#diomedes of argos

[emmikay]

Diomedes: So what's it going to be: long winded lie, or sarcastic comment? Go on, pick your choice.

Odysseus: ...You got me in a box here.

[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."

[abandoned-raccoon]

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

Lovely designs by @simo0n 🌿

[doctorsiren]

Some recent epic / odyssey doodles

[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

[friedmagazinebouquet]

My beautiful son

[cotton-candy-anon]

YALL I DREW DIABETES

[bambiilooza]

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

[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

[nightmarearian]

fucked around with the incorrect quotes generator finally

[alexnamuu]

Can you imagine the kings playing any game after putting together a strategic plan?

Menelaus: Odysseus, I SAW you hiding one of the pieces in Diomedes' tunic, you two are cheating together and this is ABSURD.

Odysseus: Now you're insulting me, I may be a liar, but a cheater? Gentlemen, please.

Agamemnon: Those who do not know you should buy your fallacies, Laertiades.

Odysseus: Excuse me?

Diomedes: Odysseus is not stealing, I would not help him to my own loss

Ajax(the great): Not if he didn't offer you something in return...

Achilles: True

Agamemnon: And you, Prince of Phthia? I think your hand is very... small for someone who has played only a few rounds.

Achilles: Yeah, because I shoved the rest of the game pieces up your ass.

Nestor: GENTLEMEN, we are playing a diplomatic game that requires silence.

*The room is silent for a while and Patroclus opens the tent flap*

Patroclus: Excuse me, but I came to get Achilles to settle some matters at the Myrmidon camp... why are you putting your pieces on Diomedes' tunic, Laertiades?

Menelaus: I KNEW IT --

[emmikay]

Athena in The Iliad Book 5:

[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)

[leynaeithnea]

The Diomedes musical would be called "Son of Tydeus" because even in his own musical his father overshadows him

[katerinaaqu]

Don't you guys find it incredibly poetic how Odysseus got wounded and scarred by a boar and ended up having a perfect field chemistry with Diomedes who is a descendant of a person known to be associated with the symbol of a boar?

Food for thought