#even nestor

[mikeywayarchive]

[Jun 7, 2019]

mikeyway: It is with great honor that I introduce to you, the newest member of our family- Ms. Kennedy James Way! Only a few days old, and already she has stolen my heart

[ilions-end]

in case anyone else is as bad at geography (especially ancient geography) like i am, wikimedia has an awesome map showing where all the notable characters in the trojan war hail from

this is just a section, click through for the much bigger map. (man, sarpedon and pyraechmes travelled FAR)

[dootznbootz]

Diomedes: Odysseus! I need your help! Nestor's in trouble! Odysseus:

(Book 8 of the Iliad)

[ghiertor-the-gigapeen]

Which quest do these guys get to travel the world to?

Inspired from this

[lyculuscaelus]

Scrolling through #idomeneus and #meriones tags on Tumblr be like “why are my boys so underrated why aren’t people talking abt these two I like them so much your honor”

It’s not like they didn’t have enough screen time I mean look at book 13 they were literally slaying in that book it’s like Idomeneus’s aristeia

And it’s not like they didn’t have a high place among the Greeks I mean look at book 1 Idomeneus was literally the second Achaean leader called to the ritual right after Nestor. And they literally brought the third largest fleet (eighty ships) to Troy

As for friendships? Look at him and Meriones. Just look at them. They were besties your honor. They knew each other so well. And you want him and Agamemnon? Just look at book 4, see how Agamemnon talked abt him and how he responded. And do I even need to bring up the fact how in the Odyssey Idomeneus was like the very Achaean leader Odysseus yapped abt the most in his disguise at Ithaca, and how Odysseus kept calling him a good pal?

C’mon Tumblr we need to talk abt them more cuz they certainly deserve all the yappings. And do I have to be something like the #1 Idomeneus yapper on Tumblr cuz I will

[doloneia]

the most accurate modern au of the telemachy to me would be telemachus going off to college in the middle of a family crisis (also his dad is lost in traffic and guys from his high school keep threatening to fuck his mom while playing fortnite or something)

[diamonds-at-y11]

There’s something so sad yet perfect about me last year patiently waiting for Mark and Ethan’s unus annus memorial videos yet completely forgetting about this year’s until I saw it in my recommendations. Like damn I guess that kinda was the point

[linusbenjamin]

My name is Jacob. I'm the one who brought your ship to this island. Why?

[dimdiamond]

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"Bianca's Emerald", my comic for Swapped Age, Same Love Ageswap Haddotin Zine.

Basically Castafiore's Emerald in a modern setting and swapped ages for all the characters.

And this was it! Thank you so much for reading it!

[the3rddenialist]

Time Stamps for this podcast, for those who need it

00:00 - They talk about Sean's brace and his previous elbow injuries, and then talk about other body part related stuff

06:47 - Talk about bones and Ethan talks about a person that did gymnastics that resulted in the bone sticking out

10:17 - BRAIN LEAK! And liquiddeath.com/brain ad

12:45 - Twitter and discussing smut stories

13:49 - Ethan is getting up Wattpad

14:24 - Start reading out titles of Wattpad fanfictions

(Tw: pedo mention in one title)

15:31 - Sean can’t open Wattpad

15:41 - Ethan talks about many chapters the fics have and how long they are

16:23 - “Feelings” – CrankSeptciEye Fic

they discuss and read the first chapter, ‘The New Kid’, and then afterwards, read the names of each chapter. After that they read the final chapter called ‘One Year Later’. They put on dramatic voices while reading the fic.

