men in greek mythology? scoundrels. just terrible. woeful social skills. murderers. kidnappers. violent misogynists. most of them… never described as handsome so we have to assume they were ugly.
narcissus? unproblematic. beacon of transformative self love. king of the swerve. gay icon. couldn’t recognize his reflection but neither can my dog, we aren’t holding that against him.
Narcissus wrote this
I refuse to believe Narcissus could read.
i’ve been thinking about this response for the better part of 2 hours and it hasn’t gotten less hysterically funny to me
Tag: classics
The thing that gets to me about ancient literature, the reason I ended up a classicist instead of doing English like all my teachers thought I should, is that feeling, that moment, when you are reading something written by a stranger literally millennia ago (do you know how long ago 1850 BC is, it’s nearly four thousand years, that’s a lot of time) and you think:
oh, you too, huh?
just moving along like everyone else 