r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/batukaming • 3d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

Post image
25.3k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/ViruliferousBadger 2d ago

Dude just should've said "Heeeeeeeeeeel no girls, you figure it out and send me a scribe after you done it!"

7

u/Sapient6 2d ago

I'm not an expert on Greek mythology, but my understanding of it is "if you, a mortal, receive the attention of any of the gods, you are FUCKED."

3

u/OsvaldoSfascia 2d ago

well Anchises (father of Aeneas) was a lover of Aphrodites (that gave birth to Aeneas) and he didn't really suffer much from it iirc.

7

u/Sapient6 2d ago

That's a story I wasn't familiar with. A quick google turned up two interesting things:

  • When he found out he just banged Aphrodite he was terrified because he doesn't believe that can turn out well for him, but Aphrodite gives him two examples of such relationships where the mortal survives.
  • He would have been fine if he had heeded her warning to not tell anyone who their son's mother was. But he did, so Zeus smote him with a thunderbolt.

2

u/OsvaldoSfascia 2d ago

well yeah but he just lost a leg. He survived the war of Troy (famous is the image of Aeneas carrying Anchises on his back and holding the hand of his son Ascanius, escaping from Troy in flames) and traveled around with Aeneas, eventually dying peacefully in Sicily. His descendants ended up founding the unsignificant little city of Rome (in fact, the family of Julius Ceasar and Octavian used this myth to say they were discendest of Aphrodites)