#Parthenopaeus
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ilions-end · 5 months ago
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heard some guys were gonna go conquer thebes. i'm sure they'll be fine
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tylermileslockett · 8 months ago
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Atalanta#8 "Aphrodites Revenge"
The marriage between Hippomenes and Atalanta proves strong and true, and Hippomenes doesn’t stifle his wife’s wild independence. On the contrary, he loves her the more for it. Many days they hunt together in the forests, and before long they have a son, Parthenopaeus. However, Hippomenes made an unforgivable mistake. He forgot to honor and sacrifice to Aphrodite for helping him win the foot race. The Olympians do not forget such things easily, and the goddess plans her revenge. One day the pair rest inside a cave dedicated to the mother goddess Cybele, where Aphrodite bewitches the two with lust, and they lay together within site of the gods. Furious at the blasphemous act, Cybele turns the lovers to lions, and put them under the harnesses of the Goddesses chariot.
Atalanta and Hippomenes son, Parthenopaeus, has his own epic life and story, as he goes on to be one of the captains in “The Seven Against Thebes” play. The third in a trilogy by “the father of Greek tragedy”, Aeschylus, the play concerns the two sons of King Oedipus of Thebes, Eteocles, who refuses to relinquish the throne, and Polynices, the other son who leads a revolt army led by seven Argive (from city-state of Argos) captains.
Cybele, a mother goddess of fertility, motherhood, and wilds, has her roots in Anatolia (Turkey), also knows as Asia Minor, in the kingdom of Phrygia. Using the title of Meter Theon, or “Mother of the gods,” the Greek equivalent would be Rhea. The goddess was born a hermaphrodite, but the other gods, fearing this duality, cut of her penis and discarded it. Later, when her mortal lover, Attis, spurns her, she drives him crazy and he amputates his penis and bleeds to death at the base of a pine tree. Thus, Cybele’s cult was run by transgender eunuch priests; the Galli. The orgiastic rites of the cult of Cybele share similarities with the cult of Dionysus. Apparently the priests and other followers, in honor of Cybeles castration, would work themselves into a frenzy, and mutilate and bleed themselves upon violets (representing Attis blood) adorned on a sacred pine tree.
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prince-of-calydon · 2 days ago
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torn between wanting more people to know about the thebaid vs fearing how badly every single character would get fandomized. angry smol uwu bean tydeus. tragic rebellious sadgirl antigone. argia and deipyle would be DELETED so tydenices can kiss
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styxxanaxkolasidefender · 2 years ago
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You know what?
*Yassifies your CoN characters*
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How soon is too soon to make memes about sabotage?
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onipanda379 · 2 years ago
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Yee haw! Happy pride!
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itachi86 · 1 year ago
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"Ash took it all in stride until they got to the part about Grim. His swirling silver eyes turned red. “You’re wanting to join us?”
“I may have made some mistakes.”
“May?” Ash growled.
“Okay, I made some mistakes. But together, we can fix it.”
Acheron let out an evil laugh. “This isn’t a tire that blew on the interstate, old man. You’ve been making mistakes for centuries.”
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xrealmofmanymusesx · 11 months ago
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Headcanon: Acheron & Alessia
Many many years ago, when Alessia was a child, she found Artemis secret. She was a curious child, being the daughter of Athena, so one day when she felt a presence that did not belong to Olympus, the young girl decided to investigate.
Alessia waited for Artemis to leave for her duties and her maids to be occupied before she left her mother's temple and go the temple of Artemis.
She walked in very easily but there was an area that was locked away, that's where the presence that the young girl felt came from.
What the grand majority of people did not know is that Alessia was much more powerful then she looked, being a god killer, so locks where very easily for her to break.
The young girl walked up to some double doors, also locked, and opened them. There she saw it. A man in Artemis bed, more like chained to Artemis bed.
Acheron thought it was Artemis returning when he heard the door opened, but has he looked he was a small child looking at him. He crossed his legs, trying to cover himself from her eyes. They did not say anything to each other. He just looked at the child and saw her raise her hand and suddenly his chains were loose.
