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Assortment of poems i haven't posted

(in order: clytemnestra and god!helen; diomedes; helen (and castor & pollux); helen and achilles. i don't have a favourite what do you mean)

honourable mentions of agamemnon + iphigenia & electra & orestes & cassandra actually, paris, menelaus, zeus , tydeus, patroclus. i'm not tagging all that tho.

#greek mythology #poetry #contrapuntal poem #contrapuntal poetry #blackout poetry #tagamemnon #the iliad #trojan war #clytemnestra #helen of sparta #helen of troy #diomedes #castor and pollux #achilles #spilled ink #mine

autometaphorical

Iphigenia asks the Pythia about her fate • April 2026

#game poem #iphigenia #poetry #greek mythology #holy hells this is so cool

aziscribs

Tfw Aphrodite's your mom but all your wives keep dying. Still gotta mog though.

#tagamemnon #greek mythology #the iliad #homeric epics #greek myth art #the aeneid #Aeneas #aphrodite #aeneas of troy

blended-ice

Achilles -> Paris Alexander -> Diomedes

Paris stop doing that

#the iliad #tagamemnon #achilles #diomedes #paris alexander #id in alt text #paris of troy #art

soarinsugar-homerblog

The embassy to Troy but they’re all cats

“Hairlen! You can’t possibly love Pawris! All the cats of Troy are lying thieves!” Mewnelaus cried, begging his dear mate to come back to him from where he stood beside his brother, Agameownon, and Ohisseus. Purriam did not move, and instead looked to Pawris for his response.

(Blame @katerinaaqu for this she told me to post this)

EDIT: picture I took of some cats in Kephalonia that inspired this (I named the ginger-and-white one on the left Menelaus) Katerina said the two beside him should be Helen and Paris.

#excellent #the iliad #greek mythology #tagamemnon #random shitpost #humour #cats #helen of sparta #helen of troy #paris of troy #menelaus

mokishy

The very competent founder of Rome guys! 🩷

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #aeneas #the aeneid #the iliad #the trojan war #art #aeneas of troy

ilions-end

gods saving aeneas in the iliad

aphrodite:

apollo:

poseidon:

Aineias he lifted high from the ground, and slung him through the air so that many ranks of fighting men, many ranks of horses, were overvaulted by Aineias, hurled by the god’s hand.

#ive been so stressed this week and this cheered me up immensely thank you #aeneas #aphrodite #apollo #poseidon #the iliad #tagamemnon #greek mythology #humour #to dwell in the immortal queue #trojan war

was thinking about what Aphrodite's favoured ones had in common

thegeyeria

Bla bla bla, something about Ganymede and Troilus, both Trojan princes considered the epitome of youthful male beauty. (In Ganymede’s case, the most handsome of all mortals). Make me want to know, how beautiful with these real life Trojans? Were they like super models?

#must be the feng shui #<- prev tags #this is unreasonably hilarious #trojan family #tagamemnon #to dwell in the immortal queue

katerinaaqu

I was trying to make a timeline of the trojan war but there are not a lot of info I feel is reliable. Like, what exactly is the time frame between peleus and thetis's wedding to the kidnapping of Helen? And how old was achilles when he died? I'm not even sure what my question was.

Hmm I do not think there is a clear timeline. It really depends on the sources.

Me personally I follow a tineline that is give or take expanding around 30-40 years give or take from judgment of Paris till the end of the war and the return of Odysseus

We can all pretty much say that the Trojan Cycle begins with the Judgement of Paris and ends with the return of Odysseus to Ithaca while anything that comes before or after it belong to a wider cycle of events.

