#Greek mythology reference??
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crookedchildphantom · 3 days ago
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Dont speak to me for 4-5 business days, I'm gonna pull an orpheus and sneak down into the underworld
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theghostleeapparition · 1 month ago
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Hiya, it's been a while!! Have dolphin inspired Poseidon as I (continue) to work on god games!
Based on this:
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(+bonus video)
Six Hundred Strike but Odysseus turns into Elizabeth Schuyler (also posted on YT)
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literaryvein-reblogs · 6 months ago
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Words related to Mythology
to include in your next story/poem
Ambrosia - the food eaten by Greek and Roman gods; a very pleasant food
Chthonic - relating to or living in the underworld (i.e., the place in ancient stories where the spirits of the dead go)
Chimera - in Greek mythology, a creature with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a snake's tail
Delphi - an ancient Greek sanctuary (i.e., a holy place) on Mount Parnassus, where an oracle (i.e., a female priest) was believed to be able to answer questions with advice from the god Apollo
Fate - what happens to a particular person or thing, especially something final or negative, such as death or defeat
Gorgon - one of three sisters in ancient Greek stories who had snakes on their heads instead of hair, and who turned anyone who looked at them into stone
Harpy - in Greek mythology, a creature with the head of a woman and the body of a bird
Hydra - in ancient Greek stories, a creature with many heads that grew again when cut off; also, a difficult problem that keeps returning
Ichor - in Greek mythology, the liquid that flows in the bodies of the gods instead of blood
Muse - in ancient Greek and Roman stories, one of the nine goddesses who were believed to give encouragement in different areas of literature, art, and music
Nectar - in ancient Greek and Roman stories, the drink of the gods; also, a sweet liquid produced by flowers and collected by bees and other insects
Satyr - a god in Greek literature who is half man and half goat
Siren - in ancient Greek literature, one of the creatures who were half woman and half bird, whose beautiful singing encouraged sailors to sail into dangerous waters where they died
Sphinx - an imaginary creature with a lion's body and a person's or animal's head, usually with wings; in ancient Greek stories, a creature at Thebes with the body of a lion, the head and breasts of a woman, and wings. She asked people who passed by a riddle (i.e., a difficult question) and if they could not answer correctly, she killed them
Underworld - in mythology, a place under the earth where the spirits of the dead go
If any of these words make it into your next poem/story, please tag me. Or leave a link in the replies. I’d love to read them!
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princess-of-morkva · 2 months ago
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Merlin and Arthur as Orpheus and Eurydice
so we all know about how Orpheus's challenge was actually impossible from the start because if you truly love, you always turn back?
now make it merthur
merlin bargains with the sidhe, the keepers of arthur's sleeping soul in avalon, to allow him a chance to get arthur back. and to do that, he has to lead arthur out of the underworld without turning back to look at him (we all know the story).
arthur, having just woken up and absolutely confused about everything that's going on, keeps pestering merlin with questions, and most importantly, why wouldn't he look at him?
at some point, merlin can't take it anymore, overwhelmed with grief and longing as he is, he forgets himself, just for a second, and turns around to tell Arthur off as he's done many times before.
the second their eyes meet, merlin realises his mistake.
the next second, he's standing in front of the sidhe council again. arthur isn't there.
he is then told, that the price for disobeying the rule was for him to be trapped in avalon instead. arthur can still return to the world of the living, but he now has to do it on his own.
they also say that there is still a chance for merlin to leave avalon, but that is only possible if someone comes for him the same way he has come for arthur - through overcoming the boundary between life and death by the force of their love for him.
merlin doesn't even consider that an option, seeing that there is no one left alive to even remember him, let alone love him. he doesn't think it possible someone could love him, really (merlin's s5 incredible low self esteem "he won't even notice i'm gone")
imagine his surprise when arthur comes barging into avalon demanding merlin be handed back to him
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artistxgrotto · 4 months ago
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calypso redesign because waiting for jay to post another love in paradise snippet is driving me insane
antinous is next (spelling is hard,,)
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itseghost · 1 year ago
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kiss from an angel of death
i really hope 2 finish this painting one day but i just have not been able to get around to it even though i do like how its turning out haha
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(yes, i know than's costume should be flipped so what i drew on the right is on the left, i plan on flipping the composition and fixing stuff from there, bc i dont want the wing pauldron covering their faces teehee)
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pahatarcarabosse · 2 months ago
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Hermes with Holy Moly Nymphs after Wouldnt You Like
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mcsiggy · 4 months ago
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I love the war gods cuz i can do things like this
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khuuxu · 3 months ago
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"Time to go home, Prince of Ithaca."
