Christian Bible (Old Testament) & Jewish Scripture and Legend AND Greek and Roman Mythology

[hhertzof]

We've had a few queries about this, so I thought I'd clarify.

Christian Bible (Old Testament) and Jewish Scripture and Legend have identical character sets though the forms may be different to reflect different naming practices and the tag set limits. The Jewish tag defaulted to Jewish Scripture and Legend to encompass all the nominated characters

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[pameluke]

I'm the Greek and Roman History wrangler on AO3, and the tagmod responsible for the Greek/Roman/Egyptian etc decisions.

The Greek and Roman History RPF fandom on AO3 currently collects all characters/people from Roman and Greek History as well as characters/people who interacted with either the Romans or the Greek who don't have an adequate History fandom of their own.

I'm aware that this isn't ideal, and there are discussions being had on the AO3 side of things in how to organize this large period in History better, but it's a slow process.

What this means for Yuletide is that this year Classical Roman and Greek History and Literature RPF was still allowed as one fandom, including characters with a more tangential relationship.

tl;dr We're aware, but it's conform to the current compromise on AO3.

Edit: About the disambiguation, yes that'll be gone when they get actual character tags on AO3.

[taichara]

Hatshepsut "interacted" with neither the Romans nor the Greeks, given that she well predates both unless one counts the Mycenaeans and Minoans.

Lumping of that scale is madness.

[inabathrobe]

+1

As a Classicist with Near Eastern leanings, I want to second this being madness. Unless someone wants to write, like, sea peoples fic.

[pameluke]

Just an update on Roman and Greek Mythology because things changed since this post went up, where the Roman section of things was mainly about Tarquile, Gaius Mucius Scaevola, Marcus Curtius, and Publius Horatius Cocles. Since then it acquired characters from the Aenid and the Oddysey, which shouldn't be there. They will be sorted to where they belong, but the archive coding is being persistent on the canonicals.

[hokuton_punch]

The Odyssey is a Greek epic and should be in Greek mythology/history, not Roman.

[pameluke]

Hi! The original post wasn't about the Odyssey characters in the Greek & Roman Mythology tag, but about Tarquile, Gaius Mucius Scaevola, Marcus Curtius, and Publius Horatius Cocles. The characters from the Odyssey and the Aenid will be under the respective works by Virgil and Homer, and under Greek Mythology (depending on how they were nominated).

[hokuton_punch]

That's a relief to hear! The structure of the original sentence made it sound like both the Aeneid and the Odyssey were getting sorted into Roman mythology. Thank you for clarifying.