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watched troy: fall of a city, saw the helen/paris relationship and was like "ABSOLUTELY NOT" and then wrote it different

why do modern retellings always try to make the source material less fucked up. what if i wanted to make it worse. ovid style.

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Sometimes I think about all the ancient plays that we will never get to read because they were lost to time and I get a little bit sad.

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Iliad characters and friends as these friendship tropes

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ALSO. antigone is her own aunt. her brother is also her father. so. you know. there's that.

PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT: [SPOILERS AND POSSIBLE TRIGGERS AHEAD]

ANTIGONE:

LLOYD GARMADON:

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Oh I've had one planned for almost a year but I've been putting it off because I want to get it perfect but I am ECSTATIC to begin

Feminist retelling of Greek myths are popping out left and right, usually from the perspective of the ""villain"" and nobody still thought of writing something about my girl, best-wife, war-survivor, the one and only Andromache of Troy? Like, seriously?

Like, if you want a female character that is strong in a different way than the usual "oh, I'm not like other girls", who goes through hell and survives, why look any further?

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signed up for an 8 am medieval europe class this semester and I 1) hate getting up at the crack of dawn for it and 2) am not a big fan of my professor's teaching style but boy oh boy is learning about the early middle ages and the people living among roman ruins but being unable to build anything close to it and the centers of learning (and some of the only places women could have power) being monasteries giving me the best idea for a new wip I'm calling "age of ruin"

#writerblr #writing #writerscommunity #preptober #medieval #medieval studies

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someone make keeping up with the karsashians but it's keeping up with the atreides (and their ancestors/descendants)

enough with tv series about contemporary english royality. where are my five seasons about the royal house of mythological ancient thebes

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HELEN OF TROY

Unfortunately every song is about The Character

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USD equivalent of £50 is $60, which got me two hardcovers with $5 to spare ($60 used to get me at least 5 books)

£50 on 4 books is unreasonable right. right?

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contrary to popular belief, i’m actually normal about the house of atreus. i’m lying

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are we the same person

one of my favourite hobbies is using my short-lived space obsession (started at six years old) to point out asteroids and moons and then using my classical studies nerd ass to do a thorough explanation about their namesake

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Someone make a house of atreus reality show starting with Tantalus and running for seasons and seasons because I would pay SO MUCH MONEY

The only new iliad adaptation I want to see is Keeping Up With The Atreides

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so I wrote a book about her and one of the saddest scenes to write was her ghost meeting orestes, who doesn't remember her because he was too young, even though she loved him so much

iphigenia is the eldest child of the house, almost certainly a good bit older than her siblings given that she was old enough to be married at the beginning of the war and her siblings seem quite young still in the oresteia. her name means born to strength.

she leads her toddling siblings around by the hand, she teaches them how to identify birds by their song. she's the pride and joy of her parents, their first child, their darling daughter.

clytemnestra should've been weaving clothes for her future grandchildren, not a funeral shroud.

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teenage dream is basically just 'throughout my entire childhood and teenage years i've been told it was impressive how good at things i was for my age but what do i do if i keep aging but i don't get better at things so eventually all the things i do that used to be impressive just become average' and i took that very personally

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I turn 19 on Monday and this song could not have come out at a more perfect time

teenage dream - olivia rodrigo

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SCREAMING

you know what's sad? when helen talks to hector in iliad 6 she says that as long as the gods were bent on all this happening she wishes that she could have at least been the wife of a man better than paris, one who has a sense of shame before his people. and hector talks several times about how ashamed he would be to retreat behind the walls-- when andromache begs him to in book 6 and when achilles is coming for him in book 22. helen wishes paris were more like hector and andromache wishes her husband was a coward like paris so at least he would live.

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helen/menelaus exile by taylor swift. your thoughts please 🙏

NO IT'S THE WAY I WAS LISTENING TO THIS IN THE CAR YESTERDAY AND THINKING OF THEM AND THEN I SAW THIS ASK!! but like yes of course they fit that song so well! I think bon iver's part as menelaus and taylor swift's part as helen works really well (I mean, taylor literally sings "I can see you staring honey, like he's just your understudy, like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me"). I think the repetition of "I think I've seen this film before/and I didn't like the ending" really fits the sense of helplessness everyone had in the trojan war, no matter who they were. I think the echoing of each of them saying "you didn't even hear me out" over each other and the way he says "you never gave a warning sign" and she interrupts with "I gave so many signs" really speaks to their relationship dynamic, particularly right after the war. Maybe it's bc that's the part I'm at in the Helen book I'm writing but this song speaks VOLUMES to me about them and I'm SO GLAD someone else saw it too!

#classical mythology #the iliad #greek mythlogy retelling #helen of troy #greek mythology #menelaus #helen and menelaus #taylor swift as greek mythology