#well. that's not entirely true. I love oedpius and thebes. love thebes! reading a book about thebes right now actually!
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so. around the start of august, I decided to make a story to work on when I wanted to just kind of turn my brain off for a minute. you know, everything is so much all the time, let's lower the stakes and draw some ancient greeks wrestling.
unfortunately for ME, I thought: well what if we explored the peloponnesian war through the sword and sandals genre and throw in a splash of horror for seasoning! then I thought: well it wouldn't be fun for me if I didn't do some reading on the history of it all. what I do I know about ancient greece. I have a fistful of pocket lint and loose change in that department.
folks. there is so much reading. my reading list is only a handful of books, but each of those books is a fucking brick.
anyway, it's still primarily a For Fun story I do in my spare time, so some wrestling sketches, and some other kind of scene :)
⭐the one with the beard is klaudios, the one with the longer hair is damonikos!
#some people may say 'what about your obsession with the thebaid?' that's latin literature baby#we are several centuries past ancient greece with that one#well. that's not entirely true. I love oedpius and thebes. love thebes! reading a book about thebes right now actually!#and. klaudios is ALSO from lakedaimon. the situation is messy. he's lived most of his life in Anywhere But There (currently Athens)#but he's being a huge dick about it like pal that's ALSO your home state. easy off the throttle just a bit. we are throwing#stones in glass houses here#original tag
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