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I just found out that apparently there's an interpretation where Zeus straight up kidnaps Artemis and Apollo from Delos to fight Python. It's not a popular one, but it exists and all I can think of is this:
Apollo: I do care about Zeus although he kidnapped me and Artemis.
Dionysus *chokes on wine*: EXCUSE ME??
Apollo: Not the worst thing he's done.
#it's so funny#wdym you kidnapped your own kids#zeus what are we doing#apollo#artemis#mythology#ancient greek mythos#ancient greek myth#greek myths#greek mythology
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SPOILERS FOR MARK OF ATHENA!!!
Makes me wonder if Zeus and Poseidon bicker like this
#percy jackson#annabeth chase#heroes of olympus#percy jackson fandom#uncle rick#percabeth#pjo#solangelo#leah sava jeffries#aryan simhadri#walker scobell#pjo fans summoned#mark of athena#jason grace#Convinced that Zeus and Poseidon also do this#If that's the case then that means endless entertainment for Olympus#Unless it turns bad or serious I guess 💀#What can we do they are siblings#Siblings who have long since lost it#with each other#son of poseidon#son of neptune#Gotta love Annabeth for her sass here#Hermoine Vibes#I miss them all#comfort books
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In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.
Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.
Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.
And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.
And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.
All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.
Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.
The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?
The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.
#ginger rambles#ginger chats about greek myths#greek mythology#It's Zeus Apologist day actually#For the record Jason is my personal favourite of these guys#The argonauts are extremely underrated for literally no reason#And Jason's wit and sheer ability to adapt along with his piousness are traits that are so far away from what usually gets highlighted#with the typical Greek warrior-hero that I've just never stopped being captivated by him#Conversely I still do not understand what people see in Achilles#I respect him and his legacy I respect the importance of his tale and his cultural importance I promise I do#However I personally can't stand the guy LMAO#How do you get warned twice TWICE both by your mother and by Athena herself that going after Apollo's children is a bad idea#And still have the audacity to be mad and surprised when Apollo is gunning for Specifically You during the war you're bringing to His City#That You Specifically and Exclusively had a choice in avoiding#ACHILLES COULD'VE JUST SAID NO#I know that's not the point however so many other members of the Greek camp were simply casualties of Fate in every conceivable way man#Achilles looked at every terrible choice he could possibly make said “Well I'm gonna die anyway 🤷🏽” and proceeded to make the choice#so hard that he angered god#That's y'all's man right there#I left out Perseus because truthfully I don't actually know much about him#I haven't studied him even a fraction as much as I've studied some of the other big culture heroes and none of this is cited so i don't wan#to talk about stuff I don't know 100%#Anyway justice for Zeus fr#Gimme something give me literally anything other than the nonsense we usually get for him#This goes for Hera too btw#Both the king and queen of the skies are done TERRIBLY by wider greek myth audiences and it's genuinely disheartening to see#If y'all could make excuses for Achilles to forgive his flaws y'all can do it for them#They have a lot more to sympathise with I'll tell you that#(that is a completely biased statement; you are completely free and encouraged to enjoy whichever figures spark joy)#zeus
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blood dripped from Poseidon's mouth, red.
red.
the day they overthrew Kronos, child-eater (stomach acid crawling around them, after maw of teeth grazing his small, child body), his golden ichor bled red.
god blood, degraded into a mortal's.
the day Typhon, father of monsters (as big as their father was, as big as the Titans with sharp claws and teeth) ripped out Zeus' tendons, his blood was red.
Poseidon, god of the tides, son of Kronos, looked up at the dark shape stood above him, his own golden trident in his hand, the teeth like prongs drenched in red.
Odysseus is a mortal. was a human.
sharp webbed ears spread out on the side of their head, scales grew around their neck and arms, shining like a coral reef, illuminated by their growing red eyes, that were shrunken to slits.
Odysseus' teeth glinted in the lightning, showing their unnaturally sharp point.
monster.
