Nothing Can Make Me Happy:

Nothing can make me happy:

3,000-year-old epic exists

The Iliad and the Odyssey will fix my life <3

Bonus:

Odysseus about Panelope

Clytemnestra was way too lenient I wouldn’t have stopped with just killing Agamemnon I would’ve hunted down every single surviving Greek leader that stood by and did nothing (or worst straight up participated) as my daughter was slaughtered like an animal.

homer really said, every victory on the battlefield is a grieving father at home. and this is not a reason for the war to stop. and this is not a reason to stop telling stories about war. but you become fully human at the moment you recognize the total humanity of your enemy because it is only when you can see that that you can comprehend the humanity of your own mortal self. and like. three thousand years later and the world has yet to top that

It was only a matter of time before I did this

The way so many "feminist" retellings actually give their women less agency makes me want to bite someone

HERACLES FUCKED A WHAT