"In Meso...poTAmia."
Among the craptastic things that happened today, I narrowly avoided a fight with a co-worker when he began ranting about how the original Clash of the Titans didn't have anything at all to do with the original mythology, and how the remake will be more faithful to the source (because Hades was TOTES more than a bit-player in the Perseus myth).
The evidence he offered to back up this assertion? "Harry Hamlin? Come on! Greek heroes weren't Shakespearean pretty boys, they were gritty manly men. Just think of Achilles."
I bit down hard on my "Now, is that the Achilles who refused to fight when his mum told him not to, and only joined in because Hector killed his boyfriend*?" and cranked BNL as high as Oz would allow.
* I really just love how Wikipedia uses the following passage as evidence that Homer portrayed them as military commrades rather than anything explicitly intimate:
From then on the son of Thetis
urged that never in the moil of Aresshould Patroclus be stationed apartfrom his own man-slaughtering spear.
(This footnote brought to you by Captain (not Cap'n) Jack and my Ainley-Master-resembling Mevieval Lit professor.)
The evidence he offered to back up this assertion? "Harry Hamlin? Come on! Greek heroes weren't Shakespearean pretty boys, they were gritty manly men. Just think of Achilles."
I bit down hard on my "Now, is that the Achilles who refused to fight when his mum told him not to, and only joined in because Hector killed his boyfriend*?" and cranked BNL as high as Oz would allow.
* I really just love how Wikipedia uses the following passage as evidence that Homer portrayed them as military commrades rather than anything explicitly intimate:
From then on the son of Thetis
urged that never in the moil of Aresshould Patroclus be stationed apartfrom his own man-slaughtering spear.
(This footnote brought to you by Captain (not Cap'n) Jack and my Ainley-Master-resembling Mevieval Lit professor.)