Holly

Classics student • 21• Hellenic polytheism blog• complete academic disaster • lyre player • lesbian

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

I adore how in every Hymn to Artemis or Apollo the poet takes a paragraph or so to go: And I would like to take this opportunity to say that they have a mum that loves them to bits and that they would absolutely kill for

[kebriones]

alcibiades putting ribbons on agathon from the symposium

[kebriones]

Agathon and Pausanias, I promise this is the last time I'm redesigning them. They're blue and green coded BUT the colors are interchangeable between them.

The only thing is I'm regretting making agathon shorter here, I actaully want them to be the same height but I wasn't thinking. Pausanias is standing on something okay. Also he has beard troubles this is the most his beard can grow and it's slightly patchy and thin in some areas. Agathon has bangs.

[igguana-art0-0]

oh hey apollo! 🌞

[kriiisty-deactivated20260206]

a little illustration of Apollo and his cows :>

kinda been obsessed with Greek mythology for a while now (bc of epic lol) sooo yea i planned to design all olympians gods (wish me luck)

[homeric-hymnist]

[kebriones]

Bust of @zaireetoo-draws 's amazing Apollo design. I can't get over the hairstyle 😞✨❤️ it's so good for him.

(my comms are still open with mythology discounts 🙂‍↕️)

[karmicpunishment]

ASK CHATGPT??????? i would NEVER. i ask all my questions to the pythia at the oracle of delphi like apollo intended.

[theoxenia]

the fact that zeus is not only a paternal god but also one who has explicitly carried and given birth to his own children... i think it's beautiful & i would love to see more depictions of zeus as the patron and protector of pregnant trans men.

[theoxenia]

alsooo smth smth zeus consuming metis is actually really wild because zeus' mind is such a major part of his power. the mind of zeus is holy and unknowable and the mind of the universe itself. and metis' name literally means wisdom/cunning and there is even a homeric epithet for him coming from that word. metis is the embodiment of that cunning intellect and she is feminine!!!! the mind of zeus is embodied as a feminine being and zeus integrates her into himself and the product of that union is athena, who governs war and philosophy and politics– the realms of men– in the appearance of a woman (and also rules over weaving, the primary activity of women). and she was birthed by the Father King. i mean can you ask for more divine androgyny?

[starweaverblog]

POV: you just lost a bet to Apollo for saying you are better than him in music

[kebriones]

The Phaedo comic is now available both in english and greek as pdf on my kofi store with a pay-what-you-want option!

read about socrates killing himself from the comfort of your home!

[losferatuu]

gay as hell to be all-knowing. what you trying to know about? men?

[ombrokharis]

I wonder if Helpols who hate Zeus legitimately think they will have prosperous households

[athenaeum-of-the-herald-deactiv]

This is the helpol equivalent of "no bitches?" and I'm absolutely losing it right now.

[athenaeum-of-the-herald-deactiv]

I'll leave now.

[decaysings]

the sun god

design discussions under the cut :]

wanted to make a more archaic-based apollo so here we go!! i'll do proper clothing designs later, this was mostly to figure out his face and hair

the apollo sculpture found at the temple veii wears twists, which i combined with the curled bangs of kroisos kouros since apollo of veii's are..... obscured. some kouroi are believed to be depictions of apollo; the kroisos kouros is a gravemarker for a warrior instead but that was the base inspo anyway

the red "rosettes" on the face are based on this mycenaean plaster head, believed to be a sphinx. purely an aesthetic choice because i'm partial to gods wearing symbolic makeup and they can double as stylized suns to me. i kept the outlined eyes both as part of an eyeliner look but also to reference the egyptian styles that archaic greek artists were inspired by

[veres-com]

hail Apollo, son of Zeus

[hymntoapollo]

I finally finished my dissertation! It has been quite the journey and I haven’t slept properly in a very long time … but it was all worth it !!

[bisexualbunk-deactivated2026050]

go back to the source material with mama