36:14 – Talk about the fic, Sean saying it reminds him of 2016 tumblr, and then scroll through other fic titles

38:27 – Talking about people who write fanfics, and how cool it is people would spend their time doing it

41:15 - Talk about what they would do when bored, talk about dance in hs, and then vines

54:53 - TikTok

1:01:25 - Aurora Borealis & Space

1:04:31 - Neighbours

1:07:35 - Talk about injuries

1:08:36 - Outro

[kosmicpowers]

I keep trying to write down my au but really all I can say about it is "former alien and eltrich horror gets amnesia and now he's accidentally the son of two gay British nerds"

[unhingedlesbear]

Woke up with joy in my soul 😍😍😍😍 (I'm ignoring the fact that I have a deadline tomorrow and have barely started the work)

This game is so cute 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 (All these people can die horribly)

Posting this I realize I may have missed a hug or two :((

[ilions-end]

i've seen the term "prix de rome" pop up in descriptions of several artworks i've reblogged here. apparently it was a prestige competition where artists competed in making the best depiction of a specific motif for that year (mostly taken from mythology or ancient history). what i DESPERATELY need is a table overview of each year's subject and participiants (not just winners!!), which the internet is NOT giving me

anyway here are the epic cycle-related motifs i've managed to find traces of so far:

(some years show two subjects, i'm guessing this is either a mistake in my sources, or the painting, sculpture and composing-competitions were working off different motifs)

1717: aphrodite asking hephaestus for armour for aeneas

1769: achilles placing the body of hector before the body of patroclus

1771: the battle between athena and ares

1801: achilles receiving agamemnon's envoys

1803: aeneas' flight from troy

1809: priam at achilles' feet

1810: the wrath of achilles

1812: odysseus and telemachus slaying the suitors

1815: briseis mourning patroclus

1816: oenone refusing to heal paris, OR odysseus and neoptolemus finding philoctetes

1817: helen saved by castor and polydeuces

1820: achilles rewarding nestor the prize for wisdom at the funeral games

1822: orestes and pylades

1823: aegisthus discovering the body of clytemnestra

1825: antigone burying polynices

1831: achilles pursued by xanthus

1843: oedipus exiled from thebes

1845: odysseus and nausicaa

1849: odysseus recognized by eurycleia

1850: the death of achilles

1852: philoctetes on lemnos

1854: hector and astyanax

1859: aeneas in latium

1860: orestes resting at the altar of athena

1861: the death of priam / the fall of troy, OR chryseis reunited with her father

1866: thetis delivering the divine armour to achilles

1868: the death of astyanax

1871: oedipus and the corpses of his wife and sons

1875: clytemnestra (just. clytemnestra?)

1876: priam at the feet of achilles AGAIN

1880: odysseus and telemachus reunited

1881: the wrath of achilles AGAIN

1883: oedipus cursing polynices

1888: odysseus and nausicaa AGAIN

1912: oedipus finding his dead sons

1934: odysseus and calypso

[valiantvillain]

So in the Odyssey we found out Nestor has a daughter called Polycaste who he allows to bathe Telemachus and in some versions of post-Odyssey life the two of them are married, which implies that she is either of age with or younger than Telemachus. Telemachus is as old as how long Odysseus has been gone; 20 years. So Polycaste was either just a baby like Telemachus when their fathers set off to Troy, or (and personally I find this possibility more interesting) Nestor's wife was pregnant with her when he left.

And like, imagine you're Nestor and you're finally returning home after ten years of war and are probably dreading having to tell your wife that one of your sons died at Troy. And you come home and find out you now have a 9-10-year-old daughter who probably doesn't even know who the fuck you are or any emotional connection to the brother she lost. Not to mention that those two brothers who went to war were probably old enough to be fathers themselves so she may very well be an aunt to children fairly close in age to herself. Like can you imagine how awkward and uncomfortable that would have to have been for all parties involved?

And then Telemachus just comes along years later looking for info on his dad and Nestor just decides to play matchmaker.

There isn't really a point to all this. I just felt like rambling about Classics again.

[kindheartedgummybears]

you wanna know what? I like yall.

*reveals my Devil in Me height headcanons*

[corvidcall]

been listening to the audiobook of The Odyssey (Emily Wilson's translation, which is actually incredibly readable to an extent that surprised me. but also im a little freak man so maybe take that with a grain of salt) and it's so fascinating how alien this whole society feels. i mean, obviously The Odyssey isnt like. a documentary lol. but just as an indicator of what would have been seen as reasonable, normal behavior, it's fascinating. men cry a LOT in this