Post #3986039

2026-07-21 11:50 UTC

I'm over the whole "how important women are in the Odyssey" debate, and I don't care whether Nolan made their role better or worse. Honestly I don't mind that the Odyssey is about Odysseus. Duh. What I do mind is that people can still cash in big on a 24536th Odyssey adaptation, instead of adapting any of the DOZENS of amazing epics that ARE about women. (Publishers keep telling me underrated Greek myths are not marketable because "everyone wants the popular ones") #mythology #Odyssey #women

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@herrold@dice.camp 2026-07-21 19:12

@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social Persephone? That's the one that comes to my mind first. I'm sure there are many, many others.

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@Kierkegaanks@beige.party 2026-07-21 11:51

@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social Medea ft Zendaya

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@Printdevil@dice.camp 2026-07-21 12:07

@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social There are so many little different greek island myths as well, that are completely different from the ones we know, because the homeric achaen monomyth just smothers everything. The bit you see that in is lots of character in Hades were heroes of smaller myth cycles. Which always reminded me of the Christian assimilation of "oh your pagan deity is in hell"

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online 2026-07-21 13:05

@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social "(Publishers keep telling me underrated Greek myths are not marketable because "everyone wants the popular ones")" They're certainly not marketable with _that_ attitude. Isn't marketing supposed to be to _make_ people want something?

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@feministo@wien.rocks 2026-07-21 13:59

@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social Boudica?

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