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Knowing she won’t be answered, Cassandra begs: “Kill me.”

The words come out and Cassandra understands them not by the tongue that speaks them, but by how Clytemnestra covers up the breaking of her voice by dropping into a whisper, and how the blade’s tip moves, waveringly, to the ground.

birthday fanart for @diasparagmos of their hauntingly gorgeous Clytemnestra/Cassandra fic, Misericord! good classics fanfic is always hard to come by and my friend knocked it out of the damn park :’)

whencyclopedia

A solid gold Minoan pendant depicting two bees clutching a honeycomb, Old Palace cemetery at Chrysolakkos near Malia, Crete, 1800-1700 BCE.

kabishkat19

Father Hercules🧡

Based on statues of Greek Hercules, Megara and their son Telephus and turning them into the Disney version🧡

venomspecs

A Polyphemus sketch from a couple months ago, trying to explore the uncanny missing eyes from some ancient depictions

josephinecarttanneur

Divine Achilles left his spear to lie

among the tamarisks on the riverbank.

With just his sword he leapt into the river,

his heart intent on ruin, like a god.

Whirling around, he hacked and slashed and struck them,

And from the victims of his blade arose

desperate, agonizing wails. The water

ran red with blood.

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galusandmalus

"When Osiris-Dionysus defeated Typhon, He threw him and his first commanders in prison And against Bousiris of Phoenice and Anteus the Libyan He sent Heracles. So Heracles, marching against the Libyan land, Slew Anteus, who was as tall as sixty times the length of an arm, Fighting him outside the land he occupied. For he knew not how to win in places unfamiliar to him. And he had to face the earth there, Anteus’ mother, For she engaged in combat herself after her son fell. So, Heracles killed him in the Libyan land, Where he also learned the art of astronomy by Atlas, Its very creator. That’s why they say that Atlas bears the sky on his back And Heracles relieved him of the task by carrying it himself. Such are the narrations of the Egyptians regarding Atlas." -tzetzes chiliades

THATS ALOT OF INFO BACK TO BACK HOLY SHIT

LET THE EGYPTIANS COOK

galusandmalus

maybe bot super related to tzetzes but honestly like most greek people didnt seem to live in fucking greece to such a point where so many of these texts tend to go so hard on synichritsm and we all just seem to ignore it like lowkey alot of this mythology is more

than people want to admit i really messed that up that has whole nations and areas i didnt want to include dammit

where is the dionysus vs typhon content out there

aliciavance4228

We have Nolan saying "Homer was his era's George Lucas" so no wonder nothing there looks bronze age Greek because Americans view greek myths as much or a fantasy as Star wars or marvel. No wonder Agamemnons armor looks like Darth Vader and he treats it as if he's gonna make a whole franchise out of it

And there also those people who actually have the audicity to compare Greek Mythology with comics, because they do not understand nor bother to comprehebd that you have to keep a certain amount if respect while engaging yourself not only with the og source material, but also with a whole ass religion.

winedarkarchive-deactivated2023

oh to be an old olive tree overgrown in some ancient ruins

kaijufluffs

She's being so big and brave.

shattersaurus

Hey everyone! This series of pride themed mythological buddies will become a stickerset I am already producing.

They are ONLY available for FREE for people who join my email list and support my successful Kickstarter in July! (Don't worry, I will only use the email list to inform you when the Kickstarter launches so you won't miss it :D)

The planned Kickstarter is aiming to turn these pretty fellas into hard enamel pins, so you wouldn't just help me bring these pretty guys into reality but also be rewarded with these handcrafted sticker.

Curious? Intrigued even? Then please follow the link for more info and feel free to sign up to our mailing list to stay up to date when we LAUNCH OUR KICKSTARTER IN JULY!

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