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nerdrooikat · 22 days ago

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some of the first pgs of my journal (the Henry-esque one)

#yes that is Antinous at Delphi #I'm no better than Hadrian (I'm also obsessed with that Roman twink)#no specific rhyme or reason 2 this i just wanted to compile some images i find pretty #also wanted 2 ramble about my time in greece #hence antinous <3 #bought a postcard of him when i was in delphi bc they have the statue in the museum there and i think i fell in love #antinous at delphi #antinous posting #<- NOT the guy from homer #the kat speaks #the secret history #henry winter #<- ig?

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smokey07 · 21 days ago

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I think we should draw our fav ship like this. I’ll start:

Menelaus and Helen on their trip back home

P.S: It’s an actual dialogue in the movie. I don’t even have to make shit up

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sunrisebutterfly · 4 months ago

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please people stop seeing retellings as an substitute of the original material. thanks.

#yes epic and percy jackson fandons i'm talking about you both #epic and pjo are two of my favorite things in my whole life but PLEASE sepparate it from the original source #epic fandom is not too much like this most of you guys know the original source but there's some people who are almost driving me crazy #epic the musical #the odyssey #homer #percy jackson #greek mythology #ALSO MADELINE MILLER FANS

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katerinaaqu · 22 days ago

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After having visited my nephew who is a sneaky little sweetheart has me thinking of Odysseus's childhood. (Headcanons ahead!)

I so imagine he would, as a toddler, being sneaky and proud of it. He would climb on a table and eat that extra set of grapes even if his parents told him not to, he would crawl or run about the house at the rooms he wasn't supposed to. He would look at you in the eye while doing so and he would come at you with that sweet baby look of his, hugging you and making you forget about everything.

Because he knows even as a baby that he is the beloved "much prayed for" child (possibly an only child till later too). He has those big smart eyes that stare into your soul. He would know how to speak very early (possibly already at 1st year forming words and phrases) and he would use them all as a weapon to kill you with cuteness and make you "aww" no matter what he does!

And with those big and beautiful eyes (the latter is Homer-canon) and his curly hair he truly would be a little devious devil wearing an angel's face hahaha 😆

You know he is up to no good and you are willing to forgive him for it! Odysseus would have been a sneaky little bastard from infantry and you can't change my mind

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teddybearty · 5 months ago

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Drew more SimpGuy bc I’m obsessed 📺💕

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kilgarraghforever · 13 days ago

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I am genuinely really enjoying seeing people who have clearly never read the Odyssey before reacting to EPIC's Ithaca saga. I haven't listened to EPIC myself (yet) but people keep saying stuff like "Odyseeus built their palace around an olive tree he carved into his and Penelope's marriage bed that's so symbolic" and "He really just murdered all the suitors wouldn't that piss off their parents?" Which are observations and questions that the Odyssey makes incredibly blatantly clear as to the symbolism or the answer because it's a really old poem and subtlety wasn't really Homer's strong suit.

There's something really endearing about seeing people interact with the Odyssey through the same way the Ancient Greeks did - a bard singing the story of Odyseus' nostos.

(I gather the details have changed a little, but that's what happens with oral storytelling, and that's how the Odyssey got created in the first place)

Also as congratulations have my favourite ancient depiction of Odysseus surfing with two amphemorae having stolen Poseidon's trident, being sped along by Boreas, stark naked except for a cloak he's holding onto.

#epic the musical #epic the ithaca saga #in answer to the question “what about the suitors parents being pissed” what happens is they all storm the palace gates #odysseus and laertes go out to meet them #and athena appears and goes #“no. my boy has suffered enough to get here. go home and have new #better sons who arent creepy dicks #also re: oral storytelling #its facinating actually because the odyssey wasnt written by Homer he was just the guy who wrote it down #the story existed since at least 1450 BCE #(fall of troy)#and because we know the very basic rundown of what was happening at a) the Bronze Age collapse and Mycenaean Greece #(when the story is set and it first began circulating)#b) the Greek Dark Ages which werent all that dark they just forgot writing for a bit but did a lot of cultural shifting #and c) the Archaic period which is when Homer wrote it down #we can (roughly) figure out what parts of the Odyssey are probably the oldest #what may have been introduced during the Dark Ages to reflect that cultural shift away from Mycenaean civilisation and towards Archaic #and what was introduced in the Archaic period when Homer got ahold of it #which i think is amazing and facinating #and is (very loosely) what is happening with EPIC #(its not the same because modern people are not the cultural inheritors of a story of our relatively recent ancestors' war and returns)#but the changes being made to reflect the modern audience and fit our time better are #kinda #if it was like the changes made in Ancient Greece it would be like the mentioned places to have their modern names #and the monsters changed slightly to relfect current cultural anxieties which i dont think has happened with EPIC #fel free to corect me though because like i said i havent listened to it yet #the odyssey #homeric epics #tagamemnon #technically

