#polynices

[epifaniacintilante]

Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) // Antigone au chevet de Polynice, 1868 // Antigone by Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo

[qinnyanimation]

Uh oh tumblr flagged it uh I think you can check the full thing here on my X

PolyTyde is that powerful huh….

[crimsonbluee]

i thought: man, there really is a polytyde shortage in fandom

then i thought: i will fix this

[pomp-quio]

This is about brothers (and sisters): but this is about brothers who are trying to resurrect their brothers, this is about brothers who mourn, this is about brothers who drag the body of their dead brother around and plead, wait for me! don't go where I can't follow!

Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Elektra (Euripedes, trans. P Vellacott) || Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Interview with HuffPost) || Antigonick (Anne Carson) || detail from Antigone au chevet de Polynice (Benjamin-Constant) || Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Life of Cato Minor (Plutarch) || Oedipus at Colonus (Sophokles, trans. R Fagles) || Life of Lucullus (Plutarch) || detail from Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures (Angelica Kauffmann) || Life of Lucullus (Plutarch) || Elektra (Sophokles, trans. Anne Carson) || Thebaid Book IX (Statius, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce) || detail from Orestes and Elektra || Oedipus at Colonus (Sophokles, trans. R Fagles) || Life of Crassus (Plutarch) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic (Kathryn Welch) || The Phoenician Women (Euripides, trans. P Burian & B Swann) || Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic (Kathryn Welch) || Antigone (Sophokles, trans. Frank Nisetich) || Nemean 10 (Pindar) || detail from Antigone Sentenced to Death by Creon (Giuseppe Diotti) || Nemean 10 (Pindar) || Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic (F K Drogula) || App. BC 5.14.143 || Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus, trans. A Hecht & H H Bacon) || Oresteia (Aeschylus, a new adaptation by R Icke)

[shouldertheskies]

yet another polynices x tydeus piece. because these silly little freaks (affectionate) refuse to leave my head

[deadbaguette]

Polynices!

Commission for @aster-aspera ❤️ Ty for commissioning me <3

[ilions-end]

guys against thebes can be found in sizes large, medium and small

i.e. hippomedon and polynices play a game of polis while tydeus takes a nap (he's not allowed to play board games anymore after what happened last time)

[mmmelodramatic]

seven against thebes😋

i stayed up all night making these designs so if theyre bad then uuhh whoopsie

[mythologypaintings]

Oedipus and Colonus

Artist: Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust (French, 1753–1817)

Date: 1788

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, United States

Description

This painting, by the French artist Jean Antoine Théodore Giroust, was inspired by the life of Oedipus, perhaps one of the unluckiest figures of ancient Greek myth. Oedipus is represented in the painting by the shirtless man with his legs draped in red cloth, seen sitting on a carved stone. He is surrounded by his daughters: Antigone and Ismene. As for the man wearing a helmet on the left side of the painting, he is Polynices - one of Oedipus’ sons.

[antigonesgrave]

Soo fascinated by the fact that Antigone (and friends) never outright say whether or not they think Polynices is a traitor.

Creon says it happily. And Antigone mentions it in the beginning(“with the contempt we reserve for traitors”) but every other time, she skirts around the question. She won’t say outright whether he is or not. And she won’t say if it matters. Because it doesn’t! Traitor or not, he is her brother. Haemon does the same. Even Ismene doesn’t outright say that she thinks Polynices is a traitor

[qinnyanimation]

Before I got to bed…here’s Polynices munching Tydeus back

I tried color testing but ended up not liking it but here it is

[greekchoruslikealawyer]

When Antigone complains to Ismene that their brother Polynices is “to be left unwept, unburied, a lovely treasure for birds that scan the eld and feast to their hearts’ content” (28-30), Antigone re-cites the plight of Patroclus in the Iliad: “unwept, unburied” (22.386). Does she imagine herself –are we to imagine her– an Achilles, fated to die early and bereft of a brother/lover?

Antigone, Interrupted — Bonnie Honig

[crimsonbluee]

tydeus does would

[thechildofhypnos]

polytyde for a friend

i havent drawn in a hot ass minute digitally and this is what i drew i hope the polytyde community enjoys 👅

tydeus : i can feel you staring

polynices : mhm, go back to sleep

these darn homosexuals ……….

[pomp-quio]

This is about brothers (and sisters): but this is about brothers who pull each other into death, this is about brothers who ask for promises that will only lead to disaster, this is about brothers who lay a claim and say, you can either have both of us or neither of us, this is about brothers who are a curse to each other, this is about brothers who drag their brothers straight into tragedy with them.

After Abel (Dante Émile) || Life of Caius Gracchus (Plutarch) || Thebaid Commentary (Statius, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce) || detail of Cain Killing Abel (Niccolò Tornioli), Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus, trans. A Hecht & H H Bacon) || Oresteia (Aeschylus, a new adaptation by R Icke) || A Brother Named Gethsemane (Natalie Diaz) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Succession 4 x 10 || Thebaid Book VIII (Statius, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce) || Elektra (Euripedes, trans. P Vellacott) || Killing Flies (Michael Dickman) || detail from Orestes and Electra || In Praise of the Lesser Known Siblings of Mythology (Philip Womack) || Libation Bearers (Aeschylus, trans. S Ruden) || Oresteia (Aeschylus, a new adaptation by R Icke) || detail of Eteocles and Polynices (mural in François Tomb from Vulci) || Orestes (Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson) || Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides, trans. J Morwood) || After Abel (Dante Émile)

[shouldertheskies]

even more polynices/tydeus art. for the 12 thebaid girlies on this website <3