Greek Mythology is Real T.V

Love in the time of ancient Greece was not like movies portray love, looking at what we did this week for writers workshop, finding cliché plot lines and movies, I came to find that what we are seeing in the movie theaters couldn’t be more cliché it’s always the same love story, apart from the movie theater we come to find it on all the T.V shows. In the past weeks I have come to realize that all this people had interesting lives, even though some are exaggerated when we read it we imagine it as it were real, we make our own movie out of it, not the Hollywood cinema type of way but in our own extreme type of way.

“If a serpent’s life is so dear to the gods, I would I were myself a serpent.” No sooner had he uttered the words than he began to change his form. Harmonia beheld it and prayed to the gods to let her share his fate. Both became serpents. They live in the woods, but mindful of their origin, they neither avoid the presence of man nor do they ever injure any one.” [P 1 cadmus] “Their prayer was granted. They were the keepers of the temple as long as they lived. When grown very old, as they stood one day before the steps of the sacred edifice, and were telling the story of the place, Baucis saw Philemon begin to put forth leaves, and old Philemon saw Baucis changing in like manner. And now a leafy crown had grown over their heads, while exchanging parting words, as long as they could speak. “Farewell, dear spouse,” they said, together, and at the same moment the bark closed over their mouths. The Tyanean shepherd still shows the two trees, standing side by side, made out of the two good old people.”[P3 Baucis and Philemon]

As one reads this you can imagine all this types of cinereous and that’s what I think makes unbelievable fun because if you find the right type of book you can make the movie you want. I have had cases in which I have read an entire book in a day, I can’t drop it I need to know what’s next’s and I think that’s what attracts me to Greek mythology.