Im Fine With Taking Creative Liberties In Adaptions But Shifting The Blame For Astyanaxs Murder To Zeus

I’m fine with taking creative liberties in adaptions but shifting the blame for Astyanax’s murder to Zeus instead of Odysseus (or at least Neoptolemus) has been disastrous to Trojan war discussions, bc now dumb ppl who have never read the Iliad or Odyssey or watched any adaptations of the Trojan women will think that big mean Zeus pressured poor boy dad Odysseus into killing Astyanax. As if Zeus didn’t favour Hector and was hesitant to destroy Troy.

Medea (1969) Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

demeter protecting persephone sketch

Homer writing Trojan Gods: Boo-hoo! Can't save their followers, can't win their fights, can't even protect themselves from mortals! Except Apollo, who's awesome (please don't hit me with a plague🙏)

Homer writing Greek Gods: My gods 🦉🦚 are awesome! 🤩🥰 So strong💪✊ and cool 😍😻 and clever 🤓😈. Only Zeus ⚡🌩 as King 👑🤴 is stronger 💢💥 but even he 🦅⛈ can't stop them! 🥳🎊🎉

#Achilles

of course you're swift-footed, lion-hearted, and like to the gods. with pronouns

Homer, the entire Iliad: