Cuando el espejo se rompe

Ups.

[kororobus]

6. BLUNT FORCE

again, not very gory, but at least I found time to do something at all (ง•_•)ง

[mutantenfisch]

[holy-mother-of-whumpers]

@herb-on-a-stick

[antigone-deactivated]

more polynices x tydeus :3

[ilions-end]

Never before [Eteocles and Polynices' climactic duel] has Statius compared either Oedipal brother to a boar, the animal strongly associated with Tydeus both in narrative reality (because of his boar’s-hide cloak) and in similes. The implications of this new association are dramatic and relate to themes of pollution and shifting identity in the epic. Polynices and Tydeus were introduced as men / one [mistakes] for beasts, the one wearing a lion’s skin, the other a boar’s-hide cloak. Tydeus’ sharp decline in the moral realm has been charted by similes as he drops from gorged lion to filthy bear. Polynices, originally a bull mismatched with his own brother but emotionally paired with Tydeus, now drops to the level of the boar, the worst aspect of that dear fratricidal friend, the self- and hero-self-destructive Tydeus.

-- Jane Wilson Joyce for her translation of Statius' Thebaid

[antigone-deactivated]

another tydeus x polynices sketch. these little freaks are eating my brain as we speak

[thebes-week]

Who should be king?

Polynices

Eteocles

Voting ended onAug 27, 2025

[antigone-deactivated]

even more polynices/tydeus art. for the 12 thebaid girlies on this website <3

[ilions-end]

that part in book one of the thebaid, of polynices' first night at adrastus' court when he awkwardly stops himself from revealing what family he belongs to, and hours later after a bunch of hemming and hawing he finally reveals that he's from THAT theban royal family, and adrastus answers, "Why hide what's news to no one? We know."

little drama queen sitting there vibrating all night like "no i shan't tell them" and then when he does, expecting gasps of shock, he just gets "yeah obviously? anyway--"

[galusandmalus]

gooning this and gooning that POLYNICES IS A COWBOY OUTLAW "Meanwhile the son of Oedipus, long time a wandering outlaw from his father’s lands, traverses by stealth the waste places of Aonia. Already he broods on the lost realm that was his due, and cries that the long year stands motionless in its tardy constellations. One thought recurring night and day holds him, could he ever but behold his kinsman degraded from the throne, and himself master of Thebes and all its power; a lifetime would be bargain for that day"

i love the thebaid!!!! take a shot everytime statius says Ogygian 

[thunderayn]

Polynices

*when Amphiaraus gets so mad at him and this whole doomed war

[thunderayn]

That unromantic wild boar who speeks only the truth

[thunderayn]

PolyTyde

fell in love at their first glance

[cygniavenue]

Do you have a favorite moment or character in Thebaid by statius???

Could you draw them if you don't mind :3

uhm erm hmm uhh. them

the grils r fightinggggg

[thunderayn]

Golden Polynices

and with his crime partner, so it seems :)

[ilions-end]

guys against thebes can be found in sizes large, medium and small

i.e. hippomedon and polynices play a game of polis while tydeus takes a nap (he's not allowed to play board games anymore after what happened last time)

[aimless-adventurer]

tydeus does would

[antigone-deactivated]

yet another polynices x tydeus piece. because these silly little freaks (affectionate) refuse to leave my head

[kallistoriae]

When Antigone complains to Ismene that their brother Polynices is “to be left unwept, unburied, a lovely treasure for birds that scan the eld and feast to their hearts’ content” (28-30), Antigone re-cites the plight of Patroclus in the Iliad: “unwept, unburied” (22.386). Does she imagine herself –are we to imagine her– an Achilles, fated to die early and bereft of a brother/lover?

Antigone, Interrupted — Bonnie Honig