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Suddenly remembered this stupid thing I made and can’t remember if I ever posted it here

(Hey Odyssey fans please also enjoy my interactive book and audiobook podcast YOU ARE ODYSSEUS 👍)

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #greek myth #odyssey #odysseus #homer #greek myth retellings #the odyssey

i do quite like siwa as a place for mythical aeithiopia because 1, oracle of Amun location lol, litteraly the guy from the myths 2, is isolated enough to have developed its own culture and architecture at the time, so it being seprate from egypt in literature makes sense 3,and Herodotus was there making a connection to greece as well. i think he calls what we now call the well of cleopatra armespai or something either way, bro is in the area. 4, big fuckass lake for cetus to hang in 5. geographically makes sense 6. do not question my genius

#never thought about this before but. yes #greek mythology #ancient egypt #oracle of amun #cetus #perseus #siwa #herodotus

wolfythewitch

My piece for the Sing O Muse zine! Its coming out in July so keep an eye out for the tag :]

#love this #the sirens look so cool #greek mythos #greek mythology #odysseus #the odyssey #sing o muse zine #tagamemnon

tismemaia

Homecoming

#tagamemnon #odypen #the odyssey #odysseus #penelope of ithaca #greek mythology #homers odyssey #the kiss #gustav klimt

cyborgsheep

Pentheus, the King of Thebes, was torn apart limb-from-limb (sparagmos) by his own mother, Agave, and her sisters in a Dionysian frenzy for defying the god Dionysus.

（I want to portray the terrifying side of Dionysus!)

#greek mythology #dionysus #greek myth art #pentheus

that-faerie-in-the-corner

agamemnon is one of the funniest motherfuckers on the planet entirely on accident i'm just gigging thinking about him. he's called the Lord Of Men and is in charge of a whole ass 1000 ship fleet, the trojans consider him respectable and intimidating but everyone on his side who actually interacts with him on a daily basis is constantly roasting him or telling him to lock in because! he is a disaster! he managed to get himself and his siblings out of an Actual Hell Situation and ostensibly did enough to earn his titles so seemingly he has the ability to make shit shake but when he gets to the war he is known for he trips and falls on his ass. He tried to break the cycle of his family curse and then became the premiere example of it. He has no filter whatsoever. he freaks out at everything. he's somehow both hubris mcgee but folds like a piece of tissue paper. he has like, 2 friends, and one of them is his little brother. he probably needs blood pressure medication. i need to trap him in a maze and observe him

#greek mythology #agamemnon #the iliad #trojan war #tagamemnon #see that's why i like him

aziscribs

Far-shooter.

#teucer of salamis #greek mythology #teucer #tagamemnon #woah.

maximumqueer

covered in ulysses butterflies

#the odyssey #odysseus #greek mythology #tagamemnon #ulysses

justvea18

Babe stop looksmaxxing we're withdrawing from war!!!

#patroclus #achilles #patrochilles #the iliad #greek mythology #iliad #tagamemnon

blended-ice

Penelope

#penelope #penelope of ithaca #greek mythology

asha-dasha

if agamemnon has 0 defenders i am dead in my grave

#i would also be dead in my grave i fear #agamemnon

katerinaaqu

I think this is the most criminally underrated detail in the Odyssey 😆:

so he spoke and the gray flashing-eyed goddess Athena, smiled and she smacked him with her hand; and in a smooth and swift motion she changed her form to a tall and beautiful woman and of deep knowledge to good crafts and she addressed him using winged words;

(Translation by me)

Like...she smacked him. SHE SMACKED HIM! 🤣🤣🤣 (χειρί τέ μιν κατέρεξε) after freaking smiling or smirking (μείδησεν)

Like seriously Athena has no chill! Hahaha I love her! She is such a playful goddess!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah everyone remembers how Athena grabbed Achilles by the hair in the Iliad which was hilarious enough but why for goodness sakes don't I see animatics or comics with her literally going like:

when Odysseus finished his fake story thinking she is just a mere mortal?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

