#Polymele

[spineless-lobster]

Trying to look up pat’s mom and finding out that he actually has five moms one of which is achilles’ older half-sister which is devastating to me not just because they’re cousins but because that means whatever twisted alternate universe troy (2004) takes place in is right

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Mothers of Patroclus

+ How I personally see them, since theres barely any info abt them, imma take some creative liberties :p and yes, all of them are the wives of Menoetius. Idk why there’s so many different versions of Patroclus mother but..whatever

Philomela (probably the most popular woman to be seen as Patroclus’ mother). I imagine her to be a strict, disciplined and sensible woman.

Polymele, Daughter of peleus & half sister of Achilles. I imagine her to be very bubbly, generous and gentle (and mostly taking her appearance after her father ofc, also I can imagine her being VERY pissed at Achilles if she finds out that her son died bc of him)

Periopis, princess of Pherae & daughter of King Pheres. I imagine her to be compassionate & very kind

Sthenele, princess of Iolcus. I imagine her to be a bit dull, worn out and isolated.

Damocrateia, princess of Aegina, and a half-demigoddess half-Naiad daughter of Zeus & Aegina. I imagine her being charismatic, creative & expressive.

[temple-of-hermes]

Lord Hermes Basic Info

Greek name: Ἑρμης

God of: Heards and flocks, travellers and hospitality, roads and trade, thievery and cunning, heralds and diplomacy, language and writing, athletic contests and gymnasiums, astronomy and astrology

Epithets: Epimelius (keeper of the flocks), Criophorus (ram-bearer), Agoraeus (of the marketplace), Dolius (of crafts, of wiles), Enagonius (of the games), Promachus (champion), Hermeneutes (interpreter, translator), Tricephalus (three-headed, of road intersections), Cyllenius (of Mount Cyllene), Acacesius (of Acacesium), Aepytus (of Aepytus), Propylaeus (of the gateway), Pronaus (of the fore-temple), Polygius (unknown), Paramnon (unknown), Argeiphontes (slayer of Argos), Maiados Huios (son if Maia), Diactorus (guide, messenger), Athanatus Diactorus (immortal guide), Angelus Athanaton (messenger of the gods), Angelus Macaron (messenger of the blessed), Chrysorrhapis (of the golden wand), Clepsiphron (deciever, dissembler), Mechaniotes (trickster, contriver), Pheletes (thief, robber, rustler), Archus Pheleteon (leader of robbers, thieves), Poecilometes (full of various wiles), Polytropus (wily, many-turning), Poneomenus (busy one), Buphonus (slayer of oxen), Oeopolus (sheep-tending, shepherd), Daïs Hetaerus (comrade of the feast), Charidotes (giver of joy), Charmophron (glad-hearted, heart-delighting), Dotor Eaon (giver of good things), Acaceta (guileless, gracious), Euscopus (keen-sighted, watchful), Eriounes (luck-bringing, ready-helper), Cydimus (glorious), Ericydes (famous, glorious, splendid), Aglaus (splendid, bright, glorious), Cratus/Craterus (strong, mighty), Masterius (of searchers), Pompaeus (the guide)

Job: Messenger of Zeus, guide to the Underworld

Depictions: Young, beardless, handsome, athletic; older, bearded

Symbols: Winged traveller's cap, winged boots, heralds wand, short sword, pouch, hermea (stone road-marker, wayside shrine),

Sacred animals: Hare, turtle, sheep, cow, ram, hawk, horses, mules, goats

Sacred plants: Crocus, strawberry tree (not to be confused with the strawberry bush)

Day of the week: Wednesday

Number: 4

Planet: Mercury

Celebrations: Hermea

Parents: Zeus and Maia

Partners: Aphrodite, Apemosyne, Brimo, Carmentis, Chione, Circe, Crocus, Daeira, Herse, Iphthime, The Oreads, Peitho, Penelope, Persephone, Polymele, Tanagra

God Equivalents: Odin, Mercury, Thoth

[whencyclopedia]

Hermes

Hermes was the ancient Greek god of trade, wealth, luck, fertility, animal husbandry, sleep, language, thieves, and travel. One of the cleverest and most mischievous of the 12 Olympian gods, Hermes was their herald and messenger. In that position, he came to symbolise the crossing of boundaries in his role as a guide between the two realms of gods and humanity.