#small snippet that i can't develop any further.#this is uh#Ithacan Naga AU#didn't mean to talk about Poseidon's probable trauma with Kronos but here we are. do you think particularly salty or poisoned water reminds#poseidon of stomach acid? do you think the original five olympians are closer knit with each other#from being eaten alive as a child and then growing up in a stomach?#do you think hestia is the goddess of family cause she was the oldest sister and had to care for the others the most? that hades find an un#ealthy comfort in the darkness of the underworld? How do you think stomach acid was for Poseidon; as god of the sea? if that was the closes#he could get to his domain in a /stomach/? The same with demeter? only chewed up food as the closest to agriculture?#do you think hera understood - somehow - that this hurt their mother?#sigh#and all and all Zeus was really only able to lead them so easily afterwards is cause they didn't /know/ what to do after they were freed?#/AND/ Zeus really isn't privy to any of it; cause of course he isn't (nor does he care to know).#didn't mean to rant with that but. yup. anyway#tbh i want to draw a part of this to show the webbed ears w/ head-wings so. yeah. maybe. i'm still getting used to my new drawing tablet an#my sketchbook fell in water a while ago and i've been frozen on how to deal with it. so. yeah.#anyway#600 strike#vengence saga#epic the musical#the vengeance saga#epic the vengeance saga#why do we have so many tags for the same thing ;.)#six hundred strike#odysseus epic#epic odysseus#odysseus#writing#poseidon epic#epic poseidon
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asked some of our friends who haven't watched mianite to identify characters from the series. here are the results (posted with permission :D)
#ray's tag#undescribed#mcyt#mianite#my two favorite things about this are that 1. everyone and i mean EVERYONE pointed at mianite and said 'thats zeus.'#and 2. three seperate people looked at redbeard and went 'that looks like pixlriffs'. fascinating#also they were so mean to wag and andor and for what :( yall lay off my boys!!! they didnt do shit!!!!!#shoutout to friend 3 who somehow knew the main four by name but didnt recognize anyone else for shit. iconic.#and friend 2 who labeled dec as 'WHERE ARE YOUR EYES MY GUY' which made us laugh so hard we started coughing#beautiful job everyone i love all of u. anyways releasing this post into the wild now <3
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grian i dare u to give everyone a totem of undying as the finale’s wildcard
#trafficblr#mcyt#mcytblr#wild life#wild life smp#traffic smp#traffic series#traffic life smp#life series#3rd life#3rd life smp#my winner predictions are#gem joel impulse ren#maybe bigb or cleo#maybe etho#maybe everyone#a final 1v1 btw gem and joel would be sick tho#i think if jimmy makes final 5 they should let him win#what planet are they if they win tho bc gem is venus and jimmy is pluto but idk the others#jupiter for joel bc of his god character in empires being like zeus??#actually we do planets but we could also do the sea#i’m rambling
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9 days before 'Blood of Zeus' season 2 and I'm still unsure if i like or hate his hair...
The smirk is cute though. Glad to see him smiling, even if it is while he's fighting the god of the dead.
