#homer the Iliad

[memoriesofthingspast]

achilles

[sophie-jane-silver]

Going a little back in Warrior!Penelope au, like, to the trojan war

Did paris kidnapped Menelaus? And, like, Helen and Clytemnestra started the war?

[murakamijeva-muza]

“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” ― Homer, The Iliad

[beeperoo]

I have a pjo/tsoa au idea

What if Achilles became a god like Thetis wanted him to? What if he gave Patroclus some of that immortality? What if neither of them died? So heres what would happen if they're minor gods in the riordonverse

They would only get cabins after the first Percy Jackson series, and the cabins would be right next to eachother, probably decorated similarly. The Achilles cabin would probably have 20-25 campers each century, and the Patroclus cabin would have 15-20 campers. The campers might consider the other cabin their siblings, but it wouldnt be uncommon for them to date. Some of the Achilles campers might have sea related powers as Achilles was born from Thetis, a sea nymph. Both cabin's campers would be skilled fighters.

The Achilles cabin and the Apollo cabin would have a rivalry. They'd either be wary or even agressive to the other. Main part of the rivalry is the mastery of the lyre, as the Achilles kids would naturally be skilled lyre players, and the Apollo kids are musically skilled too.

The Patroclus campers would powerless in a way, but probably be smart planners of battle strategists. I think they'd get along with the Athena campers.

[burning-pining-perishing]

“Die, make an end. I shall accept my own whenever Zeus and the other gods desire.”

Achilles’ last words to the slain Hector

— Homer, The Iliad

[cuteandgoth]

[kurzler]

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

[sylvyspritii]

Ah yes the three classics

[attendingthetale]

having an iliad summer. doing a ton of brooding. might be blinded by selfishness and/or rage. considering unexpectedly dying to my hubris. hopefully that wont have devastating effects

[starstrvckfool]

So I started reading the iliad

I thought this part was pretty funny, Odysseus crashes out

POV: Achilles & Odysseus hate the same guy (they would be a pretty interesting duo ngl)

[memoriesofthingspast]

achilles & sloterdijk & freud walk into a bar.

✨

[sophie-jane-silver]

I just imagine the fans being like "WHAT but you left us with open ending!" So homer wrote the odyssey

[simoondraws]

...Then Diomed prayed, saying, "Hear me, daughter of aegis-bearing Jove, unweariable, if ever you loved my father well and stood by him in the thick of a fight, do the like now by me; grant me to come within a spear's throw of that man and kill him. He has been too quick for me and has wounded me; and now he is boasting that I shall not see the light of the sun much longer."

[greeknerdsblog]

⚠️It does not justify their actions in a culture and period full of war and suffering⚠️

[dreamsandconstellations]

Odysseus in Epic: the musical

[achillesisnotcomingdown]

Do you think that Odysseus has become a kind of running joke among the gods, like when we joke about cockroachs' survivability?

For example some mortal is surviving stuff that rly should've killed him, and someone on Olympus says "is he pulling an Odysseus on us?" and everyone laughs