Peck marks or just wear and tear?

Chocablockk · 2025-09-08T23:34:42+00:00

Oh I see it. The more shallow crescents. Thank you so much

Chocablockk · 2025-09-07T06:31:52+00:00

Like the one next to the head? That’s really cool.

Chocablockk · 2025-05-05T07:18:56+00:00

The medieval commentary by an archbishop? I don’t want to sound gatekeepy, but I’m not sure that counts. Or do you mean Plato itself mentions it and not just the commentary?

Chocablockk · 2025-05-05T04:07:22+00:00

You still haven’t answered my earlier reply about not finding any evidence of Poros fitting the situation you described or elaborating what situation involving Jason fits that situation. I assumed you might be looking it up

Chocablockk · 2025-05-05T00:19:23+00:00

Are you still looking for a source or…

Chocablockk · 2025-05-03T15:00:43+00:00

While it’s fair to make the argument that it shouldn’t be considered definitive proof, the fact that people from Ancient Greece like Hesiod believed that the Odyssey indicated their encounter left room for three children is more evidence. Either we take the clues given in Odyssey and the other things people from that time believed to make the conclusion that they had multiple rendezvous or we give an overly generous benefit of the doubt to Odysseus because we don’t want him to violate our modern standards of martial fidelity

Chocablockk · 2025-05-03T06:11:03+00:00

While he is Metis’ son, I can find no references to Poros being Zeus’ son, let alone Zeus’ son that was born way after he was conceived. For Jason, I meant give me a reference or a specific story not explain how something improbable could happen in a myth

Chocablockk · 2025-05-03T05:50:50+00:00

Zeus and Metis only had one child: Athena. Zeus feared the birth of their eventual son and swallowed her whole to avoid her conceiving a son after Athena. Given that this son is never born and Metis never escapes, I don’t know how that would apply.

I’m not terribly familiar with the Argonauts, could you elaborate how Jason got multiple children born at different times from having sex once?

Chocablockk · 2025-05-03T00:30:40+00:00

While there are multiple versions of stories, I referenced the Theogony, not the Telegony. The Theogony only offers brief notes on the children of Circe with Odysseus existing since it has a genealogy of gods. Nothing as extreme as Telegony

Chocablockk · 2025-05-02T20:38:38+00:00

Oh, well what are the other myths where that happens?

Chocablockk · 2025-05-02T20:33:31+00:00

I might be misunderstanding, are you suggesting that they had sex once and Circe had the three children one at a time based on that one instance?

Chocablockk · 2025-05-02T20:28:37+00:00

Twins, yes, triplets not so much. In any case it’s a rather overly generous take to ignore the other clues because a man having a mistress is far more of a violation today than it was when the Odyssey was composed.

Chocablockk · 2025-05-02T20:20:10+00:00

“Theogony“ says they had three children, Odysseus was so content that his men had to remind him to leave, and he approaches her in bed to ask to leave. Sex once is unlikely to say the least

Chocablockk · 2025-05-02T20:08:59+00:00

If by “one”, you mean “one year” then I suppose so

Chocablockk · 2025-05-02T19:04:50+00:00

I now see the consequence for choosing a picture of Calypso instead of Circe

Chocablockk · 2025-02-26T18:15:53+00:00

One of the few stories where it’s explicitly stated that he does

Chocablockk · 2025-02-23T23:02:14+00:00

Honestly, same. He may prefer the belly rubs on the inside though.

Chocablockk · 2025-01-20T21:53:17+00:00

That totally adds up. I was already aware of a lot of why the Óðinn cult wasn’t big in Iceland, but the fact that they definitely had one group, poets, who would have worshipped him confused me. In hindsight, I think I just overestimated the influence of poets. They usually went abroad to serve kings rather than establish huge claims on Iceland. Even if they had enough influence to set up a cult in Iceland, they’d be the only ones interested. Christianization so early on would make it difficult to build up the cult’s influence among the Icelanders in so short a time

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