Lost_Warrior Posted September 22, 2007 Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 I happened across this alternative myth of Persephone (warning: adult content. But very good reading IMO) last night and I got to thinking: were there alternative myths written in Ancient times? There are plenty of them today, I can't imagine they are a new invention. Is there any record of this sort of thing in history? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted September 22, 2007 Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 That's a pic of what? Another weird babe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursus Posted September 22, 2007 Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 Pagan Myths differed all the time. They were not inerrant holy texts. Thus people were free to believe, disbelieve or invent new ones. That being said, epic poetry such as wrought by Homer or Hesiod were quite influential and became rather mainstream, with differing theologies existing on the outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted September 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 That's a pic of what? It's a pomegranate splitting open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted September 23, 2007 Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 (edited) Salve, LW! Here comes another poem on Persephone, by B. A. St. Andrews (2000): I. They call me Daughter of Darkness, Pomegranate Girl, call me wanton, say I yielded foolishly to some wild force surging through curled fronds and came to harm because I could resist no more than Sibyls roused to madness by Apollo's kiss. But there is more to bitter sacrifice than this. VII. ... I am uncomplaining seed and self-containing sorrow: Eternal Wife, Eternal Daughter I am both Life and Afterlife. Silent I am the music of two worlds. Persephone, Queen of Shadows. I, Kore, the Pomegranate Girl. Sequitur Edited September 23, 2007 by ASCLEPIADES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephele Posted September 23, 2007 Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 Salve, LW!Here comes another poem on Persephone, by B. A. St. Andrews (2000): [snipped] Sheer splendor. I went to the site and printed up that entire poem. Thanks for that, Asclepiades. I really enjoyed that. *Nephele places a garland of laurel on Asclepiades' head, for finding that poem.* And that poem you found, LW, was fine stuff, too. A garland for you, as well. -- Nephele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted September 23, 2007 Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 This is what the Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (p. 204) has to said about the alternative versions of Persephone's myth: " The story of her being carried off by Pluto, against her will, is not mentioned by Homer, who simply describes her as his wife and queen ; and her abduc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted September 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 Great info!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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