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When you're reading an evil-Hector fanfic and you find out that he hates the gays for some reason 🥀🥀

the desire to visit the archaeological museum of dion

#mmmm machaon and hygieia and panacea and aceso and podalirius #museum

Man, I know that the majority of the "why didn't Oedipus do xyz thing instead" are mostly jokes, but god the angry tragedy enjoyer part of me always just wants to grab and shake the people saying that.

Because the entire fucking point is that he could not have escaped that fate. He, regardless of what he fucking did, was always going to kill his father and marry his mother. No suggestion would stand up to that, because the *point* of the story of Oedipus was that the only way for him to not have committed those heinous acts was for him to not to have been born! And then! And *then* where the tragedy gets truly delicious, is that the part he did have control over, the finding out, was always going to happen too, because of who Oedipus was fundamentally as a character. For him to not make the decision to keep digging, he would have had to either be a different character, or go through such a major character arc the he would be unrecognizable as the Oedipus we know!

Just. The inevitability is the point! The inability to escape fate is the point! The trying so desperately to only to realize you have been trapped by your character, by things so far beyond your control you can barely fathom them is the point!

sneakysnekoden

ragged chiton

#achilles #hector of troy #hector

nikoriis

Odysseus x penelope propaganda

ma0ka

Hermes and Dionysus

#dionysus #hermes

the-legend-of-zzzzzz

Book 21 of the Iliad

Odysseus: How many trojans do you need to kill to avenge Patroclus?

Achilles: I don't know, how many trojans are there?

bad-greek-myths-comics

#hector of troy #paris of troy

melampyguss

surely you all didn’t think there wouldn’t be a catch to all that happy art i posted

barstoolblues

turn up the harpsichord i cant hear the harpsichord

#oooh I love to hate the harpsichord #hatred ❤️❤️

katerinaaqu

Learning history is weird. For instance you realize there is more time between Homer and Euripides than between us and the beginning of the Victorian era

#homer #euripides