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transbutchblues · 6 months ago

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all the gay posts about Diomedes on tumblr have made me start to care about him and I really didn’t need a new greek hero to care about because I’m already obsessed with too many myths but I guess it’s fine

#really funny because i fucking hate odysseus and everyone ships them together (which i agree with tbh. the palladium heist thing is fun)#i am overall very Indifferent to most guys in the homeric epics for some reason… aside from #hektor. i like hektor #and now diomedes ig #the iliad #diomedes

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thalassous · 1 year ago

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WHERE IS YOUR KID SIDE

WHERE IS YOUR JOYFULNESS

WHERE IS YOUR EMPATHY

— fast asleep.

#tagamemnon #the iliad #the song of achilles #tsoa #whale's fall #achilles #THIS IS GETTING EVERY TAG BECAUSE. I THINK IT APPLIES TO EVERY TAG #quote from miller context from homer its ok guys #oh shoot. redraw from awhile ago by the by #let me put a spelling mistake in the caption how DARE YOU.

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eggsandbeer · 5 months ago

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i know the child actors who play vampires stuck at a young age have the time of their lives during production. smoking cigarettes, acting feral as fuck, talking about killing pedophiles. fucking awesome, you go little bloodsuckers.

#🦴🦴🦴#this is mostly for homer from near dark since i just watched but the others too #near dark 1987 #what we do in the shadows #the lost boys #interview with the vampire #(never seen iwtv but i'm p sure there's a little guy in there too)

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find-the-path · 1 year ago

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Reading the Odyssey and the Aeneid back to back really highlights how which god is gunning for you changes the story/your chances of survivial. Aeneas, who Juno (the queen of the gods) hates with a passion and would dearly love to kill, gets to Italy with minimum delays and, though he fights a brutal war there, ends up victorious & everything's great. Eternal Rome founded and all that.

Odysseus, who managed to tick off Poseidon on Roll 1, got screwed over so much on his journey that every single man in his crew died, he somehow made landfall on all of the monster-infested islands of the Mediterranean, his (very short) trip home took longer than the Trojan War had in the first place, and got back to Ithaka so late that nobody there recognized him and he had to go on a murder spree to get his house and family back.

#odyssey #aeneid #virgil looked at odysseus and said 'nah my guy's WAY smarter. he just goes around charybdis and scylla.'#neptune literally warns him AWAY from circe #odysseus #aeneas #that one ithakan aeneas picked up on the cyclop's island honestly probably made it home before odysseus did #homer #virgil

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allieinarden · 3 months ago

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Thinking that Filbrick always loved Ford and always hated Stan is like, you didn’t watch the same show I did.

#Why would a stereotypical Greatest Generation tough guy prefer the little math nerd to the little boxer in the making?#Neither of them impressed him much or often #He rated his kids according to their ability to succeed and make money for the family and Ford was on the verge of that success #He was angry at Stan for blowing Ford’s big break while not being successful himself #Dad of the year he ain’t but I think he really thought Stan would eventually ride back with a million bucks just like Stan thought he would #And I think Stan maybe could have even done it if he hadn’t wound up trapped in Gravity Falls for 30 years #Gravity Falls #He had to basically have the teacher explain to him what he could expect from each of his sons…he did not prefer Ford #This man found out he had two new babies instead of the expected one and he just named both of them “Stan” that tells you everything #Anyway do not get me started on Homer and Bart and Lisa because that would require a three-month college-level history course

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catilinas · 2 years ago

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something something posts about being ‘doomed by the narrative’ as mystification of The Narrative (as in. mystification of sacrifice, when the narrative is sacrificial, which. it is)

#I Just Think It’s Funny #like i love Being Doomed By The Narrative as much as the next person #but you guys realise the narrative didn’t just spontaneously generate. right #girl help. there’s authors in here #<- loose definition of author. for homer reasons #except when there Aren’t authors in here! but i think most posts about being doomed by the narrative #are not thinking about historical (fiction) etc where the author Can’t fundamentally change the real historical ‘narrative’#And That’s Where The Doom Comes From!#or from conflict with other authors of the same events but [i explode into a puddle of flesh before i can make this post explicitly about #lucan’s pharsalia]#or how resist his fate’s prevailing course?#necronarratology #<- puella idk.#beeps

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official-english-major · 6 months ago

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Not really an artist (this is my first attempt at digital art) but I was not seeing nearly enough fanart of Odysseus on Calypso's island