Tumblr crosspost (11 October 2020)
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anghrainecolorwheels14 responded to this post:
I get the sense that tumblr is in love with the modern reinterpretations, rather than the Roman version.
I replied:
I’m not sure, tbh—well, they’re not usually thinking of the Roman version but the Greek versions and claiming that Persephone actually consented/wanted to go/something or other, but I don’t think it’s exclusively modern reinterpretations.
heget said:
little me reading picture books of mythology loved this myth, then hermes’s birth and theft of cattle, and a distant third was orphesus and euridice
I replied:
Little me mostly felt sorry for Demeter/Ceres :(
(But my faves were always “anything with Athena in it,” lol.)
I get the sense that tumblr is in love with the modern reinterpretations, rather than the Roman version.
I replied:
I’m not sure, tbh—well, they’re not usually thinking of the Roman version but the Greek versions and claiming that Persephone actually consented/wanted to go/something or other, but I don’t think it’s exclusively modern reinterpretations.
heget said:little me reading picture books of mythology loved this myth, then hermes’s birth and theft of cattle, and a distant third was orphesus and euridice
I replied:
Little me mostly felt sorry for Demeter/Ceres :(
(But my faves were always “anything with Athena in it,” lol.)