• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    8 hours ago

    Narcissus was not aroace, that’s slapping modern ideals on what’s literally an aesop about living up your own arse.

    Hestia and Athena, definitely though. And Tesla.

    • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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      22 minutes ago

      The Greeks didn’t understand asexuality and thought it was hubris, since the only examples of ace people they did accept were literal gods. Narcissus was 16 when he died. A 16 year old who constantly gets sexually harassed has the right to be a little rude in rejecting people. Ameinias, for example, asked for the 16 year old’s hand in marriage multiple times. If you want to say hounding a mid-pubescent child for sex is acceptable in any cultural context, then I’m going to view you the same way I view the ancient Greeks: as a pedophile.