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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Jul 29, 2022 ^^
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Reading the bit in the Odyssey where Helen is impersonating the Achean's wives is honestly just painful. Odysseus has to literally hold people's mouths shut because they honestly think their wives are out there.
Seriously, the entire Achean army has precisely three brain cells, and Odysseus spends the entire war juggling them.
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I've watched this video a couple of times and realized something. Hera and Athena weren't just pissed at not being chosen but the additional insult to injury. For Hera, Paris snubbed her offer to make him king of the world for a woman who was already married (and happily so, if I recall correctly) showing no respect for her domain. For Athena, Paris turned down her offer of glory and victory to marry a woman whose marriage is technically under the protection of powerful kings that can and will reduce Troy to rubble to honor their oath. It's a very, very stupid move that is guaranteed to end in failure (or pyrrhic victory) especially with the Goddess of War and Wisdom against him.
He didn't just snub them in favor of Aphrodite and her offer, Paris basically spat in their faces, even if it was unintentional.
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On that thought, I love the fact that the epic cycle more or less starts properly with a king being beset by a million suitors, so Odysseus proposes a solution that will peacefully solve the problem with minimal bloodshed while ensuring he also walks away with some compensation, then ends with Penelope being beset by a million suitors so Odysseus's solution is to murder them all.
That's how clever Odysseus is; he's able to learn from his mistakes.
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Ares is a big, beautiful, brutish bufoon. The closest thing the Olympians had to a god of evil. But I found out he's got a surprisingly good track record when women are concerned.
1) He is Aphrodite's favorite lover and later her surprisingly supportive husband. He doesn't even mind her sleeping around because he sees it as his girl's thing. Her form of conquest and asserting dominance and he can't get enough of it. He doesn't want to tie her down. No, he wants to unleash her on the world.
2) He's sired pretty badass daughters. He also became the first god to go to court and nearly lose his godhood because he avenged one of his daughters getting violated by butchering the rapist. The rapist was one of Poseidon's sons, so he was up against a stacked court. He got acquited only because on the day of verdict, there were more goddesses than gods in the jury. All the gods voted to punish him. All the goddesses wanted to let him go.
3) He's got a good relationship with his aunt, Hestia. Then again everyone does. But it's very important for Ares as his aunt was his one source of familial-warmth knowing full well how his parents feel about him and how dysfunctional they all are.
4) On that note, Ares is apparently a hands on dad. Even to his bastards (Who Aphrodite is totally cool with too.) Even to the girls. Even to the monstrous looking ones. All his kids either see him in their lives or he leaves them with little boons to set them up. He tries to be a good father because he knew his own father hated him and he tries to be there for his kids in ways Zeus never was for him. As war, it's understandable the "defender of mankind" and "father of laws" would not love nor like the war and bloodshed god. But the war and bloodshed god relishes in fighting alongside his sons, Phobos and Deimos. Morbid, sure, but you gotta appreciate Ares for being a present father.
5) Oh, yeah. The big one. Ares? Brutal, bloody Ares? Isn't a rapist. In a messed up family, the war god is the only one without a rape story. Hell, one of his kids with Aphrodite is the embodiment of reciprocity. He is also apparently the official defender of mistreated women. Women who were mistreated pray to him for strength. Which sadly might have contributed to his unpopularity. Oh, and he's a big supporter of the Amazons. The whole culture collectively sees him as their dad.
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Fun fact, the arrows that Philoctetes uses to kill Paris are actually Heraclesâ Hydra Blood arrows. Philoctetes got them from Heracles after helping him light his funeral pyre after the whole âHydra Blood Shirtâ incident. Just a nice little detail that emphasizes how the trojan war generation was the generation right after Heraclesâ generation.
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@masterxl97
1 year ago
Odysseus still just literally being Solid Snake because of one dumb joke Red made SEVEN YEARS ago is incredibly heartwarming to me.
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