/lit/ - Literature

The year is 2016, Premier Imam Barrack Hussein Obama has declared martial law forcing all Americans to be registered for umiversal health care. Boldly revealing himself to be the Anti-Christ, finally confirming what many had believed all along, Americans are forced to wear programmable party hats that posses an integrated psycho-nano-microprossesing chip that can effectively turn Americans into droning zombies who ceaselessly carry out the Grand Ayotollah's wicked will.

Enter John "Duke" Hammer, former Navy Seals top sniper, who is called out of retirement to help lead an underground resistance that smuggles burgers to the vast FEMA processing centers. After defeating a small battalion of Islamic Obama Youth by himself, John is thrust into the forefront of a fledgling revolution against the mighty Tyrant's Islamo-Marxist Empire. Armed only with his unwavering patriotism, a state-of-the-art prototype cyber-kinetic sniper rifle, and his faith in his Lord and Savioir Jesus Christ John goes on a one man rampage against the forces of hell itself.

>Polyphemus
>giant one eyed dude who eats people, makes jokes about it to the people he eats, and is ruthless as fuck
>also likes to compose and perform beautiful works of music especially so that he can serenade his beloved sea nymph Galatea
>which either results in her playing hard to get and eventually the two opposites falling in love or her reviling him and him crushing her mortal lover with a big boulder

Why is so much of Greek myth like this? Characters can be capable of excessive and calculated sadism and cruelty yet softly tender at other times. It is so common in Greek stuff

I first really noticed this after I read that Odysseus threw Hector's infant child off a cliff during the siege of Troy because he was still ass blasted about Achilles getting sniped by Paris.

In fact, Hector is the only consistently noble and admirable person in all the Greek shit I've read so far and he gets rewarded with being humiliated, sword through the neck, corpse descrated, and then his wife and baby killed