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Apollo looks so done with Artemis here lol

He's just standing there like

What did she even do LMAO

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drunk divas

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What is this bow-looking hairstyle on the Apollo Belvedere? Is there some sort of historical context or did they just think “this fucks” and move on?

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Apollo 🌟

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Icarus and sunshine gods

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braids the hair of his love

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Summer Solstice

(late post :>

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My little hyperfixation

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heyy i was wondering...

do u go with the version of the myth where helen willingly escapes with paris or the one where he kidnaps her?

tbh i think it wouldn't make sense if helen was kidnapped, because if paris "received" helen as a gift of aphrodite for choosing her, it's more likely that she made helen fall in love with him innit? i mean, i tried to go with the version where helen loves menelaus and everything but it's easier for me to imagine that she "wanted" to go to troy (and went back to normal when paris died?)

idk, what do u think about it?

I also prefer the account where Helen left with Paris willingly. Sure there was a divine influence trying to pair them together but I don't think she was completely brainwashed by Aphrodite either (because I don't believe that's how divine influence always works). Imo it's also definitely possible for her to fall in love with Paris while still having love for Menelaus. It doesn't have to be either this or that.

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We all need a little big hiatus sometimes, welcome back <3

Ahm... I don't want to bother so fast with dumb questions 👉👈 But i have this one when i was reading a Greek Mythology's blog (and i've been seeing this also in videos and others places): Was Apollo responsable from Thamyris's punishment? I saw many people saying that Apollo wanted to erase his rival in the love of Hyacinthus and he told the Muses that the guy boasted about being better than them, so that's why the Muses punished him. I've been seeing this on a video about greek mythology, a post about myths too, and in websites talking about myths, but i couldn't find any ancient source in which Apollo is related to Thamyris' disgrace. The only "ancient source" i found with both togheter in the Muses' contest is one vase painting when Apollo is present with the Muses.

The thing with "Apollo wanted Thamyris away from Hyacinthus" i think begin with a modern book about "queer greek relationships", as i saw... But people are taking as if did happened in ancient sources (just like the "Hestia gave her seat to Dionysus" wrote by Robert Graves, or the "Medusa was a priestess of Minerva", which i don't know when it started). Anyway, maybe you know better about it! Thanks!

I also haven't come across any versions where Apollo is involved in Thamyris' punishment in any way. It's most probably a headcanon.

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Sometimes Paris missed being Alexander..

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"When fair Apollo leaves Delphi's shrine and visits the altars of the north, Castalia's waters differ in no wise from those of any common stream, nor the laurel from any common tree; sad and silent is the cave and the shrine without a worshipper. But if Phoebus is there, Phoebus returned from Scythian climes to his Delphic tripod, guiding thither his yoked griffins, the woods, the caves regain their voice, the streams their life"

– Claudian, On the Sixth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius (trans. Maurice Platnauer)

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The Olympia Twins

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Apollo & Hyacinthus 🌞🦢💏

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This diva pulling up to a musical duel in a fabulous dress 😌✨

The musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, Athenian red-figured pelike (400 - 300 BC)

If I was Marsyas I'd have forfeited and asked him to step on me.

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Happy pride!! Apollo Is having a beautiful day (and night)