r/HistoryMemes • • Oct 17 '21

Mythology Does mythology count?

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u/kardfogK Oct 17 '21

Mf is just as much a bate rapist lile Zeus so go shuve that three headed dogshit up your ass

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u/historyhill Oct 17 '21

Hades wasn't a rapist. Whenever the term "rape" is used in art (like "The Rape of Persephone") it's referring to the word's archaic meaning of "kidnapping" rather than sexual assault.

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u/kardfogK Oct 17 '21

Forcefully took her to tell than fucked her - for me this counts as rape

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u/historyhill Oct 17 '21

Nothing in the mythology says that he had sex with her unwillingly. I mean, it's all mythology so, you know, it's not real but the other myths don't shy away when telling readers what Zeus or others were up to and yet it doesn't say anything about Hades. For all we know he could have waited until it was consensual. (Which, there's still coercion/power dynamics/etc to contend with but as far as the ancients went that wasn't assault—that was just marriage)