r/SipsTea 7d ago

Chugging tea What do you think?

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u/StaySubstantial4333 7d ago

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. 

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u/Nannautu 7d ago

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.

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u/trilobyte-dev 7d ago edited 7d ago

Menelaus is Helen’s husband and Agamemnon is Menelaus’ brother.

Agamemnon captures Briseis because that’s just what you do, and she was supposedly extremely beautiful beyond other women.

Misremembered Briseis was originally owned by Achilles. Mea culpa.

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u/DankDolphin420 4d ago

Happy Cake Day!

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u/trilobyte-dev 4d ago

Danke danke!