Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 178
September 22, 2019
notyourmistakes:Happy FallSafe travels, Persephone
Happy FallSafe travels, Persephone
September 21, 2019
smallest-feeblest-boggart:
niczka:
I didn’t see anyone post these Cleopatra tweets yet, I...
I didn’t see anyone post these Cleopatra tweets yet, I have to do everything my damn self.
These had me in stitches.
reminder that Cleopatra was a BRILLIANT politician and tactician. Also morally complex and complicated. History re-wrote her into a sex icon as a means of dismissing her influence and achievements. Here’s roughly what she would have looked like by the way:
September 20, 2019
notyourmistakes:
As promised, here is the orginal song I wrote...
As promised, here is the orginal song I wrote that was inspired by the Hades x Persephone book series by @therkalexander! I renamed it By Your Side.
I hope you like it!
violentwavesofemotion:Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Helen...
Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Helen Whitman featured in “The last letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman,”
notyourmistakes:Did I write a song inspired by Receiver of Many series by @therkalexander?Yes. Yes I...
Did I write a song inspired by Receiver of Many series by @therkalexander?Yes. Yes I did. It’s called Eyes Wide Shut. And I’m so excited about it lol
Wwhhhhhaaaaa????!!
September 19, 2019
Since we have the birth of Heracles in Good Counselor, when was Perseus born in your story, as he’s briefly mentioned, and his birth still seems recent enough for Hera to still be miffed about it
In my telling, he was born roughly 100 years before Heracles, and completed his quest at age 25, so about seven or eight years before the events of Receiver of Many.
“But aren’t generations about 25 years, thus making it around 75 years?” I can hear you say. Well, yes and no. It relies on average marital age in Ancient Greece and depends on how many women were in the direct line of descent.
Here is the line of descent for Heracles, tracing back to Perseus:
Perseus (male) —> Electryon (male) —> Alcmene (female) —> Heracles (male)
Men at the time usually married and had children after they were 30, and women married them around the age of 15 or 16
