#greek inspired music

[gemsofgreece]

A few days ago, I stumbled across this album (bless @kebriones), titled "Xiphos: The rise and fall of Athens", which basically narrates the lives of nine individuals who have been associated with Athens, and since the whole premise reminded me of "Six: The musical" (which I loved), I ended up falling in love with this one as well! Both of them present their historical figures in a positive light (even the most controversial ones) and each character's song has a different "personality" to help the listener identify them (for example, Themistocles' song sounds like a ballad, Cimon's is accompanied by war trumpets, Pericles' leads to an epic climax etc).

Here are the songs in order:

https://youtu.be/r0lmZJsfN5Q

https://youtu.be/bSh2w_KiU6w

https://youtu.be/9XyGZRVMi1g

https://youtu.be/bceX4Xjnzw8

https://youtu.be/T9Zvpx70ZP0

https://youtu.be/M0UDgpqdnjU

https://youtu.be/L6v1mpEDqRI

https://youtu.be/SR_7grysgRo

https://youtu.be/xtzzuHjknRk

https://youtu.be/DXVuaLtGtTU

https://youtu.be/sILhE1zdf18

And here are the lyrics in case you have trouble understanding them:

https://xiphos.bandcamp.com/album/the-rise-and-fall-of-athens

You do realize the potential of such an idea! We could have an album/musical about the Byzantine emperors (though they are far too many, though we could focus on the important ones) or about the heroes of the Greek War of Independence! Wouldn't that be awesome?

Ah, okay here's my honest opinion, with both the positives and the negatives. I started with the intro, which is instrumental, and it got me in the right mindset, Ancient Greece (if not exactly Athens tbh) and all.

So then when I moved to Theseus, for some reason I expected fewer lyrics and them to be in Modern or Ancient Greek, so when I heard this loooong flow of impeccable English speech, I admit it was alienating to me, because the English language, which I love, is sooo vastly different from Greek vocalizations and aesthetics.

In any case, Cimon's was my favorite song with lyrics but I preferred the instrumental intro.

It's still a beautiful and passionate work and I am sure people who love Greek history and culture but do not speak Greek will find it very enjoyable indeed. And of course those Greek speakers who don't have the same pet peeves as me!

Also, yes, the potential art that could be created if someone cared to do so would be immense...

[melkiitee]

THE MEN OF THE HOUSE

back in the business of finishing my drawings so prepare to be sickkk of me!!!

[atlassiix]

the god king himself

[qiqilasblog]

Aphrodite design Idea thing Idk

[n0ahs-ark]

im robbing from you a odypen doodle with baby tele

oh they're so doomed by the narrative oh god

[shellsnroses]

Ariadne’s Crown

Prints

[lyculuscaelus]

Yes we know Athena was Zeus’s favorite child but let us not forget how mad at her Zeus could be in the Iliad, Book 8, when Athena and Hera were rushing to save the Achaean armies against Zeus’s orders. So he was literally threatening “…not in ten circling years will you heal your wounds where the lightning bolt will smite you—so that the bright-eyed one may know what it’s like to fight against her father.”

Well…Epic!Athena did take a lightning bolt to the face

[neptunesize]

𝓬𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮

a madeline miller’s novel inspired playlist

𓇢𓆸 Which Witch - Florence + The Machine

𓇢𓆸 Porcelain - Skott

𓇢𓆸 Settle - Vera Blue

𓇢𓆸 Movement - Hozier

and more! Listen here

[katerinaaqu]

Sorry I just couldn't resist!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Don't you tell me this wasn't perfect?! Hahaha like come on everyone thought of that! 😂 (inspiration from Paris The Musical song "Business" because I just heard that specific song for the lolz 😆)

[carneliangrim]

Whoa…uhhh

Where in the world did y’all come from?? Thank you so much for interacting and since here’s another piece of art as thanks!

Here’s the first of hopefully a lot more of my Champion of the (Greek) Gods headcanon that I alluded to in the tags of my last post!

This is Postmaster Pearl as the champion of Hermes!

(Hopefully it looks better on your end as it looks a bit blurry from mine ;-;)

[uncle-hort]

Boobs warning! They're highly stylised but still

.

APHRODITE DESIGN!!! SHE LIVES SHES ICONIC!! <3<3

[holdingachilles]

listen, if your theatre production is comprised of a cast of like maybe a dozen people total and the singular set is like, entirely boxes/piles of literal garbage/scaffolding that never moves and maybe some chairs and a couple of props that will be recycled 20 times over in different ways throughout the show, it slaps! it simply just is an incredible production. I think this is a law of the universe or something.

[doppy-enjo]

Have a taste of my depiction of Hermes from Epic: The Musical!

If I'm not gonna give the trickster god of the pantheon an absolute shitpost of a presence then what am I even doing

[cowsnotcrows]

Poseidon illustration inspired by Epic :]

+ closeups under the cut

[deathnguts]

Do you guys like my epic the musical art

[hecates-corner]

Hera: Dear gods, Zeus! You’re bleeding! Quickly, what’s your type?

Zeus: Uh- anything in a dress?

*Ganymede rushes past them to get a first aid kit*

Zeus: Or a chiton.

Hera: No, you idiot! Your blood type!

Zeus: … warm, preferably.