Forever Thinking About How Achilles Name Means Grief Of The People.

forever thinking about how achilles’ name means “grief of the people.”

odyssey adaptation where a mini odysseus appears, pauses and explains how he'll get out of his latest misadventure

some of my favorite pallas “scumbag” athena bits from the iliad:

shoving sthenelus out of the chariot b/c she’s going to drive diomedes into battle and she can’t be bothered to like ask him to get off

punching aphrodite in the boob

saying that aphrodite scratched her hand on a brooch when she’d in fact been stabbed on athena’s orders

making a deal with ares to stop interfering in the fight and then immediately giving diomedes special shiny powers

convincing pandarus to shoot menelaus in book four and then guiding the javelin to kill pandarus in the book five

the many, many ways she cheats during the funeral games to make sure diomedes and odysseus win

everything to do with hector’s death and deiphobus 

all the times she and hera stand in the back of the room and mutter about destroying troy together

The Oresteia be like:

wait, 'ares is feminist' crowd is attacking athena now? man things sure went a full circle

I have yet to find an Ares stan who doesn't hate and talk shit about her.