“A” as a prefix means “without”, in Greek ironically. -phobic words aren’t made by sticking whatever you’d call a thing in front of the suffix “phobic”. It’s not spiderphobia for example.
The Anc8ent Greeks literally made a wonder of the world for an asexual, aromantic goddess and put her in the main Olympian pantheon.
The Hellenes had different standards for gods and mortals. If a mortal acted in a way that was acceptable for gods but not for mortals, it was called hubris, and they would be punished by Nemesis.
That’s exactly what happened to Narcissus. Although he was the son of a god and a nymph, the gens worked out so that he was socially considered mortal. Narcissus became a hunter just like Artemis, likely to get away from the city where everyone was always asking him for a fucc. When he met Echo, she got handsy and he told her to get lost. Another sex pest, Ameinias, asked Narcissus for his hand in marriage many times. Eventually he got so fed up, he gave Ameinias a sword and told him to go commit die. And while that’s a bit of an overreaction to sexualk harassment, he was 16, so I’d forgive it. But Ameinias actually did go commit die, and prayed to Nemesis for revenge. “Though he should love, let him not have what he loves”. So Nemesis made Narcissus fall in love with his reflection and starve to death.
So we have here a mortal, presumably a big fan of Artemis since most hunters were, wanting to be left alone and not be sexually harassed, and basically being called stuck-up and full of himself by the whole greek world, including the gods.
TheOctonaut@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Fearless?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 month ago
Prejudiced towards asexual and aromantic people.
TheOctonaut@piefed.zip 1 month ago
“A” as a prefix means “without”, in Greek ironically. -phobic words aren’t made by sticking whatever you’d call a thing in front of the suffix “phobic”. It’s not spiderphobia for example.
The Anc8ent Greeks literally made a wonder of the world for an asexual, aromantic goddess and put her in the main Olympian pantheon.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 month ago
The Hellenes had different standards for gods and mortals. If a mortal acted in a way that was acceptable for gods but not for mortals, it was called hubris, and they would be punished by Nemesis.
That’s exactly what happened to Narcissus. Although he was the son of a god and a nymph, the gens worked out so that he was socially considered mortal. Narcissus became a hunter just like Artemis, likely to get away from the city where everyone was always asking him for a fucc. When he met Echo, she got handsy and he told her to get lost. Another sex pest, Ameinias, asked Narcissus for his hand in marriage many times. Eventually he got so fed up, he gave Ameinias a sword and told him to go commit die. And while that’s a bit of an overreaction to sexualk harassment, he was 16, so I’d forgive it. But Ameinias actually did go commit die, and prayed to Nemesis for revenge. “Though he should love, let him not have what he loves”. So Nemesis made Narcissus fall in love with his reflection and starve to death.
So we have here a mortal, presumably a big fan of Artemis since most hunters were, wanting to be left alone and not be sexually harassed, and basically being called stuck-up and full of himself by the whole greek world, including the gods.