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nerdynatreads · 2 years

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book review || Mythos by Stephen Fry

video review || 5 by 5: Greek Retellings || 5 Greek Retelling Reads and Reviews

So glad I finally got around to this! I loved Fry’s tone throughout the stories, it was educational but witty and clever. It didn’t feel like a boring, historical read, it was a hilarious lecture from your favorite professor. It’s impressive that he delves into so much depth into each story, even if that means that he doesn’t cover the whole range of myths.

There were lots of things in how Fry handled these stories that I really enjoyed, like acknowledging that some of the myths have different variations and doing a quick overview of them. I also loved that after he’d introduce one of the titans/gods, he’d mention what they’re known for and how we can relate their name to something in our own time to better understand their place and role. Finally, when Fry started getting into more well-known stories, ones that heavily influenced other popular stories, I really love how he’d dive into them and reference the stories as well.

I think all in all, Fry’s voice really shines through the entire book and I loved that his afterword explained his love of these stories and how he came to the idea for this series. His comedy pairs perfectly with the ridiculousness of many stories.

5 / 5 stars

#book review #mythos by stephen fry #greek retelling #greek retelling stories #greek retelling books #greek books #greek myth books #book recs #book recommendations #booklr #bookblr #book tumblr #booktube #booktuber #book youtube #studyblr #shelves #bookshelf #ebooks

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coloricioso · 2 years

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Idk if you ever read Clemence McLaren's Inside the Walls of Troy, but I like that Helen is friends with Cassandra and Penelope in that book. I haven't read McLaren's other stories and maybe there's some less stellar fanon in BTWOT I don't remember, but I found it more feminist than Zimmer-Bradley's and Miller's added in r*pe scenes, or Adele Geras hate boner for blonde women (bc only brunettes are smart/nice apparently *rolls eyes*) and having her Penelope sleep with suitor Leodes which is so ooc.

Hi anon! Uh, I feel embarrassed now because it seems there are many authors I haven't read. I didn't know about Clemence McLaren or Adele Geras. 😥

I love how beautifully Zimmer-Bradley writes, but I've always felt very conflicted about her books, like, if... it is okay to read them, like, can we separate the art from the artist? Since she has such a bad story of the stuff she did with her husband 😥😥😥 I read the beginning of the Cassandra book, and it was so beautiful. But then I skipped to the ending and felt like the... forced feminism (I will never buy the "Clytemnestra feminist icon" discourse).

Still, I'd be happy if you tell me more about the McLaren's book! (I'm trying to find it for kindle or something now).

#ask #greek myth books

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golyadkin · 8 months

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Sons Of The Labyrinth or The Things Our Fathers Do To Us

#tentatively unprivating to post this...might have to private again if the bots attack #death //#icarus #minotaur #daedalus #comics #greek mythology #pulled out my old classic greek myths book to go over the mythology for this and man...#daedalus was kind of a piece of work huh #art tag

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staciass · 3 months

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musingsofabuddingclassicist · 7 months

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Girl, Goddess, Queen - A Review

I’ll hold my hands up and say I went into this one expecting to hate it. Anyone who knows me knows I am fiercely protective of the integrity of the Persephone story, and the tagline of ‘Persephone wasn’t taken to Hell, she JUMPED’ rubbed me the wrong way from the first time this book crossed my path. However, I will also say that by the time I finished this book, I had laughed and very nearly…

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#ancient greece #Book Review #classics #girl goddess queen #greek gods #greek myth books #hades and persephone #myth retelling #persephone #retelling #ya novel

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gigizetz · 6 months

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Circe with her braids undone, commission for @mageofheart-sombre

Thank you so much for commissioning me! :D

#digital art #art #epic the musical #greek myths #epic: the musical #circe fanart #circe #circe goddess #epic the circe saga #circe book #commissions

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edwardian-masquerade · 3 months

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"Or was my rage my mother’s? Or her mother’s? Or hers? An inherited creature?"

-Letter to my Rage; Lidia Yuknavitch

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thaliasthunder · 1 year

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odysseus: men with long hair are such sluts. what do u have long hair for? for other men to pull it?

achilles: wha

odysseus: whore.

#odysseus slutshaming achilles is my fav thing to write in tsoa incorrect quotes #tsoa #odysseus #achilles #patroclus #achilles x patroclus #patrochilles #the song of achilles #madeline miller #circe #greek myth #books #greek mythology #ancient greece

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04barbie · 10 days

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rapha-reads · 4 months

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No but I gotta talk about Medusa for a minute actually.

It's been. A very long time since I read the PJO books so I don't exactly remember how Uncle Rick presents Medusa in the book. But the way the show introduces her myth? Fascinating. For me as a Greek mythology enthusiast, that is.

The show makes Medusa a victim of Athena. Of course, the show is mainly for kids, so they can't exactly say that, hey, kids, Medusa was Athena's priestess and she was raped by Poseidon, YEP, or protagonist's father, IN Athena's temple, nah, that's neither kid-friendly nor does it endears us to Poseidon. Not that Poseidon is very dear to us viewers/readers at this point, our narrator/protagonist can't stand his own dad.

