#aegiale

[protagaster]

[The leading greek heroines, sitting at a table and discussing next steps for the war, drinking tea amongst themselves-]

Aegiale: Which one of you was going to tell me that tea taste different if you put it in hot water

Penelope, slowly putting down her parchment: Y-You were putting it in cold water....

Aegiale: ....

Helen: Aegi. Answer the question. Aegi!

Aegiale: Yeah I thought for like 5 years that people just use hot water to speed up the tea-ification process. Didn't realize there was an actual reason.

Everyone: ...

Aegiale: You think I have the patience to heat up water?

Helen: You don't have the patience to run to a warm spring for like 3 minutes???

Penelope, grabbing her cousin: Why are you using a spring to get warm water?!

Helen: Do you think I have the patience to warm water on the stove?!

Penelope: It takes less than a minute!

Helen: BESTIE IS YOUR STOVE TOP POWERED BY THE FUCKING SUN???

Penelope: HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU TO BOIL A CUP OF WATER ON THE STOVE!?!?

Helen: Like 7 minutes!

Penelope: Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat and it boils in like 2 minutes! Less than that if you use a saucepan!

Helen: HA- You're putting the whole mug on the stove??? on medium heat??? You're stove is enchanted!

Eurydice: Every single person in this room is a fucking lunatic...

Clytemnestra: Do none of you own a fucking kettle!?

[adriles]

when this war is over the other achaean warlords will need to find something else to do. like get lost at sea and have wacky hijinks or have their wives attack them. good thing i wont have to do that . this thing will just kill me.

[sizzlingpeacesandwich]

who is Aegiale? (I know she is the wife of Diomedes)

[cygniavenue]

ive never been able to find a source that says anything ab sthe's wife other than. he had 2 sons w her??? umm so i made her up in my brain. her name is phile. n she might have a gay side thinge w aegiale. source bc i said so

[urbestestwindgod]

probably still with lucifer and the fish—he’s unimportant right now

Hey Aeolus, want to visit your daughter now?

YES

[differentnerddiplomatopera]

more incorrect quotes

Diomedes: I think we can be evil, as a treat

Odysseus: we?

Diomedes: we :)

Odysseus: Okay so I’m pretty, gorgeous, and everyone’s type, which means everything is free game. I can do whatever.

Diomedes: That, I fear, is unfairly accurate 

Odysseus: Look, if you think you're unattractive, look in the mirror. Now you know you're unattractive. Education.

Odysseus to Diomedes: Would you like to stay for dinner?

Penelope: WOULD YOU LIKE TO STAY FOREVER?

Aegiale: You’re not good enough for my ex-husband.

Penelope: You’re not good enough for your ex-husband.

Aegiale: I’m sorry?

Penelope: Did I fucking stutter hoe?

Flight Attendant: Please make sure all your small items are secured.

Penelope: Do you feel secure, hon?

Odysseus: Ha - ha - haaaaa

Penelope: I’m asking permission to marry Diomedes

Odysseus: What, why are you asking-he isn’t my sheltered daughter who I must keep hidden away-you know what? No. Break out the Petteia, now you gotta earn his hand.

Odysseus: Do you like me?

Penelope/Diomedes: We married you.

Odysseus: Ok, but did you marry me as a friend or as a husband? It was unclear

Odysseus: [looking at Diomedes] I can fix him.

Penelope: You are literally worse.

Penelope: [looking at Odysseus] I couldn’t fix him but I think I could top him

[miyetko]

old OdyDioPen art that I don’t like that much but I want to rant about Diomedes and they way that others write about him because YOU ALL JUST DON’T KNOW HIM LIKE I DO OKAY

okay so I actually despise when people write OdyDio and make Diomedes hate Penelope. I’m (hate reading) re-reading The Song of Achilles and Miller kind of hints at OdyDio a little, but every time Odysseus brings up Penelope, Diomedes gets really bitchy like “shut up we don’t want hear another story about your wife” and it’s more used a representation of how he hates Aegiale but I still don’t like it.

Dio fucking loves Penelope and no one will convince me other wise

there was a lot of time between when Diomedes got to Ithaca (after being exiled from Argos) and when Odysseus gets back. I especially love the idea that Pen and Dio get fake married to detract some of the suitors, or at the very least, Dio hangs around the palace to make sure no one’s bothering her and Telemachus.

…and maybe when Odysseus gets back everybody gets not fake married… idk…

[sonoftydeusthemusical]

Thinking about how epic the song(s) of Diomedes fighting the gods on the fields of Troy will be

Thinking about how him injuring Aphrodite sets up the arc of Aegiale's betrayl

Thinking of how Aphrodite's motif, associated with love, will appear as Diomedes returns to Arogs only to be revealed as sign of impending doom

[valiantvillain]

Very often I find myself thinking about the fact that several Greek cities were probably left with women in charge for ten years while their kings & princes were at war. I mean between Clytemnestra, Penelope, and Aegiale (Diomedes' wife), these women were basically expected to hold down the fort until their husbands came back. Which kinda blows my mind bc while these men were going off to war and treating women like war prizes, their own fucking wives were ruling in their stead and probably having some real power and agency for the first time in their lives because for ten years they did not have to answer to their husbands. I dunno, just something that occasionally fascinates me and I want to write something about it sometime.

