#homers odyssey
Patroclus: you know, Penelope gives Odysseus flowers everyday. I wish you’d do that too
Achilles:okay
*the next day*
Achilles: *gives Odysseus flowers*
Odysseus:??????
Achilles: I don’t know. I’m confused aswell
Artemis: Yeah, dad, these are all just my friends. All of use decided that we hate men and are just going to hang out. Forever. Doing, you know, friend stuff. Hunting. Definitely no sex here. You need men for that.
Zeus: That checks out. Have fun, dear.
Zephyr: Shootin my shot.
Hyacinth:*Dead*
Odysseus’ crew when they saw Scylla get out of her lair :
Polyphemus to Odysseus : So, what’s your name?
Odysseus :
Athena and Odysseus
Circe’s Potion
if i were writing a feminist myth retelling centered around a female character mostly overlooked and denied interiority in the ancient texts that mention her, i would simply not throw helen under the bus to do so
rip to margaret atwood and madeline miller but i’m different
μηδ᾽ εἰς Ἑλένην κότον ἐκτρέψῃς,
ὡς ἀνδρολέτειρ᾽, ὡς μία πολλῶν
ἀνδρῶν ψυχὰς Δαναῶν ὀλέσασ᾽
ἀξύστατον ἄλγος ἔπραξεν.don’t turn your bitterness onto Helen,
as if she were the murderer, as if she and she alone
robbed so many Greek men of their lives
and dug you a bottomless despair.Clytemnestra in Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1464-7
οὐδέ κεν Ἀργείη Ἑλένη, Διὸς ἐκγεγαυῖα,
ἀνδρὶ παρ᾽ ἀλλοδαπῷ ἐμίγη φιλότητι καὶ εὐνῇ,
εἰ ᾔδη ὅ μιν αὖτις ἀρήϊοι υἷες Ἀχαιῶν
ἀξέμεναι οἶκόνδε φίλην ἐς πατρίδ᾽ ἔμελλον.
and nor indeed would Argive Helen, born of Zeus,
have shared herself (her love and her bed) with a stranger,
if she’d known that the warlike sons of the Achaeans
would feel themselves destined to bring her back home.
Penelope in the Odyssey, 23.218-21, agreeing with this
