#Menelaus

[emmikay]

Odysseus: How do tall people possibly sleep at night when the blanket can’t possibly cover you? 

Menelaus: Laertides, it’s 4 in the morning. 

Odysseus: So you can’t sleep? Is it because of the blanket?

[qinnyanimation]

Iliad book 3 but Paris is a bisexual freak

[wolfythewitch]

helen and menelaus for a saturnalia gift exchange :D I don't have a proper helen design yet but hehe menelaus tall

[ejthepuca]

They’re in love I swear

[maggie44paint]

Uhhh so I made Menelaus/Helen Iliad Swap AU-

Or as I like to call it Malewife Menelaus AU

Basically everything is the same but Paris kidnaps Menelaus instead of Helen and Helen goes to war to get her husband back!

Nobody dies in the end and they all end up in poly relationship

[strangerinalostworld]

orestes and elektra. and hektor and kassandra and paris. and menelaus and agamemnon and anaxibia. ughhhh. ya know. ya feel me

[waytooobsessedwithmcyt]

Polyamory would have saved the Trojans

[inflamedautistic]

The Iliad is probably one of the funniest books I ever read

Like I'll be having a not-so-good day, then remember how Hector had given himself an entire pep talk to fight Achilles. He saw Achilles running full speed towards him and proceeds to just book it.

Or when Menelaus got shot by an arrow in like in an ultimately nonfatal spot, and Agamemnon begins prematurely mourning him while he's standing there like 🧍‍♂️” you're scaring the men.”

Or when Odysseus is walking around the camps with a royal scepter and is just beating people with it if he finds them packing or suggesting to leave.

Or when Hector is brainstorming on how to face Achilles and for a moment goes, “Maybe I could talk with him, we’re both princes, we can both be rational, I could reason with him… that's a horrible fucking idea.”

I have more, but these, in particular, really tickle me.

[simoondraws]

"The horse and the infant"

[serashii]

Menelaus. Best boy.

Your honor I love him so much. Menelaus the man that you are!!

+menehelen doodle under cut

[mushyooms]

iliad book 11 my beloved

[emmikay]

Menelaus: Don’t be a child, it’s just a flesh wound. 

Agamemnon: It happens to be your flesh!

[qinnyanimation]

Things To Never Say To Someone Who Just Came Out : Iliad edition

[wolfythewitch]

Both fellow-countrymen then,

how often we’d have mingled side-by-side!

Nothing could have parted us,

bound by love for each other, mutual delight …

till death’s dark cloud came shrouding round us both.

[ejthepuca]

Actual Happy Valentine’s Day post. Somewhat. Ignore the fire and blood xx

[maggie44paint]

I find it so funny how badly movie adaptations of Iliad always potray Helen's and Menelaus' relationship, cuz it's literally just:

Helen, according to movie directors: "My husband is so old, evil and ugly, I wish I could run away with hot young Paris who treats me like his queen"

Helen in Iliad: