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palameiad · 1 month ago

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actually i'm not keen on discussing the plow™ or whether odysseus was "justified" for killing palamedes or not because it's the only story people talk about in regards to palamedes at the expense of. everything else. so it's basically annoyed my interest out of the subject i think

#odysseus gets to be mr. lying and tricks and deception so i think palamedes (written to parallel him) gets to have a moment of that too #anyway if you think palamedes deserved it then ok (i'm weary whenever someone says this just because 99% of the time they anti him)#if you think palamedes didnt deserve it then ok (as did the majority of the surviving works with palamedes did. while beefing with odysseus)#imho the accounts where diomedes / agamemnon are complicit are more interesting to me... odysseus is at least a little more clean-cut.#and the chain of the events that happen after palamedes' murder are so good to chew on. achilles' ajax's nauplius' and oeax's grief ☹️#grieving for too long too intensely and too violently. also the house of atreus™. can you tell i'm normal #palamedes #odysseus #greek mythology #tagamemnon #xndead the muses' nightingale #xndead rambles

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