, is immortal - he's had multiple names dating back 149 years
Scully gets to know Fellig and his story, his only goal is to figure out how to die
Scully's assigned partner, Ritter, is really corrupt and doesn't actually care about solving the case
Ritter runs into the room and shoots Scully!! He's a fucking idiot!!
Scully almost dies, but Fellig "takes her death" as someone did for him over a hundred years ago
Score: 8/10
Watch it? Yes, I find it really interesting. It's a good "trial" of Scully using her instincts, considering the extreme, without Mulder. The ending can be seen as incredibly consequential as it's implied that Scully is now immortal.