#death of priam

[thecrankyprofessor]

British Museum 1842,0314.3 Attic black-figure amphora, attributed to Group E

A. Death of Priam

B. Theseus and the Minotaur

Greek black figure amphora uncovered at Vulci, Italy, circa 550 BC

from The British Musuem

[wolfythewitch]

thinking very hard about the depiction of the fall of troy in the Aeneid

[hamletthedane]

These lines from Elisa Gonzalez’s After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad have straight up haunted me for years

[illustratus]

The Death of Priam by Pietro Benvenuti

[sealrock]

paris will always be masc to me, but for story purposes they had to be femme.

[catoswound]

[the-storyteller78]

Little Troy

TW: violence, death, child death

Troilus knows of the prophecy that sings his name. It is a promise of life, of victory.   

But he also knows that every time he looks in the mirror, he sees death.

[ukdamo]

On The End of the Iliad

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

They brandished their births like spears. Being there wasn’t enough. Their names Needed their fathers and their cities And their spears and the red air of Ilium.

There’s Apisaon lying on his liver As it curdles and leaks out rib-mangled From his wound like a clicking tongue In froth, mind-deep in its porn.

A grey scholar near the end of his talk Pauses, turns hazel in the maze of his thoughts, And as he gazes out the window asks, Why would the father at the end of the Iliad

Peer into Achilles’ tent and, through the bloodgold fire And smoke-slow seafog, pismire and simply stare At his son’s stupendous butcher? He waits for an answer from the weather.

He kneels before the cancelling hands of Achilles That did what they do to the dead of his son Because they could; and he kisses them. The father is our first noble disaster.

He knows his role. He knows he’ll beg. (Though not for the life: the life’s already gristle.) He’ll beg for the body. He’ll beg like a pagan for the body.

Even those who survive Achilles don’t. Priam returned, finally, to Troy’s dented doors And with every step he took toward the parting gold ruin,

Hollowed-out Hector bucked up and down on his back.

Even iridescent Helen, a trail Of billowing silks, poured herself From her paramour’s arms And descended with the rest to see

The sieged city surging to see its broken Breaker of horses. Half shout: “Hope!” Half bray: “Brave patriot’s sacrifice!” But Priam can’t bear to look at them.

He only looks back dimly at the door.

[littlesparklight]

The Iliad: gruesome descriptions of lethal wounds, voiced with the narration's full chest.

Also the Iliad:

"Prophet of evil, never yet have you spoken anything good for me, always to prophesy evil is dear to your heart."

"Troilos the chariot fighter"

(Book 1 and 24, trans. Caroline Alexander)

Something something certain violence must only be looked at askance, mouth covered, whispered, denied, rephrased. It did not happen, or it happened but we can't admit that.

[adriles]

I’m curious which war crimes you do and don’t approve of

i enjoy any war crime induced by rage, racking up a ton of kills, maiming every enemy combatant in sight. only shitheads kill in attempt to live up to the heroism of others

[wolfythewitch]

Holy Shit Aeneas's description of the final hours of troy is harrowing. Priam's death? The city burning up? The fall of his comrades? Hector's ghost, covered in wounds handing him the household gods? Oh my god. Ohhhh my god

[hamletthedane]

I hate dating apps I need to meet the love of my life more organically*

*in hand-to-hand combat before the great walls of the City of Troy

[illustratus]

The Death of Priam by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

[sealrock]

the major arcana, shuffled: 4/??

THE HIGH PRIESTESS; ⤉ spirituality, higher power, mystery, subconscious ⤈ hidden motives, secrets, repressed intuition, cognitive dissonance THE EMPRESS; ⤉ motherhood, femininity, nurturing, harmony ⤈ smothering, negligence, lack of growth, insecurity THE EMPEROR; ⤉ fatherhood, structure, authority, control ⤈ tyranny, domination, recklessness, rigidity

[faithfulcat111]

ST Epic Cycle AU - The Sacking of Troy

[johaerys-writes]

what is your favorite character in the Iliad and why?

Wait wait you want me to choose ONE? Just one?? I'm guessing Patroclus and Achilles are excluded, right? Haha. Because they're my faves and I wouldn’t be able to choose between them anyway 😅

So.... gosh. Idk. This is really hard. There are soooo many characters in the Iliad that I love, literally I could talk about each of them for hours. But I think there's one character I really love and I don't usually talk about here, and that's Priam. I find him so interesting, and he just makes me so emotional lol. I do think about him a lot. I think about how, from a narrative stand point, he conveys so much about Troy and its culture just in the few scenes we see him in. Homer is a master of "show don't tell", and King Priam being so noble, gentle and gracious I feel says a lot about the country as a whole; I believe he's one of the reasons why I often see Troy described as being not only a land of plenty but also a land of fine culture, its people too used to peace. I love the scene with Helen, where he asks her to describe to him the Achaeans outside their gates, and even though they've come for war, he still marvels at how powerful and fearsome they all look. I love how gentle he is with her, like he really seems to try to make her feel welcome even though she's brought nothing but trouble since she arrived in Troy. And I always tear up at the scene where he asks Achilles for Hector's body back, kissing the hands that killed his son. It's just so powerful, one of the scenes that truly haunt you after you've read it.

Thank you for the ask!!