Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their male kin.
Whenever Gaia, the Earth of Greek myth, saw one of her sons become a tyrant and mistreat her other children, she would inspire a rebellion. Unfortunately, whoever became the new supreme ruler would mistreat some of Gaia's other children, forcing another rebellion. #WyrdWednesday
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #AllHallows, have a relief of #Hermes in his role as #psychopomp. Hermes guides the souls of the dead to the underworld. Here, he takes the hand of a dead woman named Myrrhine on the way down to Hades.
🏛 Relief on Myrrhine's lekythos, ca 420-410 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, #Athens
King Minos of #Crete was married to Pasiphaë, daughter of #Helios, the Sun. After he had been unfaithful several times, she cursed #Minos so he couldn't have sex with mortal women because he would ejaculate snakes, scorpions, and millipedes. As a goddess, #Pasiphaë herself remained unbothered when she slept with her husband. The Athenian girl Prokris overcame the spell by essentially inventing the #condom in the form of a goat's bladder.
In Greek myth, while Heracles was battling the Hydra, Hera sent a monstrous crab to distract him. The crab clawed Heracles' foot, but the demigod kicked it to pieces while still focusing on the Hydra. Hera afterwards turned the crab into the constellation Cancer. #MythologyMonday#31DaysofHaunting
Classicists, mythology fans, and others, I've been trying to read and/or round out my collection. I really prefer bilingual works, not simply translations. Is Loeb consistently my best bet? Are there other recommendations? Should I decide work by work?
Current work under consideration is Hesiod's Theogony, but the questions stand more generally, too.
[Feel free to tag in a Classics group if there is one]
My #gay erotic story about Hermes and Dionysos is finally published wide! Get the tender (non-romantic) love story between the two gods at your favourite online retailer:
Random story idea: The boulder that Sisyphus has to eternally push up a hill is actually a sentient being (perhaps the soul of another person being punished) and they become best friends through their shared struggle.
In ancient Greece, the Gorgoneion was a special amulet or symbol that depicted Medusa's head, and was said to protect people from evil. It appears frequently on classical Greek art, and is a reference to the goddess Athena, who wore Medusa's severed head on her breastplate. #TempleThursday#folklore#mythology#GreekMythology#Greece#occult
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Mosaic of #Hermes-Mercurius, easily recognisable by the wings on his head, representing the planet Mercury or the fourth day of the ancient Roman week, diēs Mercuriī (Wednesday).
🏛 #Mercurius as Planet Mercury in The House of the Planetarium, Italica, #Spain
I wrote a "fix it fic" for Ikaros and Phaëthon back in December 2020, when we all could use something uplifting instead of the well-known tragedy. In the story, Ikaros takes flight on the same day as Phaëthon gets to drive his father's sunwagon. How can the two escape their fates?
Achilles fought at the Siege of Troy.
The Siege of Troy was provoked by Paris eloping with Helen.
Paris was promised Helen by Aphrodite as a bribe to award her the Apple of Discord.
The Apple of Discord was thrown into the crowd by Eris at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
Peleus and Thetis were the parents of Achilles.
I was a big Greek mythology buff at school. My dad had bought an encyclopedia in the late '70s, and I was learning everything about it via it. Naturally, my favorite character was goddess Athena. All about knowledge & wisdom. The most kind-hearted of the gods too. So I had to paint a portrait in her honor.
Many authors depict the Minotaur sympathetically. For example, Borges presents a lonely, melancholy figure yearning to escape the Labyrinth while Jim Henson's "The Storyteller" presents a bestial child struggling to learn concepts such as "sunlight" or "family."
"My loneliness does not pain me, because I know my redeemer will finally rise above the dust.... What will he be like? ... A bull or a man? A bull with the face of a man? Or will he be like me, [a man with the face of a bull]?"
@antiquidons#Astronomy and calendars are the domain of #Hermes. His grandfather Atlas turns the heavenly constellations and his mother Maia is one of the starry Pleiades.
Atlas instructed him in astronomy and the Greek mythographer Euhemeros says that #Aphrodite first established the constellations and taught Hermes. The planet #Mercury is attributed to Hermes because he first established the months and perceived the courses of the constellations.