We shall suffer for what the gods have given us

My favorite things about greek mythology A lot of odypen💜💙 @amagicpen for egyptian mythology

[parfumsdoux]

Illustrations by Yann Tisseron for L’Odyssée

[len-y]

Small Agomemnon mosquitoes terrorize Achilles

[a-thousand-ships]

Thinking about how Clytemnestra literally invented the red carpet

[ghostapop]

i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and less misogynistic than the source material as well . could be revolutionary

[cescalovestowrite]

If you think that every form of art, simply by existing, can be reduced to a form of propaganda, then you risk experiencing only the art that promotes your "preferred propaganda". Art that you believe conveys what you already like and avoids mentioning what you already know you dislike.

This is a way of experiencing art that risks doing us significant harm.

A book (for example) is entitled to convey various messages, even potentially conflicting ones, without openly declaring any of them the winner, and without necessarily delivering to every reader everything it has to say, but rather what each individual reader is ready to receive. Maybe strange to say, in a time where "media literacy is dead", but we are allowed to not get every meaning in the same way.

I strongly recommend engaging with art consciously, but without the fear of somehow being brainwashed by an ideal or ideology you do not like. And perhaps also reflecting on the fact that even the most perfect work of art will have flaws and will contain something that is already (or may one day become) problematic, because it is created by human beings, who are always flawed and problematic.

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

tired of the constant catalogue of ships hate.........reblog if you are a real catalogue of ships truther

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

"calypso delivers a monologue about the unfair double standard applied to gods vs. goddesses when it comes to slutting around with mortals" really does sound like a scene someone would insert into an odyssey adaptation to make it more woke and "odysseus grabs a branch to cover his dick so he doesn't scare off the teenage girls he's about to stumble on naked" really does sound like a scene someone would insert into an annoyingly modernized odyssey adaptation that would get criticized for marvelesque humor. but beautifully and happily these are both things that simply factually happen in actual homer's* actual the odyssey

*famously a highly contested phrase

[justvea18]

The popular kids

[starweaverblog]

"He held the swift arrow, aiming straight ahead..."

— Homer, The Odyssey

[cescalovestowrite]

Not gonna lie, some of you sound like members of a cult that needs to convert the rest of the world.

[thhouseofblack]

text posts from my penelope pinterest board

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

just the idea of like saying “achilles is bisexual representation!!!” is crazy to me. in addition to being the lover of patroclus he also kidnaps and rapes women!! like. i understand some people have not read the iliad but in what world would you even think

[dilutedh2so4]

And she [Helen] will make the fifth husband [Achilles] pine away on his bed, disturbed by dreams of her phantom form. He is the future husband of the Kytaian woman [Medea] who was madly in love with the stranger [Jason].

Lycophron references Achilles' post-death marriage to both Helen and Medea

For a long time he [Achilles] will inhabit the spray-whitened rocks By the marshy delta of the Keltric river, yearning for his wife [Iphigenia], whom one day at the sacrifice the doe shall save from the sword, by offering its own throat instead.

Yet on the White Isle, where he spends his afterlife, he's yearning for Iphigenia (who is also the daughter of Helen and mother of Neoptolemus in this version)

[ilions-end]

#incredibly hilarious side effect from achilles being the aristos achaion is it also makes him mythology's bicycle #every woman with peak arete gets matched with him #EXCEPT ☝️ penelope because that would defeat her purpose (fidelity) #funny way to look at this is that there is a surplus of divine women and a lack of men to match. herakles+hebe and dio+ariadne no prablem #but by the end of the age of heroes the heroes fall behind

illuminating tags by @en-theos !

[zaraasays]

Menelaus + Helen

[twunkish-cleric]

The fact that there are gods with disabilities makes me so emotional. Hephaestus, Tyr, Hodr, Odin and other disabled deities just prove that being disabled is a vital part of the human experience, not a deviation from it, and that concept alone is so moving. Just like there are deities for specific human experiences like fertility or war, there are also deities with disabilities, which just proves that we have just as much of a place on this earth as mothers and warriors do. The idea of that has genuinely pulled me through some hard times.

[medusaspeach]

Happy Friday. Attempted some of the bois.. and Paris

[cescalovestowrite]

I had never found the scholium for this myth; I honestly thought it was fake.

[cescalovestowrite]

I really like the idea that Laertes hears about Penelope's virtue, but honestly I much prefer the versions where Odysseus actually gets off his ass and does something to win his wife, he doesn’t just delegate it.