Hermes was known for his impish behaviour and curiosity. He invented the lyre, the alphabet, and dice. The latter explains why the god was beloved by gamblers. Hermes was the patron of shepherds and invented the panpipes they used to call their flock. To the Romans, the god was known as Mercury.

Origins & Family

Hermes has a very long history, being mentioned in the Linear B tablets of the Mycenaean civilization, at its height from the 15th to 13th century BCE. Such tablets have been discovered at Pylos, Thebes, and Knossos. With origins, then, as an Arcadian fertility god who had a special love for the Peloponnese, the ancient Greeks believed Hermes was the son of Zeus and the nymph Maia (daughter of the Titan Atlas) and that he was born on Mt. Cyllene in Arcadia. In mythology, Hermes was also the father of the pastoral god Pan and Eudoros (with Polymele), one of the leaders of the Myrmidons, although the god was not given a wife in any Greek myth. The idea that Hermes represented movement is reflected in his role as the leader of both the Nymphs and Graces (Charites).

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NASA's Lucy team discovers the moon around the asteroid Polymele

Incluso antes de su lanzamiento, la misión Lucy de la NASA ya estaba en camino de batir récords al visitar más asteroides que cualquier misión anterior Ahora, después de un resultado sorpresa de una campaña de observación de larga duración, la misión puede agregar un asteroide más a la lista. El 27 de marzo, el equipo científico de Lucy descubrió que el asteroide troyano más pequeño de la��

[meraki-lore]

LOVERS OF HERMES ⚚

"Hermes is the only single guy on Olympus"

This trope is amazing and I love it but it does NOT mean it's true. , and please don't forget that he actually has pretty awesome lovers?

Hekate, Perseus, Amphion, Polymele, The Oreiades, and Aphrodite were all lovers of his. Peitho (at least according to Nonnus) was his wife.

Also Headcannon: (He probably also had Apollo, Ares AND Dionysus as lovers).

[merelygifted]

The asteroid targets of this NASA mission are turning out to be very strange | Space

Related: Meet the 8 asteroids NASA's Lucy spacecraft will visit

...  Two Lucy targets in particular stand out to Buie: Polymele, which the spacecraft will fly past in September 2027, and Leucus, slated for an April 2028 flyby.Occultation work has already offered scientists two surprises about Polymele. Astronomers detected a small, as-yet-unnamed moon orbiting Polymele during occultation observations gathered in March. And the outline revealed so far suggests that the main rock is strange all on its own. "It's actually a kind of hamburger shape, a very oblate object," Buie said.

Meanwhile, Leucus seems to be missing a chunk of its southern side. "That one could be duking it out with Polymele for the award for the strangest object we're gonna see," Buie said. "Leucus is just a bizarre shape and I can't wait to get there and take a look at this one up close."  ...

[hermesmoly]

Listen I love the whole "Hermes is the only single guy on Olympus" trope as much as you do, but please don't forget that he actually has pretty awesome lovers? Hekate, Perseus, Amphion, Polymele, The Oreiades, and Aphrodite were all lovers of his. Peitho (at least according to Nonnus) was his wife. (He probably also had Apollo, Ares AND Dionysus as lovers and I know it's just headcanon but sHH-).

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Lucy: Inspiration and Asteroids

NASA's Lucy mission will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main asteroid belt, and by seven Trojan asteroids.

This illustration is of the Lucy mission's seven targets: the binary asteroid Patroclus/Menoetius, Eurybates, Orus, Leucus, Polymele, and the main belt asteroid DonaldJohanson.

Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

[teatitty]

“Patroclus and Achilles were cousins” really fucking depends on who you think the mother of Patroclus was because let me tell you there’s a lot of debate around that. We know for a fact his father is Menoetius, but his mom? Either Sthenele, Periopis, Polymele, Philomela or Damocrateia

All of the above were wives of Menoetius but there’s no Definitive Answer as to who was the mother of Patroclus. Periopis was the daughter of Peres, Polymele was Achilles’ half-sister and daughter of Peleus, Sthenele the daughter of Acastus, Damocrateia was the daughter of Aegina and Zeus and Philomela’s bloodline is completely unknown!

There is only a 1 in 5 chance that Achilles and Patroclus are related to eachother so like. If you want to go the classic “its greek myth everyone was doing incest back then” sure you absolutely can but there’s also...other options, like, Right Here that you can choose from instead. Just saying

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NASA’s Lucy Mission Confirms Discovery of Eurybates Satellite

NASA - LUCY Mission patch. Jan. 9, 2020 NASA’s Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small satellite. This “bonus” science exploration opportunity for the project was discovered using images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in September 2018, December 2019, and January 2020.

Image above: Illustration of NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, the first space mission to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids — swarms of primitive bodies that are time capsules from the birth of our solar system. Image Credits: NASA/SwRI. Launching in October 2021, Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, a population of small bodies orbiting the Sun “leading” and “trailing” Jupiter, at the same distance from the Sun as the gas giant. With flyby encounters past seven different asteroids – one in the Main Asteroid Belt and six in the Trojans, Lucy will be the first space mission in history to explore so many different destinations in independent orbits around our Sun. “This newly discovered satellite is more than 6,000 times fainter than Eurybates, implying a diameter less than 1 km,” said Southwest Research Institute’s Hal Levison, principal investigator of the mission. “If this estimate proves to be correct, it will be among the smallest asteroids visited.” Eurybates was first observed with Hubble in a search for small satellites in 2018, but it wasn’t until this past November when a Lucy team member noticed something in the data indicating a possible satellite. “We asked for more Hubble time to confirm, and they gave us three tries,” said Keith Noll, Lucy project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a co-discoverer of the satellite.

Image above: This diagram illustrates Lucy's orbital path. The spacecraft’s path (green) is shown in a frame of reference where Jupiter remains stationary, giving the trajectory its pretzel-like shape. After launch in October 2021, Lucy has two close Earth flybys before encountering its Trojan targets. In the L4 cloud Lucy will fly by (3548) Eurybates (white), (15094) Polymele (pink), (11351) Leucus (red), and (21900) Orus (red) from 2027-2028. After diving past Earth again Lucy will visit the L5 cloud and encounter the (617) Patroclus-Menoetius binary (pink) in 2033. As a bonus, in 2025 on the way to the L4, Lucy flies by a small Main Belt asteroid, (52246) Donaldjohanson (white), named for the discoverer of the Lucy fossil. After flying by the Patroclus-Menoetius binary in 2033, Lucy will continue cycling between the two Trojan clouds every six years. Image Credits: Southwest Research Institute. The team was quick to make the first set of confirmation observations in December and early January. The possible satellite was hard to see and moving on an unknown orbit around the much brighter Eurybates. There was no guarantee that it would be visible in the new images. “In the first two observations in December we didn’t see anything, so we began to think we might be unlucky. But on the third orbit, there it was,” said Noll. The team is working with Hubble schedulers to decide when to make the next observations after Eurybates becomes observable again. Due to the orbits of Earth and Eurybates, and because Hubble cannot be pointed toward the Sun, further observations are not possible until June. In the meantime, the team is using current observation data to study the satellite’s orbit around the asteroid, which will help scientists determine the best times for observations. While there is no impact to the spacecraft architecture or schedule, the project team is carefully planning how to safely examine the new satellite while ensuring the mission’s requirement to study Eurybates is fully met. Trojan asteroids have been trapped on orbits associated with the stable Lagrange Points for billions of years due to the combined gravitational influences of the Sun and Jupiter. Lucy will explore the diversity of these ancient leftover building blocks of the giant planets and will open new insights into the origins of our planet and the solar system.

Animation above: During the course of its mission, Lucy will fly by six Jupiter Trojans. This time-lapsed animation shows the movements of the inner planets (Mercury, brown; Venus, white; Earth, blue; Mars, red), Jupiter (orange), and the two Trojan swarms (green) during the course of the Lucy mission. Animation Credits: Astronomical Institute of CAS/Petr Scheirich. “There are only a handful of known Trojan asteroids with satellites, and the presence of a satellite is particularly interesting for Eurybates,” said Thomas Statler, Lucy Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “It’s the largest member of the only confirmed Trojan collisional family – roughly 100 asteroids all traceable to, and probably fragments from, the same collision.” The opportunity to study a prospective collisional satellite at close range will help our fundamental understanding of collisions, which Statler says may be responsible for the formation of satellites in other small body populations. Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is the principal investigator institution for Lucy. Goddard provides overall mission management, systems engineering, and safety and mission assurance. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver is building the spacecraft. Discovery Program class missions like Lucy are relatively low-cost, with development capped at approximately $450 million. They are managed for NASA’s Planetary Science Division by the Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The missions are led by a principal investigator who assembles a team of scientists and engineers to design and conduct the mission to address key science questions about the solar system. Related link: Lagrange Points: http://lucy.swri.edu/2018/03/13/Lagrange-Points.html For more information about the Lucy mission, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/lucy or http://lucy.swri.edu Images (mentioned), Animation (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/Tricia Talbert/Grey Hautaluoma/Alana Johnson/GSFC/Nancy Neal Jones. Greetings, Orbiter.ch Full article

[whencyclopedia]

Patroclus

Patroclus is a figure from Greek mythology who fought in the Trojan War and was most famous for his close friendship with the Greek hero, Achilles. He followed Achilles to Troy and would ultimately die because of him and his actions.

Patroclus' story is most famously told in Homer's (c. 750 BCE) Iliad, a retelling of the great Trojan War and one of the most epic stories of all time. He is portrayed as a kind and loyal man, loved by his comrades and cherished by Achilles.

Early Life

Patroclus was the son of Menoetius, one of the Argonauts (a band of Greek heroes) and the king of Opus (according to some sources). His mother is usually listed as Polymele, Sthenele, Periopis or Philomela. When Patroclus was young, he accidentally killed a youth over a game of dice. As a result, he was exiled from Opus and sent to the court of King Peleus of Phthia to atone for his crime. It was in Phthia that he became inseparable from Achilles, King Peleus' son. Patroclus was older than Achilles and considered a good role model as he was a balanced, kind and thoughtful youth.

According to Pseudo-Apollodorus in his Bibliotheca, Patroclus was one of the young hopefuls who hoped to marry Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. After Helen had run off with Paris of Troy and war had been declared between the Greek city-states and Troy, Patroclus followed Achilles to the Trojan shores. Patroclus was caring and sensible, while Achilles was hotheaded and impatient. So it was thought that Patroclus would keep him in line and be a good influence.

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[rheaitis]

achilles x patroclus for the next universe over: an alternative universe where their roles are reversed somehow

oooh.

Menoeitus takes in the boy, Polymele’s brother borne by a goddess, and gives him a home in Opus. King Actor complains, but none too bitterly if they take care to keep the boy away from him; he is old now, and most days find him seated on the grass in a curve of the river Asopus, murmuring to its waters as he had to his wife till she returned to her father’s realm. For his part, Achilles is happier on the pebbled shore of the Opuntian Gulf, on his back with the waves breaking over him. Patroclus, observing, reports to his father that the boy murmurs to the waters and calls them Mother and Aunt.

Poor scrap of a child, not above six years of age and with his mother already gone. In another court they might whisper of the fickleness of goddesses, who have love for mortal ways, but no willingness to linger, but not in Opus where Aegina ruled and raised her brood. Peleus has terrible choice in brides, mortal and not: Menoeitus was young like a sapling still bleeding green when he became a bridegroom and took Polymele for a bride when Astydameia with malicious craft drove to death Antigone, Peleus’ wife. A sorrowful feast it had been, with the bride’s eyes purple from weeping. 

Menoteius had never had the heart to refuse her the least and greatest of her wishes, and now this boy, young Achilles, whose goddess mother had killed six older sons and spared the seventh. Polymele had trembled in his arms like a storm-caught veil, when they had the news, and Menoetius had risen with rosy-fingered Dawn and woken his father with Patroclus in his arms. King Actor had liked it but little, old man with the memory of Jason’s murderous companions pressing close in the morning’s cool light, but he had looked at his grandson’s yawning face and Polymele’s downcast eyes, and they had sent a messenger riding out as light limned the waves of the Gulf, painted the Asopus ruddy gold.

Achilles had come with a single courier from Peleus–young Phoinix whom he had had healed–and much talk of centaurs and goddesses. If he had mourned his father’s absence, Menoetius had never seen it, but Peleus had been hard like his brother and like Actor and like all the other Argonauts: a man who could kill and kill and kill and call himself content. He had killed his wife’s father, and had killed his wife’s murderer, and had gone thrice to war for his own quarrels; what they had all done at Jason’s bidding Menoetius knows only too well and unwillingly.

He picks Patroclus up–a lanky bundle with his legs dangling–and kisses his son’s forehead, the tip of his nose, his eyes closing in laughing protest. “He’s our guest, and he’s lonely. You must keep him company.”

“Lonely like grandfather is lonely,” Patroclus says, and nods with all the solemnity seven can scrape together. “I’ll take care of him.”

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Il team Lucy scopre una luna attorno all'asteroide Polymele

Il team Lucy scopre una luna attorno all’asteroide Polymele

Il team scientifico di Lucy ha scoperto che il più piccolo degli asteroidi troiani target della missione, Polymele, ha un proprio satellite naturale. Il 27 marzo 2022 Polymele è passato davanti a una stella da nostro punto di osservazione. Distribuendo 26 squadre di astronomi professionisti e dilettanti lungo il percorso in cui l’occultazione sarebbe stata visibile, la squadra di Lucy ha…

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ناسا تكتشف قمرًا جديدًا يدور حول كويكب علي بعد 480 مليون ميل من الأرض

ناسا تكتشف قمرًا جديدًا يدور حول كويكب علي بعد 480 مليون ميل من الأرض

اكتشف علماء الفلك في ناسا قمرًا جديدًا يدور حول كويكب على بعد 480 مليون ميل من الأرض، وهذا القمر الذي يبلغ عرضه ثلاثة أميال، لم يتم تسميته رسميًا بعد، الذى يدور حول الكويكب Polymele، حيث يبلغ عرضه 17 ميلًا من مسافة 125 ميلًا.ووفقا لما ذكرته صحيفة “ديلى ميل” البريطانية، تمكن علماء الفلك من مراقبة الاكتشاف الجديد بالصدفة، باستخدام التلسكوبات على الأرض، عندما مر أمام نجم وحجب ضوءه.   كما أنه في وقت…

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How scientists spotted 9th target for NASA's Lucy asteroid mission

How scientists spotted 9th target for NASA’s Lucy asteroid mission

NASA’s asteroid-touring mission has picked up a ninth target. In preparation for the Lucy mission to explore a distant class of asteroids called the Trojans, astronomers have been monitoring the targeted space rocks. One day in March, mission personnel gathered 26 different teams from around the world to watch one of those asteroids, 17-mile-wide (27 kilometers) Polymele, appear to pass in front…