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The Gods' Revenge by Katherine Marsh the second book in the Medusa retelling I showed earlier and Perseus is written as so cartoonishly evil it’s ridiculous, also there’s random Andromeda slander bc she’s only portrayed as a dumb helpless bimbo to make the other female characters look better.

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Stanisław Hiszpański (1904-1975), 'Sirens', 1963

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Fuck it I’ll complain about this at least, otherwise I’ll explode.

It’s actually so funny when these writers add misogyny to Greek myths that never existed to begin with, bc the fuck you mean women weren’t considered a threat to power? I know this writer is trying to show that Athena is wrong but this is such an ooc opinion for her to have, even the most misogynistic ancient writers acknowledged the strength of these mythical women. Danaë was considered a threat herself bc she could give birth to the man who will kill her father, it’s her choice in how she raised the boy that affected the course of Greece forever, what are mothers not powerful?

What about other women who used their status and power to affect laws and politics? Clytemnestra, Alcmene, Antigone, Electra, Gorgophone, Penelope, Medea and so many others, all written by men mind you.

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Modern retellings depict Athena as a prim and proper rule abiding nerdy Karen rather than the terrifying menace she really is bc they’re too afraid of her aura and know she would steal every scene she’s in.

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This book is just bullshit upon bullshit upon bullshit

I could dissect every little detail on what’s wrong here but I’m just too tired bro

Just found out about this book series and I just… why man… just… I don’t even know what to say anymore this is just plain bad. This is why I can’t stand it when ppl get mad at Ovid for these shitty retellings that exist now, he never said or implied anything like this, there’s no way he could’ve foreseen how badly ppl would interpret his work.

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Did a word search of Ceto and IMMEDIATELY stumbled upon bs.

THE FUCK YOU MEAN HECATE RAISED MEDUSA?? THE FUCK YOU MEAN ZEUS ACCUSED HECATE OF BEING A WITCH??? YOU THINK ITS THE FUCKING SALEM WITCH TRAILS???? ZEUS AND HECATE ARE CHILL WITH EACH OTHER IM GOING TO SCREAM

Just found out about this book series and I just… why man… just… I don’t even know what to say anymore this is just plain bad. This is why I can’t stand it when ppl get mad at Ovid for these shitty retellings that exist now, he never said or implied anything like this, there’s no way he could’ve foreseen how badly ppl would interpret his work.

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Just found out about this book series and I just… why man… just… I don’t even know what to say anymore this is just plain bad. This is why I can’t stand it when ppl get mad at Ovid for these shitty retellings that exist now, he never said or implied anything like this, there’s no way he could’ve foreseen how badly ppl would interpret his work.

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Bellerophon and Philonoe riding on Pegasus for the first time WALK WITH ME HERE-

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whos your favorite Ravager, aaaaaand who was your first Ravager

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Like I remember that Phaedra book, were the author and the fans keep saying the same excuse of “it was written by men” to explain why Phaedra and Medea were stripped of all flaws and complexity to make them the most perfect angelic victims possible. Even tho Euripides (who’s plays the author definitely based her work on) went out of his way to make them extremely flawed as a way TO MAKE THEM SYMPATHETIC THEIR HORRIBLE ACTIONS WERE MADE BC THEY FELT THEY HAD NO OTHER CHOICE BUT IT WAS STILL THEIR CHOICE THEY WERE STILL HUMAN BEINGS WITH FLAWS HOW THE FUCK DID THAT FLY OVER SO MANY PPL’S HEADS?!

Medea killing her children out of selfish vengeance wasn’t made up bc the big bad patriarchy wanted to smear her name, if anything most writers back then tried to excuse her actions or say someone else killed her children but Euripides didn’t do that bc wanted to make a point, he wanted to force his audience to see the pain that wives go through when their husbands mistreat and abandon them.

Phaedra lusting for her stepson wasn’t made up bc the big bad patriarchy wanted to smear her name, bc again most ancient writers tried to excuse and water down her actions, but Euripides didn’t do that bc he wanted to show a woman with faults and shameful desires while STILL portraying her as tragic and sympathetic when lesser writers would’ve portrayed her as some wicked promiscuous woman.

I feel some primal wrath whenever I hear the “these stories were written by men therefore I can ignore what they wrote to make up my own shit” excuse bc dismissing these writers as just “men” means you are ignoring that they’re all individual people, they all have their own thoughts, feelings and political beliefs. To lump the likes of Euripides right nest to that mf Hesiod is just insulting.

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I feel some primal wrath whenever I hear the “these stories were written by men therefore I can ignore what they wrote to make up my own shit” excuse bc dismissing these writers as just “men” means you are ignoring that they’re all individual people, they all have their own thoughts, feelings and political beliefs. To lump the likes of Euripides right nest to that mf Hesiod is just insulting.

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Modern retellings depict Athena as a prim and proper rule abiding nerdy Karen rather than the terrifying menace she really is bc they’re too afraid of her aura and know she would steal every scene she’s in.

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mutuals this is us

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Nothing going on here guys

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“He also dies in mythology but not in this story” but… his dramatic death was actually really important to his character and story??? The only reason one would remove it is bc it makes them uncomfortable not bc they want to give his story a “fun take” what would be a fun take is exploring Euripides interpretation of the character, a broken old man who went down a mental spiral after the death of the children he loved so much that he wanted to confront the gods for their cruelty. I do not under the liberties being taken here.

Rip Philonoe, guess you weren’t safe from being cucked in retellings after all…

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We actually don’t get a detailed account on how Bellerophon accidentally killed his brother, but I like to think that while yeah it was an accident he wasn’t entirely blameless. Perseus was kinda blameless over Acrisius’s death not just bc of the prophecy but the old man was at death’s door and some accounts have it that the discus fell on his foot, what a way to go lol

But with Bellerophon I want it to be more ambiguous, maybe it was due to a hunting accident and Bellerophon tried to shoot an animal and shot his brother instead, maybe they were having a sparing or wrestling match and he got carried away and killed his brother by accident. It should be something that Bellerophon could’ve avoided if he was more careful, the guilt should be something that would eat him alive for the rest of his life

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So i was thinking of something, we see a lot of Greek gods have mortal lovers but do we ever see them like with mortal friends?

Does Athena and Perseus’s friendship count? lol

Maybe Athena and Odysseus?