#Agamemnon

[simoondraws]

"The horse and the infant"

[incorrecthomer]

[at Achilles's funeral] Agamemnon: *places his hand on the pyre and sobs* Agamemnon: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

[smoolio]

Decided to revisit some Iliad designs and polish them up! Semi-canon to my EPIC designs. Odysseus is just too jacked lol

[wolfythewitch]

i'm not really sure what to caption this

[nilo05]

agamemnon if athena had not intervened

[kyleesarthell]

Iphigenia...

[neteyammeowmeow]

ARCANE STUDIO FORTICHE MAKING AN ILIAD/ODYSSEY HIGHSCHOOL COMING OF AGE MOVIE EVERYBODY MOVEEEE EVERYBODY MOOOOVEEEEE GET OUT OF THE WAY

[mushyooms]

feasting in Sparta

[duckysprouts]

“fair enough”

by the way, i’m doing the math and they are like in their mid 20s when odysseus framed palamedes, lmao. and you think your workplace hostility is bad?

anyway, love ody but he can be such a dick

[ilions-end]

i love the part of sophocles' ajax where odysseus very carefully, very diplomatically debates agamemnon, trying to convince him that ajax deserves a proper burial

some of my favourite lines:

AGAMEMNON: Odysseus, are you for me or are you against me, and for this man? ODYSSEUS: I hated him when it was honourable to hate him.

!!

ODYSSEUS: He was my enemy, but he was also noble. AGAMEMNON: And you have respect for an enemy's corpse? ODYSSEUS: I am moved by admiration for his greatness, rather than by hatred for his smallness. AGAMEMNON: He was a man of many turns. ODYSSEUS: Many of our friends later become enemies. AGAMEMNON: But do you wish to praise these so-called friends? ODYSSEUS: I do not see friends and enemies as mutually exclusive.

and the finishing blow:

AGAMEMNON: I see now that every man works for himself. ODYSSEUS: Who else should a man work for?

[copycatvagabond]

promise I will stop posting about the Oresteia soon but here is Cassandra

[literallyjusttoa]

RIP Odysseus you would have loved long distance calls.

RIP Diomedes you would have loved Call of Duty voice chats.

RIP Patroclus you would have loved winning every high school popularity contest.

RIP Achilles you would have loved Alpha male TikToks.

RIP Agamemnon you would have loved being an asshole CEO.

RIP Nestor you would have loved toddler leashes.

RIP Cassandra you would have loved being able to sue people for the damages they caused you.

RIP Hector you would have loved the Kentucky Derby.

RIP Paris you would have loved doxxing people anonymously.

RIP Helen you would have loved women getting to have rights.

RIP Troy you would have loved fire extinguishers.

[romarisea]

Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, tr. by Anne Carson [ID in alt text]

[fandomsandfeminism]

What do you think Penelope thought of Clytemnestra?

They were cousins. Both engaged as a consolation prize to men who had courted Helen, men who had sworn an oath to go to war to protect Helen's marriage. Both semi-divine princesses of Sparta, married off to foreign kings.

Odysseus, who very nearly killed their son in order to avoid the war, but couldn't. (He nearly avoided his oath by feigning madness, but had to abandon the ruse because it endangered baby Telemachus) In sparing Telemachus, condemned himself to war.

Agamenmon, who made the choice to sacrifice his daughter in order to ensure the war could begin and their oath kept. In killing Iphigenia, he placated Artemis and allowed the fleet to set sail for Troy.

Penelope was left with the memory of a husband who loved their son more than peace, and she stayed faithful.

Clytemnestra was left with the memory of a husband who chose war over their daughter, and she took a lover and planned her vengeance.

Do you think Penelople condemned her cousin, or empathized? Do you think she would have done the same thing, if their fates had been reversed? Do you think she sometimes wondered what would have happened if their husbands had chosen differently, or why such a thing was a choice given to husbands at all?

[wolfythewitch]

agamemnon upon realizing two of his best warriors were indefinitely indisposed

[minlicious]

i imagine that every time agamemnon proposes a dumb plan odysseus just has to close his eyes and take a really big breath and then he’s just like: okay, but how about we don’t do that because that’s fucking stupid