One Of The Things About Dissection That Should Be A No-brainer And Yet For One Reason Many People Fail

One of the things about dissection that should be a no-brainer and yet for one reason many people fail to understand is that you're not allowed to take pictures of the corpses. These people didn't give their consent during the time when they were alive. And even when you're sectioning their body parts you're not allowed to cut any areas other than the ones indicated. Imagine the fact that all the bodies you're practicing on were very much alive once and decided to donate themselves for educational and scientific purposes, not for you to profane them.

As if stealing from the cemetery wasn't already enough...

In Greek Mythology Persephone had strong connections and friendships with a lot of women, from Athena and Artemis to the Oceanids, Nymphs and Horae. She deeply loved her mother and it's safe to assume that she and Hecate became close to each other after Homeric Hymns to Demeter. The only woman whom she punished was Minthe, who was a homewreker, and in some versions of the myth it is Demeter the one who turned her into a plant instead of her.

So seeing her no longer spending time with her old friends, constantly bellitling other women and seeing most of them as a threat on top of treating Hades as the centre of her universe in many retellings is far from her character in my honest opinion. I would rather see her befriending the mortal souls of Semele, Ariadne, Eurydice, Iphigenia etc. in the Underworld and comforting them than putting other women down for no reason at all.

Now, there are also individuals who bring up into discussion her rivarly with Aphrodite in the myth of Adonis, but if you think about it Aphrodite and Hera were also rivals for a while due to the Judgement of Paris, and yet when Hera asked Aphrodite for her girdle during the Trojan War she's all like: "Sure girl, take it!💅". For one reason or another people are aware of the fact that just because two gods had a dispute once that doesn’t mean that they couldn't have reconciled in time, but when it comes to goddesses they no longer get along and they deeply hate each other for the rest of their eternity.

In Search of Cursed Ships

I was searching on AO3, trying to find the worst pairs ever. Here are some of them:

Still cannot get over the fact that there are lots of animals contributing to the ecosystem that are slowly going extinct, yet we still care more about pandas and koalas. If this isn't proof that looks can get you everywhere then I don't know what else it could be.

The very first Greek Mythology book that I've read (and the most famous one from my country) was "Legends of Olympus". Looking back at this novel I cannot help but get frustrated, wondering how would've this book been like if it wasn't published in the Communist Era. Not only that any sort of homoerotic undertones were completely erased, but somehow the author describes each woman Zeus sleeps with as his lover, and makes Hera seem like a complete sociopath compared to her poor innocent husband. Even the way he described the scene where he turned into a swan in order to sleep with Leda is presented as a romantic, tender moment.

Another thing that I didn't understand about it was the way he either demonized or tried to come up with different explanations for goddesses' actions. For example, he wrote that the reason why Artemis was cruel enough to kill Niobe's daughters was because she suffered so much after Orion's death that she no longer had a heart and not because, uhm... I don't know, Niobe was badmouthing her mother? Meanwhile he never considered the need to justify Apollo's reasons for killing Niobe's sons as a result of his pain after losing so many lovers.

Also, he didn't include Persephone in the myth of Adonis and Aphrodite had a very romantic relationship with him before the bloody and stupid Ares turned into a boar and killed him out of jealousy.

The book was overall great, but there are these sort of aspects caused by the censorship from that time that makes it less tasteful.

I actually think we’ve grown past the need for child friendly Greek mythology adaptations, I’m sick of ppl adapting Heracles and then brushing off the fact that Zeus raped and impregnated Alcmene then boasted about it in front of Hera, only to then proceed to make Zeus a more sympathetic character than her, even tho Hera’s anger is completely justified, only heavily misdirected.