“We Reap The Things Our Ancestors Sow”

Bella, she/they, 19. Greek mythos and Shakespeare. Helen of Sparta Superfan. Occasionally academic.

[a-thousand-ships]

[malinaa]

Homer, The Odyssey (trans. Emily Wilson)

[kyleesarthell]

I had to redraw this

[starweaverblog]

Oh, Helen. Pretty Helen.

Hated by both sides.

Desired by both.

Everyone wanted a piece of you,

yet no one stopped to see you.

They blamed you,

Envied you,

Longed for you.

In the end,

No one understood you.

[catcher-in-the-reeds]

The Judgment of Paris

by SanioDigitalArt

[a-thousand-ships]

Menelaus is a fundamentally haired character sorry

[a-thousand-ships]

Saw a new picture of him and screamed out loud

[agapidraws]

Helen of Sparta.

[eebie]

[drowsy-corpsegirl]

[a-thousand-ships]

I think about the lost caryatid a normal amount

[byjove]

this is a terrible time to be alive *remembers the latter half of the 14th century* this is a not so good time to be alive

[dragon-in-a-fez]

hey op how do you remember the latter half of the 14th century

[byjove]

not fondly. I do not recall it fondly.

[helpmeimblorboing]

This is what feels like to talk about the Odyssey movie online btw

[dyingroses]

I need more explorations of their reunion and life after!!!

[blue-lotus333]

Reading Hecuba rn and-

Odysseus' responses have me in tears.😭😭 like girl.

Odysseus after saying all of that to Hecuba:

[a-thousand-ships]

seduction by squirrel facts

[kexytimes]

I decided to drip out Hecuba, so here she is pregnant with Polydorus bc I've been thinking about her last few pregnancies as she got older.

Also slight addition to her design is a cane and some grey hairs bc she mentions having those in the play "hecuba" and after *checks notes* 19 pregnancies I imagine you'd need a cane.

[dilutedh2so4]

"The Iliad," illustrated by Alice Duke in "The Graphic Canon Vol. 1"

[no1greekmythosblorbo]

Menelaus or Anaxibia?

Yearner no#2 (Helen is first)

The lost Atreid

Voting ended onJul 12