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Aren't you meant to be a supposed PhD in some strange niche field of literature? Proclaiming a single source that is contradicted by all other contemporary sources to be the one well of truth is like a very basic no-no they teach you as a freshman in college.
December 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
However, Metamorphoses is the only ancient source of this rape story. In every other telling of this myth, Medusa was born a monster, and there is no mention of force or coercion in her physical relations with Poseidon, nor was she a sex worker in any version of the myth, even in Ovid's.
December 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Ovid was famous for turning the gods into bigger assholes than they really were in popular conception because he was against the authoritarianism of Augustus in Rome. This whole Poseidon rape bit was popularized because Metamorphoses was influential during the Renaissance.
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Medusa was not a prostitute, nor a rape victim in 99.99% of ancient Greco-Roman literature. This myth comes from Ovid's poem about Medusa in Metamorphoses, where Athena punished Medusa for being assaulted by Poseidon in her temple, by transforming her from human to monster as a curse.
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Unfortunately if you call someone a neo nazi genocide denier in a video posted on a public forum they are allowed to respond to you on that public forum.

There, fixed. Care to actually address the argument now?
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM