#diomedes of argos

[gruvu]

I miss him everyday. So here have some Diomedes. I came across this website with Mycenaean Armor. SO I got inspired by the "Diomedes" armor here to make his helmet.

[bestofthegreeks]

i feel like making it known that i am a very proud diomedes lover

[simoondraws]

...Then Diomed prayed, saying, "Hear me, daughter of aegis-bearing Jove, unweariable, if ever you loved my father well and stood by him in the thick of a fight, do the like now by me; grant me to come within a spear's throw of that man and kill him. He has been too quick for me and has wounded me; and now he is boasting that I shall not see the light of the sun much longer."

[doctorsiren]

Some recent epic / odyssey doodles

[abandoned-raccoon]

Dio is so bad at flirting when he's sober.

Lovely designs by @simo0n 🌿

[friedmagazinebouquet]

My beautiful son

[somepinkthing]

"Hector was a good man" "diomedes was an honorable man" BZZZT WRONG. Diomedes was there to steal, burn, and wage war same as the next person. In fact, he was pretty adamant about it. Hector had no issue with the greek's actions, merely that they were directed at him—I mean look at what he wanted to do with patroclus's body, only to then cite respect for funeral rites when it was his own turn to die. Hector also owned slaves within his own city walls—people that he likely took from their homes during troy's own conquests. All that seperated him and the greek warriors was which side they were on.

The Iliad isn't a story about morally upstanding men. Sure, it has men who have honor and perform honorable acts, but these are not good samaritans. It's is a story about war and grief and the real victims of fights between so-called-honorable men and gods. The urge to find a "good guy" in this story is wasted. Hector doesn't have to be morally good just because achilles isn't. Troy didn't lose because they were more or less evil than the greeks. It all just. Is. Because of fate? Because the gods said so? Because people will always make disastrous mistakes and it will always end up biting not only them, but everyone else around them? Who knows? In the end though, doesn't it all feel so pointless in the face of the endless amounts of grief and destruction that war leaves behind? Maybe that's the whole point

[emmikay]

Athena in The Iliad Book 5:

[katerinaaqu]

Odysseus: Beloved by Athena

Gets hit by a boar who barely misses his bone and arteries. Is called to a 10 year war he never wished to be in and is being pushed by his peers do the most dirty work and traumatizing things. Single-handedly conquers a city and regrets it his whole life afterwards, spends 10 years in an arduous trip losing all his companions in the most nightmarish ways possible gets imprisoned and raped, enchanted and shipwrecked nearly loses his life and comes back to his house to find it full of thug princes who want to marry his wife and kill his son. He has to kill them all then prepare for a riot in his own kingdom that doesn't happen thankfully and then he will have to travel again to appease Poseidon before he can finally return home.

Diomedes: Beloved by Athena

Is orphaned at toddler/child age because his father was mortally wounded and in a moment of madness he performed cannibalism and Athena wasn't able to stop him. He is sworn revenge for his father since a child. He fights a war at a tender age he becomes a king of his own right and gets married probably before the age of 16. He fights another war to restore his grandfather to the throne. He is dragged to a 10 year long war where he plays central role and he is still pushed around by most his peers. He goes back to find his wife cheating on him and he is exiled of his own kingdom. He spends years in a foreign land and country founding cities and establishing hellenism before he is honored as a God.

Me: Athena, my girl...perhaps you should start worrying a bit LESS for your minions would ya?

[cotton-candy-anon]

YALL I DREW DIABETES

[bambiinini]

making a diomedes design so i can draw him crushing aeneas' hip with a rock

[gruvu]

Diomedes and Ody's reunion after 10 years. Penelope of course is the real trooper here but we love a good bromance.

PART 2 PART 3

[minlicious]

i fukxing hate the way diomedes is depicted in some retellings like either he is nonexistent or portrayed as this big dumb brutal guy like my dear friend he is literally a favorite of athena

[simoondraws]

Are they flirting or ...what are they even doing?🤨

[doctorsiren]

could I request a little ody with penelope, or perhaps diomedes?

love ur art and ur gravity falls x odyssey au is fascinating to me, how did that happen?

how about all 3 :)

As for the GF x Odyssey AU, if you’re asking how that collision of ideas happened in my brain…uh it’s because I’m mentally ill and my current fixations are Gravity Falls and Epic/The Odyssey 😁 (if you meant something else…uhh then idk what you mean by that question if it’s not the one I answered haha)

[ithacantrickster]

*sighs* i can't fix him, i can draw him though