RE-AIR: Medusa, Colonialism, Re-Imagining Goddesses and Monsters with Nikita Gill
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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Hera - Is She a Product of the Men Who Wrote These Stories Down?
Hera is a product of the men who wrote down these stories that survived to us today, not necessarily the original stories or how everyone in ancient Greece understood her. In those versions, like Zeus doesn't I mean, he's doing things wrong, but it's never presented as if like it's actually really harmful in any kind of concrete way. And I think that's because all for the most part, although victims are women except for Ganymede who like gets his place up on Mount Olympus.
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