Collect All Twelve!

October 25, 2020 4:18 PM

Classical Greek mythology in the pandemic. Quarantology by Jonathan Muroya...
posted by jim in austin (9 comments total)

More on the subject from NPR...
posted by jim in austin at 4:34 PM on October 25, 2020

Aw, I like these! I think my favorite is the Minotaur and his maze puzzle.
posted by mixedmetaphors at 6:13 PM on October 25, 2020 [2 favorites]

My favorite is Tantalus reaching for that last roll of TP...
posted by jim in austin at 7:15 PM on October 25, 2020

I don’t get Prometheus. And surely Alecto should have extra bits of yarn lying around?
posted by clew at 7:34 PM on October 25, 2020 [1 favorite]

I’m so deeply buried in that new Hades video game that this post comes at the PERFECT time!

(Alecto was one of the furies, not one of the fates!)
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 8:11 PM on October 25, 2020 [2 favorites]

Looking forward to the Augean Stables DLC
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 9:05 PM on October 25, 2020 [1 favorite]

instead of being chained to a rock and having his liver eaten every day by an eagle, Prometheus is chained to a table with his work from home laptop on it, and endlessly harassed by his two children in eagle costumes, perhaps?
posted by jamjam at 12:18 AM on October 26, 2020 [7 favorites]

Love Persephone.
posted by freethefeet at 12:35 AM on October 26, 2020 [1 favorite]

This is good stuff. Glad to see it posted! (I went to post it myself and the automatic link checker pointed me here. Doh!)
posted by veggieboy at 3:25 PM on October 27, 2020 [1 favorite]