He removed the chains and when he looked back to the door, he did not see the child. But he got himself out of the bed and put some clothes on. When he got to the he saw her again, the small child crounching against the door, knees to her chest.
Ash lowered himself to his knees, to not scare her or make her feels uncomfortable.
Alessia looked up to the men with blonde her and mercury eyes. "You are not from here."
"No, i am not."Ash said. "How did you know?"
"I could feel your presence." Alessia said.
"Thank you." Ash said. "What's your name?"
"Alessia. My name is Alessia."
"My name is Ash."he hummed and stretched his hand.
Alessia looked at his hand and shook her head. "I shouldn't touch you."
Ash tilted his head and frowned at the girl.
"I have a tendency to see things that people don't what when i touch them." Alessia said.
His eyes widenned at that. Could it be that this child was like him.
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ilions-end · 28 days ago
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statius really waits until book six of the thebaid to let you know that tydeus isn't just short, he's deceptively scrawny-looking, which is why people tend to not take him seriously as a combatant before they've seen him in action
it's so funny. the mesomorphic curse. the gods really gave their angriest warrior the body of a jockey sized marathon runner
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tylermileslockett · 8 months ago
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Atalanta#8 "Aphrodites Revenge"
The marriage between Hippomenes and Atalanta proves strong and true, and Hippomenes doesn’t stifle his wife’s wild independence. On the contrary, he loves her the more for it. Many days they hunt together in the forests, and before long they have a son, Parthenopaeus. However, Hippomenes made an unforgivable mistake. He forgot to honor and sacrifice to Aphrodite for helping him win the foot race. The Olympians do not forget such things easily, and the goddess plans her revenge. One day the pair rest inside a cave dedicated to the mother goddess Cybele, where Aphrodite bewitches the two with lust, and they lay together within site of the gods. Furious at the blasphemous act, Cybele turns the lovers to lions, and put them under the harnesses of the Goddesses chariot.
Atalanta and Hippomenes son, Parthenopaeus, has his own epic life and story, as he goes on to be one of the captains in “The Seven Against Thebes” play. The third in a trilogy by “the father of Greek tragedy”, Aeschylus, the play concerns the two sons of King Oedipus of Thebes, Eteocles, who refuses to relinquish the throne, and Polynices, the other son who leads a revolt army led by seven Argive (from city-state of Argos) captains.
Cybele, a mother goddess of fertility, motherhood, and wilds, has her roots in Anatolia (Turkey), also knows as Asia Minor, in the kingdom of Phrygia. Using the title of Meter Theon, or “Mother of the gods,” the Greek equivalent would be Rhea. The goddess was born a hermaphrodite, but the other gods, fearing this duality, cut of her penis and discarded it. Later, when her mortal lover, Attis, spurns her, she drives him crazy and he amputates his penis and bleeds to death at the base of a pine tree. Thus, Cybele’s cult was run by transgender eunuch priests; the Galli. The orgiastic rites of the cult of Cybele share similarities with the cult of Dionysus. Apparently the priests and other followers, in honor of Cybeles castration, would work themselves into a frenzy, and mutilate and bleed themselves upon violets (representing Attis blood) adorned on a sacred pine tree.
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accaliatheolofo · 2 years ago
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Been updating & editing my fanfiction up on AO3 before I continue or start other projects. Ch1 fleshed out and updated already; working on ch2. PS. If youd like to chat Dark-Hunters/Acheron hit me up :D
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what-even-is-thiss · 2 years ago
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What that mythology misconceptions post has taught me is that not enough people know about the huntress Atalanta.
She is the character of all time, honestly. Abandoned as a baby for being a girl. Raised by bears, then by hunters. Hunter who won the skin of the Calydonian Boar by getting first blood on the beast. In some versions of her story she's also an Argonaut and even in the versions she's not allowed on board the Argo she gifted Jason his spear.
