@MikkoKuitunen3@antoniogm Athena helped make the horse. When the Trojan priest Laocoön tried to warn everyone it was a trap, Poseidon sent serpents to kill him and his sons.
@mhmmdrathore@CarlosVEmp@thhouseofblack Same goes for the negative depictions of the Greeks in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida." The English at the time liked to consider themselves descendents of the Trojans, too.
@aldo_mma@lukecaverns A Robert Eggers Odyssey would have everyone in historically correct Bronze Age armor and costumes, and the dialogue would be in Mycenaean (not Classical) Greek. On the debit side, he'd probably show the cyclop's junk.
@aaron_madden17@mattyglesias He tried reconstructed period accents, but felt they would be too alienating for the audience. He said the actors sounded like pirates.
@wil_da_beast630 The murder rate of southern Appalachian whites is now higher than the national white average, but apparently it was catastrophically high into the early 20th Century. I'm not too familiar with why it declined.
@AMXFPositivity Higher sex drive than white gentile women? How does the joke go? Q: how do you paralyze a Jewish woman from the waist down? A: put a ring on her finger