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my-name-is-apollo · 3 months ago

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I saw a Troilus post and that made me have Feels™ all over again. Something that particularly upsets me is the image of Troilus being dragged by his hair to Apollo's altar:

Like even putting aside the fact that Troilus, apart from being Apollo's son, is also a suppliant to Apollo here and to harm anyone in a god's temple is already an unforgivable violation of the sacredness of the place-

Troilus was a little boy or a youth at the most. His hair was most definitely sacred to him. It would have been cut and dedicated to Apollo, the protector of boys, if he had reached his adulthood. But he got dragged by his hair to his death, as if he was an animal being sacrificed to the god. Achilles didn't simply kill Troilus, he deliberately violated everything Troilus would have held sacred to him - his hair, his body, his god's temple...

Achilles had previously killed Tenes as well, another son of Apollo, despite Thetis very clearly warning him not to do so. So all of this was him knowingly spitting in Apollo's face, if you think about it.

#Troilus #Achilles #and he had the gall to accuse Apollo of being the most hateful of the gods #the fucking audacity of this bitch #like no shit Apollo would hate you #and this is also why I always prefer Paris being the one to kill him #because being killed by a god is an honor in itself #and Achilles has earned himself an inglorious death #also to clarify this isn't an attack on Achilles' fans #I don't mind if anyone likes him #i also find him interesting #tbh I'm not as affected by Tenes' death as i am by Troilus' death #it's entriely because of the brutality that Troilus was subjected to #in a place where he was supposed to be safe #it doesn't help that we have quite a few ancient artworks showing the scene of death #ugh #mine

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