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[delta_mai]

So I'm doing 5 poems (of 300 words) from the POV of women from Greek myth.  They're going to be talking from the afterlife, brought together by either Artemis or Athene.  So here's my question - which are your favourite female Greek characters (preferably those used by men) that you would like to read a poem about?

And my other request -

I NEEDS A

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[cdaae]

Ha, I was talking about this with my boyfriend last night. Medea, and Ariadne, are the strongest used-and-dumped-by-men ones I can think of. I also thoroughly approve of Clytemnestra murdering Agamemnon because he sacrificed their daughter.

There's also Persephone, but being a goddess herself I'm not sure if she'd count.

[faith_of_heart]

Lol these are all on the list! :D Apart from Clytemnestra, because isn't she just in a play, not a myth?

(oh, this is my RP journal btw. Sometimes I'm lazy and reply with this instead)

[cdaae]

No, I'm pretty sure she's part of the general mythology of Agamemnon and the Trojan War and so on - although I'm not sure how we can separate myth from Greek literature. She's mentioned in Homer, but I think she has a smaller role there than in later play/s.

Cassandra could fit your requirements too. Oh, and Philomela, if you want to go into the deeply horrible.

[faith_of_heart]

Nah, she has to be in myth, not literature. Who was Philomela?

[cdaae]

Philomela's story is truly horrible, involving being raped and having her tongue cut out so she couldn't tell anyone. In the end the gods took pity on her and transformed her into a swallow, though some versions say nightingale. http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Pa-Pr/Philomela.html

I'm not sure how you can distinguish between myth and literature when it comes to the Greek myths, because we only really know about them via literature. Medea is a play as well as a myth, too.

Another one just occurred to me - Pasiphae, who one of the gods made fall in love with a bull, I forget why. Probably because she didn't fancy him. I think if I reached the afterlife and realized I'd had sex with a bull because an effing god screwed with my mind, I would be very, very unhappy indeed.

[cdaae]

Ooh, I thought of another solidly mythological one - Daphne, the nymph who was turned into a laurel tree to escape Apollo's attempt to rape her. She ties in well with Artemis too, as according to at least some versions of the myth, she was an excellent hunter who'd sworn to remain a virgin. I think some versions describe her as mortal and some as a nymph.

[delta_mai]

Btw forgot to thank you for all these! Very helpful :D