Tumblr crosspost (21 October 2020)

[anghraine]

I’m curious if it’s a translation thing, but there’s a point at which Ovid describes Minerva as ‘blond’ and my entire mental image was just ‘wait, what?’

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[lokifan]

!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean, why would Ovid have the cultural associations I do with like... clever warlike women being brunettes, because blonds are pretty and frivolous, which I suspect is probably at the root of why our Minervas are brunette? But still, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[anghraine]

Yeah, I wasn't sure if there was some subtlety of usage I was missing by not reading Latin or just the cultural tropes were really different or it was Ovid's own personal idea.