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Something I've realized looking at modern Greek mythology adaptations is that there are some popular stories that get adapted over and over and over again. What really made me realize this was how popular and kind of oversaturated Odyssey adaptations have been for a while. First, we got Epic: The Musical. Around the time Epic ended, we got The Return. And now there's the Christopher Nolan film coming out next week. I think it's a little weird for three adaptations of the same story to come out in the span of four years.

Do you think any other stories have been adapted too many times?

Like is it really difficult to break that type of bow if you don't know what your doing, were they too wimpy to even begin to bend it let alone break it.

like that bow must have been really expensive and letting someone else get their grubby paws on it when they don't know how to use it seems like a very bad idea.

Would "Agonies" ever be used for a plural "Agonius"? I've just read that it was used as an epithet for several gods, and I'm trying to figure out if it could be the sense of "Agonies" in a poem that I'm trying to better understand:

"A mighty dream has caught me in the sweep

Of its regardless course, and I am borne

Far, far into the realm, where Agonies keep

Their state terrific round Joy’s lightning throne."

If not, is there a particularly classical sense to Agonies that I'm missing? (In my head it's always been vaguely impressive bang smash lightning, etc.) If there's a suggestion for a better sub, happy to go there, too--still learning my way around reddit subs.

Very much appreciate any help in advance, thanks!

Hi I’m new I don’t believe in it but I like the story’s of Greek mythology so please don’t get upset with me it’s a question

I like Eros because his statues always look so pretty/cute (I saw one where he was a baby and I actually fell in love), Ganymede because his story is really heartbreaking, and Thanatos because I just do for some reason 😭

Just an appreciation post for this amphora i recently got from a thrift, was able to identify zeus on the neck and possibly Athena/ares? Or a warrior maybe

For me, one of my favorite myths is Orpheus and Eurydice.

And I personally interpret it as this. I don't think Hades was being cunning or anything. He gave Orpheus a fair chance to try and bring Eurydice back. Kinda cliche interpretation honestly I know but I always saw it that way. Maybe the reason I find the myth so interesting? In how there is no wrong way to view it

Ohh! May be out there but I just thought of the myth of Aphrodite's affair with Ares,, the more I think bout it the more I wonder if the reason they are connected so much is due to fact of Aphrodite's origins as a war goddess?

If Penelope had been convinced that Odysseus was actually dead, she probably would gave given in and married one of the suitors- making her new husband King of Ithaca.

What would have happened when Odysseus shows up a few years later? How would people probably react, according to legal and cultural norms of the time?

Who's her real husband; the guy she's activley been with for the last few years or the guy she originally married? Who is the King; Odysseus because of his bloodline or the new guy who has been ruling the kingdom for years at this point?

Would Penelope be able to choose for herself? Would it be left to the nobility to decide? Would the fact that Laertes is still alive matter? Or would it come down to a duel, or even start a civil war?

Some that come to mind for me.

1. Hermes: through his mother he’s grandson of Atlas who of the Titans (in my opinion) got something worse than Tartarus as a punishment. Through his aunt Merope, he’s also nephew to Sysiphus

2. Dionysus: by virtue of being married to Ariadne (who’s also the daughter of his half brother), he’s brother in laws with the Minotaur. Through his mother Semele, he’s also grandson of Aphrodite and Ares; additionally is a cousin of Acteon (gets more fucked up for Acteon is that he’s a grandson of Apollo and Artemis still wreaked havoc on him for seeing her nude)

3. Hera: if we go by the version she’s the mother of Typhon by no father, well she takes the cake of being Echidna’s mother-in-law and thus grandmother to all monster

4. Hephaestus: depending on variations in who’s father of the Charites, his marriage to Aglaia makes him Helios’s son in law. And through Aglaia’s sister Pasithea (assuming they’re related, names of the Charites always vary) makes him brother in law with Hypnos

Posting this here so u/godsibi can see it

For example, i just finished rewatching Disney+'s adaptation of Percy Jackson and after putting all the inaccuracies aside, I found that it's definitely a good series and I can see why people enjoyed it

As a theatre major, I have always been told that one of the most important rules of Greek Theatre is that the violence always happens off stage. And yet, when I go searching for why Ajax kills himself on stage in Sophocles' Ajax, I can never find any answers, or even any speculation, or even anyone else bringing up this exception at all.

I know we don't have any evidence that this play played at City Dionysea (though we don't have any evidence that ut didn't) so is it possible this was a Cuty Dionysea rule that plays that didn't go there didn't need to follow? Was the rule not actually a rule at all and just a result of cultural preference, or a result of practicality alongside the "only 3 actors" rule?

This question has bugged me for years, and I have never understood why no one talks about it.

I've noticed that a lot of stories about Apollo work on the premise of him being clearly absolutely blindsided by events he did not see coming, like Coronis' infidelity or Cassandra refusing him or even Hyacinthus' or Asceplious' deaths, and my question is... How? Shouldn't he as the god of prophecy know the fates of all these people? As we've seen with Cassandra, his gift is fairly accurate, even if you say maybe his' doesn't work the same way (like, with a higher scope, less personal) He's still the god of truth and knowledge! shouldn't he be able to read intentions with just a look? So what gives??

I read it in a pausanius myth but it wasn't detailed.

Hi there, I'm hoping this is a good place to discuss. I was in a conversation with a friend and he pointed out an Aquarius segment on some decoration I had, he asked about what it was, finally realizing it was a water pot. We discussed its origin and why water etc.

This is when I stumbled into Ganymede, and how there's a lot of Homosexual connections with his story as well as pedastry which brings hate. I ended up loving a lot of his art and paintings I found like the rooster or harp. I thought ide ask here. What is his original story, his 'book' he's mentioned in. Since there seems to be a lot of hate and pedastry connotations.

I was a little taken back after i seen comments on him, I figure he gets a lot of hate and possible reinterpretaions with gay hate might have effected that. looking at paintings I thought he was a full on man when he was swooped up by zues. I figured Zues was the dominant role in a gay relationship with Ganymede being more submissive with his 'farmer boy' privileges in Olympus. Which is probably similar to roles in the modern gay scene. What are your thoughts on this?

i always assumed that this was the same clymene, but then i realized that there’s a seperate wikipedia page for clymene as a mother of phaëthon, which is now making me seek clarification!

Honestly I thought he'd be more well known! Granted he's not THAT interesting and wasn't really made to explain anything, but being a male nymph is so rare there should be more stories about him! (Or should I write one myself?) Don't mind the Zeus design lol, He was made in like 3 minute so I haven't flesh him out yet. Anyway yes I know he's supposed to be really young, but like, I'd rather draw him teen at best. Lastly, I strongly believe Nerites IS the one who created shellfish allergy out of spite. Served.

I heard somewhere (I don't remember where, so it might be false), that the religions of hunter-gatherer societies had the figure of an "Earth Mother" at their core, because they got their source of food from nature and because a lot of the gathering part of their life was done by women. Whereas when agriculture was invented, this "Earth Mother" figure being at the centre of the faith was replaced with the figure of the "Sky Father", cause of the rain needed for farming crops and because farming was seen as a more "masculine" job. (Again, not sure if this is true or not)

This immediately made me think of the Titanomachy and how Gaia aka the Earth Mother was one of the head Titans, but when the Olypmians came to power, Zeus aka the Sky Father became head god.

Is there any correlation, which proves that the people of the Greek region ever used to worship the Titans as their pantheon or is this just false/lacking in evidence?