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i've noticed just how often achilles' dragging of hector's corpse is framed mostly as an act of extreme disrespect, or only some brutal show of triumph. personally i think that's underselling both achilles' intention and what the trojans must be thinking as they watch it happen.

hector's corpse is divinely protected so it can't be damaged by the greeks after death; all that effectively happens in the iliad is that his body gets dirty. but under normal circumstances (and i'm not gonna impose realism on mythology, but the iliad is famously detailed when it comes to bodily trauma), the physical reality of dragging a corpse along stony ground for miles would be severe disfigurement and dismemberment. first the skin would wear off, then soft tissues, then extremities would start to detach. i think the iliad's original audience would be aware of that as an intended outcome.

achilles (who doesn't yet know that hector's body has been granted divine stasis) doesn't just want to parade his enemy's corpse around, he wants to tear it apart ("i only wish that this fury inside my heart would drive me to carve you to pieces and eat your flesh raw..."), he wants it to not resemble a human anymore. he wants hector's blood and flesh to circle the city of troy. he wants to make it impossible for hector's family to gather the pieces of him to cremate and that way hector's spirit won't find passage into the underworld. that's what the gods are preventing from happening, they're not just keeping the corpse pretty for priam to pick up later.

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trojan war WRAPPED

you spent 10 YEARS at war

overall, you killed 1685 trojan soldiers. that's almost 17 hecatombs worth!

aristeia moment! your best day of fighting was in year 9, where you sent 23 souls of warriors to hades in a single battle

you were saved by hera 4 times

you exchanged armor with 2 trojan warriors. zeus xenios smiles upon you!

check out your top 5 commanders:

nestor

odysseus

agamemnon

menelaus

ajax the greater

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Given that you're the de facto person who comes to mind when the Odyssey is mentioned...thought you should know Christopher Nolan is doing an adaptation

I'm just kind of giggling about it to be honest. Like Nolan is great I'm sure, I've heard lots about his movies. But the idea of Tom Holland possibly being like Telemachus or something (god forbid Odysseus) is so funny. Who's playing Odysseus here? Matt Damon? Robert Pattinson?? I think Pattinson should be able to do whatever he wants

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Quick odypen painting because I’m missing them this Christmas Day

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Excited to announce my new feature film adapting Homer's Odyssey, an action packed mythological epic following famed hero Odysseus on his 10 year long journey home, starring Chris Pratt as Odysseus

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I lied. Put your clothes back on. I haven’t seen my wife in twelve years and I need to find a way to evade Poseidon, so if you could just un-pig my men-

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anyway just a reminder for the myth lovers out there

king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.

on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.

i’m just saying in my experience a lot of these legends had been so anglo-fied in the past and it’s like, all this cool shit is celtic welsh legend.

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Now tell me he wouldn't do that

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it's them <3

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that sign won't stop me because i don't believe in birds

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homework :D

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unstoppable slut meets immovable object or whatever that saying is

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eurydice <3

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If ur in the epic discord you've seen this dumb thing already but here it is again

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I know. Witchcraft is an evil, father. So is injustice.

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Odysseus sketch