why is Greek mythology so confusing

You are mentally retard

>>8739567
What's confusing about it, pet?

>>8739581
there's too much stuff

>>8739585
That's the best part though! There are always more traditions vaguely referenced and kings once-named!
Or are you reading it just so you can "get" "allusions"?

because your memory is pitiful

>>8739588
I can't think of an example but I was reading earlier and it was like

"x, also known as z, is the goddess of y, and the messenger of __ and the daughter of ____"

stupid

>>8739597
>stupid
Yes, you are.

>>8739609
no im not

>>8739567
You find a woman getting it from a bull confusing?

>>8739567
>why is Greek mythology confusing?
>why is literally any mythology confusing?
>why is world-building in literature confusing?
>why is oral story tradition confusing?
>why is life confusing?

>>8739567
Go on Tumblr and Reddit and look into fan fiction or google "comic books"

>>8739684
You don't realise how useful that suggestion is

OP is BG/GF/Arso. Vote him up.

>>8739710

I wasn't hating on them at all, I just believe they were likely stories creating super characters who embodied archetypical traits and then over much time, various stories made up about their adventures

Just the thread I was looking for.

Why is it called the rape of europa? From what I've read it seemed consensual.

>>8739619
Maybe you can answer this.

>>8739787
>reads Joseph Campbell once

>>8740474
>Why is it called the rape of europa? From what I've read it seemed consensual.
'Rape' meant the seizing of a woman from her proper place (with her father or husband). It included seduction and elopement as well as what we would now call rape. Helen's rape was consensual too.
I suspect this is the reason for those Hebrew laws wherein a rapist must marry his 'victim'- if he actually were a violent rapist then obviously that law wouldn't apply and he'd be prosecuted for assault or what not.

>>8739597
How is that bad?

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The way that gods "influence" on human are fucking retarder (for me)
Are some dudes that talk/essays about it?

>>8740892
Oh I see. Thank you.

>>8740892
>Helen's rape was consensual
hell no it wasn't, Aphrodite fucked her up

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>>8739567
In ancient times, the hills, shores and islands supported numerous tribes, and their traditions only later after conquests did the stories begin to meld. The final transformation being the Olympian supplanted the Titans order (similarly the way Christians see the supplanting of the Hebrews) Aeschylus' Oresteia even brings back the previous order for a kind of final blow against ancient barbarism.

>>8741050
Aphrodite is supposed to make people fall in love.