[ SECRET POST #5072 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5072 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

...what is she supposed to do? You realize Zeus is the big daddy god in a patriarchal society and is considered the top in the pantheon/hierarchy right? Like no one rebels against Zeus. Otherwise you get kicked out of Olympus. And not only that Greeks weren’t gonna have her do anything about that because women are considered second class citizens.

Her only option *was* revenge by proxy. Applying modern moral standards to ancient myths is bonkers especially because Greek gods don’t even have morals on account of being Divine. That’s like trying to reason with Cthulhu.

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AYRT

Oh, I definitely realize these things -- the context and history of these myths is important in order to understand her and her actions (much like Medea). I completely get why in the mythos she wasn't just going to up & leave and/or betray him (where would she go? It's not like the Pantheon was going to defend her/she would overpower him/we can't have a woman be too clever and trap him) and culturally we can't have women uprising.

I'm just saying/complaining. I'll always be curious as to why she married him (my knowledge of the myths never focused on them early on, they were simply established) if his philandering was well known. There is likely a cultural element to this as well (some version of what you should expect in a marriage).

[(Anonymous)]

She married him because he raped her. Literally he took power, asked for her hand in marriage, she rejected him, then he turned into a sparrow to get let into her room, raped her, and she gave in to his demands for marriage based on that. So not exactly a happy basis for a marriage and immediately set the tone for "Zeus gets what Zeus wants."

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AYRT

Ah, see I didn't know that part. Much of the modern "relatable" myth retellings gloss over Zeus raping people and portray it as "seduction", so my error there.

[(Anonymous)]

He did a fair bit of both. But yeah, we don't learn often about the way they got together but it sure wasn't happy. :/

[meadowphoenix]

ehhhhhhh, what text are you getting this from? this seems like a roman rewrite, lmao.