#laodice

[dagondelrio]

Second poll for my book. I want to get a couple of points of views of multiple women on each side of the conflict.

[dilfaeneas]

Hecuba!!!! And Her first Babies!

[tototavros]

omg I finally figured out why the mithridatic wars weren't just some random jockeying between tiny Turkish kingdoms

you have laodice, daughter of mithridates v of pontus, who weds ariarthes of cappadocia, who then gets couped by nicomedes of bithynia and laodice marries him and nicomedes' son by another mother, nicomedes (of bithynia) becomes the enemy of the son of mithirdates v of pontus, mithridates vi (of pontus).

[theriverpointace]

quick personal tag guide for the half-crown royals:

whole project title: #the half-crown royals and #thcr

character tags: half-crown for the center five, thcr for other characters. for now.

#half-crown alexandros (the main character. probably)

#half-crown hektor

#half-crown deiphobos

#half-crown kassandra

#half-crown helenos

#thcr priam

#thcr hecuba

#thcr iliona

#thcr laodice

#thcr hellen

#thcr aphrodite

#thcr apollo

etc, etc

[hermesmoly]

ok but lets add the sisterhood too…

thinking about brotherhood in greek mythology……

[blueiscoool]

Painted Scylla Statues Found in Turkey

Excavations in ancient Laodicea have revealed a rare collection of painted Scylla statues.

Laodicea was an Ancient Greek city on the river Lycus, located in the present-day Denizli Province, Turkey.

The city was founded between 261-253 BC by Antiochus II Theos, king of the Seleucid Empire, in honour of his wife Laodice. Over the next century, Laodicea emerged as a major trading centre and was one of the most important commercial cities of Asia Minor.

After the Battle of Magnesia during the Roman–Seleucid War (192–188 BC), control of large parts of western Asia Minor, including Laodicea, was transferred to the Kingdom of Pergamon. However, the entire Kingdom of Pergamon would eventually be annexed by the expanding Roman Republic in 129 BC.

The many surviving buildings of Laodicea include the stadium, bathhouses, temples, a gymnasium, two theatres, and the bouleuterion (Senate House).

Recent excavations led by Prof. Dr. Celal Şimşek from Pamukkale University have revealed a rare collection of painted Scylla statues during restoration works of the stage building in the Western Theatre.

In Greek mythology, Scylla is a man-eating monster who lives on one side of a narrow strait, opposite her counterpart, the sea-swallowing monster Charybdis. The two sides of the strait are so close (within an arrow’s range), that sailors trying to avoid Charybdis’s whirlpools would dangerously come into range of Scylla.

Scylla is first mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey, where Odysseus and his crew encounter both Scylla and Charybdis during their voyage back to Ithica following the conclusion of the Trojan War.

In a press statement by Nuri Ersoy, Minister of Culture and Tourism: “These extraordinary sculptures are quite important in terms of being rare works that reflect the baroque style of the Hellenistic Period and have survived to the present day with their original paints.”

The archaeologists suggest that the sculptures were made by sculptors in Rhodes during the early 2nd century BC and are the oldest known examples from antiquity.

[that-greek-mythology-girl]

I'm very sensitive to minor characters in stories, I'm always mad when the author and readers treat them like random people who died or just another casualty, when no, those people had lives and dreams and hopes and I want to know them.

Like, in Epic, there's 600 Ithacans. We only know five. (Polites, Eurylochus, Elpenor, Perimedes and Odysseus himself.), in the Odyssey, we know of 3 others (Antiphus, Eurylus & Amphidamas.), they were 600, I WANT TO KNOW ALL OF THEM. I want to know if they were married, if they longed for their wives as much as Odysseus did, if they also had children they never met but wanted to, or sisters they wanted to see again, or mothers they longed to feel the embrace of. We only ever briefly know Eurylochus was married to Ctimene, but what else? And the trojan women? We know of the important ones, (Briseis, Andromache, Creusa, Hecuba, Laodice, Cassandra, Polyxena, etc..) but there must have been tons of women suffering there, who were they before the war? Did they have fathers, brothers, sons who died? Or were they enslaved with their mothers, sisters and daughters? Do they ever get to feel happy again? I hate in when a book goes: "The poets won't sing of this person" or "The Poets don't care about this person" LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER, I'M THE POET, I'LL SING, I CARE. LET ME EAT UP EVERY SINGLE STORY EVER. All to say I'm considering writting fanfics about either Odysseus' crewmen or the trojen women.

