tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4602139679678684216.post7529806432238703134..comments2024-03-28T03:28:51.533-04:00Comments on Bubo's Blog: Robin Hood (New and Improved Entry!)Mark Alfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15709255246413466385noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4602139679678684216.post-64807990763849880182010-06-04T19:13:29.504-04:002010-06-04T19:13:29.504-04:00Ha! I love that you changed the post (tho you cert...Ha! I love that you changed the post (tho you certainly didn't HAVE to). Awesome addendum, too. (And how did I miss Cupid? Oh right, cuz he's boring ...)<br /><br />I feel you on the Atalanta apple thing. I feel like it totally ruined her story, too. There was SOME possibility that they actually referred to different heroines, but that seems pretty unlikely to me.Ailiahttp://blog.paleothea.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4602139679678684216.post-20082735195391446582010-06-02T09:33:07.049-04:002010-06-02T09:33:07.049-04:00Upon going back and revising the post, I saw so ma...Upon going back and revising the post, I saw so many spelling errors that I really should have caught the first time. I was really tired when writing it... :(Mark Alfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15709255246413466385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4602139679678684216.post-22294600798410371312010-06-02T09:20:59.681-04:002010-06-02T09:20:59.681-04:00What can I say? I'm male and therefore a chau...What can I say? I'm male and therefore a chauvinist. <br /><br />Actually, I do stand corrected. This ineptitude goes more down to lazy research than anything against Artemis. She really does deserve to be on this list much more so than several of the others mentioned and I do appreciate your correcting my misdeeds here. So, screw Apollo! I never really liked him anyway! I am redoing the entry a tad to correct the errors of my ways! (Check the bottom of the entry.)<br /><br />However, I am leaving Atalanta off the list. I never liked her. Sure she does cool things and all, I just never liked her (and this time it has nothing to do with chauvinism). I think it was the stopping to pick up the golden apples bit that just ruined her story for me. And I did include Cupid, which is practically Eros...but I almost didn't do that. Thanks for the slide on that one.<br /><br />And last, but maybe most importantly, favorite movie ever? I mean, it's good, but can it really beat <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark</i>? I think not.Mark Alfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15709255246413466385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4602139679678684216.post-50112573092756781072010-06-01T23:20:27.491-04:002010-06-01T23:20:27.491-04:00Oh no you didn't!
Not only did you not give ...Oh no you didn't! <br /><br />Not only did you not give my FAVORITE ARCHER (Artemis) her own bold point, you totally attributed HER MYTH to APOLLO!!! I am shocked. Appalled. Those giants - <a href="http://www.paleothea.com/Myths/OtusEphialtes.html" rel="nofollow">Otus and Ephialtes</a> aka the <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/GigantesAloadai.html" rel="nofollow">Aloadai</a> - attacked Olympus and had the whole place on lockdown. I mean, Ares stuffed in a little jar, the whole nine yards. They called for <a href="http://www.paleothea.com/SortaSingles/Hera.html" rel="nofollow">Hera</a> and <a href="http://www.paleothea.com/SortaSingles/Artemis.html" rel="nofollow">Artemis</a> to come out and sleep with them. They refused. Eventually tho, Artemis agreed to come out if they'd let out Ares. Then she showed up, not as herself, but in the form of a doe so irresistible that they both threw their spears, but she timed it - not accidentally - so they'd get each other.<br /><br />Okay, okay, I'll grant you, Pseudo-Hyginus says that Apollo sends a deer between them, and the Odyssey clearly says Leto's son, not Leto's daughter, who was responsible for their destruction, but Callimachus (in 3 Hymn to Artemis), Apollodorous (in the Bibliotheca) Nonnus say it was Artemis who gets credit. (Ovid says Zeus was responsible for the giants' deaths.) But if you have to choose between those versions, WHY would you choose the Apollo version? The Artemis version has so much more panache! PLUS, that way it can totally be a myth about how the two big strong men discounted the power/strength of the WOMEN of Olympus in the confidence that they could beat the men, and then paid for it. Come on. SO COOL. It really IS like a Robin Hood story if you look at it that way ... I'll grant you, her arrows are painless, but she was still called "Arrow-Pouring Artemis" all over the place, and being a Huntress - with a bow - is really all she does. And she totally has a retinue of Archer-Maidens, which, can we just take a moment to recognize the awesome? Aeschylus apparently wrote a play about them (according the <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NymphaiArtemisiai.html" rel="nofollow">theoi.com</a>), but it has sadly been lost.<br /><br />You also skipped <a href="http://www.paleothea.com/Myths/Atalanta.html" rel="nofollow">Atalanta</a>, the hero(ine) who killed the Calydonian Boar and saved the young prince Meleager, shot two centaurs with arrows that attempted to rape her, and was so well known for her hunting/archery skills that she was one of the Argonauts. <br /><br />You also missed the infamous archer Eros. Which ... well, he's no Robin Hood, so I can let that slide. And Alexander/Paris, whose archery made him more than a little weak as a hero in the Iliad.<br /><br />Also, I'm lovin your description of Odysseus. :-)<br /><br />And can we review? The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) with Errol Flynn is my favorite movie EVAR. Thanks for the pic.Ailiahttp://blog.paleothea.comnoreply@blogger.com