#polynices

[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)

[transbutchblues]

obsessively thinking about antigone tonight. queer antigone / antigone as a product of incest displaying incestuous undertones&themes herself / married through death antigone (anouilh’s antigone, who wanted to have her first time with hemon the evening before she goes to bury her brother, who wanted to die not-a-virgin and yet not-a-wife but who didn’t, because they fought instead) / antigone who only knows how to live for oedipus / antigone who only knows how to die for her brothers / antigone who is nothing but her love for her family / antigone who leaves ismene behind / antigone who knows her brothers have been cursed by her father but still goes back to thebes, because she has to / antigone who knows creon will remove the dirt she puts on polyneikes’ body, but still puts it there, because she has to / antigone ready to die, born to die / antigone already dead from the beginning, her fate sealed long ago / antigone leaving thebes as a child knowing she will only come back to die.

[sculppp]

Joseph Abel (1764–1818)

Antigone Weeping over Her Brother’s Body , detail.

[argeiarenga]

Tydeus in book3

[siblingshowdown]

Sibling Showdown Round 1 Bracket D1

Image credit: The Oath of Fëanor by Jenny Dolfen (goldseven.de) used with permission, also showing Fëanor

Antigone by Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Eteocles not pictured

[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

[prince-of-calydon]

slowly remembering how to draw these guys lmao

[cygniavenue]

Do you have a favorite moment or character in Thebaid by statius???

Could you draw them if you don't mind :3

uhm erm hmm uhh. them

the grils r fightinggggg

[iphisesque]

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (Johnston) / Sophocles, Antigone (Johnston)

[saradaism]

“Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices”, Henry Fuseli, 1786

[ilions-end]

The lament for Eteocles and Polynices illustrated by John Flaxman. From The Seven Chiefs Against Thebes.

With what a ruthless and destructive rage The Furies hurl their vengeful shafts around And desolate the house of Oedipus!

[transbutchblues]

concept : staging oedipus at colonus then antigone and the same actor plays polyneikes, ismene and haimon.

[mhsdatgo]

Antigone holds me in an unironically tight chokehold...

[argeiarenga]

Tydeus n Polyneikes i drew on Magma

[mythological-art]

Antigone Imploring Oedipus to Lift his Curse from Polynices

Artist: Michel Lambert (French, 1748-1796)

"Antigone imploring Oedipus to lift his curse from Polynices" refers to a scene depicted in art, particularly in paintings by Michel Lambert, where Antigone, a character from Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus," is pleading with her father Oedipus to withdraw a devastating curse he has placed upon her brother, Polynices; essentially begging him to show mercy and not condemn Polynices to a tragic fate.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Joseph Abel - Antigone kneeling next to the body of her brother Polynices, 1805.