#odysseus blond

[xskyll]

I just got to the part in The Odyssey where Odysseus reaches Ithaca, and Homer just casually dropped the info that my man is a blond.

[sloanslone]

Odyssey Odysseus was BLONDE?????

Omg.

:p very Achilles coded....

[spiralingemptyness]

sketch dump… mainly theatre shit

[dootznbootz]

Huge difference between "He's just some guy (neutral)" and "He's just some guy (affectionate)".

[maeaea]

dumping all my dumb doodles here. ignore these guys, moving blogs is so frustrating OTL

[lyculuscaelus]

Day 6941 of pondering over Odysseus’s hair color again. Dark will forever live rent free in my head but red is gorgeous and brown is so commonly accepted and auburn as a mixture is beloved but then dark is still living rent free in my head…

Basically, depending on how you interpret the color of ξανθός (xanthos, for his hair) and κυάνεος (kyaneos, for his beard) to be

[duhhck]

ODYSSEUSS!!!!!! <33 my INFORMED design of ody, DID YA’LL KNOW ODY’S SAID TO HAVE HERTOCROMIA AND IS BLONDEEE??? so i tried to do sum wit that

(ignore the misspelling of his name, greek alludes me and so does spelling apparently)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Alexander Bruckmann (German, 1806-1852) Odysseus und die Sirenen, 1829 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

[anniflamma]

My first thought on how I imagen Circe's design:

What does Circe even look like???

[alexnamuu]

Okay, I really like to imagine that Diomedes and Patroclus have an internal friendship.

Like, Diomedes recognizes that Patroclus is a good warrior. Diomedes has war experience because he has been involved in wars since he was little, and Patroclus was trained by Chiron, in medicine and fighting as well.

Patroclus (in some sources) has the affection and protection of Poseidon and Diomedes has the blessing of Athena. Both Gods have been "enemies" and rivals for a long time, so I believe they both have it too!

Diomedes is calm, often expressionless and mysterious, and does not like to share his feelings outside the battlefield. Patroclus is a kind-hearted, determined and stubborn man, and they have this friendly competitiveness.

Who is the fastest? Who is the best at taming horses? Who is the best at shooting bows and arrows? (neither, to be clear, let Odysseus say so) . They both like to compete and talk too!

Even though Diomedes is quiet and Patroclus is too, they enjoy each other's company, the silence, the calm. They both chat here and there, a conversation thrown out like:

Diomedes: Did you see the new stud they brought in? I wanted him, but he's still wild as a storm

Patroclus: Yes, he is beautiful, a very beautiful horse, I think I can try to calm him down.

Diomedes: I'm sure you can, being one of Poseidon's favorites.

Patroclus: Now, shut up, warrior of Athena

And everything returns to calm and silence, a comfortable silence.

[arthyritis]

Alternative dialogue for the end of Thunder Bringer /j

[jules-ln]

Because Tumblr reminded me of this

My unpopular opinion about Hades (game) is that while the art is absolutely beautiful, some designs are a bit... Boring (Like C'mon you guys, everyone and their mom could've thought of Aphrodite as a naked pink woman)

But tbf, Patroclus, Odysseus... Those are some big brain takes right there

[littlesparklight]

The lineup up top was actually an impulse addition and I was lazy with it I c/p the headshots shhhh and Odysseus at the end and even MORE of an impulse addition, but yes. Mostly here for heights/body-build comparisons, circa Iliad-era. (From left to right: Patroklos, Achilles, Ajax, Paris, Aeneas, Hektor, Agamemnon, Menelaos and the rat bastard man extraordinaire Odysseus. Tallest is Aeneas at 193 cm ; shortest is Odysseus at 158 cm thereabouts.)

The headshots I drew imagining them to be from the start of the war, landing at Troy, so that's why everyone looks cleaner compared to the lineup!

[one-in-a-million-fishsticks-blog]

Major "EPIC: The Musical" Brainrot in 3... 2... 1....

I've Been stricken with a new animatic idea!!!! But since I'm already working on an animatic that'll take me god knows how long, I'll probably be limiting this new concept to a piece of fanart for my own sake.

"The Underworld Saga" my beloved.... 😍

Is it wrong that in my mind I'm kinda meshing fandoms and getting major Alucard vibes from this one? I'm all in on the actual story of the track, I love me a good Greek tragedy, but y'all....

What about my vampire tragedy? 😭

Like as someone who's played or watched Castlevania, read these lyrics in particular and tell me you don't get Alucard vibes?

|| All I hear are screams, every time I dare to close my eyes

I no longer dream, only nightmares of those who've died

Nothing's what it seems

And here in the underworld the past seems close behind!

When does a man become a monster?

558 men who died under your command...

All I hear are screams, every time I dare to close my eyes!

I no longer dream, only nightmares of those who've died! ||

Like dude, I am not healthy. I just keep picturing Oldmanacard in 2036, being sad about every previous generation of humans he's ever fought alongside and outlived.

[dootznbootz]

just so you know, YOU'RE 🫵 the reason i draw odysseus with very curly hair now. I imagined him with slightly curly hair before,, but now he has CURLY hair. You once mentioned how sometimes he even has perm and i haven't been the same since.

And i love it it's genuinely so much fun to draw

YEAH!!!! I love curly curly curl curly Q you do!!!!

He gets it from his mom and Ctimene has it too! It's a "Hermes descendant" thing >:D Another Hermes thing is Freckles which they all have >:D

It's mostly because of the "Hyacinths in full bloom" as WOW that's PRETTY. (part of where "Pretty boy conman" comes from)

It gets frizzy a lot and he'll often just shove it into his Pileus. (Thick curly hair needs a LOT of care. It's literally because of the "divinity" in him that it's not a constant mess) Man is kind of like Merida with curls (not color though!)

It's long too and it's where some of his brain is >:D he's like Samson where if you cut it, he loses his power. He get stupid :P

To ME, it's basically THIS but longer, and sometimes gets "poofier" depending on stuff like weater, bedhead, hathair, HELMET hair, etc. (Or straight up like Wolfy's new Art except more red/brown as I basically SCREAMED "That's it!!! It's a mane of HAIR!!! LONG AND CURLY!!!! lksdjf lkdsj " )

I think it's kind of funny/ironic for his hair to be a "mane" despite the fact that he's never described like a lion in the Iliad (from what I remember) while the other men were. He's the one that has a literal lion's mane but he's never compared to one because...personality. He's described as one in Odyssey but still!!! It's IRONY!!!! >:D Plus it's Penelope's favorite fidget/stim and Baby Telemachus' favorite thing to yank >:D

A cute little thing 🥺 I have long hair and one thing I used to do was "hide in it" from my family to play and be silly in. When Odysseus and Ctimene are really little they did the same with their parents 😭 Especially as they can "hide easier" by just flopping the giant curls over their faces. They thought they were sneaky 🥺

[quill-is-brainstorming]

You know, I haven’t touched the Eighth Arrow for quite some time now (probably because my literature teacher won’t fucking read forward, Dante’s been stuck in the sixth circle for like a month goddamit woman DO YOUR JOB-) but the urge to draw fanart of it has suddenly awakened in the depth of my soul.

All this premise is to say this: there is a very real danger you might see a blond Diomedes in your feed.

You have been warned.