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When women make art like men do, their goddesses look divine.
slay 💅🏼
Antiphanes – who wrote a huge number of plays in the fourth century BCE before his somewhat unlikely death, having been hit by a pear12
I’m sorry, that's hilarious
lothario.
“n. a man who behaves selfishly and irresponsibly in his sexual relationships with women” I want to remember this word
At this point in his life, Teiresias has lived as both a man and a woman: his male-to-female change occurs after he sees snakes mating near Mount Cyllene. At a later date, Teiresias catches sight of another pair of snakes going at it, and this turns him back into a man.
what the actual fuck
It is a source of ongoing irritation to me that the words we use to describe female genitalia become more misogynistic the more apparently neutral they are: pudenda, something to be ashamed of; vagina, a sheath for holding a sword.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
He is about to become a single parent, however, as she will give birth to Aeneas, so called because of the terrible pain it causes her to have had sex with a mortal (Aeneas is linked here to ainos, a Greek word meaning painful or terrible).
She got the ick SO BAD
And she asked the god about a husband and the god replied, no need of a husband for you, Atalanta. Avoid the very idea of husbands!
Wise
There is, of course, another reason why young girls might be interested in a moon goddess, but it seems to have been a step too far for male academics of previous centuries to note that menstruation is often linked to lunar cycles
smh typical men
My favourite by far is Pamphagus – eats everything.
that's a perfect name for a dog
Your hand is trembling! I fear / There is, as yet, too much pulse in it.’
LOL next time I’m anxious I’m just gonna tell people I have too much pulse
Not least in Pompeii, where numerous shrines to Vesta have been discovered in bakeries. Just when you thought you couldn’t like her more, this versatile goddess turns out to be the patron saint of carbs.
Unproblematic and a carb lover?? She’s my new favorite goddess
