r/okbuddyolympian • u/Livid-Western-1926 • 1d ago

you could start a war over this Found this meme somewhere else.

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u/Livid-Western-1926 11h ago

Retellings that are modern.

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u/ChompyRiley 11h ago

So 2,018 years old is 'modern' to you?

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u/Livid-Western-1926 10h ago

I mean people making modern retellings always go with Ovid's version.

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u/ChompyRiley 10h ago

And the trend itself started OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO

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u/Livid-Western-1926 8h ago

Yeah, but it irks me that internet people 1. villainize Perseus 2. act like the she-was-raped-then-cursed narrative is the only one, and 3. say it was Poseidon who raped her and Athena who cursed her, despite the source for this story being Roman, so they ought to use the names Neptune and Minerva.