#greek products

[sanska]

Ariadne explaining how to navigate the labyrinth (and after) to Theseus. It’s important, she’s committing treason for you Theseus, don’t look at her like that.

[ahotpeaceofshit]

[thinkershipman]

SHAUNA SHIPMAN: AN ORESTEIA

[sarafangirlart]

My favorite bit in OSP

[thoodleoo]

the maenads were the original fag hags and you will not change my mind on this

[sarnai4]

Athena: Ares, have you had a candy called Warheads?

Ares (suspiciously): Are you messing with me right now?

Athena: I'm being completely serious.

Ares (equally shocked and overjoyed): Really?!!

Athena (makes a bag appear): Try one.

Ares (eats it): So sour. You have to be courageous to eat these... I love them! (Devious) I bet I can eat more than you can.

Athena: I didn't necessarily tell you about them to start an eating competition.

Ares (downs another handful): Tastes like victory!

Athena:...(makes a bag appear for herself) That's what you think!

[schibi12]

Greek Gods being desgined as colorful rainbow people my beloved

[katerinaaqu]

Oh look! Hephaestus made a shield for Achilles!

Homer:

[galahadwilder]

This has been bouncing around in my head for a year now and I need to share it before it drives me actually insane (which, given the subject matter, is entirely appropriate)

In the Overly Sarcastic Productions video for The Theogony, they mention that Metis was prophesied to bear thoughtful children greater than their father—first a daughter, then a son. Zeus proceeds to avert this prophecy by eating her, yet Athena is born from his body anyway.

Now the thing is, nowhere else in the surviving Greek mythos is it possible to avert a prophecy. It just doesn’t happen. The path you take to avoid it frequently leads to the prophecy being fulfilled.

Then, in their video for Dionysus, it’s mentioned that in some versions of the myth, Zagreus/Dionysus (not just the god of parties—he was also the god of madness, divine inspiration, and rebirth from death) was supposed to be Zeus’ successor. And Dionysus is the only other god to be born from Zeus’ body instead of from a mother. Just like the daughter of Zeus and Metis was.

Greek mythology/religion has no established canon, especially since it evolved organically, and the chances of these two myths connecting to each other is slim to none. And yet I can’t help noticing the similarities in the myths and how they fill each other’s holes. Can’t help conflating them.

So: I want a story where Dionysus isn’t just the son of Zeus and the mortal Semele, but also—because of getting sewn into his father’s body—the son of Metis as well. And therefore, because he is the firstborn son of Zeus’ first wife—and also Zeus’ youngest son, following the Ouranos-Kronos-Zeus “youngest child succeeds” pattern—the true heir of the Olympian throne.

Make it happen, Riordan. You know you want to.

[firenati0n]

people ruin people, i don't wanna ruin you // i am just a sickness and you seem to be the cure

by firenati0n on ao3

M | 4/9 | current wc: 6.9k

tags: musician au, orpheus & eurydice references, a star is born au (very loose), angst with a happy ending, icarus references, alex pov, singer!alex, singer!henry

No one could resist his soulful brown eyes, framed by doe lashes, sitting pretty on a face one could only describe as biblically gorgeous. Dark curls, a chin dimple, the cheekiest smile—Alex was marketable perfection in the sweetest package. But fame comes at a heavy cost.

Or, Alex is a washed-up singer who finds salvation in Henry, and Henry is both his loving disciple and his greatest punishment.

xoxo roop

[emgoesmed]

11/19/2022

First week of neurology rotation ✔️

Time for a morning stretch, journaling, breakfast and then a quick jog and tidying up.

🎧 Give by Sleep Token

[overlysarcasticpolls]

The Judgement of Tumblr

You have yet again been handed a golden apple and tasked with giving it to the fairest of the Goddesses on Mount Olympus.

Featuring the some of the more popular "Secret 4th Options" I remember from the last time.

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[sarafangirlart]

Gender swapping can be fun to explore in fanart/fixs but I think Perseus’s story just wouldn’t happen if he was a girl (as well as 90% of myth characters). Polydectes was a misogynistic prick and the only reason he didn’t force Danaë to marry him is bc he’s scared of Perseus, both bc he’s stronger and bc within this patriarchal society Perseus was Danaë’s gaurdian. If Perseus was a girl then Polydectes would never send her on a quest, he’d just take what he wanted.

[mystieris]

I watch too much OSP... xD

(Poseidon is sitting at his desk overlooking some paperwork when a naiad swims in, placing a fish bowl with a shrimp in it on the desk. Poseidon looks at it and sighs.) Poseidon: Oh for the love of- (Poseidon snaps his fingers and the shrimp turns into Nerites, looking surprised.) Poseidon: How many times is that this month? (Nerites begins scraping his tongue with his fingers.) Nerites: Three. I think I should stay in the palace for like... a month. It's gonna take that long to get the taste of algae off my tongue...

[aj-artjunkyard]

bestie help the combined force of the PJO show, Blood of Zeus s2, the Hades games and the Epic musical are making me write ToA fanfiction again

[kareenvorbarra]

Helen Mirren as Cassandra and Diana Rigg as Clytemnestra in The Serpent Son/Oresteia (1979)