Can the entire corpus of ancient literature about the Greek Underworld stand up to Archive of Our Own?
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Every weapon in Hades is the worst weapon except for the one you like. That said, the bow attack out of dash is an interesting compromise, sort of made for counterattacks – it charges much faster but does about 2/3 of the damage of a regular bow shot.
To Rutskarn's question: Greek mythology retellings have been massively popular in books and comics and fanfiction even just in the last decade, especially Hades/Persephone retellings.
If we take "Hellenic Greece" to extend from say the beginning of the Archaic Period and Homer & Hesiod (8th century BCE) to the fall of the Western Roman Empire (late 5th century CE) we're talking 1300 years over a cultural sphere that stretched at its height from Gilbraltar to India. There would have been a lot of stories, but how many would have been recorded in a permanent medium?
I think Hades tm has more written than folk in antiquaty that believe in Hades by virtue folk tend to avoid thinking about death. Which he inevitably envoke. Also getting into his stuff may get his attention. Good or bad it end the same you either offended him or he want to compare notes so he bring you early. So thinking much about the underworld be tempting fate in figuratively or actual Fates wrath with an early death.
Odviously cult fixated on death and by proxy Cthunic gods would think a lot more than the most folk but still. We just have more time to think about work on it and there just more people in general. That is not as one sided but still have them beat… probably.
As far as popular fiction pulling from Greek myth goes, the Percy Jackson franchise has like 6 times as many AO3 works as Hades, so I’d imagine that’s been a much more influential source of interest in the Greek pantheon.
Been a while since I've listened to Spoiler Warning playing a game I've played more than them, it's pretty amusing.
25:37 – what fandom is Chris talking about here? Something Company?
27:00 – I'm sure Josh knows this, but mystery cults were secret things. Those weren't the only form of polytheistic worship, though.
I heard "Medianites" and was also confused. Also, mythological cults were the original parasocial relationships.
some standard estimates of the highest population the ancient greek world, including all its mediterranean cities, lowball around 7 million people. hades has sold 8 million units. just a fun little "wow the industrial revolution did some wild things to the concept of 'a big number of people'" moment for ya