O, Weep for Adonis!

Formerly @marietheidiot || I miss the house of Atreus || 🇺🇸🇨🇻

[harpertheidiot]

Very Quick Intro

Hello, I'm Marie (Or Harper)! I talk about Greek mythology mostly, sometimes comics. Usually I think about Hecuba, Atalanta, Paris, the House of Atreus, and just the Iliad generally

Original posts are tagged with #Yap O Muse

[venomspecs]

Pitching a concept for a subway surfers-style endless runner where you play as Achilles in book 21 trying to outrun the stream of the furious Scamander all over the plain of Troy

[venomspecs]

Puppet Odysseus shrugging gif I made at 2 am instead of sleeping for some reason

[harpertheidiot]

Really enjoy how in Lattimore's Iliad Helen calls Ajax the Greater "gigantic Aias." he is just so incredibly big. Monstrously so

[gisacita]

the most important things a man should be is BEAUTIFUL and TORTURED

[translatingpostsintoancientgreek]

μάλιστα χρὴ ἄνδρα ΚΑΛΟΝ καὶ ΤΑΛΑΙΠΩΡΟΝ εἶναι

[masterofthewarcry]

“menelaus was so useless in the iliad” he literally had paris choking on his strap. or something

[narcissa-black-supermacy]

i thought the “this is the face that launched a thousand ships, although now it would maybe be five-hundred.” line was just an internet joke but apparently that's a line Menelaus actually says in Nolan's Odyssey??

Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?

"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?

"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?

"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?

"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?

The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?

You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?

I'm actually physically sick just thinking about it.

[harpertheidiot]

Le soir (the evening)- Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

:)

This is the same artist you shared last time, and I really like his style. Everything feels very soft, especially the background. The light colors add to that dream-like feel I mentioned in regards to his other painting. I looked up some of Dhurmer's other works, and most of his works seem to share that same gentle feel. I think he really flourishes when he's painting backgrounds.

I've never heard of this singer, but I enjoyed this song! As always, thank you for sharing ^_^

[harpertheidiot]

Salome- Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

:)

I really like this piece :D I think, out of the paintings you've sent me, it might be one of my favorites. The lighting is mesmerizing, and the warm color palate adds to the dream-like effect. And the scene itself is very tender.

The song is amazing as well. Thank you for sharing ^_^

[masterofthewarcry]

fanfic shit easy

[thereinart]

A double piece featuring Penelope, Clytemnestra and Helen 🥹❤️ cause I love them very much

I hope you like it 🙂‍↕️

[sksjjsjwjejsjwos]

look idm if you do this as a joke but you can’t just dismiss sources you don’t like as fanfic as if every other source wouldn’t be fanfiction by your logic

[roswellsoup]

bonus/proof:

we tipped her well dw. best waitress ever 🍒

[vyvilha]

there is a really really famous in ukraine epic poem that is called eneïda (ukrainization of aeneid) written by ivan kotlyarevsky in 1798 that is famous for being the first ever published work in modern ukrainian language, and it is, as you can imagine, a ukrainian re-interpretation of virgil's aeneid, with aeneas being a zaporizhzhian cossack and other wonderful cultural references— anyway, the thing is, because of it being so famous here, the original aeneid is a lesser known one, and currently i have an ancient rome obsession so i want to talk about the aeneid frequently, but every time i have to say it like "so in the aeneid- no not the one by kotlyarevsky..." and well, i think it is beautiful

[vyvilha]

btw if anyone's interested you can find the english translation of kotlyarevsky's eneïda here

[thhouseofblack]

[Felson, N. (2025) Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics. 2nd ed. Hellenic Studies Series 101. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies.]

The scene of their marriage bed with Odysseus' reaction is so important for Odysseus and Penelope's relationship, and functions as the perfect climax of their reunion. The plot of their relationship is incomplete without this moment.

[thoodleoo]

reading about the participation of children in rituals as a form of play in ancient greece and came across an incredibly charming story from julius pollux's onomasticon where a flood prevented the adults from reaching a sanctuary to sacrifice a ram to heracles, and the children solved the problem by....sticking a bunch of sticks in an apple to give it "legs" and "horns" and offering it as a sacrifice instead. it's such a charming thought and i can perfectly picture kids these days also pretending at sacrificing an apple "goat" at recess

[thoodleoo]

catch me on the playground playing sacrifices

[fovfvk]

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