Well, I think that she did one thing kinda wrong, but we’ll get to that in a bit.
Anyway, we’re talking about Clytemnestra and her rather tumultuous marriage to Agamemnon, who I have and will always contend is the worst.
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I think it’s been a little while since I’ve talked about a Greek myth, so today we’re going to look at the twelve labors of Heracles.
Note: while he is more often referred to as Hercules, that’s the Roman version of the culture hero. Also, I just like the way Heracles sounds a lot better, so that’s what I’m going with here.
This is also going to be kind of an abridged version of the myth, since otherwise we’d be here all day because it’s not exactly short.
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So, a lot of Greek heroes tend to have one specific fatal flaw: hubris, or excessive pride. And there are fewer Greek heroes hubrisier than Bellerophon.
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So, uh, that hiatus ended up being a lot longer than I thought that it would be. I’m back now, though, and today we’re going to be looking at the conception and birth of Helen of Troy.
Spoiler alert: it involves divine bestiality.
So, there are at least two gods in the Greek pantheon who were birthed by, of all people, Zeus, in kind of weird or esoteric ways. One of them was Dionysus, who got sown into Zeus’s thigh (or groin, depending on who you ask) as a fetus after Zeus accidentally vaporized his mom. The other one, and the one that most people probably know, is Athena.
The title probably gives away the outcome here, huh. Anyway, let’s talk about that for a bit.
Between this story and the story of Naricissus, it can probably be inferred tjat Ancient Greece had a bit of a think for turning cute boys into plants. So, le’s go ahead and dig into how the Greeks thought the hyacinth flower came about.
It’s delightfully tragic.
So, in the past I’ve talked about how the Minotaur came to be, as well as Theseus’s part in the dumbest plan to find a wife ever conceived. Today, I’m going to bring those two together and tell you about how Theseus killed the Minotaur.
So, the roster of Greek heroes is a bit of a sausage fest. There aren’t very many women in those lofty ranks, which makes sense when you remember that ancient Greece wasn’t super woman-friendly. However, that doesn’t mean that there weren’t a handful of women who were allowed to kick ass and take names.
We’re going to talk about one of the more well-known of those ass-kicking women today: Atalanta.
So, this week I’m tackling a tale that also came from the whole Prometheus debacle, that tale being the one of Pandora. This is actually one of the more well-known tales, so much so that there’s a music streaming service named after her.
Also, before we begin I want to note that most of the info for this myth comes from the poet Hesiod, who had a dim view on women, Then again, ancient Greece in general had a dim view of women, so here we are.
Here’s another entry for the “Zeus is an asshole” files. Today, we’re going to talk about Prometheus, and how Zeus punished him for making sure humanity doesn’t freeze to death.
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