#ares#blood of zeus ares#blood of zeus#ares blood of zeus#blood of zeus season 2#boz#what do we think#i wanna say i like it#but maybe its just him
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#this better be a random ship generator#what are we doing#don’t even get me started on perpollo#but POSEIDON#when I said I don’t ship shame I lied#this is the exception to that rule#I repeat what are we doing#atp close the books bc you don’t even deserve them#pjo#pjo ships#ship bashing#percy jackson#percy jackson and the olympians#percy x apollo#percy x poseidon#percy x kronos#heroes of olympus#pjo bad ships#this is the definition of a bad ship#hoo#kronos pjo#pjo poseidon#pjo zeus#it’s pedophilic#I’ve read a fic where a fouresome where Percy and Sally were involved#never again#that was the day I officially quit Wattpad#I searched up percy/ and this is what popped up#jail
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say what you will about the kronides but poseidon and hera battling over argos, poseidon drying argos up after hera WON like a sore loser and hera having to induce him into bringing some of the waters back is the most accurate representation of siblings being siblings ever
#like im sorry why are we lumping their unserious chaos with what the three brothers did to demeter#are we forgetting the part in the Iliad where hera SMILED seeing poseidon after she frowned seeing zeus#they're political allies they'd bitchtalk about each other but they have each other's BACK#hera#poseidon#greek mythology#also im a sibling do not contest me with this if I was a god i'd be WORSE#kronides
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poseidon (whore)(affectionate)(bouncing quarters off that ass)
this ask caught me while i was high, have married men asses
#TUMBLR DO NOT BAN PLEASE#WE NEED OLD MEN ASS ITS WHAT KEEPS THE AGING TUMBLR USERBASE SANE#I AM AGING TUMBLR USERBASE#poseidon#dionysus#my art#zeus#hades#greek mythology
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for the most part i do like how they characterize hera in season 1 of blood of zeus (jealous insane woman who's JUST as much of a pos as her husband i do love failmarriage and how they make each other worse <3 get a divorce babes) however what i did not enjoy is her characterization seemed perfectly engineered to create takes like "actually hera was completely justified in everything she did <3 including trying to kill babies and also orchestrating the violent death of the woman of color who zeus seduced in the form of her abusive husband" like oh justice for hera? justice for electra
#sophie.txt#blood of zeus#like yeah her portrayal was pretty myth-accurate!!#unfortunately. instead of people enjoying the messy soap opera shenanigans for what they were#we had ppl writing genuine think pieces about how hera was right#no taking out her anger on zeus's other victims was not right <3 hope this helps#i do love boz hera she was a GREAT antagonist#zeus shouldn't have been a good guy though#my ideal blood of zeus season 1 is zeus and hera are both antagonists and yanking the other gods + mortals into their divorce#absolute freakshow no one looks good#heron and seraphim unionize
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Headcanon based on something I just drew.
When Apollo is annoyed he rants, when he’s angry he yells, but when he’s truly furious, he’s completely silent.
Many a mortal have died to nothing more than the sound of an arrow being let loose. In his rage, Apollo deemed their lives, and their deaths, unworthy of his voice. No requiem for the wicked.
#something something#the confrontation after Apollo kills the master Cyclopes#Zeus is yelling and screaming and so furious#and at the foot of his throne apollo stands silent and unapologetic#and for the first time Zeus realizes he might’ve pushed his son too far#so he attempts to cast Apollo to Tartarus to fix his mistake#but throughout all his threats Apollo remains silent#too far gone in his rage and grief to even care what his fathers punishment might be#this specific moment is so important to me bc it must have been such a breaking point in their relationship#but it’s mentioned so little#it’s the only time (as far as I know) Apollo makes the choice on his own to strike against his father#even if it isn’t against Zeus directly we know from the books it was an attempt to get rid of his power over Apollo#and that’s the one thing Zeus is terrified of#anyways#working on toapril a bit early ;)#I’m deluding myself into thinking I can do every day woop woop#trials of apollo#toa apollo#lester papadopoulos#sunny speaks#headcanons
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zeus isn’t my favourite god either but why are there so many comments/posts in thunder bringer or stuff relating to it just straight up lying about stuff just to cash in their i hate zeus points
#he punished them for his own entertainment#he’s never fair#all he was doing was singing about sex#etc etc#its like throwing random stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks#this isn’t defending his actions in any way but like#can we stop flanderising the greek gods#jay did a really great portrayal of zeus and people going#Ohhh typical zeus all he does is talk about sex and chase anything with a hole#feels like a discredit#idk#greek mythology#greek gods#epic the musical#epic zeus#zeus#i need to make a rant tag soon#Rant#filling up my blog fr
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As usual I read your tags always and so you said Apollo did not ask for resurrection of Asclepius and Hyacinthus so i just wanted to share this. About Asclepius death I read it on theoi.com, that earlier authors don't make him resurrect as a god but that's a later development mentioned only by Roman authors like Cicero, Hyginus and Ovid. But still Apollo has a role in Ovid's version
Ovid, Fasti 6. 735 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : Clymenus [Haides] and Clotho resent the threads of life respun and death's royal rights diminished. Jove [Zeus] feared the precedent and aimed his thunderbolt at the man who employed excessive art. Phoebus [Apollon], you whined. He is a god; smile at your father, who, for your sake, undoes his prohibitions [i.e. when he obtains immortality for Asklepios].
