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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month ago Contemporary Roman records are less bullshit Didn’t Pliny the Elder include the Basilisk, the Manticore, and the Phoenix in his Natural History? Meanwhile, Seneca described the feats of Hercules, the sorcery of Medea, and the plung into the underworld by Oedipus.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoAh OK I misunderstood and thought you meant anything written down at that time.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoHow often people do get plunged into the underworld out there? That’s Hercules, Oedipus, Heracles (Hercules’s nonunion Roman equivalent), persephone (rhymes with shone), Orpheus, who else? That’s like all the ancient geeks I know
Didn’t Pliny the Elder include the Basilisk, the Manticore, and the Phoenix in his Natural History?
Meanwhile, Seneca described the feats of Hercules, the sorcery of Medea, and the plung into the underworld by Oedipus.
Ah OK I misunderstood and thought you meant anything written down at that time.
How often people do get plunged into the underworld out there? That’s Hercules, Oedipus, Heracles (Hercules’s nonunion Roman equivalent), persephone (rhymes with shone), Orpheus, who else? That’s like all the ancient geeks I know
*ancient nerds