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Who do you think are the single most important Greek heroes? The ones you think that can't lack in adaptations and retellings?

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Euripides my beloved

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I think the Cetus is one of the most underrated Ancient Greek monsters. There are a ton of different cool designs for them, at the same time they are still consistent.

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I think the Cetus is one of the most underrated Ancient Greek monsters. There are a ton of different cool designs for them and they get featured in many contexts, even as mounts of the Nereids.

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If Scylla is a sea monster, why does she have dog heads? The answer is related to the monster's own name, and to the canine qualities of sea monsters in Ancient Greece.

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The House of Atreus is the most cursed thing in all of Greek mythology, it's not even funny

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A small guide on Ancient Greek hats and their role in mythology

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Quais são alguns metaplasmos (mudanças fonéticas na língua ao longo da história) que você acha que já estão afetando ou afetarão o português?

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King Pelops of Pisa, the butchered son of Tantalus, waging war against Thebes after his son was kidnapped (Ilustration by @gruvu)

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Fun fact: Heracles is technically part of the House of Atreus! I guess that curse explains his misfortunes.

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If it weren't for Hera and Hephaestus the war would have ended right there.

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Heracles also wrestled one of the largest rivers in Greece an broke off one of his horns so we can't even claim those are different situations, Achilles is just like that.

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Psamathe, Thetis, Proteus, Nereus, and perhaps even Triton.

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I had this idea for a forest level in Hades, what did you think?

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I tried to drew Medusa, as she is depicted in Ancient Greek statues and vases! It's not as bad as I expected, but the lower wings and the arms got really bad.

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For such an influential part of Western pop culture, Greco-Roman mythology actually has a surprisingly small number of straightforward adaptations in the mainstream.

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Achilles slander will never not be funny

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I'm not a fan of the direction they took with Dionysus in Hades 2

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Ariadne and Asterion, sibling princess and prince of Crete. Art by sixofclovers.

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The only difference between Achilles receiving Briseis as "war spoil" and Paris kidnapping Helen is that Paris didn't burn down Helen's home and kill all of her relatives before that.

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Should Greek mythology retellings and adaptations translate characters without a proper name, such as Gaia (Earth), Hypnos (Sleep), Helios (Sun) or Eros (Love)?

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O que vocês acham da tradução de nomes próprios em livros estrangeiros?

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O fenômeno de transformação das terminações "-ano", "-ane" e "-one" em "-ão" ainda acontece no português?

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Calypso and Eos after kidnapping mortal men and forcing them to be their lovers

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Would Euripides' criticism of war slavery in his play Trojan Women be considered to be controversial or subversive in Classical Athens?

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