[regkatouargou]

Cyanippus and Cometes were friends till Cometes kicked his uncle out of Argos (he didn't tell him he kicked him out even after a few days, cya found it out by himself)

Cya tried to kill him but Aegiale stopped him

Source? 100% my brain.

[protagaster]

Wait does the heroine swap au imply that Aegiale is coming back to Argos to find her husband cheating and end up getting kicked out of her city 😭

Not exactly!

Something that was important to me when conceptualizing the heroine au was this idea of "it could have happened in real life". For example, maybe the Trojan war really was fought by women soldiers and scribes have simply adjusted the play in favor of male players? One never knows, after all!

And so, in the case of Aegiale and Diomedes in regards to the au, I imagine that Aphrodite's revenge would consist of a "Say No To This" situation. To clarify, Aegi is tempted by Aphrodite's charm to cheat on her husband with another man, later becoming so affected by this charm that she threatens Diomedes' life and he in turn flees to Italy.

History as we know it relatively stays the same. Aphrodite gains her revenge on Aegiale by forever staining her name in history by making her out to be a cruel and adulterous woman, not to mention those islands in Italy that are named after Diomedes!

HOWEVER, there are some tales that recounted Diomedes returning to Argos near the end of his life! Do Aegi and Dio have a happy ending? Or, like so many Greek myths, does thier story end in tragedy!?

Let's see how Blue and I feel once the rewrite comes around 😈

[Side note, because I've seen some rightful concerns about this in the war!pen tag. Mine and Blue's au is purely a fun "what if" situation, and we know this would not have happened irl. We acknowledge and have no intention of taking away from the very real struggles women in ancient Greece had to face, I just want to make that very clear!]

[toxinoire]

Oh this is definitely Warrior!Penelope. She led the war, Ctimene is her second in command (swapped with Eurylochus), Clytemnestra swaps with Agamemnon and vice versa, Patroclus swaps with Achilles and vice versa, Aegiale swaps with Diomedes, Hector and Andromache swap too, and so on.

Basically only Paris remains the same

There’s a certain idea that’s been on my mind for a while so here you go-

A very cursed Iliad AU

[gallen]

Today's Date According to the Roman Calendar.

Modern Date : December 15th Market Day

The Consualia

This day (NP), is for special religious observance.

This also marks the beginning of the Halcyon Days, the seven days preceding and the seven days following the Winter Solstice. These were traditional days of peace and calm.

This day is sacred to Consus, the deity of Time, or who we sometimes personify as Father Time, whose exit we celebrate with the coming new year. The Temple of Consus is uncovered on this day and opened to public worship. Horse races and mule races were held in the Circus Maximus in his honor. As part of the ceremonies, the rex sacrorum would appear in full garb riding his horse-drawn chariot once around the Circus Maximus.

The emperor Nero, one of the most incompetent emperors ever to hold power, was born this day in 37 AD. He was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus at Antium (Anzio). Spoiled from birth, he was incapable of handling the affairs of state and spent his days languishing in feasts, orgies, and musical and poetic entertainment.

On this night about 10 PM, the constellation Taurus and the Pleiades will be on the meridian. Taurus the Bull was an ancient constellation to all the peoples of the ancient world. To the Greeks it represented Zeus in the form of the white bull who carried off Europa, for whom Europe was named. The Pleiades had special significance since they rising just before dawn heralded the planting season.

In Greece, on this day was held the Festival of Alcyone. Alcyone was the daughter of Aeolus, the guardian of the winds, and Aegiale. She married Ceyx of Trachis, son of Morningstar. Their happiness led to them being turned into kingfishers (halcyons or sea-hounds) by Hera. She is regarded as having the power to calm storms. Legend has it that she is the same Alcyone that leads the that leads the Pleiades. When the Pleiades rise in May, the seas are always calmed.

[orions-hound]

music log 1

[ioannisdg]

Ormos Aegiale, Amorgos - Greece

[differentnerddiplomatopera]

I need more Diomedes x Penelope

As much as I adore Odydio, I am a sucker for tender Pendio in Ithaca. After the war, after so much mental strain, do you think he indulges in gentle caresses on his face? A different scene, changing crimson blood for coral bed sheets? No need for sharpening blades, unless for the kitchen. The screams of dying men, exchanged for the wisps and songs of the calm breeze. A soft hand learning how to properly wash his locs, instead of blood making a home in dark dreads. Proper meals filled with nutrients. A soft voice lulling him to sleep, comforting him when the horrors follow him to bed. Aegiale could never be this, never soft, never caring, for him at least. And that was ok. He was ok in her arms. Replacing the smell of rotting bodies for sweet nymph perfume heals. Diomedes heals in her arms.