So here it is actually because of Apollo the decision was taken to resurrect him as god. And with Hyacinthus, I don't think I've read about Artemis playing the primary role. I know in Sparta there was a picture of Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite carrying Hyacinthus and his sister to heaven.
This is not on theoi.com but I saw on Tumblr it's from Dionysiaca by Nonnus
Second, my lord Oiagros wove a winding lay, as the father of Orpheus who has the Muse his boon companion. Only a couple of verses he sang, a ditty of Phoibos, clearspoken in few words after some Amyclaian style: Apollo brought to life again his longhaired Hyacinthos: Staphylos will be made to live for aye by Dionysos.
So since he is singing inspired by amyclean stories it probably means in that place it was believed Apollo was the one to bring back his lover to life.
Apollo as god of order was very important so i think it shows how special these people (and admetus too) were to him that he decided to go against the order for them 🥺
ANON!! Shakes you like a bottle of ramune!! BELOVED ANON!!!!! I'm littering your face with kisses, I'm anointing you with olive oil and honey - you absolutely made my night with this because, not only did I get the pure serotonin shot of having someone interact with my tags (yippee, wahoo!!) I also got to have that wonderful feeling of "oh wow, have I misunderstood something that was integral to my understanding of this myth/figure this whole time or is this a case of interpretational differences?" which is imo vital for my aims and interests as someone who enjoys mythological content and literature.
I'll preface my response with this: Hyacinthus is by far the hardest of these to get accounts for because his revival itself, as you very astutely point out, is generally accounted for in painting/ritual format which muddies the waters on who interceded for what. I wasn't actually familiar with that passage from the Argonautica - and certainly didn't remember it so thank you very much for bringing it to my attention!
That said, what I've come to understand, both about Hyacinthus and about Asclepius is that in the accounts of their deaths, Apollo's position is startlingly clear.
For Hyacinthus, it is established time and again that Apollo would have sacrificed everything for him - his status, his power, his very own immortality and divinity. Ovid writes that Apollo would have installed him as a god if only he had the time:
(Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book X. trans. Johnston)
Many other writers too speak of how Apollo abandoned his lyre and his seat at Delphi to spend his days with Hyacinthus, but they also all agree that when it came to his death - he was powerless. Ovid gives that graphic account of Apollo's desperation as he tries all his healing arts to save him to no avail:
(Ovid, Metamorphoses Book X. Apollo me boy, methinks him dead. trans Johnston)
Bion, in one of his fragments, writes that Apollo was "dumb" upon seeing Hyacinthus' agony:
(Bion, The Bucolic Poets. Fragment XI. trans Edmonds)
Even Nonnus in the Dionysiaca speaks constantly of Apollo's helplessness in the face of Hyacinthus' fate where he writes that the god still shivers if a westward wind blows upon an iris:
and when Zephyros breathed through the flowery garden, Apollo turned a quick eye upon his young darling, his yearning never satisfied; if he saw the plant beaten by the breezes, he remembered the quoit, and trembled for fear the wind, so jealous once about the boy, might hate him even in a leaf...
(Nonnus, Dionysiaca, Book 3. trans Rouse)
And the point here is just that - Apollo, at least as far as I've read, cannot avert someone's death. He simply can't. Once they're already dead - once Fate has cut their string - all Apollo's power is gone and he can do nothing no matter how much he wants to. And this is, as far as I know, supported with the accounts of Asclepius as well!
Since you specifically brought up Ovid's account, I'll also stick only to Ovid's account but in Metamorphoses when we get Ovid's version of Coronis' demise, he writes that Apollo intensely and immediately regrets slaughtering Coronis. He regrets it so intensely that he, like he does with Hyacinthus, does his best to resuscitate her:
(Ovid, Metamorphoses Book Two. Apollo's regret)
And like Hyacinthus, when it becomes clear that what has happened cannot be undone, Apollo wails:
(Ovid, Metamorphoses Book Two. Apollo wept.)
