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Americans: I know I've not been paying much attention to primary season, but did Polyphemus win the Nevada GOP primary? 🤣

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Voters in the Nevada GOP primary were presented with three choices: Nikki Haley, Mike Pence and "none of these candidates".
And, well ...

Table showing results at 50% counted

None of these candidates - 27,371 (60.3%)
Nikki Haley - 15,143 (33.4%)
Mike Pence - 1,893 (4.2%)

Greenseer

Tiresias was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years.

"Of ten parts a man enjoys one only; but a woman enjoys the full ten parts
in her heart."

(quoted by Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 68, from a poem Melampodia; they are cited also by the Scholiast on Hom. Od. 10.494.)

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Tiresias strikes the snakes and is transformed into a woman as punishment.
Engraving from The Transformations of Ovidii (Die Verwandlungen des Ovidii) in 226 – printed by Johann Ulrich Krauss around 1690.

(Author's note - Punish me! Punish me!)

Ego Rodriguez

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Group of Greek soldiers round a fire in a garden at night

Wild Woila reviewed Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Paperback, 2017, Penguin Books, Limited)

Spritely & amusing

3 stars

A spritely & amusing contemporary retelling of the Greek myths. Starts cohesively but unravels into disjointed repetition. The gods were the best & worst of humanity - especially in lust & spite!

Reading time 14 days, 29 pages/day

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