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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?

#just thinky thoughts. interesting angle #my takeaway is that so many problems in greek myths could have been solved through pegging.#i'm embarrassed i never considered that the reason aeneas CARRIES anchises out of troy isn't just because anchises is old #like. priam is old and nobody's carrying him everywhere. but if anchises is LAME or BLIND that makes so much sense #also i remain tithonus' number one fan i'm glad to have an excuse to talk about him again #also wild extrapolation: what does this say about who was the active partner between apollo and hyacinthus?#analysis #tithonus #ganymede #anchises #odysseus #🏷️

Eos straight up caring Tithonus. Go get your man through morally questionable means babe lmao

#greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #greek pantheon #Greek goddess #Eos #Tithonus

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.

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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

#i love rotating trojans. i should talk more about the pre-war generations #laomedon #ganymede #tithonus #hesione #troy #hcs #mop

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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.