Unlike his mother, Asclepius in her womb had not yet died and so, with the last of Apollo's strength, he does manage, at least, to save him.
(Ovid, Metamorphoses Book Two. Apollo puts the 'tearing out' in Asclepius.)
But it goes further than even that because Ocyrhoe, Chiron's daughter, a prophetess who unduly gained the ability to directly proclaim the secrets of the Fates, upon seeing the baby Asclepius, immediately prophesies his glory, his inevitable death and then his fated ascension:
(Ovid. Metamorphoses, Book Two. Ocyrhoe's prophecy. trans Johnston)
Before she too succumbs to her hubris and is transformed by the Fates into a horse so she can no longer speak secrets that aren't hers to share.
These things ultimately are important because it establishes two very important things: 1) Apollo can't do anything in the face of the ultimate Fate of mortals, which is, of course, death and 2) even when Apollo is Actively Devastated, regretful, yearning, mournful, guilty or some unholy combination of all of the above, when someone is dead, he accepts that they are gone. Even if he is devastated by it, even if he'll cry all the rest of his days about it - if they're dead? Apollo lets them go. In Fasti, when Zeus brings Asclepius back, he does not say Apollo asked him to - Zeus, or well, in this case Jove, brings Asclepius back because he wants Apollo to stop being mad at him.
(Ovid, Fasti VI. Apollo please come home your father misses you. trans. A.S Kline)
Even Boyle's translation which you used above in your findings hints that Zeus made Asclepius a god because he wanted Apollo to stop grieving. (i.e 'smile at your father', 'for your sake [he] undoes his prohibitions')
And like, Apollo was deeply upset by Asclepius' death - apart from killing the Cyclops in anger, in book 4 of the Argonautica, Apollonius writes that the Celts believe the stream of Eridanus to be the tears Apollo shed over the death of Asclepius when he left for Hyperborea after being chastised by Zeus for killing his Cyclops:
But the Celts have attached this story to them, that these are the tears of Leto's son, Apollo, that are borne along by the eddies, the countless tears that he shed aforetime when he came to the sacred race of the Hyperboreans and left shining heaven at the chiding of his father, being in wrath concerning his son whom divine Coronis bare in bright Lacereia at the mouth of Amyrus.
It all paints a very clear picture to me. Apollo did not ask for either of them to be brought back. Though bringing them back certainly pleased and delighted him, they are actions of other gods who are moved by Apollo's grief and mourning and seek to mollify him. Him not asking doesn't mean he didn't want them back which I think is a very important distinction by the by, but it simply means that Apollo knows the natural order of things and, even if it hurts, he isn't going to press his luck about it.
Which, of course, brings us to Admetus. And I'm really not going to overcomplicate this, Admetus is different because, very vitally, Admetus is not dead. Apollo can't do a thing once Fate has been carried out and Death has claimed a mortal but you know what he absolutely can do? Bargain like hell with the Fates before that point of inevitability. And that's what he does, ultimately for Admetus and Alcestis. He sought to prolong Admetus' life, not revive him from death or absolve him from death altogether and even after getting the Fates drunk, he's still only able to organise a sacrifice - a life for a life - something completely contingent on whether some other mortal would be willing to die in Admetus' place and not at all controllable by Apollo's own power.
All of these things, I think come back to that point you made - that Apollo's place as a god of order is very important and therefore these people are very special to him if it means he's willing to go against that order but, I also wish to challenge that opinion if you'd let me. Apollo's place as a god of order is very important and therefore, I would argue, that it is even more important that it is shown that he does not break the divine order, especially for the people that mean the most to him. The original context of my comments which started this conversation were on this lovely, lovely post by @hyacinthusmemorial which contemplated upon Asclepius from the perspective of an Emergency Medical personnel and included, in their tags, the very poignant lines "there's something about Apollo letting go when Asclepius couldn't that eats my heart away" and "you do what you can, you do your best, but you don't ever reach too far" and I think that's perfectly embodied with the Apollo-Asclepius dichotomy. Apollo grieves. He wails, he cries, he does his best each and every time to save that which is precious to him but he does not curse their nature, he does not resent that they are human and ultimately, he accepts that that which is mortal must inevitably die. There is nothing that so saliently proves that those who uphold rules are also their most staunch followers - if Apollo wants to delight in his place as Fate's mouthpiece, he cannot undo Fate. And, if even the god of healing and order himself cannot undo death, what right does Asclepius, mortal as he is, talented as he is, have to disrespect it?
