/lit/ - Literature

>>16551807
>woman wronged by people in the highest tier of society (in this case both a god and goddess) lashes out at a man either her equal or less powerful than her (a mortal demigod whose powers are granted by Gods) in revenge, rather than attacking the actual source of her problems
Maybe it is a pretty apt piece of social commentary after all.

Didn’t Perseus fulfil the prophecy of killing his grandad in a discus accident? pretty funny desu. Perseus was my favourite Greek Hero as a child, I think it was in part the flying shoes and use of wiles to kill Medusa but also the slaying of the sea monster, who Melville thought was a whale, making Perseus the first whaler