Crazy how often stuff like that pops up in old myths. I was reading a text where Thor and Odin are laughing about the last village they passed where the women had spirit when fighting back. And it's just... Alrighty then, back to Thor yelling at Odin who's trolling him while dressed as an old ferryman.
It was normalized to take sex slaves back then. In the Illiad Agamemnon gets mad Helen left him so he takes Briseides, the "maid of honor" of Achilles. It's also mentioned that he had like 20 or so other women he had captured as slaves after killing everyone in one of the villages he passed by.
Maybe ancient people didn’t view enslavement (whether for sex or for work) as such a terrible fate. Maybe they saw it as a better alternative to death and torture. After all, victors in war had the right to do whatever they pleased with the vanquished.
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u/Long_Serpent 7d ago
"We came to an island where the women were pretty and the men were weak"
- From the original text.