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Kat ([personal profile] metonomia) wrote in [personal profile] rthstewart 2013-03-20 03:05 am (UTC)

Re: or, alternatively, and longer

YES YES which is always interesting to me because a lot of greek/roman myths actually pay some fair attention to women's pov, but these stories it is just a side note. Alcestis at least did volunteer, with Eurydice it always feels so much like shit just happens to her so that we can tell the superawesome story of superawesome Orpheus, so I LOVE the retellings in which she gets more and differing voice in it.

(It doesn't help that in so many paintings of them in the underworld, before the moment of Orpheus looking back, *she* is depicted looking back at Hades and Persephone lakjepoajeporahjapoij THIS IS MY FAVORITE ONE: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5277/5832488357_290340140f_z.jpg BECAUSE KLDJAPOWEJAP OIJ THE OBVIOUS LOVE QUADRANGLE BETWEEN THEM, THE WAY ORPHEUS IS TRYING TO PULL HER FORWARD BUT SHE AND HADES AND PERSEPHONE ARE ALL LOOKING AT EACH OTHER dlkajpeoiajropij)

tl;dr I go bananas for any reinvention of Orpheus/Eurydice

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