#dionysios

[tenicola]

A continuation of my first run for this year’s Artfight! I have to admit that completing 15 of these in one month certainly tested my stamina, but it also gave me an opportunity to draw a lot of amazing characters -- and to see my OCs in others' art styles too ahhhhhhh /)////////(\

Here's the second batch of my remaining 8 attacks. Everyone’s characters are labelled in the watermarks, captions, and tags, but they can also be viewed in more detail thru my Artfight profile and other accounts.

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[silent-words]

Now I'll give you REAL Trespasser angst.

At the beginning of the Exalted Council Dorian Pavus receives news of his father's death. He is all alone, and he has to go back to Tevinter not only to work in the Magisterium but also to investigate the murder of his own father. If you romanced Dorian, his only family is the Inquisitor.

And then Dorian learns that the Inquisitor is slowly dying. The love of his life, the closest person he ever had, the only light of his existence gradually consumed by the Anchor.

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[vinylattes]

THE LIWANAG FAMILY in MYTHIC QUEST (2020-) 3.07 (Sarian) | dir. Todd Biermann & Megan Ganz

[ameretat]

I felt a luminous and healing presence being united to my soul and illumining it with a gladsome light. It was like the joy and peace of returning home after years of cruel exile. I didn’t even know that in this life you could feel such a rejuvenating peace in the embrace of God. The elder shared my joy. 

Dionysios Farasiotis, The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios

[the-genius-az]

DO YOU LIKE PERCY JACKSON? OH GOD, OH GOD!!!!! I SAW THAT YOU LIKE DIONISIO, I LOVE TO MEET MY DAD'S ANOTHER SON!

Thanks for the question, Amor!

I like it, but I just learned about the saga from the Disney series. But don't worry, I know the basics and necessary according to my older brother, he is a big fan of the saga, he even has books and everything.

I'm actually not the son of Dionysus! I am the son of Apollo with a little bit of Poseidon depending on the day.

BUT I LOVE DIONYSUS, HE IS MY FAVORITE GOD BECAUSE HE IS THE LEAST WORST. Especially with his relationship with Ariadna, my parents. 🥰

[knavestrolls]

considering I own a black cat, it is absolutely fascinating to me how many people are assigning me orange. /pos

^my cat

[thekeyytoyourheart]

by kafetsis a. fotis

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[movie-titlecards]

Dragon Dynasty (2006)

My rating: 4/10

I guess this is direct proof of the influence direction and writing can have on an actor's performance: Stana Katic was always a fairly charismatic lead on Castle, however here she has all the screen presence of a wet paper towel.

[eldenphil]

👍swell weekend

[mauradusus]

«Εισαγωγή και φούγκα πάνω σε δύο ελληνικά θέματα» Διονύσιος Λαυράγκας -Dionysios Lavrangas (Αργοστόλι 1860 - Ραζάτα Κεφαλονιάς 1941) Το έργο πρωτοεκτελέστηκε στις 15/12/1918 στο Δημοτικό Θέατρο Αθηνών.

[littlesparklight]

A (not exhaustive) inventory of Astyanax's death and survival.

In the Little Iliad, Neoptolemos is the killer. In the Iliou Persis, Odysseus is the killer.

In the Trojan Women we don't actually know who does the deed, "merely" that Odysseus is singled out as the (major) voice who argued for his death. As Andrew Erskine in Troy Between Greece and Rome points out (referencing another academic as well), given the lack of detail in what's left to us, Odysseus might well have been involved in Astyanax's death in the Little Iliad as well, in the same role he has in here in the Trojan Women.

Seneca (Troades) follows Euripides in the public deliberation and has Odysseus being present for Astyanax's death, but he has Astyanax leap voluntarily. (Excuse me, WTF.)

Quintus of Smyrna, in his Posthomerica, has the killing be done by "the Greeks". Not just the deliberation like in the Trojan Women, but "they" seized him and tossed him from the wall. Whether intended or not, it makes it read a little like a mob scene. (edited to add this, because I'd forgotten to check.)

Tryphiodoros, in the Taking of Ilios, has it again be Odysseus.

So what we get is that even when Odysseus isn't actively the hand that commits the deed, he's the (first? major? leading?) voice in claiming it "needs" to be done. For the ~safety of Greece~, of course.

So, now we come to myths and stories of Astyanax's survival. It's mostly here the "not exhaustive" disclaimer applies. For a lot of the Medieval sources (where this idea flourishes) I can't double check if they say anything about who/how Astyanax survives.

With that said; the Medieval manuscripts aren't the earliest ideas of Astyanax's survival!

One is late Classical or earlier; Dionysios of Halikarnassos reports of the Ilians (that is, the Anatolian Greeks of the "modern" Ilion/Troy, built somewhere after ~1000 BC) had a founding legend that involved Astyanax and Askanios. Given that Astyanax can approach his cousin after being released by Neoptolemos, presumably Neoptolemos didn't kill Astyanax but rather take him along into slavery with his mother and Helenos.

I'll just include this screencap from Troy Between Greece and Rome for the next bit since it's easier:

On to the Medieval sources; the absolute earliest appearances of Astyanax here is as the founder of the Franks, now named Francion/Francus. French Wikipedia has a note to an author that says that Astyanax's survival was effected by (unnamed in the text and note) Medieval authors by the Greeks softening up and ending up not killing Asyanax because of his beauty.

Next is the "Andromache swaps Astyanax for another child and the Greeks (more like Odysseus) is tricked and kills the substitute". It has several appearances/uses, but the earliest (at least by the list in Wikipedia) seems to be Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato (1495).

