#perseus

[sarafangirlart]

Seeing how Hippolyta and Medea were mistreated and abandoned for being ‘barbarians’ just really drives the point home how much Perseus loves Andromeda, we never hear about him leaving her for a Greek princess and therefore delegitimizing their children, he remained loyal and all their children went on to be kings and queens, or have some other high status.

[carbonkrig]

what is it with perseus and adler. like clearly theres something there between the lines - what, you dedicate decades of your life to that man, ruin peoples lives to find him and thats just that? totally normal behaviour to have your every waking thought consumed by him adler, sure.

[aliciavance4228]

Me goodness, I found it! 😭

Art by @lobsterflaws.

do u have any nsfw drawings 🥺👉👈

Saw a Nosferatu Fanart/Meme a while ago (which unfortunately I forgot to save) and chose to create this depravity inspired by it.

Edit: Added another photo, this time in natural light.

[thereinart]

I did a Danaé mini comic cause my heart aches for her

Hope you like it :3

[without-ado]

Atik, Omicron Persei in Perseus l Lee-Anne Gibbon

[tinymusicalgeek]

Perseus vs Medusa

I don't know if anyone has pointed it out before, but i really like the parallel of Percy holding up Medusa's head the same way statue Perseus does.

Like, the ⭐️symbolism⭐️ of Medusa meeting the same exact fate, despite having her story rewritten and told.

And the foreshadowing of Percy becoming as great of a hero as his namesake.

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Perseus Molecular Cloud

[sydney-empire]

Vent comic about female beauty

[chromyo]

Perseus after receiving his gifts from Athena and Hermes 💅

Srsly look at him with his little handbag

[moon-kissed-corner]

Detail from the painting Danaë (before 1829), by Jean-Baptiste Regnault.

[sforzesco]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[spacewonder19]

NGC 1333 Embryo Nebula in Perseus © Martin Voigt

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Clash of the Titans (1981)

[britney-rosberg06]

“Sally named Percy Peseus because he lived happily ever after” no FUCK that Sally named him Perseus because Perseus and Danaë fucking suffered. Their lives sucked. They were cast out literally and figuratively left to fend for themselves but despite all of that they fought for every bit they earned and accepted no shit from anybody and when Sally Jackson was handed her precious baby boy she was feeling particularly powerful that day. She was a penniless orphan turned single mother and despite not having a fucking clue about what her and her child’s life would become she decided she wasn’t going to quit. She was drowning in grief and worry just like Danaë, drowning in a sea pitted against her, was and both women decided to brave the fucking storm.

THATS why his name is Perseus. Because both their mothers fought a different kind of battle and won

[sarafangirlart]

Whoever came up with the idea to have Perseus sharing a flying sandal with Andromeda I need to kiss you in the mouth shake your hand

Perseus (1973) short film, available on YouTube.