#aegialia

[masterofthewarcry]

bringing it back babey!

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[still-mourning-polites]

I love the art and I absolutely agree that Diomedes doesn't hate Penelope. It's why I hc that Dio bitching at Ody in TSOA is just part of their public performance and not how he acts in private.

(As for Aegialia, in my Ody POV TSOA fic, she is absolutely delightful. I plan to rewrite When I Left for War at some point, but I find the discrepancy between this version of her and the way Ody talks about her hilarious, so I'm definitely keeping that. Though only for Scryer AU. I also ship OdyDioPen, but I think I can resolve that... maybe 😅)

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…

[ellilyre]

Yk I usually assume that Diomedes and Aegialia's marriage is strictly political and has no feelings involved and she's kind of a bitch, but wouldn't it be sm more angst if they did love each other.

I'm pretty sure they've known each other since childhood. Maybe Aegialeus is aware of that and keeps teasing them about it. They're still children, it's fun.

And then the Epigoni happens.

The war didn't last long, but it's consequences were brutal. When he comes back, Diomedes has been changed by war. But she can still see in him the gentle boy she fell in love with. She teaches him to be soft and gentle again.

They reign together. They fail to have a child yet, but they're young, they still have the time for that.

They love each other. He leaves for Troy but promise he'll come back to her and Argos.

Ten years later, Diomedes wounds Aphrodite and she hurts him back in the worst way possible.

Aegialia wakes up one morning with no love for him anymore. He has never wronged her, and his letters are as sweet as ever, and yet she finds herself yearning for another man's embrace.

As she watches him trying to get home (to their home) and getting pushed back by the guards, she has never felt more hurt. She is heartbroken and yet something keeps her from screaming and throwing herself at his arms (as she has dreamt of for the 10 last years).

He flees the city for good and finally she breaks down, as if until now her feelings were put on "pause". She cries, she screams his name, but it's too late, he left, she chased him from their home.

He will never understand why did she did that. She will never forgive herself for what she did to him.

[4uru]

Diomedes/ Odysseus inspired by ὥς λέοντε δύω διὰ νύκτα μέλαιναν

Text from: σύν μοι μαινομένῳ μαίνεο | go mad with me when I go mad by Aegialia

“The thing is, Diomedes isn’t a person—or, at least, he’s not a person the way everyone else seems to be people. He’s a soldier instead, and even before he was a soldier, he was training to be one, and it feels like there are fundamental things that define other people—desires, instincts, relationships—that simply are not a part of him. He does not react how he should, for good and for ill. He might not be as great a hero as Achilles, but he knows he is a better soldier. He knows how to command men, how to organize a camp, how to scout, how to kill. In exchange, he doesn’t know how to live a normal life. It is a trade-off he’s happy with, more or less. He simply suspects that this is a trade-off that will go poorly for Argos in the long run.

Of course, how he feels, what he wants, none of that really matters. He’ll do his duty, fight this war, rule Argos, and do whatever else Athena asks of him. It doesn’t matter if sometimes, he has a selfish wish that the war would never end. Not really, though, it’s not that he never wants to stop fighting. He just doesn’t want to leave the little world that war creates, the world he was raised to live in, the world he understands. On a night like this, tired of war and diplomacy and just about everything else, he can admit to himself that some part of that desire—and it’s a larger part than he cares to think about—is just the desire for Odysseus to stick around.

Doesn’t matter, of course. One day very soon, if they both survive, Odysseus will go home to his beautiful wife and his beloved island, and the only time he’ll think about Diomedes will be when he tells war stories to his son. Meanwhile, Diomedes will go back to a wife who hates him and a city that barely accepts him as king, and he’ll think about Odysseus every fucking day.”

Taglist: @lesbocrocker @faithfromanewperspective @tleeaves @quantummeep @thevagabondexpress @chaosandtwo @backpackingspace

[under-a-shady-ash-tree]

Okay diomedes during the odyssey fics!! There is a shocking lack of dio fics and post odyssey fics in general so hopefully at least some of these are new to you. If not you have my apologies!

So first up is : https://archiveofourown.org/works/57380605/chapters/145974487

Its bran new. Takes place immediately following the fall of troy and will (I assume) end up with diomedes on itacha

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5791948

Okay it's not letting me link the next one for some reason but it's "come home with me (we're waiting for you)" by vastvastvast. Diopen comforting odysseus post odyssey. Which honestly every fic by them is high key worth reading. Espacially the lastest two. One of my favorite authors!!

wishbone by asteraspera is a 4 part series spanning various parts of the illiad and the odyssey ending with diopenody all in itacha! However it does deal with some pretty heavy topics. Mainly the mental health affect of being a child solider and having undiagnosed schizophrenia

the cost by still_mourning_polites dio and ody kill some sirens together

Nostos by this hazeleyeddemon idk if you read smut so ignore this last one if not but a very sweet hurt/comfort between diopenody where pen and ody are reassuring dio thst of course he still has a place with them.

