I've always kind of gotten the vibe that Salmakis literally IS estrogen, she's the latent manifestation of it, she is femininity in elemental form So of course she "merges" with Hermaphroditos, he's literally swimming in estrogen when she feels the inclination to do so
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She was a rebel against the goddess Diana and had no interest in sporty butch pursuits
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And yet the whole uncomfortable thing is it's a rape narrative, Ovid describes her as leaping onto him and dragging him beneath the surface
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Ovid is the father of the force-fem genre, yeah
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I always kind of thought that Ovid's own misogyny was leaking into that narration, or something like that, like in an Aristotelian sense what happens to Hermaphroditos is some Flowers for Algernon shit, he gets degraded by womanhood and his divine aspect diluted by a lower being
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You know, like Leto grants Leucippus of Crete a penis and they throw festivals to commemorate the occasion, but Salmakis gives Hermaphroditos tits and she cries out in horror and despair at being a trans thot
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I know purists hate it when people reinterpret ancient myths with modern sensibilities, but as far as I'm concerned, the main reason to keep them around is as fodder for exactly that.https://banter-latte.com/2007/12/04/prosperina-a-mythology-of-the-modern-world-holiday-special/ …
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At an event I had the pleasure of asking Madeline Miller (author of The Song of Achilles and Circe) how as a fiction writer you thread the needle between fidelity to the source material and its historical cultural relevance and your own interests and desires as a novelist
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Her response was pretty good I thought She told me about Zachary Mason's THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY, in which Penelope just straight up becomes a fucking werewolf Basically "as long as you love the source material, what you love about it will shine through in your own work"
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Hadestown is one of the best interpretations of Greek myth I've ever seen and it just does not give a shit about any kind of textual fidelity
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And, in fact, is textually faithful on a deeper level because of it Like the desire to create a parallel between the young lovers and the old married couple, especially between Persephone and Eurydice, is true to the origin of the text
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The original Orpheus of the Mysteries was in some vague sense a conqueror of death, he cucked Hades and took his wife, the name "Eurydice" is one of Persephone's epithets
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