/lit/ - Literature

>>19490122
Is it actually a case for reestablishing slavery and patriarchy? He seems to just be going over what the stories could mean. Like I fucking said, it doesn’t matter. I have my own mind and won’t be swayed by a mere mortal author. Are you someone’s slave?

>>16553582
It’s a male artist. It’s a modern interpretation because we do not live in the past. Get the fuck over yourself

>>16553579
The myths as they are are rewritten. We are allowed to rewrite myths

>>16551944
Being complicit with the status quo of crime is a political stance.
I don’t judge her as harshly, I only compare her winning a prize from that criminal status quo to Hesiod singing the praises of the new-ish order of his day. I don’t care that he won a prize, I care that he became influential, and I care what the stories were before him

Absolutely. Start with Graves’ Greeks Myths

>>15953783
After being adopted by the rape god of the Hellenic invaders, they turned cyclical life affirming nature into a sort of joke. Calling the crescent moon her bow and saying she’s a hunter. Well so be it. She can be both bringer and taker of life. And left the fuck alone to break Zeus’ ignorant vow of chastity.

>>15952630
Pre-Hellenic agrarian age. The goddesses when under a weird transformation afterwards which is all we really know of them now. This short book tries to make some sense of it.

>>15670923
So you wouldn’t mind if I just rewrote Greek mythology?

>>15611037
The people’s business is politics.
I think it’s they who ought to come up with the rules/laws/contracts and then elect representatives to enact or manage them.

I don’t feel comfortable with the term “intellectual”, but not because I don’t want smart people, I just think it’s an overbearing title to give someone with some kind of wisdom to share.

Also read this short thing

>>15231299
Why not?

>>15150977
She was rewritten by males.

Just picked up this little thing (118 pages)