And not exactly what you're looking for but if you haven't read survival tactics by where_the_crazy_often_go or Two lions at midnight aegialia you sould definitely check them out! They're both excellent dio focused series

And finally if you like cheesy chat fics the secret 25th book(the chat log) by allise is a fun modern au featuring diopenody and odysseus adding his son to the work group chat for shits and giggles.

I have read a few of these and they’re very good but some of them I have not read!! Thank you!!

[still-mourning-polites]

I love these - thank you, my friend 😍😍😍

Betrayal

Finally did something with Odysseus with legs again. This is a scene from my dear friend @still-mourning-polites's fic Betrayal, chapter Four.

[cowboy-iliad-au]

Diomedes lore

Diomedes grew up with a father who was a legend.

Tydeus was a former bank robber in his home town of Calcydon and a very successful one at that. He ran a total of 36 heists and only one of them was stopped. He was arrested, he fled, but he had to leave his hometown forever. Tydeus decided after this that he was going to start his life anew, in service to the law instead of against it. He was loyal to the mayor of the new town he was in, named Adrastus, and even ended up marrying his daughter. However one day, Tydeus was summoned to fight to help his brother in law, Polynices, get his town back (he had been a mayor previously, but a riot forced him out of Thebes) Tydeus and seven other men ventured off to help Polynices, but the rioting continued and all of the men were killed, leaving Diomedes with only stories about his father. Despite this, Diomedes decides he is going to get revenge for his father’s death and climbs the ranks in the town Argos until he has gotten himself to the seat of assistant mayor, and having the mayor suggest a marriage between Diomedes and his daughter.

Ten years after his death, the children of the fallen men sought revenge for the deaths of their fathers and were able to get Thebes back and establish it as a democracy with the new mayor being the son of Polynices. As Diomedes was gone, the mayor of Argos died, leaving him as the one in charge, but he felt opposition since his family line was not tooted in the town. Because of this, he followed the previous mayor’s instruction and married his daughter, Aegialia. They were not compatible. Though not related by blood, they grew up together and viewed each other as less of spouses and more of a sibling that they simply cannot get along with.  The only solace Diomedes found between his taxing job and the toxic relationship he had with his wife was sharpshooting. As a child he had trained with the famous sharpshooter Athena so he could avenge his father, but even after Thebes was taken back, he found that sharpshooting helped him stay grounded, and he was not alone. Sthenelus, one of the others who went with him, soon joined in, until it became an expectation that if Diomedes was to go sharpshooting, Sthenelus would be there. And not just that, Sthenelus became Diomedes’s assistant mayor and helped him stay happy in his life instead of drowning in the stress of his job and marriage.

Athena visits Diomedes some time later to tell him about the war in Troy, and how he would have a chance to get in on the action and start training with her again. He agrees, and brings many people from his town with him, including Sthenelus. Diomedes is stressed by all the sudden changes and the enormous amounts of hubris on the side of the Achaeans, but Sthenelus and his new friend, Odysseus help him keep in touch with his humanity, and he helps them keep in touch with theirs. Odysseus and Diomedes would train with Athena, and they would all celebrate every victory with some beans and whisky. Odysseus tells stories of home, his wife, and the inn they ran, and Diomedes and Sthenelus would tell stories of Argos, the times they would stay up all night shooting pumpkins and laughing. Diomedes finds happiness, and because of his, he also finds success. He becomes the second best warrior of the Achaeans after Achilles, even injuring ones such as Ares, the famous wrestler, and Aphrodite, the railroad line owner who had backed in to save her son, Aeneas from dying. While the conflict with Achilles and Agamemnon is going on, Diomedes continues fighting, even reaching a point where he nearly kills Hector.

When the powerful senator, Zeus shows that he is siding with the Trojans, the Achaeans almost lose hope, but one day Odysseus and Diomedes are able to spy on the trojans and figure out a weak point of one of the allied towns nearby that provided great support to Troy and soon enough Odysseus comes up with a plan to overthrow Troy once and for all.

Troy was near a gold mine that had run out decades priar, but The Acheans set up a rouse. They were to acquire gold, take it to a nearby cave and “mine the gold” build a caravan that appeared to be full of gold, but really had a large central area built into it where men could hide, The Trojans took the caravan into the walls thinking it would help them gain riches, but in the night, the Achaeans took down the walls of Troy and get Helen back.

