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What's your favorite Greek myth?

>>24572099 (OP)
Prometheus. The hero of humanity who gave us the first lesson. The gods serve themselves and do not care about you.

>>24572099 (OP)
The best ones are both the Illiad/Odyssey but I really do enjoy the story of Achilles, with his rise and fall and his love for Patroclus

>>24572099 (OP)
As the above anon said, the Illiad and the Odyssey are without a doubt the best, but I personally like the Argonautica a lot.

>>24572099 (OP)
I always liked Hermes making the cows walk backwards

Apollo flaying Orpheus

>>24572104
Paganlarpers cope about this till this day.
>>24572099 (OP)
The curse of house Atreus and the story of Orestes. Sometimes in my head I'll play out a 5 hour long movie based on this legend.

>>24572180
>Paganlarpers
I tried being a Christian once, now that was a larp. Holy book from a bunch of sophist jews larping around in libraries, praying to some homo Jew god for your "sins" like a bullied wife. Sad!

>>24572099 (OP)
Theseus

>>24572099 (OP)
There are so many good ones it's hard to choose. Some favorites are the argonauts, procrustes, and heracles

>>24572099 (OP)
that denbts don't have to be repaid.

>>24572108
>iliad
>myth

Actually happened btw

ICARUS.the fall of greatness.

>>24572099 (OP)
>retard still believes these really happened
Fucking kek
To answer your infantile question, none of them are my favorite because why on earth would I place so much value in something fake?
My time is real, your little capeshit equivalents are not.

>>24572099 (OP)
The one where a shepherd asked to fuck Dionysus. but he died before he got the chance. So Dionysus went to his grave, carved a dildo on his grave and rode that dildo so he could honour his wish of having sex with Dionysus.

>>24572099 (OP)
The myth where a woman is raped by Poseidon and then she wishes to become a man, and does. The first trans in prehistory probably.

>>24572607
Please be nice!

In the Symposium Plato describes humans as originally having 2 heads and 4 arms and 4 legs who could fuck thenselves and Zeus split them in half because of their arrogance, and that is the origin of love.

>>24572099 (OP)
Medea and Electra of Euripides. Euripides was the master of drama and everyone since (Yes, Shakespeare too) lives forever in his shadow.

>>24572180
There is actually a movie of Orestes by Michael Cacoyannis from the 60s but it is only the core revenge plot against Clytemnestra and Aegisthus and none of what comes afterwards.

>>24572490
Big if true.

>>24572607
>still believes these really happened
Funny, I thought he used the word "myth?"

>>24572609
If this really happened, what's the name of the shepherd?

>>24572607
>retard still believes these really happened
>Fucking kek
>To answer your infantile question, none of them are my favorite because why on earth would I place so much value in something fake?
>My time is real, your little capeshit equivalents are not.

>>24572180
how do pagan larpers cope about one of their own myths? do you know how stupid you sound?

>>24572099 (OP)
That women aren't equal to a man.

>>24572607
>my time is real
>*spends the next 1000 hours of his life playing elden ring*

That one time Zeus in disguise impregnated a mortal female not entirely with her consent.

I've always liked the entire story of Tiresias. It's both cool and, actually, pretty funny.

>be prophet of Apollo
>whack some snakes
>Hera randomly turns you into a woman
>you stay as a woman for seven years
>then get turned back into a man
>Zeus and Hera come to you
>ask you what's better, having sex as a man or as a woman
>say women are natural whores
>Hera chimps out HARD
>strikes you blind in her rage
>Zeus feels bad for you
>gives you the gift of prophecy as compensation for your troubles

I love stories where Zeus is actually a pretty nice guy. He's arguably the nicest of the gods, and he always seems like the only one of them who can stop being selfish long enough to take a care for the good of humanity.

>>24574180
>randomly
it was a punishment for whacking snakes in the middle of love-making. the greeks also believed that the reason scythians had tranny shamans is because they once sacked a temple of venus, who in revenge cursed them with troonitus.

Oedipus

>>24572607
how do you live with yourself?

>>24574160
>how do pagan larpers cope about one of their own myths? do you know how stupid you sound?
They weren't larping back then, unlike (you).

