#greek mythological things

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[deadbaguette]

Dear children of Priam, were you doomed all along?

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

when the first thing your long lost husband does with his son is brutally murder over 100 people

it’s gonna take a while to clean up

[nikoisme]

So i found some really cool color filters and i blacked out

[where-that-old-train-goes]

not normal about orpheus and eurydice. you loved someone so much it opened the stones of the underworld. so much that death had to listen. so much that everything stopped for your love. so much that you turned around. so much that even when you did wrong. she forgave you.

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Homer!Odysseus and Epic!Odysseus would try to kill each other if they ever met

[ochiody]

what odysseus dreams of

[n0ahs-ark]

how the reunion in elysium looked like

[thoodleoo]

important question. do you think the minotaur had a soft wet nose. do you think he mooed when he snored. do you think when theseus turned a sword on him he looked up at his executioner with the same dark, beautiful eyes that earned hera the epithet Βοῶπις

[what-even-is-thiss]

So in the context of Greek mythology the tripod is a special three legged stool that the oracle of Delphi sat on when she gave her prophecies. The stool itself was sacred. Very important.

And. There’s a myth where Heracles goes to the oracle of Delphi to ask a question of how to atone for something he did and the Oracle is like “I dunno dude figure it out yourself” and Heracles is so mad about this that he steals the tripod and Apollo himself is like “NO NOT MY TRIPOD” and comes down to snatch it back from him.

Now this is one of those myths that isn’t sourced in a lot of places. Pretty much only The Library by pseudo-Apollodorus I think? But we know it was a very popular and well known myth because artists really really liked painting and sculpting it

Look at him he’s like bro give it back seriously that’s my chair what do you think you’re doing

[duckysprouts]

is dracula an allegory for sexual assault?? idk but here’s some medusa inspired art

[namedvesta]

Snake Headpieces, by Harumi Klossowska de Rola, for Valentino Couture Show | Spring 2016.

[fabledfoxglove]

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[sweatycreature]

Greek Mythology AU where Eddie is a sculptor working in Aphrodite’s temple. He was tasked with creating a series of statues depicting the goddess, her children, and six imaginary courtesans to decorate the gardens. The first few courtesan statues are undeniably beautiful, but they don’t even come close to the last one’s beauty. The people coming to the temple to leave sacrifices to gain Aphrodite’s favor, start to leave smaller offerings to the sixth courtesan as well. His statue is surrounded by flowers and fruits at all times, and he’s named ’Star-eyed Lover’ saying his beauty is equal to Aphrodite’s. The Goddess hears about the comparison and sees the offerings, that should be for her, she is not too happy and she goes down to destroy the statue under the cover of the night. In the garden tho she’s not alone, a man is sitting in front of the Star-eyed Lover, reading to the statue. Eddie, raised in a town close to Delphi, the temple of Apollo met all sorts of art and mastered some of it. One of these was the art of music, which he rediscovered thanks to the sculptor of the last courtesan, who became a muse for him. He dedicated all his songs to him, writing them in the garden of Aphrodite, where he sat day and night. Aphrodite, hearing the beautiful songs Eddie wrote, decided to reward his talent for creating such beautiful things. She breathed life into the statue. The Star-eyed Lover aka Steve embraces his maker and one true admirer and they live happily ever after.

[nothing-impt]

could you draw Leto in your style?

Best mom :D

(Have baby Artemis and baby Apollo too)

[to-be-a-dreamer]

I can’t stand that TikTok trend that’s like “just saw Hadestown and my boyfriend is walking the entire way back to the hotel without looking back at me to prove Orpheus was a chump” because not only do they not get the whole point of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth they also Were Not Paying Attention to the musical they just saw.

Hate people who see WSS as “just a Romeo and Juliet retelling”. Hate people who see Hadestown as “Just an Orpheus and Eurydice retelling”.

Hate people who watch a musical that takes a classic story everyone knows and uses it to explore/critique our modern society and only see it as a funky retelling.

Not Getting The Point of WSS is one thing because it’s more subtle and it can be really easy to just see it as a modern R&J, especially if you don’t really know R&J.

How the fuck do you watch Hadestown and see it as just an O&E retelling? It is one of the most heavy-handed political musicals out there how are so many people missing the point?

Orpheus has to fail. Not because that’s how the Greek myth ends but because that’s the whole point of the message of Hadestown.

Social reform is hard. Changing the world is one of the most challenging things you can try to do. So often we see people try to make a difference in society, to change some kind of injustice in the world. And so often we see those people fail. It can feel so impossible to actually do some good in this fucked up world because we see these people who are smarter and stronger and more qualified than us fail over and over again.

Why do we even keep trying?

Because we have to.

Because one day, someone will try and they’ll succeed.

One day Orpheus won’t turn around.

One day the people of Hadestown will get to see someone escape and they’ll know they can escape too. Only then does the world get to change.

So we have to try. We have to keep singing the sad song, no matter how many times Orpheus turns around, because one day he won’t.

In the Greek myth, Orpheus fails because he loves Eurydice.

In Hadestown, Orpheus fails because we fail.

We try and we fail to make a difference. We try and we fail to change the world for the better. We try to see the world for what it could be and it keeps letting us down.

But we don’t give up. We don’t stop singing.

Hadestown is genuinely one of the best musicals ever. Full stop. This musical is one of the reasons i wish I was smarter because I would love to be able to do an entire thesis on this show and all the themes and messages in it. Some of them are subtle. Some of them aren’t.

It is not just an Orpheus and Eurydice retelling. I am begging people to hear the real message.

Never stop trying to change the world.

One day we’ll make it out of Hadestown.

We just have to keep singing the song.