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Mar 2018
28m 38s

Don't be Awful, or, the Curse on the Hou...

Liv Albert
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What makes Agamemnon and Menelaus tick? There's a curse on the House of Atreus: Pelops, Myrtilus, Atreus, Thyestes, and Aegisthus, so much awful s**t.

 

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

 

Sources: Classical Mythology, Morford and Lenardon, and The Greek Myths, Robin Waterfield.

 

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