Once more, for the people in the back:

An "epic hero" (*cough* Odysseus *cough*) is not an "epic hero" because they are a role model that does everything right. They were never meant to be an unproblematic fandom icon.

People bending themselves into pretzels to prove Odysseus (and others) never did anything wrong, questionable, or "problematic" are doing a disservice and flattening mythology into fan fiction.

Said what I said.

#mythology#Storytelling

Yuval Harari, #author of big science history books 'Sapiens' & 'Homo Deus', has just posted this on his Instagram (pic w/ alt txt below).

I don't usually get annoyed by generalisations, but...

I wrote a short #refutation of this #claim that #science is "far more imaginative" than #mythology & "didn't predict black holes or atoms" here:

https://www.kittythinks.com/yuval-is-wrong/

Tl:dr: Many scientific theories can be traced back to mythology & creation myths are there to ask questions science is answering.

Second side note: we have done too much work trying to redeem and reframe women in Homer's epics just to go back to "ooh those evil scheming wily women are trapping poor innocent men!"

#mythology