>>24572099 (OP)
Alcina and Semele, as experienced Via Handel's operas. The Witch who'd turn you into a toad or such for her own amusement, or the Chick who'd just as soon disappear in an flash of ecstasy.

>>24572104
That's not what the myth is about.

>>24574257
>L-LARPER!!!
lmao, this is all christians have had to say for over 15 years. you worship a jew and donate money to israel and pedophiles every time you give tithes to church

>>24574213
she fell off

>>24574360
meanwhile you want the state to have the omnipotent power to castrate your doggos

>>24572099 (OP)
Their economy.

>>24572099 (OP)
Pygmalion

Hermaphrodite.
>inb4 tranny
It's more a story about being creative in justice.
>Hermaphrodite is a fisherman
>one day on the beach he finds a beautiful woman bathing naked in the sea
>the obvious solution is to rape her
>woman is actually Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and lust
>Aphrodite turns Hermaphrodite into a woman so he can't rape her (oh, if the ancient Greeks could see the world today)
>Hermaphrodite goes back to his/her village and tries to resume a normal life as a woman, such as marrying a man and bearing his children
>sometime later Zeus and Hera have an argument about which sex gets to enjoy sex more
>Zeus says women have more pleasure, and Hera says men have more pleasure
>they ask Hermaphrodite, as he/she has experienced both
>Hermaphrodite says women experience superior sexual pleasure
>Hera is a cunt and so curses Hermaphrodite with blindness for contradicting her
>Zeus feels badly for this and summons his son, Apollo, a god of healing to cure Hermaphrodite's blindness
>Apollo concedes that he does not have the power to overrule the Queen of the Gods
>but Apollo is also a god of divination and prophecy
>Apollo gifts Hermaphrodite the ability to see even when blind
>Hermaphrodite lives out his/her days as a seer

>>24572180
>The curse of house Atreus and the story of Orestes

Aeschylus' Oresteia is one of the great achievements of literature. Great choice anon.

I love Athena so much bros

>>24573981
Prosymnus

Icarus did nothing wrong.

I similarly like the myth of the son of the sun asking to drive the sun chariot for a day and crashing it and almost destroying the world causing the creation of several deserts from the scorching and an entire people scorched to have blackened skin.

That time Persephone was abducted by Hades.

>>24572099 (OP)
I liked this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baucis_and_Philemon

>>24575418
Is this pic fake? How did they do it?

>>24575853
sculptors were just better back then. Honestly though I'm always more impressed by the veiled statues.

>>24575863
It's indeed real, damn, what artistry...

>>24572099 (OP)
Do aesops fables count as myths?

>>24575910
Mostly but not this one because it‘s literally true

>>24575000
hot damn

>>24574186
how do I become a shaman. I'm already a mystic and a tranny.

>>24574360
The New Testament is the most antisemetic text written in history. I wouldn't expect some low IQ retard who was likely an atheist until the internet decided it was no longer cool and becoming a pagan was the new le epic way of owning the jewish cult. Kys.

>>24574546
Who is she?

>>24575853
Divine inspiration.

>>24574180
https://youtu.be/xiW302FICE0?t=119

>>24576450
Fiona Costello
Aka
Mama Fiona
SavvyStar

>>24576449
yes rabbi

>>24575853
Artists used to be plucked out of normal schooling at the age of 12 or so after showing some precociousness at their chosen medium, and trained with the intensity of a full-time job for their entire adolescence while having their food, shelter, etc. covered by wealthy benefactors.
Turns out that if you train at something with unbroken ferocity for an entire decade, you get pretty good at it.

>>24575863
>>24576455
>>24576503
Initially when I made that post I thought this statue was Ancient. It’s not, it was made in the 17th century, of course it’s still gorgeous, but not that incredible for the 17th century.

>>24576500
Stop noticing that I‘m relying on literal jews for my "most antisemitic text in history" as if there‘s anything wrong with assuming they won‘t give me a dysfunctional framework based on their inner schisms! Just STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!

>>24574558
the fuck you even talking about schizo
>>24576449
>muh jews invented anti-jewism larp
deboonked