Would y'all read that?

[whencyclopedia]

Agamemnon (Person)

Agamemnon was the legendary king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homer's Illiad. Agamemnon is a great warrior but also a selfish ruler who famously upset his invincible champion Achilles, a feud that prolonged the war and suffering of his men.

Agamemnon is a hero from Greek mythology but there are no historical records of a Mycenaean king of that name. The Greek city was a prosperous one in the Bronze Age, and there perhaps was a real, albeit much shorter, Greek-led attack on Troy. Both these propositions are supported by archaeological evidence. Unfortunately, though, the famous gold mask found in a shaft grave at Mycenae and widely known as the 'Mask of Agamemnon' is dated up to 400 years before any possible Agamemnon candidate that fits a chronology of the Trojan War.

Agamemnon's Family

Agamemnon was the son of Atreus, or perhaps grandson, in which case his father was Pleisthenes. His mother was Aerope, from Crete which provided a handy link between the Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Peloponnese and the earlier Minoan civilization of Bronze Age Crete. He was married to Clytemnestra with whom he had three daughters. In one version these are Chrysothemis, Laodice and Iphianassa while in other, later versions they are Chrysothemis, Electra and Iphigeneia. Agamemnon was the brother of Menelaos, king of Sparta.

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[chilly-weirdo-in-a-tomb]

Honestly that’s so much better than the name I came up with while trying to write a Nova au fic.

In the Novaverse, her full name is Gideonastasia Navagraha. She was originally given the name Gideon Nav, but when she was officially adopted, both her names were expanded to reflect her station.

Navagraha is a term from Vedic astrology, referring to the nine celestial bodies (not planets). It doesn't share an arithmonym with either of her parents to reflect her outsider status. This is even further reinforced by the fact that it's four syllables, while most Reverand Family second names are 5 or 7 syllables. It's a name that says, "You are very special and important, but we could still replace you if a better option came around."

Gideonastasia is one of those double-barreled names. The suffix, referencing founder Anastasia, is staking claim on her as a member of the Ninth. She absolutely hates it and has been known to lock herself in her room for a week if someone uses her full name instead of just Gideon.

[catilinas]

remember the scene in the grass crown where laodice (queen of pontus) tries to poison mithridates vi (king of pontus, famously immunised himself to all known poisons) at a banquet and he takes a sip and like. identifies And Criticises her choice of poison. for poisoning him. and then gets her to drink the rest of it :/ truly a book that you can read

[miyrumiyru]

Their underside of hindwings look like a melted butter and caramel.

Pallas's fritillary (Argynnis laodice)

[protagaster]

Gurl I love your warrior!Penelope au but the premise is kind of a stretch and you know it. Every Greek man maimed but not dead and sent back? I have a suggestion for you that will neatly explain everything (with some delicious bonuses in the gift horse’s mouth, including a mentor for Helen and archer!Cassandra)

After the first year of fighting, Menelaus and Priam meet outside the city walls to discuss a truce. Naturally, it fails, however… Paris' sister Laodice, who had previously taken Theseus’ son as a lover, found the Greek extremely handsome. She asks Aphrodite to make him her husband, or at least trick him into lying with her for one night.

Aphrodite gives her a magic armband that makes her appear as Helen. Unfortunately, Menelaus sees through the ruse a la Ody and the siren. Aphrodite, insulted, commands Paris and Hector to take him prisoner.

Amid the distraction, Helen seizes her chance and makes a daring escape to the Greek camp, aided (without her knowledge) by Athena - only to discover that her husband was taken instead and unwillingly married to Laodice by a priestess of Aphrodite.

Zeus, fed up with Aphrodite’s antics, decrees that since the war was started by goddesses, it shall be waged henceforth by women only.

But wait, Ares was on the Trojan side, why is he helping Penelope? One of the Trojans attempted to violate an Amazon. Since messing with Ares’ daughters is a proven way to trigger him, he switches promptly to the Greek side, explaining why he becomes her mentor.