The beauty of these stories isn't that Apollo loved them enough to bring them back. The beauty is that Apollo loved them enough to let them go.
#this is such a long ass post oh my god#ginger answers asks#This totally got away from me but I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS AAAA#Anon beloved anon I hope you don't take this as me shutting you down or anything because that really isn't what I'm trying to do#I'm definitely going to dig more into the exactness of 'who petitioned for Hyacinthus to be revived actually?"#I always stuck to the belief that it was Artemis because of the depictions of his revival + his procession is usually devoid of Apollo#I know some renaissance paintings have him and Apollo reuniting but that's usually In The Heavens y'know#I genuinely couldn't think of any accounts that have Apollo Asking for anyone to be revived#Apollo does intercede sometimes but that's usually for immortals like Prometheus#Or even when he's left to preside over Zagreus' revival and repair in orphic tradition#Concerning Asclepius there's like a ton to talk about tbh#There's the fact that in some writings (in quite a lot actually) the reason Asclepius was killed wasn't necessarily that he brought someone#back - it was that he accepted money for it#Pindar wrote about it and Plato talks about how if Asclepius really did accept gold for a miracle then he was never a son of Apollo#It's a whole thing really#I think it's very important that it's Asclepius in his mortal folly that tests the boundaries of life and death tbh#The romanticisation of going to any length to bring back a loved one is nice and all#But sometimes the kindest and most lovely thing you can do for someone is to accept it#Just accept that they're gone - accept that there was nothing that could be done and even if the grief is heavy - keep living#Maybe we won't all get our lost loves back#But there are definitely always more people worth loving if you just live long enough to find them#apollo#asclepius#zeus#admetus#greek mythology#ovid#oh my god so much ovid#hyacinthus#coronis
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EURYLOCHUS REFERRING TO ODYSSEUS AS “ODY” BY THE WAY. HAS ME IN A PUDDLE ON THE GROUND.
#AS EURYLOCHUS IS TELLING ODYSSEUS THE HARSHEST OF TRUTHS.#WE DON’T MAKE IT HOME. WE. DON’T. JUST ODY.#PLEASE DON’T TELL ME YOU’RE ABOUT TO DO WHAT I THINK YOU’LL DO…..#FROM ODY TO EURYLOCHUS. PARALLELS.#TAKE HIS WORDS AND HAND THEM BACK TO HIM.#AND ODY IS SO PAINED. SO DESPERATE. SO QUIET. he knows Eurylochus is going to do it and he can’t stop them. he is already grieving for the#choice he is going to have to make.#before Eurylochus even invokes the wrath of the sun god and Zeus#he is so soft as he says it because he knows. he knows his friend. he knows he can’t stop it!!!!#please don’t tell me you’re about to do what I think you’ll do….#and Eurylochus doesn’t say it. they both know what’s going to happen anyway. even if they don’t know the end result at the hand of Zeus#epic the musical#personal
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not to say that I'm mad that Kaos got cancelled (I only watched it this week) but are they really taking away a show with fantastic actors, an incredible storyline, greek mythology and canon queer characters that get to be just queer? BC Imma cry
#Kaos#greek mythology#Like#Jeff Goldblum as Zeus?#Perfection#And Hades and Persephone being a loving couple?#Hell yeah#caneus x riddy#Caneus bring trans#And being the male love interest?#Had me almost crying in front of my phone#We don't get that sorta stuff#transmasc#It was so good#And I want more#I need more#I want to know what Prometheus is gonna do now#There's so much potential#Makes me mad
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