Now I won’t deny I love greek myth adaptations, I’ve read Percy Jackson, The Goddess Test, Goddess Girls, Oh My Gods, so on and so forth. They’re epic in its largeness, its weirdness and dysfunction. They’re also human, explaining the origins of Earth and humanity as the Greeks believed they came to be.

I just have to ask, why does it seem that the myth of Hades and Persephone get the most retellings and adaptions- Lore Olympus, Abandon, Neon Gods, Goddess Interrupted, A Court of Mist and Fury, etc.

Now I get the appeal of brooding bad boy and girl seeking to break away from the smothering chains of her mother to become independent, and the romanticism of it all. It helped inspire Beauty and the Beast which has spawned a dozen other retellings on the trope.

So yes, appealing and relatable to our romantic senses, why does that one get all the love?

What about Apollo and Hycinth? Okay, yes it ends in death but obviously the adaptations can spin it however they want. Explore the love triangle between Apollo, Hycinth and Zephyr, the tragedy of loving a guy with so much potential yet so many issues (Like seriously, Apollo just has so so so many issues. He’s not the best guy but he’s charming).

Or Zeus and Hera. That could be an interesting story exploring the cheating and dynfunction a la Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Or maybe update it to a high school setting to explore emotional abusive relationships. This being that I’m in the camp that Hera has a bad rap. Her husband is king of the gods, she can’t punish him for cheating. When she tried to punish him, he chained over Tarterus for a thousand days, taunting about her about death. Of course, the only way she can vent her anger is on the women Zeus is cheating with. It’s not right, but it’s sort of a rock and hard place situation.

There’s also plenty to be mined from Posidon and Amphitrite’s relationship. Mainly because there’s so little of it that writers could theorectically do whatever they want. Make a surfer-lifeguard romance or something. They’re like the most stable couple actually. Sure Posidon cheats but so does Amphitrite so equality. It’s like an open marriage honestly, and there was no kidnapping as its foundation.

Same with Ariadne and Dionysus when Dionysus saved Adriane from being stranded on an island by Theseus (of Minotaur fame). they actually had a good marriage and a child amid Dionysus’ revelry. It could be a whole first impressions, look behind the party god thing.

There’s also all the weird little myths like Eos and her mortal lover that she turned into a cricket or Artemis and Orion (did she like him? Was he just a friend? A jerk? So many different interpretations for people to spin) or the eternal Aphrodite-Ares-Hephestus love triangle. Seriously, so many myths to choose from.

So that’s my little rant of the day. Greek mythology has an abudence of stories to be explored, adapted, taken apart and modernize. Not just Hadeds-Persephone or the Trojan War. We need more Greek variety.

Comment below with your thoughts or what myths you want adapted!