From Plato’s The Republic, 423e–424a:

“all these women shall be wives in common to all the men, and not one of them shall live privately with any man; the children too should be held in common so that no parent shall know which is his own offspring, and no child shall know his parent.”

What the. 😂

There have been some cringe takes on Greek paganism recently, arguing that you should interpret myth allegorically rather than literally. This is a red herring because you can interpret a myth allegorically while accepting the literal meaning.

Here's a recent example:

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This post introduces the term "hyponoia", which was later replaced by "allegoria". Very often Christians and Platonists will introduce a Greek term to give the appearance of depth to an idea with a perfectly good English term. "Hyponoia" means "deeper sense", but it isn't a purely positive term. Here are some examples:

Put an end to this tittle-tattle (hyponoia), to this idle babble, that set us defying one another. (Aristophanes, Peace)

The statements which the fellow makes, men of the jury, are insinuations (hyponoia) which he has himself made up, false excuses, and bits of trickery, got up with a view to defrauding me of what he ought to pay me. (Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus)

"Tittle-tattle" and "made up insinuations" and "bits of trickery" are good descriptions of how many Neoplatonists interpret Homer.

"Allegory" is a better term because it carries the sense that a story is some sort of morality play invented to make a point. This is what Neoplatonists think Homer is. Plato didn't, he just thought Homer was evil and needed to be censored.

There's nothing wrong with interpreting the myths allegorically. But there is something wrong with interpreting them only allegorically. If you don't believe in the literal interpretation, you don't believe in the gods, you just believe in the morality that these non-existent characters are there to communicate. This is heresy and needs to be called out.

@folkishworldview

Embarrassing

UK is insane

Party

So much can go wrong

…and then they made a runestone to commemorate it.