Bonus: Athena becomes Helen's mentor. They bond over being daughters of Zeus who are fed up with Aphrodite.

Bonus 2: Throw in the Trojan women as well! Cassandra escapes Apollo's punishment by abandoning her oracle and becoming a huntress of Artemis. The goddess trains her to replace Paris as the ace archer of Troy.

WOW! I am so impressed with all the details you've thought out and how you managed to tie everything together! Thank you so much for sharing this with me!

While I can not promise to incorporate these details right away for the war!pen au, they will definitely come in handy when I get around to writing the heroine iliad au (name pending, if you guys like it or have any suggestions I'm all ears)! Thank you so much! Your ideas have inspired and helped me out so much in planning the iliad rewrite! I will probably tweak a detail or two, or perhaps add to them is the better phrase, for the sake of what I have in mind:

For example, I have an idea for a story beat/theme that would need to have Cassandra keeping her visions in order to act as a foil to Clytemnestra and her unhealthy desire for revenge Or still giving Paris and Hector primary roles since Achilles and Patroclus are still contributing to the war

But nonetheless, I am still so grateful! I know I keep saying it, but thank you so much for sharing your beautiful ideas with me <3

[theriverpointace]

assigning hamilton songs to the half-crown royals characters

(half-crown royals being a title i have deemed suitable for my steampunk paris of troy story. i have not listened to hamilton in years.)

hektor: "dear theodosia." bro got parentified BAD just saying ...

alexandros: "my shot." upbeat and about doing whatever it takes to get what he wants. alexandros is all about that baby!!

deiphobos: "ten duel commandments." he is alexander in this song i think.

helenos: "who lives, who dies, who tells your story." did you know he outlives troy?

kassandra: "history has its eyes on you." iirc anyways.

iliona: "stay alive (reprise)"

laodice: "we know"

hellen: "say no to this" but she's not maria!

priam: "meet me inside"

aphrodite: "helpless"

apollo: "alexander hamilton" bc man thinks he's the main character

[hermesmoly]

do you consider iphanassia, daughter of agamemnon and clytemnestra, canon?

Nope but also yes (in a way).

I like the configuration of Electra being called "Laodice" (by Homer) and Iphigenia "Iphanassia" (since she has a myth of dying the exact same way Iphigenia did) respectively.

Though I do acknowledge Sophocles saying she's different from Iphigenia, but she's not a character in the play she's referenced in, and the alive AgaCly kids (Orestes, Chyrsothemis, Electra) feel more consistent as a trio.

[wlfs-zzz-archive]

A (Currently Being Updated) Cast of Characters

@pyxilate *

Amethyst / Nzyndale (HSR)

Aphrodite (Genshin Impact)

Camazotz Bloodmoon Valorant (ZZZ)

Cascade Lumière (Genshin Impact)

Cayde Foreshadow (Genshin Impact)

Daedalus (Genshin Impact)

Danai / Lilith (HSR)

Dionysia Laodice (ZZZ)

Genevieve (Genshin Impact) 

Ixchel (Genshin Impact)

Jiàn (HSR)

Jikan (HI3)

Jinlian (HSR)

Jíshǒu (HSR)

Julian Silver (ZZZ)

Kagami (ZZZ)

Malori Vex (ZZZ)

Malum (Genshin Impact)

Maxine (HSR)

October (ZZZ)

Prajna Konton (ZZZ)

Qiao Lin

Quartz (HSR)

Ravyn Daggervytch (HSR)

Starchasm Nyx (HSR)

Thanatos (HI3)

Thirteen (ZZZ)

Thursday / Stelle (ZZZ)

Xiu Long (HSR)

Yuki Fujimoto (Genshin Impact)

Zerø Destovox (ZZZ)

Zoismos Laodice (ZZZ)

1999 / Carina (HI3/ZZZ)

20-77 / Nicole Scorpion (HSR)

911 (ZZZ)

Seir (she is not included in this list due to being present in every universe)

@the-all-consuming (I’m leaving you to alphabetize and categorize these bitches cuz I ain’t doing it myself)

