Eternal Flame

What the Hell and Fuck ❤❤❤ Kal | 30 | gf she/he twitter: @lenkijos

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Barcelona, Spain

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also… Sokka's self-esteem it's what keeps things balanced

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Had to share

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I think this same thing all th time

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via

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Gdansk, Poland

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Cathedral: Study, Matthew Simmonds, 2022

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Apollo telling Aeneas to fight Achilles and then just ditching him is so funny to me like did he just forget? Did he bank on the fact that Poseidon would come collect him? Did he fully plan to throw him at Achilles as canon fodder? Did he think Aeneas would WIN?? It’s giving your mom leaving you in line at the grocery store except the cashier is a bloodthirsty twink and also your mom has abandoned you to die.

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Venus and Aeneas. Like mother, like son.

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this might just be THE worst review oat 🥀

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If you dig deep enough it is impressive how many birds Aphrodite killed with one stone by making Helen run off with Paris

A prize for Paris for choosing her over Hera and Athena as the most fair

A punishment against Tyndareus for forgetting her when he was sacrificing to the gods

A punishment against Menelaus who promised a hecatomb to Aphrodite as a price for marrying Helen, but didnt offer it

Finally, after the war, the kingship of troy was passed down to Aeneas, her own son

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Edward Burne-Jones, The Death of Turnus, graphite on paper, 1873

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The horses of Aeneas [Greek mythology]

(Image: Aeneas Knocked Down by Diomedes, painting by Giulio Romano for the Palazzo Ducale. Notice the horses to the left of Aeneas)

In Homeric canon, when the gods took Ganymedes to Olympus for his exceptional beauty, his father Tros received horses as compensation from mighty Zeus himself. While this probably doesn’t make up for kidnapping one’s child, these animals were a special divine breed and were bred by the gods of Olympus. As such, they were better than all regular horses bred by mortals.

These heavenly horses were eventually passed down to Laomedes. King Anchises, who was presumably aware of their divine origin, managed to get his own mares to breed with them behind Laomedes’ back and without his permission, effectively stealing the breed and acquiring his own supernatural equines. When the mares gave birth to six supernaturally swift foals, Anchises gifted two of them to his son Aeneas, one of the heroes of Troy.

(Image: ‘The Battle of Diomedes and Aeneas’ by Jan van Orley, ca 1720)

Aeneas put them to good use in the Trojan war, having them drive his chariot into battle against the Greeks. Not much is known about their appearance, other than that their manes were white. Unfortunately for Aeneas, the horses were stolen by the Greek hero Diomedes, who was honestly kind of a dick throughout the book. They were entrusted to Deïpylus, who drove them back to the safety of the Greek camp.

Aeneas would have perished then and there, had not his divine mother Aphrodite intervened: she held a magic sheet of garment over him that sheltered him from harm before rescuing him from the battlefield.

Source: Homeros, Iliad, book 5, lines 255-329. Image source 1: Bridgeman Images Image source 2: The MET Museum

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Aeneas being unable to embrace his mother, his wife, and his father (twice)