crying on the argo

laurel, she/her 🧡🤍🩷 💫🌲

[cozyrogue]

hi! this is my tumblr pinned post #mypost

i'm laurel, she/her, mid-20s.

mostly greek mythology stuff. medea enjoyer forever 🔆

ao3: cozyrogue

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[kindred-spirit-93]

Electra powerpoint i beg 🙏 🙏 (whether one she would make or one about her i don't mind just electra powerpoint)

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[midnightproser]

The Siblings of Atreus

It wouldn’t be the Atreides without the little sister.

In these images, Agamemnon is 14, Menelaus is 9, and Anaxibia is 4.

This is an estimated guess on how big (I think) their age gaps are.

[the-land-of-dreams]

poor bride dressed up with nowhere to go!

[sockth]

Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay

[gay-for-helen]

One thing about Clytemnestra that I think is often overlooked is that Iphigenia was very much not the first person she lost that year. At least one of her brothers was killed the same day her sister disappeared. Her mother killed herself shortly after. She loved Iphigenia deeply, of course, and having her husband be the one to kill her daughter obviously made it exponentially worse. But I wonder if part of the reason she became so obsessed with that loss is that it kind of broke the dam of all the previous grief she was holding back, and all that pain got wrapped up in it as a result

[torridturncoat]

Iphigenia (1977) dir. Michael Cacoyannis

[kallistoi]

i'll callistopost again actually. i've been thinking about the way artemis/diana and her followers dress in greco-roman literature (and art! but that's less my specialty), with garments that are hiked up/girded and tied in that position. just a smattering of ovidian examples:

syrinx is "girded, too, in the manner of diana" (ritu quoque cincta dianae, 1.695)

"a pin held up [callisto's] dress, a white band held back her locks" (fibula vestem / vitta coercuerat neglectos alba capillos, 2.412-413; note the reuse of coercuerat for both the tying up of a garment and the dying back of hair)

diana has the epithet succincta, "girded," at 3.154

i was reading callimachus' hymn to artemis recently and this image comes up when a young artemis requests from her father, "let my chiton with its colored hem be hiked up all the way to my knees so that i might kill wild beasts" (ἐς γόνυ μέχρι χιτῶνα / ζώννυσθαι λεγνωτόν, ἵν’ ἄγρια θηρία καίνω, 12-13).

i've recalled seeing the tight tying of the belt/girdle among such figures interpreted as symbolic of a closely guarded virginity, although unfortunately i can't point to any of those scholarly sources. what i hadn't ever seen expressed so clearly was how it is a style of dress that allows freedom of movement. which is SO important for a goddess and her group of girls who are running around in the woods all day hunting animals!

the headbands/fillets of artemis/diana and her crew are also often interpreted as signifiers of religiosity (and indeed they were involved in ritual practice or at least literary representations thereof, which is mostly what i can speak to) or of purity/virginity when white. but considered in light of what artemis says re: her clothing in callimachus' hymn, it's also easy to see them as no-fuss ways of keeping your hair out of your face, also very important for running around.

so in conclusion yes callisto would have loved wearing shorts. i wonder why i've never seen the freedom of athletic movement interpretation in scholarship but the symbolism of sexual purity aspect gets a lot of airtime.... hm.......

edit: ok wait actually i don't want to be doing some devil's proof thing on Why Is No One Talking About This just because i can't remember reading anything that was Talking About This. but the upshot of the post is that i think it's cool that callimachus has his artemis be so explicit about the benefits of a short skirt in the life of a rough and tumble girl who loves to kill.

[andhumanslovedstories]

A patient, explaining what their relationship is to their new visitor who was headed up to see them, said, “he’s my guardian,” and I said “oh I didn’t you had a legal guardian,” and the patient said, “he’s not my legal guardian, he’s my spiritual and physical guardian. He is also my brother. Well, I say he’s my brother. He’s like a brother. He’s my husband.” And I say this with genuinely no judgment, just pure curiosity, what

[whyenn-reader]

you are not immune to inventing an arbitrary set of rules that only you have to adhere to

[diarunas]

I love tragedy because I get sexual gratification from seeing bad things happen to good people

[artefarte]

Medea of Colchis

I can fix her!!!

(Art Fight attack for Themist, not my design. My Art Fight user is _Eepy_Asphodel_ )

[iktend]

Lil messy and tad bit late but happy pride 🙌🩷🫶

[berryinnit]

t-shirt with the words “high-functioning corpse” printed on it

[techboy-tboy]

why is no one posting about tongue fucking wounds. come on guys get your face up in there its not all about fingering

[vixvigil]

actually my desire is normal sized. small even

[vixvigil]

and it doesn’t even bother me that much

[apoetriee]

the funniest thing in the whole trojan war for me is how odysseus and ajax were fighting for achilles’ armour. you know like. two dudes famous for their very unconventional sizes among every other soldier