patbroklos:

I always see shit from old classicists demonizing Calypso for holding Odysseus hostage in a land that wasn’t his own and not allowing him to return to his family for years, yet I never see shit from old classicists demonizing Paris for doing the same thing to Helen.

#oh do let’s talk about female ptsd in the Iliad (latining)

YES GOOD PLEASE PROCEED *opens notebook*