#odysseus #athena #the odyssey #homer odyssey #tagamemnon

echo-loves-flowerboy

List of things baby Hermes stole and assumably stored in his diaper (according to Apollo in the Lucian dialogues)

Poseidon's Trident

Ares' sword

Apollo's bow

Hephaestus' pincers

Aphrodite's girdle from around her waist

Zeus' cepter

Zeus' thunderbolts if they weren't too heavy for his little baby hands

Everyone's love and attention

The life of a turtle

List of things Apollo gossips to Hermes about after complaining that he is an actual menace to society (in the same dialogues):

His dead lover

Ares and Aphrodite's affair

Hephaestus getting two wifes and not him >:(

Castor and Pollux looking the same

#greek mythology #greek gods #greek myths #greek mythology memes #apollo #hermes #lucian dialogues #tagamemnon

lasmishen

City Dionysia.

Resurrected from the death corner of internet yet came back to post, and so I’m posting our fav god that has been born twice :)

Plez don’t kill my account

#greek mythology #dionysus #mythology art #greek myth art

roachcicle

happy birthday fools

#the odyssey #odysseus

williambryantlesbianaunt

being an Aeneid fan is so uniquely embarrassing sometimes. “Yes yes I know you think it just rips off the Iliad and the Odyssey but listen. It’s not just about that yes it references them it alludes to them but it’s more it’s much more than that you just need to give it a chance just a chance”. Like come on. I don’t even believe that and I’m the one saying it.

#the aeneid #tagamemnon

brimo5

Explaining the Name Persephone

Φερσεφόνη. Nourish (φέρβεις) and murder(φονεύεις). (OH 29.15–16)

Περσεφόνη. Bringing (τὸ φέρω) and murder (τὸ φόνος). Or from Perseus the sun, meaning the growth of grain through the sun. Φερσεφόνη. Who have been killed (πεφονευμένοι) are brought (ἀποφέροντα) to her. (Etymologicum Genuinum s. v. Περσεφόνη; Φερσεφόνη)

Φερσεφόνη. the breath (πνεῦμα) that is carried (φερόμενον) through the fruits of the Earth (τῶν καρπῶν) and then perishes (φονευόμενον) (Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris, 377d.)

Φερσεφόνεια. she brings (φέρουσα) wealth (τὸ ἄφενος), that is riches (πλοῦτον), because of fruit (καρπόν), or from bringing profit (φέρειν ὄνησιν). (Hesychius s. v. Phersephoneia)

Φερσεφόνη. Bringing light (φωσφόρος). (Plutarch, On the Face, 942d)

Φερρέφαττα. For since things are in motion (φερόμενα), that which grasps (ἐφαπτόμενον) and touches (ἐπαφῶν) and is able to follow them is wisdom. Φερέπαφα. Because she is wise and touches that which is in motion (ἐπαφὴ τοῦ φερομένου). (Plato, Cratylus, 404c ff.)

Περσεφόνη. Because manual labour is hard work and brings hard work; or from the fact that hard work brings endurance (πόνων ὑπομονήν φέρεσθαι). (Cornutus, Greek Theology, 55.4-5)

Περσεφόνη. She was taken (πορθηθῆναι) and snatched (ἁρπασθῆναι) away from the light (φωτός) and sight (ὄψεως). Περσεφόνεια. She constantly kills (περισσῶς φονεύεσθαι) agricultural produce (καρπούς), which buried in the earth regrows through the sun. (Scholia vetera in Hesiodi Theogoniam 913 & Manuscrit T)

Φερσεφόνη. Natural death (φθέρσω) and violent death (φένω). (Eustathius, Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem pertinentes, 2, 760)

Bibliography:

Sound, Meaning, and Imagery in Palimpsest Sin. Ar. NF 66 and in the Orphic Hymns

La déesse Korè-Perséphone : mythe, culte et magie en Attique

#greek gods #persephone #greek mythology

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