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Greek authors/poets I want to see in bsd:
Sappho of Lesbo's, ability name Ode to Aphrodite
Irinna, ability name Ilakati
Homer, ability name Iliad
Aristophanes, ability name Birds
Telesila of Argos, ability name immortal goddess
Alki Zei, ability name Wildcat under glass
no thoughts head empty, just the scene in which dionysus pooped himself because he was too scared in aristophanes' 'the frogs'
i also have a wallpaper of dionysus with this scene in greek because my need to look at it at all times is too strong
no thoughts head empty, just the scene in which dionysus pooped himself because he was too scared in aristophanes' 'the frogs'
I would like to share with the internet this line of dialogue in Aristophanes' 'Knights'.
Things like this remind me why I find the ancient world so interesting.
Today on Spy Ruins The Classics (with apologies to Aristophanes):
DIONYSUS
Don't mock me, brother: on my life I am in a bad way: such fierce desire consumes me.
HERACLES
Aye, little brother? how?
DIONYSUS
I can't describe it.
But yet I'll tell you in a riddling way.
Have you e'er felt a sudden lust for soup?
HERACLES
Soup! Zeus-a-mercy, yes, ten thousand times.
DIONYSUS
Is the thing clear, or must I speak again?
HERACLES
Not of the soup: I'm clear about the soup.
DIONYSUS
Well, just that sort of pang devours my heart.
And no one shall persuade me not to go.
HERACLES
Do you mean below, to Hades?
DIONYSUS
And lower still, if there's a lower still.
HERACLES
What on earth for?
DIONYSUS
I want soup, you see.
HERACLES
What do you mean, you "want soup"?
DIONYSUS
I mean I want soup!
HERACLES
WHY ARE YOU BUYING SOUP IN HADES?!
DIONYSUS
FUCK YOU!
Turns out there's a Greek myth for everything...
Where did soulmates come from? Why is love a thing?
According to Greek playwright Aristophanes, there were originally three kinds of human beings: the Children of the Moon were male and female in one body. The Sun's Children were two males in one body and the Earth's were two females in one body. With two united minds and eight strong limbs each, they planned to overthrow the gods and live on Mt. Olympus themselves. But Zeus, wanting to end this rebellion before it started, sliced every couple into two, had Apollo smoothen them out and gave them belly buttons as an eternal reminder of their failure and made it possible for them to reproduce as we do now. Having been whole all their lives, they refused to do anything apart and started dying because of it. So Zeus reshaped their bodies again, making becoming physically one temporarily possible.
Now it's the inborn fate of every person to seek wholeness in another. Those who were once a man and woman desire the other gender and those who descended from a combo of the same gender seek to unite with the same gender.
They are soulmates, and this pursuit is love.