#oenomaus

[cressidium]

SPARTACUS: Blood and Sand

[farawayvisions]

Every Crixus/Naevia Scene - 36/∞

[kemetic-dreams]

Peter Mensah born August 27, 1959 in Chiraa, Ghana is an English/Ghanaian actor best known for his roles in Tears of the Sun and 300, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, and Spartacus: Vengeance. He began practicing martial arts at the age of 6.

Mensah comes from a family of academics. He was born in Ghana to Ashanti parents, but moved to Hertfordshire, England at a young age with his father, an engineer, and mother, a writer, and two younger sisters. Mensah immigrated to Canada eleven years ago. He emigrated from the United Kingdom to travel the world, and it was a toss-up whether he would go to Canada or Australia. The paperwork for Canada came through first.

[variousqueerthings]

fully forgot about these two and melitta having a whole Thing between them that absolutely would have been solved with polyamory, but also kind of was polyamory already from the themes and parallels it deliberately makes between the three of them, like if gannicus and melitta had just spoken to oenomaus, if they'd taken some time to think it out (which naturally they all had time to do in their incredibly stressful environment), the three of them would have been happy... it came to me in a flash that oenomaus is the person who comes to gannicus to guide him to the afterlife in the moment of his death in s4 so that's something to look forward to and cry about

oh well, they figure it out post-death, in my soul the three of them are together there (which is basically canon, considering melitta was definitely going to wait for oenomaus and oenomaus then came to meet gannicus)

[sarafangirlart]

HYGINUS, FABULAE

So according to this (Roman) source, Danaë had a sister named Evarete, she isn’t mentioned anywhere else but her existence still intrigues me.

Why did Acrisius allow her to be married and have children but not Danaë?

Could it be that she’s an illegitimate daughter bc Eurydice/Aganippe wasn’t mentioned as her mother?

Did the oracle specify that it’s only Danaë that will produce a son that would kill him?

How does she feel about her sister being mistreated?

Could it be that when Oenomaus heard the prophecy that his son in law would kill him, that Evarete advised him not to do what her father did and mistreat their daughter?

Did Danaë think of her sister when she heard that Polydectes was “planning” to marry her niece Hippodamia?

So many interesting implications…

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Pelops. Source: Greek Mythology website

Pelops and Oenomaus

When therefore Pelops, landing in Elis, begged his lover Poseidon, whom he invoked with a sacrifice on the seashore, either to give him the swiftest chariot in the world for his courtship of Hippodameia, or to stay the rush of Oenomaus’s brazen spear, Poseidon was delighted to be of assistance. Pelops soon found himself the owner of a winged golden chariot, which could race over the sea without wetting the axles, and was drawn by a team of tireless, winged, immortal horses. (Pelops and Oenomaus, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves, pp 393-401).

After the death of Tantalus, his son Pelops succeeded him to the throne of Paphlagonia, but was forced into wandering by the attacks of barbarians. With his followers, Pelops arrived at Elis where he asked King Oenomaus for the hand of his daughter, Hippodameia, in marriage. Oenomaus issued the challenge he gave to all his daughter’s suitors: that the man must race his chariot from Elis to the Isthmus of Corinth, pursued by the King himself. If the suitor was overtaken by Oenomaus, he would die, if he outpaced his pursuer, he would marry the princess. Aided by the Four Winds, a divine spear and the best charioteer in the world, Myrtilus, Oenomaus never failed to despatch the suitors.

Pelops, with his fine chariot and horses, was confident of survival, despite the row of suitors’ skulls nailed above the gates of the palace. He approached Myrtilus, promising him a night with Hippodameia if he betrayed his master. Myrtilus therefore removed the lynch-pins from Oenomaus’ chariot and replaced them with wax. As Pelops was about to reach the Isthmus, and the pursuing Oenomaus raised his spear to transfix his quarry, the wheels to the chariot flew off and the King was killed in the ensuing crash. Myrtilus attempted to make good on Pelops’ promise by ravaging Hippodameia. Pelops intervened and killed Myrtilus, by kicking him from the chariot down a cliffside. Myrtilus, with his dying breath, cursed the house of Pelops.

Pelops then married Hippodameia, succeeded to Oenomaus’ throne, and subjugated the surrounding territory, naming it the Peloponnese.

Graves speculates that, given the importance of the Peloponnese to later Greeks, the name Pelops may have been an Achaean hereditary title, meaning “King”. The chariot race may have been a representation of the refusal of the Year King to be sacrificed and the slain suitors representative of the surrogates who died in his stead.

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#PeterMensah #LemuelBridger #MidnightTexas #Oenomaus #Spartacus #300 #Avatar #TheIncredibleHulk #TearsoftheSun #TrueBlood #AgentsofSHIELD #Predaking #TransformersPrime #actor #portrait #pencildrawing

Full vid: https://youtu.be/4AjEDRpR4YA Shorts: https://youtu.be/DUi7_bf2N1A

[chronictypoist]

This is now an Oenomaus fanblog

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Spartacus: Oenomaus, we need that! Oenomaus, holding Gannicus over a trash can: Nope. Spartacus: Gimme it— Oenomaus: It’s garbage.

[dontcallittimetravel]

On This Day: the Goebbels family is spared from enemy capture only to be fed to a pack of wild velociraptors #thatstrue

[supbro50000]

Oenomaus: you have grown my son Angron: is it unusual? Oenomaus: there is nothing normal in this world son, but I am proud of you Angron: *hugs Oenomaus* Oenomaus: *is winded*

I sometimes forgot the primarch age quickly so I sometimes i end up thinking some of their deeds they were still kids. Like guilliman got to be a military leader at 10. So I usually think of this child in over size armour.

amazing philosophical exercise bc it's so applicable... vulkan was 5 when he took a big hammer and started going after drukhari raiders. Imagine the beautiful mental image of a 6-foot-tall kindergartener killing elves. Rotate this in your minds, like the microwave

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he was so close to making me identify as bisexual but then his character committed the worst crime ever: being boring

[variousqueerthings]

sure gladiator 2 looks serviceable, but nothing will top the sheer scale of spartacus the tv show, there's no way it's gonna have half the intensity, the oiled up guys, the drama of its fight scenes, all those queers, the tension build, the violence, the emotional everything, the myth-making, that tv show was a piece of high camp fucked-up gold. will they even have nagron?

[diningwiththeasquiths]

Saw the Spartacus final a couple of days ago. Trying to cheer myself up with some cute Gannicus/Oenomaus that my brother drew on our chalkboard. Seriously, he's the one who made me ship it. Before this drawing it was just a bromance to me.

Edit: Made this post in 2012 but never actually posted it. It’s too cute to throw away though. And this show left a hole (literally because this show was HORNY 😆) which has yet to be filled by any other show. It was awesome, it was unique, it had everything, including Lucy Flawless. I still quote it sometimes because the way they wrote dialogue was iconic. (I stood absent choice. Words fall from your mouth like shit from ass. And the classic: my cock rages on!) Truly one of a kind and unforgettable. ❤