#greek drag

[kaliarda]

Σιρίνες / Sirens 🫧🐚🪸 Parakatyanova and Sergay Parakatyanov shot by Tony Theodorakis

[ochiody]

i think than would be claustrophobic

[kindred-spirit-93]

cassandra & hector

dont look too closely pls and ty. quick doodle of them to celebrate having achieved like a seventh of todays work goal lol :')

exam tomorrow!! ill hopefully be back to write my heart out for the sillies in the evening, i have so many hcs and stuff so ill wait and see :]

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in the meantime: to me they are twins! before cass got her prophetic powers and their relationship soured, theyd stay up late and swap tea (they have dirt on everyone and their mother) & bully paris together. the classic "we found u on the streets somewhere and took u in" lol

if theres drama brewing in the palace kingdom u can trust them to be the very first to know lol. they both have glorious hair bc i say so, and blue and red are their colours and paris gets purple :D

hector was supposed to be looking at his nails while casually dropping the most scalding tea known to ancient greece lmao but i cant draw hands to save my life. anyway yes. them <3

[silvsarts]

Throws this out, and then disappears

[attyhat]

Hey,I'm a new a fan and I have an itch to ask you:What is your favorite Troy war hero?(If you say Diomedes it doesn't count).

NO DIOMEDES...?😭 THAT'S UNFAIR...

Choosing is so hard, I love so many of them..but If I had to choose I'd probably say Hector (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

I've made some quick sketches of my design for him, I really like the idea of him having Vitiligo and heterochromia- as a character though Idk I just love him a lot he's always described as loved and gentle towards his people and he and Andromache had a beautiful and loving relationship....I FEEL BAD FOR THE GUY!

And that's it tbh he's a silly guy that I like a lot...

[sforzesco]

WHAT DOOM FOR YOU?

back again with my Please Read The Thebaid Agenda! I adapted the ending of Book VII into a comic because oh boy. thoughts thoughts thoughts.

There is a horror in having yourself altered to such a degree where you are unrecognizable in your own self, to know that it is happening, to know that you should be dead and yet you are not. You have already seen the moment of your death!!!! (Stat. Theb. 3.537 – 47) There's a horror in knowing, and in it being treated as an act of love when it's really more like a violation. Amphiaraus is spared Creon's decree, but by falling into the underworld, it makes things worse on a cosmic scale.

Statius' Thebaid Book VII, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce

Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban

Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War, Charles McNelis

The Perils of Prophecy: Statius' Amphiaraus and His Literary Antecedents, E. Fantham

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[victusinveritas]

[backpackingspace]

Wait going off the idea that Athena keeps things from her favorite people:

What does diomedes give her?

[p3achii-was-h3r3]

okay so I swear I have context for this

okay so uhm

context: me and my closest friend were on a vc a couple days ago and they brought up that they wanted to draw something. they said something was urging them to draw Hermes, almost as if Hermes himself was whispering in their ear to do so. and thus led to me getting the idea to do this.

[brainrotroulette]

Just a little cowboy with big shoes to fill

for @please-be-nice-im-sensitive’s cowboy iliad au

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres • mythological horror

this horror genre is rooted in the mythos of a culture. these films are based on the legends we heard growing up that scared us. this sub-genre is closely associated with folk horror.

[kaliarda]

[nyssasatelier]

So i finally got my hands on translations of both the Odysee and Iliad!!!

And despite originally caring more about the story of the Odysee i decided to read the iliad first and I'm so incredibly glad i did!

About 20 pages in and two different women are separately kidnapped and taken hostage, Agamemnon and Achilles are at each others throats, the gods are getting involved, Zeus is threatening to beat up his wife and Apollo is spreading the plaque.

Meanwhile Odysseus is somehow on a peaceful road trip and has a sleep over with the boys after a fun karaoke night.

[nobody-did-nothing-wrong]

Alright kids, I’ve got something to say.

Spoilers for The Vengance Saga below the cut.

I think this is my least favorite saga. I was super on board with it until Six Hundred Strike but that really killed it for me.

First off no shade to the artists they did incredibly, the animatics and the music and especially the vocal performances were top notch. But I don’t like what it did for the story thematically or with regards to it being a version of the Odyssey.

Like, this is a retelling of the Odyssey, it takes some (several) liberties but they’re all done respectfully and within the context of the narrative being molded to a new format.

Odysseus stabbing Poesidon doesn’t fit into that framework in the slightest. It’s cathartic, I will admit that, and the how will you sleep at night, next to my wife slaps but it’s extremely totally dissonant to the rest of the musical.

There’s a divide between the gods and mortals, even with the electronic instruments being used to represent the gods and mortals getting regular instruments - the implication is clear, the gods are above and beyond what mortals can comprehend at times. Part of the reason the gods, Poesidon, Zeus, even Circe or Calypso are so scary is because they’re immortal and if those problems could just have been solved with garden variety violence why did Odysseus need Hermes, or Athena. Heck, at that point why didn’t he stab Poesidon back in The Storm Saga and save 600 of his guys so they could all get home?

We’ve broken down the barrier that separates mortal from god and even in the Iliad when Diomedes is able to wound Aphrodite or go toe to toe with Ares there’s no question that he will loose because he’s a mortal and they’re gods. Odysseus shouldn’t get away with this, he should be punished on a cosmic level for rising so above his station.

Honestly I just feel let down, I was looking forward to Phaecia and Odysseus lying to get home but it looks like we’re not going to get that. He’s going to girlboss his way out of it and get home on a raft which is so anticlimactic.

I guess I just wish he hadn’t had his little anime protagonist moment where he gets to be better than all the other mortals TM. He’s just a man, that’s the whole point, he has always been just a man and even if he will resort to ruthlessness, even if he has become a monster he’s still a man. He can’t surpass his own mortality, even if he wants to.

[silvsarts]

this is how that went right

[vamp-rin]

i don't think we talk about Nico being turned into a corn plant enough

Nico: what the fuck. what?? my sister is about to die. you better heal her or so help me I will chop your head off and serve it on a s-🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽

Triptolemus: that is CRAZY man! oh btw frank you should join my farming class that would be tight