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Ver. Without shadow :]
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doodlerose · 5 months ago
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I don’t know, just the image of Andromache not being aware that Hector had died right away, along with the image of the tapestry she is weaving is really striking.
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sarnai4 · 2 months ago
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(What could feasibly happen in "Little Warrior.")
Telemachus (inching closer to Ares while trying to not be noticed): 😶‍🌫️🏃‍♂️😶‍🌫️🏃‍♂️
Ares (noticing him and not knowing what he's doing): 👀🤨
Telemachus (successfully gives him a hug): 🤗😆
Ares (doesn't kill him): 😶
Odysseus (inching closer to Athena): 😶‍🌫️🏃‍♂️😶‍🌫️🏃‍♂️
Athena: 😑Don't even think about it.
Odysseus: 🥺
Athena (sighs and stretches her arms out): 😮‍💨🤗
Odysseus: 😁🤗
Athena (to Ares): 🙄What are we going to do with them?
Ares (shrugging): 🤔 I'm still figuring out how this works.
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leynaeithnea · 3 months ago
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Diomedes
Ok so this wikipedia article was a LOT more elaborate than I expected, I just spend over two hours going through it and making notes Nobody asked for it but here are my notes on Diomedes, theyre not consistent, i changed style and detail a few times, but alas here we go:
Diomedes:
strong defender of justice, deserves better
lost a lot of people
warrior very young
athenas favorite warrior
his fathers glory (and shame)
breast plate from haephestus
shield from his father blessed by athena
fathers sword
spear
boars, lion
most expiereneced warrior of achaeans
doesnt like achilles
brought 80 ships
Sthenelus, chariot driver, best friend, epigoni
youngest of the kings
(post homeric: offered immortality, divinified)
helped Odysseus kill Agemenons daughter
helped Odysseus kill Palamedes (bitch deserved)
brave, NOT haunted by hubris
wounds both ares and aphrodite (same day) and attacts apollo, but withdrew in time
granted divine sight to see immortals (on that day)
grew up way too soon
big battle when 14
more level headed than Ody (can take an insult)
doesnt hesitate to call out bs
“let him go or stay, the gods will make sure that he will fight” (hc: he tried, very humbled by the gods)
athena joined his fight once, driving his chariot and guiding his spear
“friends” with glaucus (trojan) (“i wont fight more immortals” “bro, our grandparents were bros”, “ok give me your gold armour, ill give you my bronze one”)
saves Nestor (ody runs away when he asks for help :(
wants to kill hector so he doesnt get taunted (Nestor says no, Zeus says no 3x /+1 lighting) he eventually turns back and gets taunted, he kills another guy
he attacks the trojans at night and wins, after hector boasted, in the end diomedes is the one worshipped as immortal
agamnenon wants to leave, Dio says hes a bad leader (yes), and that he’ll stay to fight the city that is doomed to fall, even with zeus fighting for the trojans, nestor says he has no better idea, proposed to appeall to achilles with gifts (ody and agamenon agree), they fail, Dio tells them “told you so” (but it doesnt matter anyway, theyll win)
he sleeps outside his tent in armour (they wake him n others at night for council about spies, Dio volunteers, he gets to pick a second, he goes for Ody, ody didnt rly want to go, Dio choose him anyway despite deserting him)
Dio and ody face the spy of the trojans Dolon, (hiding between corpses) he almost runs away but Athena “is fighting to be known” doesnt want someone else to strike first, so she makes Diomedes throw the spear and orders him to stop, Dolon tells them good gossip, including white horses, Dio kills him
they do some more bs, like killing people in their sleep (dio) and stealing horses (ody) dio considers unaliving more until athena suggests he may stop so other gods dont get jealous
both kings are good at being stealthy AND open combat
Rhesus horses are badass (first sign for the fall of troy), Dio gets them (bedding gift?), people without the horses and king leave W for the achaeans
Lord of War Cry
dio throws a spear at hector, apollos helmet saves him, but he mingles with the crowd, first time that Dio speaks back and calls him a dog (even the best men loose their temper at times)
Paris shoots his foot, (fucking moron blasts about it, Dio gives him a verbal lashing) he withdraws under cover of Odysseus, ody gets an ouchy
agamennon wants to flee (again), Dio tells them they should just let themselves get wounded again
Dio wins all funeral games of patroclus (though wounded) – Athena makes sure of it – draws first blood in the fight with Ajax, they stop him worried he’d kill him
Athena appears to him undiguised, Athenas favorite
kills some amazons, Achilles kills his cousin (who was a bitch), dio mourns him though and wants to have achilles punished
Dio and Ody bring Achilles son to Troy after Achilles death (bc they could not win the war without him there)
Ody and Dio sent to negoiate for peace after Paris’ death (by poised bow that the two of them stole?)
dio and ody gotta steal a statue of athena, ody disguises himself as beggar at night, dio follows later and brings the statue out
Ody tries to stab him in the back?? (to get the glory himself???) Dio catches it and ties him, and shoves him infront of himself, but refrains from punishing him because they need him (“for the greater good”)
dio is one of the warriors inside the trojan horse
dio leaves immediatly after the fall of troy (after the achaeans angered athena through the rape of cassandra by ajax the lesser) and arrives home safely (favored by the gods) Post Trojan war possibilities:
when he gets there his wife has commited adultery and keeps him out of town (palamedes brother having told he brought a different woman) aphrodite being pissed about the scratch helps her get many lovers, he has to leave again
gets kidnapped by some guy to get sacrificied to ares, gets saved by a girl
comes to the court of some other king who offers him his daughter as wife and lands, if he fights for them, so he does, and has two sons with her
he refuses to fight more trojans later on, he just wants to live in peace
birds haunt him and his men (his men cried so much over his death they got turned into birds)
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theghostleeapparition · 1 month ago
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Apollo! Slight design change (Testing out new stylus, trying to get used to it atm)
... also
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literaryvein-reblogs · 6 months ago
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More Words related to Mythology
to include in your next poem/story
Apathēs - Literally, “without suffering.” Concept frequently applied to God or the gods, who, being immutable, do not experience emotions, particularly anger.
Asebeia - “Impiety”; show of disrespect to religious images or rituals. Punishable by death in Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries C.E.
Daimōn - Greek word for god, sometimes synonymous with theos, at other times indicating lower divinities, or intermediaries between gods and mortals. Can be benign or malicious; note Christian treatment of daimōn as an evil being—whence “demon.”
Demiourgos - Plato’s term for the creator who first designed the cosmos according to the forms, then created a physical world that accords with the design.
Eleusinian Mysteries - Yearly ritual in honor of Demeter and Persephone. The ceremonies, involving initiation into the cult of the goddesses, were regarded as mysteries, and were supposed to be kept secret on pain of a charge of impiety.
Epistēmē - “Knowledge”; for Plato the objects of epistēmē were the ideas/ forms; the sensible world was not knowable in the true sense, as it was constantly changing.
Golden Age - Motif of an age at beginning of time when humans lived a life of ease and bliss.
Katabasis - Literally, “a going down, descent”; motif of the descent of a living hero into Hades.
Mimēsis - “Imitation, representation.” Process used in art and literature of rendering a subject as lifelike as possible.
Psychē - Greek for “soul.” In Homer psyche refers to the shades of the dead in Hades. In Greek philosophy, beginning with Heraclitus, psyche refers to soul of living person. Encompasses both mental and emotional aspects of the human makeup; often identified with the self.
From "The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers" by Michael Herren
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chaosongreekcampground · 2 months ago
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Diomedes: chaos?
Odysseus: chaos!
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doctorsiren · 2 months ago
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Can you draw Telemachus and Athena?
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I got two asks for this, so I’m doing one of them as animals for the silly
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