But still what fascinates me is that even though they twisted the myth to ft the narrative they still managed to evoke Athena's curse as being actually a gift, and Medusa not feeling wretched over her condition but blessed.

Which is not a modern reading of the myth, actually. Saying that Athena couldn't punish Poseidon for his transgression and could only punish Medusa, but did so in a way that would give Medusa weapons to defend herself against whoever and whatever would try to harm her again, is a narrative that exists since Antiquity.

My point is that the re-framing of Medusa's myth, departing from the traditional, non-kid-friendly version while still incorporating both classic and modern elements, is a good frame of reference for the series (book and show)' entire approach to mythology. And I guess I'm saying that mostly for the non-book readers who are discovering this world, many of whom might be Greek mythology fans and might have gone "wait, why is Hades AGAIN presented as the bad guy when he's the chillest, most normal, most stable god in this entire pantheon", because that's a conversation the book fandom has been having (over and over again) for more than a decade.

Anyway, yeah. As a long time book fan and a show appreciative, here's my advice to anyone who knows WAY too much about Greek myths and still want to enjoy the ride without going every five minutes "wait, that's not correct": reframe. Contemporary rewritings, modern audiences and Fantasy genre.

#pjo series #pjo series spoilers #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #rick riordan #medusa #greek myths #greek mythology #rapha talks #the funny thing is that one of the art exhibition i've been giving tours of these past couple of months is about goddesses #and it has some statues and objects about both athena and medusa so i've been talking a lot about these two for weeks now #so even though i still remember some from the books and i know damn well uncle rick's priority wasn't myth accuracy #i still got a bit floored by the planet-size holes in medusa's myth in the show #not enough to dislike the episode (au contraire i quite enjoyed it) but enough to feel compelled to say a word about it #(can you tell my special interest as a weird little girl was greek mythology and how it still is to this day...)

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meanwhilepoetry · 8 months

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Sing O goddess, of Hera's rage, how they vilified her for it, even if she was a woman betrayed. Sing O goddess, of Helen's desire, how everyone forgot she was the daughter of the most powerful God and that was what made the whole world burn. Sing O goddess, of Hestia's fires, how she left the cruelty of Olympus for a peaceful life - how she gave Prometheus the idea to steal the sacred flames for the mortal world. Sing O goddess, but not of Odysseus or Menelaus, Achilles or Agamemnon. Sing instead of women full of fire. Sing us the torch song which brings wildfire when Goddesses like you are ignored.

Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses 2

#spilled ink #greek mythology #hera #helen #hestia #greek myth #writing #poetry #words #great goddesses #poem #feminist quotes #feminist literature #feminist books #homer

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katy71561 · 11 days

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lenaleviosa · 9 months

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Imagine if Achilles & Patroclus hadn’t left Pyrrhus with Deimedia and Thetis. Imagine if instead Patroclus had adopted him & they had taken him to the war with them.

And then when they arrive to the war everyone is like: “Great the best Greek soldier is here!” And they look up and it’s this gigantic, intimidating guy cradling a baby in his arms.

And when Achilles goes to the war, Patroclus babysits the kid & Pyrrhus grows up with no idea that he’s not technically related to Patroclus. And everyone is really confused as to where the kid did come from, until Pyrrhus gets his hands on a sword and there’s no doubt it’s Achilles’ son. But even if he’s not Patroclus’ kid, Pyrrhus has his kindness.

Pyrrhus becomes the legion’s mascot and everyone just cheers up when they see him. He’s got a whole army of godfathers who are all desperately trying to win the war because they want this kid to grow up away from the war. He’s got uncle Ajax who likes to take him to the sea & teach him to swim, uncle Odysseus who teaches him about the world that’s out there and uncle Chiron who hasn’t met him yet, but would undoubtedly be delighted to meet him.

And Achilles doesn’t turn bitter anymore, because he’s got a son that he wants to be a great example too. So really, they saved Pyrrhus, but Pyrrhus also saved them because Patroclus never has to go to the war instead of Achilles and Achilles never has to grieve Patroclus.

And truly I just made this up because I can’t deal with the actual ending, so let me have this please

#achilles #greek mythology #the song of achilles #patrochilles #patroclus #tsoa #incorrect tsoa quotes #achillesxpatroclus #greek myths #books #madeline miller

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gigizetz · 2 months

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I made the most impulsive book purchase after watching your Circe animatic and now am obsessed with Miller's interpretation of her story. I wonder do you have designs for Helios or any of Circe's siblings?

I do! They appear very briefly on this same animatic as more like a flash, so it's a bit hard to see

and Helios has his very own frame

#digital art #gigi's asks #art #greek myths #animatic #circe #circe book #circe madeline miller

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the-hearth-and-the-wild · 1 month

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All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy—and that is as well, for one could not bear it—whose grief is that the principals never met.

Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo

#book quotes #mary renault #mask of Apollo #literature #books and libraries #greek tragedy #greek history #greek myths #ancient greece

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badliteraturememes · 5 months

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I’m looking at you Oedipus, Icarus, Odysseus, Bellerophon, Achilles, Niobe, …

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