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This is G L O R I O U S. I’m filled with adoration for the fantastic art with Patroklos with a magnificent beard and looking like the utter badass he is.

Goddamn, great work and thank you for tagging me!

hey @hephaistionisawesome so i scrolled past this post at 4 am and was filled with uhhh adoration

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Drawings on rocks, inspired by ancient Greek vases. The biggest is about 2.5 inches high, done with Posca paint markers.

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Tumblr is finally speaking to my interests: mercenary Legions for hire

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Inspired by Lucy Lawless utterly eviscerating Kevin Sorbo (x)

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Goya Soda

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thinking abt when pacrim said there are people out there who will have the capacity to know you completely and love you in a way where you genuinely complete each other, VERY much a metaphor for platos concept of two souls splitting from one and then said this is important because you can pilot a huge robot and beat up giant aliens together

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Holy Moly… Astypalea island, Greece. 

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kind of a dumb question, but who do you imagine achilles and patroklos to look like?

Not a dumb question. I was excited to answer this one. Keep in mind these are my personal interpretations so they’re of course 100% correct.

Ancient source-wise, I go by the descriptions in the Iliad and Philostratus’ description in On Heroes because they match my interpretations. 

On Achilles:

Achilles’ hair is thick, lovelier than gold, and becoming no matter where and how either the wind or he himself may move it. His nose is not quite aquiline, but almost so; his brow is crescent-shaped. The spirit in his eyes, which are bluish-gray, casts off a certain eagerness even when he is still; when he is rushing on, they spring out along with his purpose, and then he seems more lovely than ever to those who cherish him. (On Heroes, 48.2)

On Patroklos:

Patroklos had an olive complexion, black eyes, and sufficiently fine eyebrows, and he commended moderately long hair. His head stood upon his neck as the wrestling schools cultivate. His nose was straight, and he flared his nostrils as eager horses do. (On Heroes, 49.3)

“…there stood Patroklos tall at the threshold, vivid as a god…” (Iliad, 11.761-2)

Oh yeah we’re getting some ancient sources up in this bitch because I can’t and won’t change my nature. 

I also made some simple character design sheets for them because I’m extra and like to draw. Here we go.

Achilles:

Blond. This is a given. #blond(e)ambition

Needs to be feminine enough for the whole Skyros episode. 

Twunk vibes (pretty but ripped)

Pointy, “almost aquiline” nose.

Wavy, thick hair. Dramatically windblown at Troy and according to Philostratus he never had a bad hair day so more power to him. What a legend

Real talk: When I draw Achilles I reference a bit/a lot from my own face and a few random actors because a. I’m a narcissist and b. in the graphic novel series Age of Bronze Achilles literally has my face + bigass black eyebrows so I think I’m allowed to at this point (also read those graphic novels- they’re well drawn and good)

Has the look that only one man is standing between him and going balls-to-the-walls crazy dragging a corpse around and performing human sacrifice

The man the myth the legend (Patroklos): 

Patroklos has facial hair. This is not debatable.

Long. Haired. Achaeans. I’m sick of short-haired Patroklos (yes, classical vases I’m looking at you too). They all were rocking long hair in the Iliad. I will settle for nothing less. This was legit the only thing that shit Troy movie with Brad Pitt got right

Mr. “Sufficiently Fine” Eyebrows looking fine

I didn’t draw whole body sheets, but he and Achilles are the same height for very obvious plot-necessary reasons. Going by the Iliad, neither of them were manlets, sorry Alexander my condolences

Under-eye circles because he’s been at Troy for 10 years and is sick of this shit

@Peleus: “Your daughter son calls me daddy too”

We love a kind-hearted Bi-icon

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Temple of Garni, Garni, Armenia

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The absolutely funniest thing on the internet is these comments from heterosexual men under the "Henry Cavill reads thirst tweets" video

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Pallas Athena (Armored Figure), attr. to Rembrandt, ca. 1655

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dude tag your iliad spoilers my bard got laryngitis and his replacement was struck down after insane acts of hubris

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Just saw someone call Hephaistion a ‘scheming wh*re who fucked his way to the top’ and I needed to turn to you to rant lol sorry. How would they even arrive at that conclusion? Are they Krateros reincarnated? Why does it read like a tobg stan’s bad take on Anne Boleyn? Just...why?

Who said it? Point me towards them.

Obviously they didn’t read any of the ancient sources, since they don’t even say definitively if Alexander and Hephaistion fucked or not. Not that it matters. The ancient sources also state all of Hephaistion’s successes, which were (shockingly) not due to who he was or was not fucking. I’m not even to begin to comment about how much the Macedonian command structure wasn’t a meritocracy (cough Parmenion’s sons and a million other nepotistic examples cough).

Why not go all in and say the same thing about Ptolemy, Krateros, Perdikkas, or Alexander himself? After all, Alexander married multiple times for power. As did his dear old dad. Kind of the pinnacle of fucking your way to the top. I’m so fucking sick of this kind of hypocritical bullshit commentary on only Hephaistion that lacks any sort of critical or factual analysis. That person needs to either actually read Arrian and attempt to present a coherent argument or get their fucking head out of their dumb ass.

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Women in Greek Tragedy

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Time shift through a Scottish day

Photographed by Freddie Ardley