#lmao at least the characters of the iliad and the odyssey for that matter

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there is more depth and complexity in priam pleading with achilles than there is in the entire bible

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you’re right you’re right you’re righttttt. Pia your anti Greek myth retelling posts are soooo big brain mwah. Also I just saw your post on the technical little details Miller fucked up and I’m goin feral please tell me there’s more stuff you can point out. Like not just the blatant character assassinations but also those small factual errors that are easy to miss but if you’re well read up on and familiar with the myths you can catch the mistakes (eg if madeline writes x was the first to die in war, but ancient texts actually state that it was y)

i have not braved the iliad chapters of tsoa in like a year. i'd have to do at least a superficial reread of the poem itself to find any problems i might have missed in miller's book as i haven't reread the iliad in like... three years lmao. but from the iliad chapters a technical issue that fester literally until the end is the absence of the funeral games in honour of patroclus... the achaean army liked patroclus. the final conflict of his shade being stuck could not exist

this was maybe the first major incorrect detail i noticed while reading. i cannot believe miller got this wrong because whom thetis' parents are is right there in her classification within the mythology. thetis is a nereid (aka a sea nymph). her parents are nereus and doris. proteus is the shapeshifting man of the sea who, in the odyssey, tells menelaus his friends are dead while his fleet is stranded in egypt.

^ here are the sources

okay this one is a matter of "depends on the sources" but a lot and i mean a lot of the "gods fucking up the lives of mortals" stories come from ovid's metamorphoses... a roman source. a roman source written during the reign of imperator augustus by a guy who didn't like augustus very much and so naturally he wrote about beings in power fucking up the lives of those beneath them. so really my problem with this line is the use of never, because never say never

that's all that comes to mind rn. i would love to say more but i would have to actually reread some of tsoa for that (or reread my annotations) and i always try to make sure what i say is backed by a source so i don't become part of the problem and i'm feeling a bit lazy lmao. but yeah!