People Will Be Like I Love Greek Mythology But I Hate Everything That Involves Incest, Infidelity, Violence,

People will be like I love Greek mythology but I hate everything that involves incest, infidelity, violence, slavery, misogyny, undeserved suffering, questionable relationships, ethically dubious heroes and gods,and morality that is foreign to me.

i have tried to go and research the trojan war timeline and am now more confused than when i began. how is anyone the age they are. send help.

tfw you join the army and someone else has the same name as you, then the next day everyone starts calling you "Lesser Ajax"

what version/translation of the iliad and the odyssey did you read ?

For The Iliad Robert Fagles

For The Odyssey Emily Wilson

in English translations of course :)

If they make an adaptation of the Iliad and they cast someone as Timothée Hal Chalamet to play Paris.

I'll be like :ok you're right, but BUT I DON'T LIKE IT

I'm not like an Agamemnon stan or anything but I do kinda wish people stopped portraying his sacrifice of Iphigenia as being like, him being totally heartless and stuff. Because it's not -- that's the point, right? By forcing him to kill his own daughter, it's giving him a deeply personal stake in the war. It's 'you want to go across the sea to kill people who know nothing and have done nothing? fine. prove it.' It's about him having to commit to war in its entirety, the pain that most of the Achaean forces never will.

Obviously it's a bad thing. And yeah, Clytemnestra deserves to kill him for sacrificing their daughter. But if he didn't care about her, if it didn't tear him up inside to put his own daughter on the altar, why wouldn't he be asked to sacrifice anything else?