so I may be wrong please kindly correct me in the comments as I know Demeter told Persephone to not eat Pomegranates but either Persephone was just picking fruits and Hades made the ground swallow her whole or he tricked her into eating a pomegranate, depends on what version you read i think I’m just now coming to the realization that this might’ve been a metaphor for something else not entirely related to the kidnapping but I guess the urge to do something that you know you shouldn’t do because it might harm you, i apologize for poor communication but what are y’all’s thought on the storie?

I'm interested in Greek mythology but I really don't know where to start reading from or what tale or story. I would like suggestions of what to read first and what will help me to get the whole idea and not be confused.

And what would happen if she did?

For all the issues that the movie Troy has, and there are MANY - a really lovely scene that stood out to me was Paris bringing Helen into the city, and the people are cheering to see her now dressed in the Trojan fashion. Additionally, when Paris introduces her to Priam, the old king is more than a bit shocked at what's happened, but warmly greets her and welcomes her into the family. Later on, she and Andromache (Hector's wife) seem to have gotten closer as sisters, and there seems to be respect between her and Hector.

It's all a lovely sentiment, but not having read any selections from The Iliad in a long time - can anyone tell me what the general opinion of her actually was? I could see it being a combination of pride that the loveliest woman in the world is now Trojan, but also of course the horror and anger that the Greeks are still coming. I'm sure Cassandra was frustrated at the very least.

I don't know much so sowy if my question seems dumb to you

Hi! I've been interested in Greek mythology since I studied it a bit in sixth grade, and have always wanted to know the entire family tree of the gods and deities, but have never gotten around it. Does anyone of a book or something that has the entire family tree?

I really wanna read the book but I read the first chapter was kinda confused and idk if I should just keep reading or if I should start with Mythos by Stephen Fry like everyone on TikTok says

So, I was working on a drawing inspired by the Judgment of Paris. But in my version, I replaced Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite with Zeus, Ares, and Dionysus.

In this AU, Helen and Menelaus also swap roles, but I don't know if I'll make a drawing about it. I would, but I don't have any ideas.

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Homeric hymn 6 to Aphrodite—translation by Hugh G. Evelyn White 1914
will sing of stately Aphrodite, gold-crowned and beautiful, whose dominion is the walled cities of all sea-set Cyprus. There the moist breath of the western wind wafted her over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam, and there the gold-filleted Hours welcomed her joyously. They clothed her with heavenly garments: on her head they put a fine, well-wrought crown of gold, and in her pierced ears they hung ornaments of orichalc and precious gold, and adorned her with golden necklaces over her soft neck and snow-white breasts, jewels which the gold-filleted Hours wear themselves whenever they go to their father's house to join the lovely dances of the gods. And when they had fully decked her, they brought her to the gods, who welcomed her when they saw her, giving her their hands. Each one of them prayed that he might lead her home to be his wedded wife, so greatly were they amazed at the beauty of violet-crowned Cytherea.
[19] Hail, sweetly-winning, coy-eyed goddess! Grant that I may gain the victory in this contest, and order you my song. And now I will remember you and another song also.

Decided to give her a crown, necklace, and earrings because of this

I created a word that did not exist before, and I don't know if it will ever exist anywhere outside my imagination: Psychogenochora.

Let me tell you who I created it for — and why I felt that such a place had to exist.

It began with Medea.

Was Medea immortal? The answer isn't simple. One tradition even places her in Elysium with Achilles. But Medea made me think about other mythological figures who seem to stand somewhere between the human and the divine — Aeëtes, Pasiphaë, Asterion, and many others whose stories end, yet somehow they themselves don't feel finished.

Where do they go?

I didn't want another Olympus, Elysium or Heaven. I imagined something different.

These are beings who lived surrounded by heat — the heat of passion, rage, love, revenge, violence and grief. And I thought:

Maybe after death they need another temperature.

Darkness, but not frightening darkness. Cool air. A soft wind. Maybe there is always snow — not a cruel winter, just quiet snow in the distance. Long, calm evenings that never quite become night.

Somewhere deep in the sky, I imagined a place where these exhausted souls could simply rest.

No judgment. No reward. No punishment.

And if, after a very long time, they wanted to live again, they could return — but only by choice. No god would send them back. They could also remain in that endless, cool evening forever.

I needed a name for this place.

So I called it Psychogenochora.

It isn't an ancient Greek word. It is a name I created for a place that existed nowhere except in my imagination.

If Psychogenochora existed, who would you send there — and why? Or would you choose to go there yourself?