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[–] -3 points 1 month ago* (8 children)

Actually, all the stuff about Ameinias is from Conon's Narrations, a Greek text from between 63 BC and 14 CE.

I'm gonna have to press X to doubt on you having read the "original story", since it was an oral tradition that later got transcribed to text. I've cited both Ovid and Conon. Would you like to cite a specific scholar, or would you rather claim you personally went back in time 2,000+ years to talk to the original oral storytellers?

EDIT: Conon also wrote:

And from that the Thespians honor and reverence Eros especially, and learned to sacrifice to him both in the common rituals and privately.

According to this ancient greek scholar, we need to have sex even if we don't want to, out of deference to the gods. Cause they're aphobes. And you're making excuses for them.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    And from that the Thespians honor and reverence Eros especially, and learned to sacrifice to him both in the common rituals and privately.

    Thespia was a city. You can't claim all of Ancient Greece was aphobic because a single city specifically worshipped Eros

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I never said "I read the original story" so that straw argument doesn't apply. Shockingly bad attempt for you to try on a written forum.

    I was however, referring to the Parthenius Papyrus.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Parthenius' version doesn't say a whole lot about Narcissus being a little bastard. It says one line:

    He had a cruel heart, and hated all of them,

    That's not really a source, it's a completely subjective judgement. As a rule, I tend not to trust gossip about a person that says they're bad, but not why. Because we don't really know why Parthenius judged Narcissus. Conon said Narcissus was bad because he was asexual, so I'll hazard a guess that Parthenius may have agreed. Because it's literally the only clue we have about why Parthenius insulted Narcissus.

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