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Erotic Mythology 🌹<p>Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️</p><p>"From many a home many a victim is devoted to death by the two-handled whip beloved of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ares</span></a>, destruction double-armed, a gory pair."<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aeschylus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aeschylus</span></a>, Agamemnon 638</p><p>🏛 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> intaglio, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a> Museum</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mythology</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfAres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfAres</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreekRomanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a></p>
Eclectic Human<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmReading</span></a> A Thousand Ships by <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NatalieHaynes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NatalieHaynes</span></a><br />This is the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/TrojanWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TrojanWar</span></a> as told from the perspectives of the women. </p><p>Haynes mines <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Homer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Homer</span></a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Virgil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Virgil</span></a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Ovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ovid</span></a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Euripides" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Euripides</span></a>, and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Aeschylus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Aeschylus</span></a> for the women who circle the edges of the story, plotting, prophesying, waiting, grieving. Most memorable among them are the inconsolable, far-seeing <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Cassandra" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cassandra</span></a>, the acerbic <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Penelope" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Penelope</span></a>, and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Calliope" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Calliope</span></a>, the muse who insists that this war be told her way. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/23/a-thousand-ships-natalie-haynes-review" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2019/may</span><span class="invisible">/23/a-thousand-ships-natalie-haynes-review</span></a></p>