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In today's History Summarized, Blue talks about Atlantic Exploration:

Edited by jouXIII on Jan 22nd 2021 at 6:24:37 PM

Apparently even my browser can tell how hard I'm hyperfixating: Every single website I visit is giving me Redbubble ads for OSP merch.

Today's episode is a Trope Talk episode about tragedy.

It's times like this where I should study more ancient threater.

Today, in Valentine's Day Special, Blue talks about the best couples in history!

...And by "best", we mean disastrous.

Edited by jouXIII on Feb 5th 2021 at 3:52:53 PM

Oooh, Sappho video next!

Stealing his son's wife and then after fucking up the country beyond repair he dumps all the work on his son. And then adaptations of the incident make him and the wife out to be some tragic love story,WOW.

Edited by Mami on Feb 5th 2021 at 7:34:13 PM

They were poet, they didn't really care about politic get in the way of a good story.

Even so, you'd think the story would be more along the lines of "decent king starts thinking with his dick, ruins kingdom".

It really depend on what the message they wanted to convey. I doubt it will be such a romantic love story if it also came with "also the guy ruined his country".

Edited by BattleRaizer on Feb 5th 2021 at 11:50:31 PM

Though lots of historical loves do come with nation body counts as a consequence.

Making a love story out of assholes. Some things never changed.

In today's Miscellaneous Myths, Red talks about Hades and Persephone:

Edited by jouXIII on Feb 12th 2021 at 6:31:56 PM

Today's episode of Miscellaneous Myths is about Hades and Persephone.

There's also a nice intro about how the Greeks did not exactly see their gods as paragons of virtue, but more of how they are "reflections of truth." There's also an examination into the origins of Persephone and how the early myths may have had a trio of Poseidon, Demeter, and Persephone.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Feb 12th 2021 at 8:36:19 AM

I was fully expecting a shout-out to Lore Olympus and Red didn't disappoint.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Feb 12th 2021 at 6:11:11 PM

I got to say, I really like the way Red draws the gods whenever she starts talking about how "these entities may have used to be this particular ancient deity."

I wonder how a "reverse" version of this myth might play out, with a fertility goddess kidnapping a death god.

Because of the preamble I decided to look up how Zeus and Hero got married and boy is it awful. And makes every single interaction between them in the other myths even more shitty.

Yeah I thought there were nicer versions around but nah. Unless it's another case of rape=kidnapping. Which I doubt.

Out of morbid curiosity, what was it?

Zeus asks to marry her. She says no. So he turns into a songbird and Hera thinks she's about to enact a Disney Princess scene but surprise it's Classical Mythology instead.

Zeus wanted to marry Hera, who says no. So he does one of his weird animals things and transform into a cuckoo to get closer to her, transforms back and rapes her. She is then shamed into marrying him.

It is the shaming thing that gets to me. Like, the raping thing is awful but seem par for the course for these guys it seems, and I guess by itself you could weave it away like the kidnappings. But Hera, from what I understood, was explicitly against the marriage specifically, and the sex was a way to shame and coerce her into it. Then Zeus spends the eternity shitting on said marriage.

Of course, this is based on a 5 minutes Google search, but I think I understand where Red was getting at.

Seriously, I think at one point you should just give Hera the Beatrice Horseman treatment where life has handed her a raw deal and she takes it out on someone else, in this case her husband's illegitmate children. Heck, Hera even staged a coup, but it failed and Zeus punished her severely. So, it's probably a good reason why she strikes at him at proxy because she knows what happens when he holds no bounds.

> Hades and Persephone.

Interesting that I first learned of Persephone through a game called Sacrifice which had Persephone (in name only,not related to the Greek myth) as the Goddess of life and her arch nemesis was Charnel,God of slaughter

Edited by Ultimatum on Feb 13th 2021 at 1:56:27 PM

I'm kinda surprised Red didnt mention the etymology of Persephone in the vid. What with one version being the bringer of death.