#tfoac

[wolfythewitch]

my history of rome professor made this comment about aeneas today and I immediately went "oh, I need to make a meme with wolfy art"

Oughhh you reminded me that I should probably redesign my Aeneas since this one was based off tfoac

[idreamhistory]

Helen & Andromache

[elisabethwheatley]

Greek Heroes: Ranked

1. Hector (no, I don't care he wasn't Greek) 

2. Achilles (problematic fav) 

3. Odysseus (love me a clever boy)

4. Literally everyone else 

5. Agamemnon/Menelaus (jerkface bros) 

6. Screw you, Paris 

[you-dont-have-to-know-me]

‪You make sacrifices for the people you love.. even if it makes you hate yourself.

[chvrliespring]

ok but watching tfoac has made me want to reread tsoa what is this

[traschilles]

i just pictured henry winter watching troy : fall of a city and getting so pissed off. my man would literally drive all the way to the netflix headquarters and be like “i want to talk to your manager” then give a 12 hours speech about homer and about the way they fucked up the entire storyline until someone finally managed to kick him out, and he would eventually go home with a migraine and a lawsuit on his ass. 

[meru-keepalive]

sons of  goddesses.

[dark-sultana]

About “Troy: Fall of a City” Amazing series! I fucking hate Helen and Paris!

[graysongraysoff]

Where is the aesthetic photoset of that final shot aka the entire Odyssey encapsulated in a single moment

[wolfythewitch]

I think the thing I am Most devastated over in tfoac is that Priam Does visit achilles's tent, and he asks for his son's body back but he doesn't kiss achilles's hand

It's a small detail but man :((( I was waiting for it

[idreamhistory]

Helen of Troy

[archangelgf]

iwtv show marks one brad pitt character reimagined as significantly gayer in a show. when is it achilles’ turn.

[polupenthes]

@cllgood. |  send me a 🤝 and i will talk about an npc from my muses’ universe. | always accepting.

ANNARUMMI (TRANSL. ANDROMACHE). / THE PRINCESS.

the daughter of the anatolian king etion, andromache was promised in marriage to the trojan crown prince, hektor. they had a son together, astyanax, who was named “lord of the city” and would not live to see his fourth birthday.

hektor was deeply important to andromache. not only as her husband, but as her linchpin and lodestone, she had grown closer to him following the death of her family at the hands of achilles, and relied on him for most, if not all, of her emotional support. prone to bouts of melancholia and sullenness, she derived most of her sense of happiness from her husband and son. her relationship with herself was complicated, and made more complex by the arrival of helen to troy. 

helen represented a break in andromache’s self-perception. so much of her identity was based on marital duty: devoted daughter, mother, wife. helen was an affront to all of that, the specular image of her in every way: she’d abandoned her daughter, husband and city-state. both women had been raised from an early age to become queens of their respective cities. one had remained faithful to that, and one had (maybe) chosen to escape it. to andromache, helen is in diametric opposition, and is nigh incomprehensible. her presence forces andromache to perhaps reconsider her own identity -- but only to a certain point. the monologue before hektor fights achilles, where she calls him “husband, brother and beloved parents” really proves that, despite the ways in which helen may have been unconventional to andromache, puzzling, even disconcerting, she was never truly there to completely alter andromache’s sense of self. but i like to think it gave her pause, at least.

[kashuan]

what’s your opinion of bbc’s troy: fall of a city

Only good thing it had going for it was Odysseus and Hector’s casting. Menelaus’ was. okay. Not great though at least he didn’t look like the casting director had copy and pasted Agamemnon’s physical description like all other modern adaptions. The rest of the casting was pretty bad, worst offenders being Clytemnestra and Aphrodite imo.  Penthesilea’s actress looked like she’s a size 0 and in what world is that acceptable for an Amazonian Queen??? Plot was boring, character interactions were boring, supposedly high stakes scenes were almost always boring. Finally an adaption that included some of the gods– but wait! They’re also incredibly boring. Took out all of their humor and charm as well as their badass scenes (no Athena and Diomedes, no Ares fight, no Apollo and Patroclus…). They were styled strangely and poorly cast as well. No Apollo at all for some reason even though he’s one of the more integral gods. So I kind of wonder why they were there at all… Characterization’s was meh at best and offensively ooc at worst. Achilles seemed like an entirely different character, or like they leaned far too hard into just one aspect of his personality, solemn and thoughtful with none of that demigod moodiness that makes him actually interesting. Most milquetoast Agamemnon ever, at least when he’s written as comically evil I get a laugh out of it. Absolutely couldn’t buy him as the King of Kings, not sure if I could buy him as the local inn’s middle manager.The writing was. um. … … … This

If this scene isn’t enough of ‘screw nuance we’re just going to hit you over the head with our Woke Message’ for you, they also have a whole motif of Helen wearing a dress made of actual bird feathers and she keeps birds in her palace and GOD SHE’S A BIRD TRAPPED IN A CAGE!! HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS METAPHOR CLEARER TO OUR DUMB AS ROCKS AUDIENCE!!Also, this from the writer

pictured above: a sexy story set in a sexy time

[cptrs]

[biteytm]

when you love both hector and achilles and now you gotta watch your son kill your other son