She tried to avoid getting married by beating her suitors in a race and murdering them when they caught up to her and Hippomenes the guy who ended up marrying her won by cheating with Aphrodite's help. And in some versions of her story she and her husband got turned into lions because they had sex in a place they weren't supposed to or possibly because Hippomenes didn't thank Aphrodite properly for her help. Her son Parthenopaeus was one of the seven against Thebes.
Really. Raised by bears, one of the strongest and fastest humans in the mythos, seemingly knew literally everyone in mythological Greece, beat Achilles' dad in a wrestling match. You'd think modern writers would be all over that.
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lyculuscaelus · 29 days ago
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Some thoughts concerning the Epigonoi. They’re probably around the same age, maybe with Alcmaeon being the oldest—but still the age difference wouldn’t be too significant.
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Aegialeus: it’s likely that he was born late, if we go by Statius’s Thebaid where Adrastus was mentioned to be “lacked male issue” by the time he married his daughters to Polyneices and Tydeus respectively (Thebaid book 1, 390–394). Had to say, this reason makes sense to explain why Adrastus wanted to marry off his daughters so eagerly. If so then Aegialeus was likely born after the time of the double marriage, and still old enough to beget a son before he went for war. Would he be at the age of eight by the time the first Theban War took place? (Might be younger though, since there’s Achilles as an example…)
Alcmaeon: he would be old enough to take heed of his father’s orders for vengeance, but not old enough to do that until about ten years later. Perhaps we may go with Orestes parallel and consider him to be around ten when the Seven went against Thebes, so he’d have the vengeance in his 20’s?
Diomedes: so I actually failed to identify any source for that statement on the wiki page for Diomedes. Nevertheless, Diomedes being younger than the rest of the group makes sense for BOTH the thing about people around him constantly reminding him of the his father and the war in Thebes AND the parallel of him being younger than most of the other Achaean chieftains by the time of the Trojan War.
Sthenelus: older than Diomedes, for sure. Old enough to father a son or two a few years before the Trojan War took place—if Cometes was real, that is (if not, then Cylarabes having died without an issue probably means he could be born at any time which does not help with our calculation). Let’s say, he might be at least eighteen when he begot Cometes, and Cometes being…well, eighteen? When he consorted with Aegialeia (you see, another thing that’s so fricked up is the age difference. If Aegialeia was a daughter of Aegialeus then maybe this makes some…sense—but she would be too young for Diomedes in that case; but if she’s a daughter of Adrastus then…it’s straight up two generations between Cometes and Aegialeia which is just…ugh. Welp another reason why I don’t acknowledge this wicked version of Aegialeia’s story). We don’t actually know the time gap between the Epigoni campaign and the Trojan War (again, that claim on Diomedes’s wiki page is unsourced), but if it’s five to ten years then Sthenelus would be ranging from 16 to 21 when he went for Thebes.
Thersandros: he might be older than Diomedes or about the same age—putting his age between Aegialeus’s and Diomedes’s just in case.
Promachus: his father Parthenopaeus was young. Like, the youngest among the Seven against Thebes. Still, he was old enough to father a son before he left for war (again, let’s say it’s eighteen for the sake of calculation), and we don’t really know when he did that. Let’s say the age when Parthenopaeus left for war ranges from 18 to 23: then Promachus would be around 10 to 15? Again being the youngest, perhaps?
Can’t really decide the age for Amphilochus, Euryalus, Polydorus, Medon simply based on their lineage…
Alright I expect this to be quite different from how everyone calculates their age so let me know if you have other theories!
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styxxanaxkolasidefender · 2 years ago
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You know what?
*Yassifies your Dark-Hunters because I'm Sherrilyn's intrusive thoughts*
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bosspigeon · 7 months ago
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rules: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favourite!
i got tagged TWICE so now i gotta 😅
Uuuuh ill tag @steves-strapcollection @queenbol-of-baldurs-gate @faerieenthusiast @boghermit
@proustianrecall and @thinlyveiledselfinsert
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onipanda379 · 2 years ago
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Acheron and Soleil 💕
Their story can be read here.
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