After all of this has gone down. Diomedes soon learns that he has been marked off as dead in the town census and framed for embezzlement by his wife. Because Diomedes can no longer go home, Athena offers him an apprenticeship so that he will one day become famous like her.

[asagisnobody]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51427399/chapters/132072778

chapter six of Spartan High School is out!!!

One of these days I'm gonne making a fanart about it.

Chapters: 6/?

Fandom: The Odyssey - Homer, The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & LoreRating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Odysseus/Penelope (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Diomedes & Odysseus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Helen of Troy/Menelaus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Aegialia/Diomedes (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Athena & Odysseus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)

Characters: Odysseus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Penelope (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Diomedes (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Menelaus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Ajax the Greater son of Telamon (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Helen of Troy (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Clytemnestra (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Aegialia of Argos (Ancient Greek Religion and Lore), Tyndareus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Laërtes (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Icarius (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Ctimene of Ithaca, Zeus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Athena (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Nestor (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - High School, kinda messed, Fantasy

Summary:When Odysseus receives a scholarship from the prestigious Spartan High School, he can't even imagine how his life is doomed to change.Because he has no reason to be called in such a famous school, and immediately he notices the misterious principal Tyndareus and his family....Decided to find out the secret of the school, Odysseus will use all his cunning and his skill to be always in trouble... especially if to being in trouble is Tyndareus' niece....A pre- Iliad AU in high school:)

[promptuarium]

NAHOR, son of Serug, when he was 29 years old begat Terah, in the 1879th year of the world and the 2083rd year before the birth of Christ. He lived 119 years afterwards, begetting sons and daughters. In total he lived 148 years, and he died. Genesis 11. Around this time the kingdom of the Sicyonians began, whose first king was Aegialeus, for whom Aegialia is named, today called the Peloponnese. Consult Pliny, book 4, ch. 5

[odysseus-reigning-king-of-ithaca]

https://www.tumblr.com/firinnie/766067511151214592/mer-acle-aegialia-some-of-my-favorite-pallas?source=share

Owl gremlin

Also you punched Aphrodite on the boob?!?

Did I? Perhaps she merely tripped and that's where the bruise is from. >:)

Oh, Athena. This is why you're (one of) my favourites.

[still-mourning-polites]

And then later, he charges straight back into battle, having just taken an arrow through the foot. Though that wasn't just adrenaline, he likely took poppy, as well...

Also, I adore Aegialia's take in blazing fire (part 5 of the two lions series), where even as he's yelling insults at Aphrodite, he's thinking, "oh shit, I'm so fucked" 😅

Odysseus: You fought two gods after being shot in the shoulder?

Diomedes: Well, yes.

Odysseus: It’s just a little hard to believe.

Diomedes: Not really. One thing I have learned doing this - there's no drug like adrenaline.

[masterofthewarcry]

ANOTHA ONE

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[ellilyre]

So I recently finished reading the Iliad and I thought of something

Surely we love to talk about how gay Diomedes is, but have we considered that Ody might embodies everything he desires (either to be or to have) ?

Odysseus is a family man. His wife has stayed faithful after 10 years without news of Ody, and he loves her just as much as he loves his son. Diomedes, however, only married Aegialia to secure his access to the throne. He grew up without father (although he is constantly compared to him), and (by the time of the Trojan war) he had no children.

Odysseus is Athena's favorite, and has probably been for a longer time than Dio. In the Iliad, Athena acts harsher toward Dio (ex. Ep V when he calls for fall back and she immediately calls him unworthy of his father)(ive only read like 3 ep of the Odyssey so maybe later shes just as harsh with him idk)

Odysseus is older, and more respected. See Nestor kicking Diomedes awake and gentle calling Odysseus from outside of his tent. Diomedes may be a king and one of the best warriors (I consider him second to Achilles), the other kings treat him like shit.

Diomedes definitely is admirative of Odysseus (just sees how he talks about him during ep X) , maybe even envious (i have no ex but itd make sense).

And from a shipping pov, I think it has a lot of potential. Admiration turning to attraction.

[lichfucker]

aegialia replied to your post: opened twitter for the first time in many months...

that would definitely be a crazy one to see if they could pull off

my name is tess and I Love PVP sdfkjsdf it’d be fucking funny oh man

[iamafireplace]

@aegialia unironically you fr

Abolish the YA genre. No more books for young adults. At some point in your adolescence, you just go from reading Goodnight Moon to War and Peace. No more stepping stone in the middle. Grow the fuck up.

[thishazeleyeddemon]

A whole existence spent praising your god, but always with one wing dipped in blood

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(the god in question is Athena)