Rosémond Fossoyeur

Kaine Amadeo

Carlo Fossoyeur

Death-Do-Us-Part

Vulture

WARDEN

Curie Burnman

Enki

Ju Long

Jago

Kahira Kamisato

Valentyn Myroslav

Xuĕ Tao

Gonzalo

Ekkhard

Carmine Cassius

Eumbrel Kaimen/Joel Lazarus

10-65/ Akil Amastan

Kaosu riron

Josefina Kaimen/Misericordia Lazarus

Nobody/Maikel Lazaru/ Serafina Lazarus

Bian Lian

Haywood Ellington

Hikari Katshuito

Dubhán Ceallach

NPC’s:

@pyxilate

Luxo (Source of Everything)

Council of Evil: (Genshin)

Fides Cordis Adamari Timeo Fortitudo Implete Tempus

Cult of Dreams: Basalt Calcite ONE

Aeonstruck Moonhunters:**

Lucifer Hecate Augustus Midas Angel Velvet The Illuminator (Svajonė, Aeon of Dreams) The Cutter

@the-all-consuming

Crudêl, Aeon of terror (TL2&1)

Mortala, Aeon of Desolation (TL2&1)

Wolfsbane (TL2)

The Emperor, Aeon of Conquest (TL2)

Tobia Lazarus

D'Angelo Constantino

The Agency Against Akil Amastan (The A.A.A.A)

The Poacher

The Ethereal Cultist/Hunters

The Eradication Protocol 

The Party Animals

*two omniverses exist because of this. Pyxilate has two omniverses, one shared with the-all-consuming and one individual universe where their characters never existed. This is due to Pyxilate a selfish bish who wants everything to herself. However there are also two HSR timelines in the-all-consuming’s universe so it’s not all bad.

**Calcite is The Cutter, he defected from the cult to a different cult group!

[bluebelleix]

(OLD)The Three Sisters of The Court

(They won't be that relevant to Claire' backstory now but they're still there)

They were first mentioned in Claire's introduction(?) and I gave in to give them designs.

HERE THEY ARE!!

Okay so,:

Technically they're the same age as the Headmaster, Meliadoul Amy and Innocent Zero, which is around 118 years old because they were each "blessed" by the God of Justice, Themis.

The oldest of them all is Liliane Laodice; although all of them work in The Court, she's the only who uses it as her main job. She mostly works as the Judge and handles the cases paperworks.

She usually doesn't go out very much so you might not even meet her in public. When trying to meet with her, her schedule is apparently "always busy", so there's already a small chance of meeting her.

Maybe do a crime and get to meet her in Court I guess lol.

The middle one is Elodie Laodice; she's the one who adopted Claire. If you're wondering why would she adopt a child when she's like really old, it's because she wants the law to change without really interfering directly.

She thinks the law around the magic world is getting, well, outdated because they haven't really advanced forward because of the law. Hence one day, she just.. decided to teach someone, train someone early on and change the fate of the world.

Of course she doesn't want to just train someone that's already mature because they might already be influenced that the world is "perfect". So she decided to adopt a child, a child that haven't even experienced the world yet and how it works.

Maybe they can have a different view if she showed them the flaws. If she gives an opportunity to them, would they take it and change the future?

..Onto the last one which is the youngest, Dinah Laodice. She currently works as a religious teacher at Saint Ars (I suspect that Saint Ars might be religious with like the theme around it lol) and a nun at the local church.

She's usually quiet and doesn't speak much and sometimes scares people every time she opens her mouth because they forgot she was there.

She doesn't open up very often and always leaves on time and just like her oldest, no one can really find after school. Students have said that they saw her in the school's courtyard but those seems to be rumours because no one really have evidence for it.

Elodie and Claire's relationship is uhh..hard to say.

Does Claire view her as a mother? Eh depends, from early on as a kid, Claire has always called her "miss". However she does feel a sting in her heart when she realises she doesn't really have anyone to call "mom".

It's not like Elodie doesn't view Claire as her own child but she doesn't exactly call herself a mother. After all, she already a few workers to take care of her while she guides her to a better future she can make.

It's really a complicated relationship but they don't talk it out because one's an older person that thinks what they're doing is right without thinking about the consequences while the other is a child who actually didn't really have any experience in the world and just follows along like a sheep.

..Claire does take it for granted though, after all, she could have a worst fate right? Being adopted by one of the higher ups is already good enough so she really shouldn't complained. She just needs to follow along the script that Miss had made.