𝙂𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙮 🏹

🇮🇹, 19 ❥ archeology student, actress, writer simping over bronze age men currently working on a Trojan war retelling novel! ✨

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

Antilochus is struggling

[cloudycapes]

We need more Icarius and Penelope content 😔✊️

[academic-vampire]

𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔥𝔬𝔪𝔢

[athanel]

quick sketch of Dionysus based on his sculpture in Yusupov palace

[thoodleoo]

daily affirmations:

i am the greatest of the greeks

neither agamemnon nor any other greek can change my mind

i am like the bird who brings every scrap she finds to her chicks and goes hungry herself

hector waited at the walls of troy to fight me in single combat and barely escaped alive

i shall help neither by advice or effort because agamemnon as so utterly cheated and wronged me

agamemnon will not fool me with his words again

all the fabled wealth of ilium is not worth life itself

everybody loves my lyre playing

[teucerofsalamis]

Agamemnon just posted this can we have someone check on him. Preferably someone he likes or tolerates

[this-sapphics-iad]

When you're in a "who loves their wife the most" competition and your opponents are Hector of Troy and Odysseus of Ithaca:

[justvea18]

I loved him more than my own head

[fionaneedsamango]

Teucer better not see this shit 🥀🥀

[bbbabbaiiika1984]

Achilles and Patroclus: a fanart based on a design vase

[thechaoticfanartist]

His prayer went up and Phoebus Apollo heard him. Down he strode from Olympus's peaks, storming at heart with his bow and hooded quiver slung across his shoulders. The arrows clanged at his back as the god quaked with rage, the god himself on the march and down he came like night. Over against the ships he dropped to a knee, let fly a shaft and a terrifying clash rang out from the great silver bow. First he went for the mules and circling dogs but then, launching a piercing shaft at the men themselves, he cut them down in droves— and the corpse-fires burned on, night and day, no end in sight. —Iliad, Book 1, Lines 50 - 60, Robert Fagles translation.

apollo sending plague in iliad book 1 has got to be one of my favorite moments in the whole poem

[homericnerd]

If you are fan of Helen and Menelaus Hollywood thinks you should die

[aristossachaionn]

guys should i make Menelaus blonde or a redhead in my novel?

[fawnblooms]

Paris Alexandros of Troy

Cropped version for better quality!

[tridentandtales]

Greek neck-amphora with Dionysos and Satyrs on one side, and a four-horse chariot on the other

530 - 500 BCE

British Museum 1980,1029.1

[notacluedo]

misc odyssey things 🐎 ino + circe

+nausicaa wip

[maxiemumdamage]

Also. Insane to make a whole thing of how the Greeks violated “Zeus’s law” towards the Trojans with the horse trick, but never mention Paris by name. Y’know. The guy who kicked off the war by violating xenia first?

He kidnapped his wife’s host. He violated the sanctity of marriage. Menelaus and Helen welcomed Paris as they would any Greek guest, and in return this foreigner bedded (raped) and stole the warlord King of Sparta’s wife.

This isn’t to say what the Greeks did to the Trojans was justified — on the contrary, both sides of the war, in life and in death, in the Iliad and Odyssey and extended body of spin-off works, lament that there was so much death and destruction on behalf of one woman.

But the war very much wasn’t just about Helen — it was about her kidnapping, and what it represented.

How could the Greeks let such a violation of xenia, such a barbaric act that spurned their most valued customs, go unpunished? They couldn’t. That was why the Trojan War happened. And you can’t ignore that, especially not in a retelling of the Odyssey, which is all about xenia and hubris and what happens when men do things they should not.

How lovely it would be if Christopher Nolan’s take cared about or respected any of those themes.