I just had to return here to tell you I've read Metamorphoses and thank you for recommending it me! It was a wild read from start to finish, mostly because I had to have open tabs on Roman vs Greek gods so I could catch who's who when I started reading.

I wasn't even aware how many myths there are about birds and plants. I've changed my mind about Dionysus/Bacchus completely because damn, for the god that's 90% of the time drunk and ready to party, he was being so petty when some mortals that didn't like him.

@LonelyCrow ahahaha, don't worry. I like to rambles when I have some stuff to talk about. And wow, this is a much easier version, basically a summary and with links to all the names and their background. The one we had to read was much harder to understand because it kept to the poetry form from Ovid. Ovid was a poet.

@Lidashen Lol, I just read it from the first website I found! Http://ovid.lib.ia.edu/trans/Metamorph.htm#488381088. And that's an interesting way to create a human race, by chucking rocks. I'll just continue reading and try to make sense of it as I go along. I'll see if I can find the Penguin classic translation online. I feel guilty for only writing this measly paragraph while you wrote 2, so sorry about that! I'm quite the boring person lol :D

@LonelyCrow Which version of the book are you reading? I find Penguin's Classic probably the easiest in translation. Our class read the Charles Martin translation from W.W. Norton & Company.

Unfortunately I haven't, but the first book is more about the creations, the explaining of the creations. If you google them, you'll be able to find wikipedia on them. The Flood was Zeus ( Jupiter or Jove) sending a flood to the then human race for their trickery and only two siblings ( husband and wife) was left on a small island and Zeus and the council of god deemed them as innocent, let them live by pulling back the water around that island. Devastated that there is only them left on earth, they went to pray to the Goddess and the Goddess told them to throw rocks behind their back and those rocks turned into human, which created another human race. ( basically, Zeus/Jupiter/Jove, all the same, created human races, then hate them, destroy them, then got bored and created another one. I think he went through 4 human races lol. 4 in Metamorphoses.) In the Greek creation story, from Hesiod's theogony/work and day, there were five races. (Theogony is hard to read, I don't recommend it until you find you really like Mythology).

Actually I think if you youtube Metamorphoses, you might be able to find some videos. I didn't think of that when I was reading it. We went by it pretty quick. But with Metamorphoses, you really don't have to follow the whole book, you can pick out which book to read, they're short stories. In our class, we only have to read Book 1, 3, 10 and 11 because those were related to the other books we read. If you want to read The Iliad and The Odyssey, get the Penguin Classic translation from Robert Fagles.

@Lidashen Nah, I'm just a senior in high school :p However when I do go to uni, i'll take that course if they offer it. Also, I started reading Metamorphose, and am on the part about the Flood. It's really interesting to read, but it does get confusing will all the different characters. Have you watched any videos based on this? If so, I hope you can recommend some to me!

Oooooo this is interesting! I didn't know that (I'm probably a noob at Mythology Hahaha ><)

Thank you for sharing! :D

@LonelyCrow Are you in Uni? They should have it in University, maybe under different name. I learn about mythology when I was in 6th grade, but it was mild as compared to what you will search up once at a mature age. Usually when people start Mythology, they'd go for Odyssey, but I find it a bit boring compared to The Iliad and Metamorphose. The Odyssey is more of an adventure, shipwrecked, lost at sea, went to weird islands, trying to survive gods' wrath, kind of like The Pirates of the Caribbean type. The Iliad is like a soap opera, a lot more on characterization and stay in one place. The Metamorphose tries to explain everything that goes on, from the creation of gods to creation of human to the treachery of gods to the events of the Trojan war ( covering some Iliad stuff). Keep in mind that the Metamorphose is written by a Roman author, Ovid, who tried to weaved in everything into Roman's culture so he wouldn't get killed by the King, because he wrote something controversial prior (iirc). While the Iliad and Odyssey are from Greek. They cover pretty much the same gods, but different names. Like Jupiter/Jove in Metamorphoses is actually Zeus. Have fun reading.

@_beyonce Hahaha, I love mythology, mostly the Greek/Roman and Asians one because one is a soap opera and the other is family sitcom, so full of ridiculousness, a god for everything in existence, ie. God of doors, god of kitchen, god of fruits, etc etc.

I think I might make a blog series about interesting mythology stuff I find.

@Lidashen Omg, I would love to read that! I don't have a class like that in my school. I was always interested in mythology, and now I finally have a starting point. Lol thanks

i am so delighted rn /sobs ive found myth enthusiasts i am alive

Mythological deities were originally way sinister than their romanticised counterparts in modern literature. Which makes it all so interesting because damn, these gods are flawed LOL and hellah messy-- and that's why I would totally read about it! Somewhat tempted to take on the challenge myself

@Lidashen Lmao well yeah ofc it would piss her off :')
Oh yep I remember reading about that haha

@inspirit7ifnt I believed it started when he decided to take his sister as his wife and then started to cheat on her LOL, that pissed her off. Then again, like father like son, his dad Cronus also took in a sibling (Rhea) as a wife. His household is a mess, father Cronus eating up all his siblings as well.

Lmao the thing with Greek mythology is that everything starts from the fact that Zeus can't keep it in his pants and neither can half of his kids xD

I will definitely check on Metamorphoses, thanks for the recommendation! :D

@LonelyCrow I didn't know about it until last week in Roman Myth class where the teacher told us when we were covering Apollo and Daphne's story in Ovid's Metamorphoses. I highly recommend it as a fun time read, it's pretty outrageously funny and interesting. It is made up of short stories of all the gods. The story of Midas who turned everything into gold with a touch is from there, albeit dark. LOL

@General They are the drama queens of the Gods realm LOL. It's like watching a soap opera when reading The Iliad, and the Metamorphoses is pretty entertaining. A lot of short stories, kind of like fairy tales but became very grim. One story had Diana ( Artemis, the Huntress god) turned this one dude Actaeon into a deer because he so happened to spot her bathing, and then he ended up getting killed by his hounds because they don't know that it's him. And that was his punishment for accidentally seeing her bathing at a spring. The story of Midas who turned everything into gold with a touch also didn't end well either. Highly recommend Metamorphoses if you want some nice ideas for stories.

(gosh i really hate the Enter key rn) anyways, thanks for sharing this, I didn't know about two arrows. It really sparks ideas! :D

One thing all Greek gods have in common is that all of them overreacted and turned into as'sholes at some point lol

Damn.

Wow, brilliant. I never knew cupid had two arrows x.x