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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·22 hours 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-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 hours 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
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·22 hours agoAh OK I misunderstood and thought you meant anything written down at that time.
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.
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
Ah OK I misunderstood and thought you meant anything written down at that time.