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Someone told me to kms because I told them Song Of Achilles isn’t a valid source and they should read actual history books. This was after they asked me where they could learn about mythology.

Someone told me to kms because I told them Song Of Achilles isn’t a valid source and they should read actual history books. This was after they asked me where they could learn about mythology.

Basically I work in a bookstore and this customer asked me where they could get books to learn about mythology “like Song Of Achilles” and I told her “Song Of Achilles is a good story but not entirely accurate” and they got pissed off at me. To be entirely honest I didn’t fully understand them because they had a really thick American accent (because of course they were a tourist) but at the end they shouted something like “rude and unprofessional” before telling me to kms.

Then she was forced to leave and the entire rest of the day I tried not laughing at the memory of it. I think I was on the wrong end of a bipolar episode or something.

u/CriminalYapper — 6 hours ago

Ancient Greeks after you expose them to peak fiction like Disney Hercules instead of their usual Homeric slope like the Midyssey (their bodies can't handle actual good writing):

u/Glittering-Day9869 — 2 days ago

History repeats itself.

It gives me immense pleasure to say that, in this regard too, Sam Raimi did a better job than Nolan. 🤭

u/PlanNo1793 — 3 days ago

OK, guys to settle the debate once and for all I went to the Oracle of Delphi and asked her whether Zeus/Hera or Hades/Persephone was actually the unproblematic, loving couple

All she said was “no.”

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u/LeighSabio — 3 days ago

You die and you wake up in the Underworld, which Hades would you rather be made to serve?

Disney: A smooth-talking, sleazy, hot-headed Satan expy with blue flame hair that tends to turn into red hot flames whenever he gets angry.

Lore Olympus: A complex, broody figure with workaholic tendencies and is the main love interest of Persephone. Stuck in a toxic relationship with Minthe.

Scarlett St. Clair’s Hades x Persephone Saga: A confident, possessive, and brooding god who runs a gambling empire in the mortal. Is prone to making binding bets with mortals.

Hadestown: An emotionally-guarded, ruthless, and complex industrialist with fading love for his wife Persephone.

God of War: An isolated, vindictive, and intensely protective ruler with a deep love for his wife Persephone (unfortunately for him, she does not feel the same way.)

Justice League: Stern, ruthless, and highly arrogant.

Supergiant Hades: Steen, serious, and dedicated to his work.

Record of Ragnorak: Sophisticated, regal, and deeply devoted to his brothers.

u/Western_Ad_6448 — 4 days ago

Hades haters when they "find out" that the closest thing we have to Hades/Pluto as a father is a Roman version where he literally hates one of his daughters

u/imdukesevastos — 5 days ago
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Author of Olympus: Are you a nerd for myths? Try this!

Author of Olympus has been my world for over a year now! From world building to page, if you love lore olympus, owl house, or undertale- try AO!
Link is in bio!

u/AuthorOfOlympus — 4 days ago

When your favourite goddess was (arguably) on the Parthenon and has entire paragraphs of dialogue in the Iliad yet no statues with a surviving head:

100 points to whoever can work out who I'm talking about

u/CreeperTrainz — 8 days ago