I estimate that the judgment of Paris happens when Paris is a young child. Old enough to be able to make logical assumptions so no he wasn't like 5 but not old enough to make very very mature decisions. I estimate him to be around 10-12 years old when the Judgement takes place. Before he even met Oenone. Then we need about a year or so to have the birth of a child (now there are sources that Thetis had more children before Achilles which could expand the timeline a bit while others estimate she had only Achilles so it depends)

Anyway I estimate Achilles be at his late 20s or early 30s in the Iliad events so he would be in his 30s when he dies. Now if you follow Apollodorous and his estimation that Achilles was 15 at times of Aulis then he would be in his mid 20s when he dies. I personally do not follow that because I thibk that would make him too young to father Neoptolemus and Neoptolemus be of fighting age 10 years later and I do not follow the extensive timeline of 10 extra years Apollodorous provides because I thibk it is too long

Now though one can follow the line of two gatherings of the fleet and the attack on Mysia to the equation but the return and regrouping I thibk wouldn't be THAT long as Apollodorous says. Now in sources like Apollonius we see that Achilles was already born and under Chiron's care when Peleus went on the trip of Argonautica (albeit his age at the time unknown) and Castor and Pollux were alive and of fighting age too since they served in Argo so we can expect them to be around their 16th-20th year of age I guess unless they were born earlier

Anyway without overly complicating things I think the Trojan Cycle lasts around 40 or so years. 30-35 from Judgment of Paris till the taking of Troy (adding two to five years of preparations in between and the honeymoon of Paris and Helen) plus 10 years for the return of Odysseus to Ithaca. The give or take in between years would be preparations detours or other haha hope that helps a bit

#storing up people's opinions on the trojan war timeline #because I'm not smart enough to make it out myself 😭😭😭#was wondering why my paris was 11 years old when the judgement happened....#thanks!#greek mythology #tagamemnon #analysis #to dwell in the immortal queue

wramblering

First ever attempt at a contrapuntal poem! Very much inspired by alex peery clark (@two-bees-poetry) and probably subconsciously by Fred Chappell's Narcissus and Echo.

#writing #poetry #contrapuntal poetry #contrapuntal poem #narcissus #narcissus and echo #greek mythology

poemsfromafar

so do u guys think they ever explored each others bodies or

#hah #poetry #contrapuntal poetry #euripides’ herakles mainomenos #greek mythology #herakles #theseus #heracles #writing

katerinaaqu

Menelaus has ginger cat energy, Agamemnon has black cat energy

Hahahaha yup 😆 totally so! 😆

rubynrut

Rare pic of agamemmon dragging his brother out of the battlefield

katerinaaqu

Oh my gosh the CACKLE I left 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

soarinsugar-homerblog

As a cat lover who draws way too many cats I absolutely had to draw this. Iliad kitties my beloved.

#menelaus #agamemnon #the iliad #greek mythology #tagamemnon #file name is ‘get scruffed bro’#art #trojan war

echo-loves-flowerboy

Argonaut edition

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #jason and the argonauts #medea #idmon #heracles #laertes #theseus #orpheus #peleus #atalanta

archemachus

So... Too wounded to return to Troy after his visit to Oenone, Paris dies in the same field where he used to herd sheep...

And sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder if Agelaus was alive, if he made his way through the shepherds, if he picked up his child, his son, from the ground and hugged him...

And sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder if, in his death, Paris simply became Alexander again, the boy who tended sheep, and Agelaus did not see a prince die, but rather the son he raised and loved leave this world

#aw #can't decide whether i wanna write this ver #or the one where his siblings fight to get his body back from the battlefield #the juxtaposition between his former life and his later one #greek mythology #trojan war #paris of troy #tagamemnon #to dwell in the immortal queue #agelaus

doodling the trojan pretty boys

which Aeneas hairstyle is better?

long haired!

short haired!

Voting ended onJan 10

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #memnon #aeneas #aeneas of troy #paris of troy #mine #art

wolfythewitch

my personal opinion is that the trojan war could have been avoided through polyamory

#aphrodite: so slight roadblock. helen's married #paris: holy shit buy 1 get 1 free #<- op tags are KILLING ME #paris waltzing into sparta like he's got a supermarket coupon to be redeemed #tagamemnon #greek mythology #paris of troy #menelaus #helen of sparta #helen of troy #to dwell in the immortal queue #humour

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