While being unable to, like, check if anyone is named as the rescuer in some of these (Wiki also has an unsourced mention of Talthybios), in general we seem to land on either Neoptolemos or, in later stories, Andromache herself. I wouldn't think Neoptolemos ends up not killing Astyanax out of the goodness of his heart, more as a way to control Andromache, but there it is either way. Odysseus is only ever an obstacle to be worked around, which isn't odd given how often he is either the killer, or, maybe far more important, the voice to argue that Astyanax need to die. Not so odd he'd then be construed in later stories as the character to be specifically tricked by the child-swap.

I'll put the sources under the cut!

(For the Little Iliad) Scholiast on Lycophr. Alex., 1268: "Then the bright son of bold Achilles led the wife of Hector to the hollow ships; but her son he snatched from the bosom of his rich-haired nurse and seized him by the foot and cast him from a tower. So when he had fallen bloody death and hard fate seized on Astyanax. And Neoptolemus chose out Andromache, Hector's well-girded wife, and the chiefs of all the Achaeans gave her to him to hold requiting him with a welcome prize. And he put Aeneas, the famous son of horse-taming Anchises, on board his sea-faring ships, a prize surpassing those of all the Danaans."

(For the Sack of Ilion/Ilioupersis) The Greeks, after burning the city, sacrifice Polyxena at the tomb of Achilles: Odysseus murders Astyanax; Neoptolemus takes Andromache as his prize, and the remaining spoils are divided.

(Note 136 to Apllodorus' Library, trans. Frazer) Compare Arctinus, Ilii Persis, summarized by Proclus, in Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. G. Kinkel, p. 50; Eur. Tro. 719-739, Eur. Tro. 1133-1135; Eur. And. 8-11; Paus. 10.26.9; Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica xiii.251-257; Tryphiodorus, Excidium Ilii 644-646; Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 1263; Scholiast on Eur. Andr. 10; Ov. Met. 13.415-417; Hyginus, Fab. 109; Seneca, Troades 524ff., 1063ff. While ancient writers generally agree that Astyanax was killed by being thrown from a tower at or after the sack of Troy, they differ as to the agent of his death. Arctinus, as reported by Proclus, says merely that he was killed by Ulysses. Tryphiodorus reports that he was hurled by Ulysses from a high tower. On the other hand, Lesches in the Little Iliad said that it was Neoptolemus who snatched Astyanax from his mother's lap and cast him down from the battlements (Tzetzes and Paus. 10.26.9). According to Euripides and Seneca, the murder of the child was not perpetrated in hot blood during the sack of Troy but was deliberately executed after the capture of the city in pursuance of a decree passed by the Greeks in a regular assembly. This seems to have been the version followed by Apollodorus, who apparently regarded the death of Astyanax as a sacrifice, like the slaughter of Polyxena on the grave of Achilles. But the killing of Astyanax was not thus viewed by our other ancient authorities, unless we except Seneca, who describes how Astyanax leaped voluntarily from the wall while Ulysses was reciting the words of the soothsayer Calchas and invoking the cruel gods to attend the rite.

(Trojan Women, Euripides) Talthybius You that once were the wife of Hector, bravest of the Phrygians, [710] do not hate me, for I am not a willing messenger. The Danaids and sons of Pelops both command—

Andromache What is it? your prelude bodes evil news.

[…]

Talthybius They mean to slay your son; there is my hateful message to you.

Andromache [720] Oh me! this is worse tidings than my forced marriage.

Talthybius So spoke Odysseus to the assembled Hellenes, and his word prevails.

Andromache Oh, once again alas! there is no measure in the woes I bear.

Talthybius He said they should not rear so brave a father's son.

(Dionysios of Halikarnassos; Ant. Rom. 1. 47. 5–6) Aineias . . . sent Askanios, the eldest of his sons, with some of the allies, mainly Phrygians, to the land called Daskylitis, where the Askanian lake is, since his son had been invited by the inhabitants to rule over them. Askanios did not dwell there for long. When Skamandrios and the other descendants of Hektor approached him after Neoptolemos had released them from Greece, he went to Troy and restored them to their ancestral kingdom.

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Unguentarium carved from a large emerald. Crafted by Dionysio Miseroni for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III in 1641.

from the Kunsthistorische Museum - Austrian Imperial Treasury

[delicatuscii-wasbella102]

Large Engraved Rock Crystal Cup with Tendril Decoration, c 1654 by Dionysio Miseroni.

[silent-words]

I'm doing a replay of DA: Inquisition with the same Dionysios Trevelyan, human mage. And it's so fun to mess with some characters.

Cassandra: Mages should be conscripted.

Sera: Put mages in a tower.

Dionysios: Mage alliance! We will be free!

Well, you shouldn't have made this mage rights activist the Herald of Andraste. In my headcanon Dionysios knows Anders' manifesto by heart. Although we don't have it's full text.

Vivienne and Cullen are already on the verge of nervous breakdown. Like, how many disapprovals can my mage get out of Madame de Fer? How many headaches can he give Cullen?

Also I somehow found the dragon maw staff blade design, and I put it on every staff as a sweet reminder of DA2.

[ameretat]

I felt so unworthy and so unfit to be with Him that I fell to the ground with my face to the floor, in order to sink into the very concrete if I could. I was so full of vice, so unworthy to exist and to be united with Him, that I wished I could stop living. I remained motionless, but this Love drew near to me, this Love that welled forth from the One Whose gaze is directed towards all things and Who pervades all things, the One Who has always existed. 

Dionysios Farasiotis, The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios