#absolutely not (especially if helen never fell in love with him of her own freewill and it was all manipulated by aphrodite)

[miladylocksley]

I've noticed a resurgence of empathy for Menelaus who supposedly gets a bad rep when in fact he was never a bad husband (and how Paris is the one that fucked up here)

OK but did Paris's slight justify going to W A R ????

I don't care how much of a good guy Menelaus is, I'm not gonna blame the idiot who disrespected him for Menelaus deciding to sack an entire city

#the iliad #greek mythology #do i think that what paris did was okay? #absolutely not (especially if helen never fell in love with him of her own freewill and it was all manipulated by aphrodite) #BUT menelaus and agamemnon needed to CALM THE FUCK DOWN #(also odysseus you screwed yourself with your goddamned oath) #such a pointless myth tho #like starting with the apple and the goddesses fighting for whoever is the prettiest cause that's all women care about #to a ridiculous war that should have ended with a duel (if that) #to the gods switching sides left and right depending on who's the most horrible that day #to everything that happens to the trojan women afterwards #TO HELEN GOING BACK TO MENELAUS WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK #to clytemnestra being murdered for getting her well-deserved revenge???? #omg i could go on #(if the iliad didn't have achilles and patroclus i would hate it for the shit show that it is)