This is fascinating - I love the thwacking metaphor. Nothing if not descriptive! I'm pretty sure I'm going to be coming back to this post for handholding through writing long fics (if and when, etc etc).
And I love your Hades casting call!
Plus, hey, I guess that fanfic for Greek mythology includes (to be glib about it) more or less ALL WESTERN LITERATURE.
Not to mention that underworld journeying goes back to cave painting (this last courtesy of vague memories of having read The Mind in the Cave a while back - full of TOTALLY HIGH prehistoric shamans and cave walls as membranes between this world and the spirit world, which makes for a decent stab at explaining the 'realism' of Lascaux etc).
BUT ANYWAY. I just love the way that fandom and the internet lets all this snipping and stealing and shaping-up play out in real time. I am still ridiculously shiny-eyed about it!
I think Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a translation of Prometheus Bound, btw. I haven't read it, though, so I can't vouch for it.
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And I love your Hades casting call!
Plus, hey, I guess that fanfic for Greek mythology includes (to be glib about it) more or less ALL WESTERN LITERATURE.
Not to mention that underworld journeying goes back to cave painting (this last courtesy of vague memories of having read The Mind in the Cave a while back - full of TOTALLY HIGH prehistoric shamans and cave walls as membranes between this world and the spirit world, which makes for a decent stab at explaining the 'realism' of Lascaux etc).
BUT ANYWAY. I just love the way that fandom and the internet lets all this snipping and stealing and shaping-up play out in real time. I am still ridiculously shiny-eyed about it!
I think Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a translation of Prometheus Bound, btw. I haven't read it, though, so I can't vouch for it.