#menelaus and odysseus

[katerinaaqu]

Menelaus Dear to Ares

Alright alright ALRIGHT!!!! I thought it was about time I tried to draw the Atreides and what better thing to start than Menelaus! The dearest friend to Odysseus who waited for his news and melting away slowly in his own guilt and sadness and agony for him! As well as the sadness for his brother who was lost so dishonorably!

So for the base to trace obviously I used the famous sculpture of Menelaus but I also tried to add some details to his helmet and somehow make it more "mycenean style". Of course yay for "long-haired Argives" so Menelaus had to have long hair but also adding some golden-red details to his hair and of course the honey shade to his eyes as I usually portray him in my stories.

What is he thinking? His wife who he feels betrayed him? His friend that he considers lost? I wonder.

Menelaus is protagonist to my story:

The Why never asked and the Because that never mattered

he is also deuteragonist to a couple more stories such as:

I Take that Back

Guilt (P3)

The Death of Odysseus (P3)

Gosh I must write more!!! And I am! More on the Atreides might come soon!

My Other work on Homeric characters:

Diomedes

Odysseus

Calypso

Patroclus

Antilochus

Achilles

Neoptolemous

Penelope

Helen

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The House of Atreides etc:

Clytemnestra

Orestes

Pylades

[restlesskeychains]

This is how I think that scene went

[chromyo]

Hi how are you? I hope you're well 😁

Hey, could I ask you if you could draw Menelaus, Agamemnon and Odysseus? Please?🙏🏻

Hey ! Im fine, I hope you too !!

And of course hehe

(A-ah I didn’t draw Agamemnon.. Im sorry I... I dont like him..... Maybe another day I will draw me 😭 IM SORRY !!!)

BUT HEY, here are the girls too !!!

[simoondraws]

"The horse and the infant"

[wolfythewitch]

Both fellow-countrymen then,

how often we’d have mingled side-by-side!

Nothing could have parted us,

bound by love for each other, mutual delight …

till death’s dark cloud came shrouding round us both.

[smoolio]

Decided to revisit some Iliad designs and polish them up! Semi-canon to my EPIC designs. Odysseus is just too jacked lol

[mushyooms]

meny and ody

[qinnyanimation]

There’s a certain idea that’s been on my mind for a while so here you go-

A very cursed Iliad AU

[justvea18]

Back at the camp:

[katerinaaqu]

Odysseus and Menelaus parallels are scary!

Soooo isn't anyone gonna talk, after all my posts, on how the two very good friends during the Homeric Poems, Odysseus and Menelaus have similarly meaning names? No? Okay then I suppose I have to, then and I will!

Odysseus: => ὀδύσσομαι (odyssomai)= to be angry at, to be bitter against, to hate

Menelaus: => μένος (menos)=anger, fury, vigor + λαός (laos)= people, army

So we have basically:

Odysseus: Anger Bringer, Angry/Furious, Hated

Menelaus: Fury of the People, Anger of the People, Vigor of the Army

So just for your information the two heroes that share so much in common;

their love for their home

the love for their wife (a very beautiful and very intelligent wife!)

agruably both married a princess that was out of their league at that time (Menelaus married Helen who was a princess of a powerful kingdom, arguably a demigoddess while he was an exiled prince once and a second son and Odysseus...yeah come on! The Prince/King from a small kingdom arrived in Sparta without even adequate wedding gifts or no gifts at all and left with a Spartan princess! Way you go champion!)

the love for their only child they left behind (the possibility of both of them having children outside of marriage in post-homeric sources for different reasons to he back of our heads)

their connection to Sparta by marriage

their adventure with being shipwrecked

consequently having to beg for the help of another ruler

coming home several years after the end of the war

the two characters that went to Troy to negotiate

one of them would absolutely be capable of starting a war for the woman he loved, the other one did it

two emotional men who share their sadness and happiness gladly with people they trust and love

both suffered trials and tirbulations (Menelaus was exiled from his own home as a young man, Odysseus wandere all over Mediterannean at his later age)

So the two dudes that share ALL this they also share a similar sounding name that also dictates their position in the war and the importance but also how they also suffer and how much anger they invoked but also felt deep inside!

And these two share such a strong friendship!!!! Suffer with me now!

[incorrecthomer]

Menelaus: So, how’s parenthood treating you? Penelope: Good. I didn’t expect this much crying, though. Menelaus: Don’t worry, it’s normal for babies. Penelope: What? The baby’s fine. I was talking about Odysseus. Odysseus, sobbing from Telemacus' room: I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

[theodysseyofhomer]

sorry for bringing up stupid discourse in the middle of the night again. remembered the time someone tagged my homophrosyne post complaining that odysseus gets to sleep around while loudly proclaiming that he'll kill his wife if she cheats. which: absolutely did not happen! not in homer's odyssey!

as i alluded to in that post, there is an implied threat to penelope. but it's not implied in anything odysseus says about or to her! i would argue that it's most heavily implied in how the telemachia is framed by the house of atreus drama. orestes has recently avenged his father's death at the hands of his mother's lover; it stands to reason (so the story would go) that if penelope were to accept a suitor, they would pose a threat to odysseus, and telemachus would have to avenge him. that is the implied layout of the poem. which it then subverts time and again by none of that happening with odysseus, penelope, and telemachus.

and it's also implied by the gendered double standards around marital fidelity in a multi-thousand-year-old text, which are overarching, and not particularly shocking in that context. i find it completely disingenuous to make it an odysseus problem when there is so much going on in their marriage that's more interestinggg

[chelathy]

look at my army dog we're losing this war

bonus achilles too sorry ur bf died

[simoondraws]

Warm up sketch with Odydiolaus 😌

[achillesisnotcomingdown]

LIBERALS are turning the iliad WOKE ‼️‼️🤬🤬

BIomedes

TRANSdysseus

Men-LIKER-enaus

Achilles

AgaYmmenon

[kupidachillea]

I was bored

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