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IOANNA PAPADOPOULOU is a Greek by descent and Scottish by residence speculative fiction author. Other than writing, she is passionate about art history and museology. She has been published at Hexagon Magazine, Idle Ink, Piker Press and The Future Fire.
Ioanna’s novel, Winter Harvest, will be published by Ghost Orchid Press in November 2023.

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Hello Ioanna! Loved your book and your interview with @MythsBabyPodcast. I wanted to ask if you think powerful goddesses or human characters are purposefully downplayed or misrepresented in the original plays and texts (as I have not read them) and whether characters thought to be less "problematic" and more "charming" get more exposure and participation, as examples or the ideal feminine representation? Thank you!

Ioanna Papadopoulou Hi Opala, Thank you so much for reading and I am so glad you enjoyed the podcast discussion.

Well, to be fair, I haven't read all the ancient texts ei…moreHi Opala, Thank you so much for reading and I am so glad you enjoyed the podcast discussion.

Well, to be fair, I haven't read all the ancient texts either but from what I have read, I am afraid the answer is not as simple (like most things unfortunately) as yes and no. I think it vastly depends on the author and potentially the time period. Ancient Greece spans a very long time so a lot of changes happen within its history and development. And the kind of literature we have been left with (plays, poems, geographies etc) as well.

I also believe that there is a clear difference in the stories and mythologies between human women and goddesses and between Greek women and women from other places. And I do believe that alongside gender, a power hierarchy is also dominating the narratives. Who is allowed to behave in what way and who can exact punishment on them. It is, to me, a desperate and very rigid attempt to never allow changes in power and women have their role and thus we do see oppression, even towards powerful women or Goddesses. Zeus, according to some sources I have heard of, was aware of the danger other Olympians could pose towards him and for that reason he "bound them" to him. (that is my interpretation)

Ancient texts were, I think, both religious and for entertainment so all of them are posing as both. (Now, I think some creators were more interested in challenging things than others.) And thus to reflect the society, they couldn't have women taking the masculine role (the adventurer for instance) because that was not how the world should work. There are exceptions and they are an anomaly and those exceptions are always a divine intervention, Goddesses or foreigners. All the ones I can think of. So yes they were downplayed because they shouldn't exist, but clearly they did because they are written as anomalies.

And at the same time they are not downplayed because a Goddess is allowed to get away with more than a human woman. A foreigner has different customs and as long as she is clearly something else she can be an exotic different occurrence. But, most of the creators were men, people in power were men and the stories again reflect their interests, which don't exclude women but do put them in secondary roles very often.

It is, I think, why the most interesting stories about women (Goddesses, humans, foreigners etc) are from non fiction sources. They are the short descriptions of myths around a place. This to me shows that there was an oral narrative of everyday life that we don't know a lot about and that narrative was a lot of more diverse.

Let me know if you have any follow up questions to this.(less)

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