That's... Totally Random
Jul. 8th, 2008 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
4thofelevenHuh. Wikipedia claims that Medea and Achilles married in the underworld after their deaths...
Now, sure, Wikipedia isn't always the most reliable of sources, but it's generally pretty good for mythology - still, it's such an utterly random pairing I'm wondering if I'm looking at a particularly subtle example of page vandalism. I mean, you'd be hard pressed to find two characters in Greek mythology less connected that Medea and Achilles.
Still, I'm not willing to automatically dismiss it just because it makes very little sense - if I did that, I'd have to chuck out half the mythology...
Has anyone heard of this before and know what the original source would be?
Now, sure, Wikipedia isn't always the most reliable of sources, but it's generally pretty good for mythology - still, it's such an utterly random pairing I'm wondering if I'm looking at a particularly subtle example of page vandalism. I mean, you'd be hard pressed to find two characters in Greek mythology less connected that Medea and Achilles.
Still, I'm not willing to automatically dismiss it just because it makes very little sense - if I did that, I'd have to chuck out half the mythology...
Has anyone heard of this before and know what the original source would be?
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on 2008-07-09 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2008-07-10 02:24 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-07-11 07:12 pm (UTC)surely the obvious OTP is Medea/Clytemnestra...
...someone should totally write that.