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19; he/they (ὁ in Greek); aroace; sideblog of @tahiriveilasolo Welcome to the lair of Charybdis Xenia to every friend here

[lyculuscaelus]

Greetings, traveler. You’ve stumbled across an antique land, it seems.

This appears to be a side blog of @tahiriveilasolo, and here you shall find posts and reblogs of Greek mythology related stuff—just a simple demand of τάξις. So if there’s anything about Greek mythology in general or EPIC the Musical itself you’d like to rant with me, just come to this blog! I hope you find this little corner of mine interesting :D

Also, favorite writer of all time: Homer

Ah, a little bird told me it’s a good time to introduce myself. So…

Χαῖρε! I’m the epic psycho you’re looking for. (Pun heavily intended) Call me Lyculus or Τέλος (Telos), either is fine! I go by they pronouns, aroace. I love physics (cuz why not), music (I play the guitar and violin), and reading (hell yeah), and ofc writing.

I mostly write fanfics or fanpoems for the Epic Cycle. I have quite a few works in progress and some of them are shared on Tumblr already (I’ll make a masterlist when I’m bored and I’ll upload the rest when I’m not lazy).

I happen to have learned some Ancient Greek and a little Latin, so sometimes I’ll go digging. Hope what I find intrigue you! Discussion is always welcome, as long as it doesn’t come to heated debates concerning certain controversial topics!

The gate of asks is always open, so feel free to venture into the land of the ask box! I pose no threat, I assure you :3 (unless you consider angst a threat, that is, cuz I would do that for sure) (tho actually I’m bored as hell so plz scream at me in the ask box you menaces /lh /nf)

Medal Collection:

Survivor of the Circe Saga Stream Crash 2024

Survivor of the Wisdom Saga Stream Strike 2024

Catalogue of Hyperfixations:

Greek mythology (especially obsessed with the Epic Cycle, and the generation before them)

EPIC: the Musical (definitely obsessed)

Hadestown

Aristos: the Musical

Paris: the Musical

Ulysses Dies at Dawn

Star Wars, especially the Expanded Universe (obsessed. I have my main blog for that for a reason), and Andor

Star Trek (love TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY equally; ENT…maybe)

Catalogue of Tags:

Lyculī crustula: my rambles

Lyculī sermōnēs: my long-winded analyses

Lyculī scriptiōnēs: my writings (boy, there’re things in Discord I should really upload here…)

Lyculī commenta: analyses/writings I did in some reblogs

Lyculī quaesītī: my diggings and little discoveries in ancient literature works

Lyculī quaestiōnēs: my replies to asks (so far only appreciation asks)

īrōnīae: some Greek mythology/EPIC memes I made

Also feel free to tag me if you find some posts you think that might interest me (especially Telestratus art/writing I’m begging pleading craving plz bromance ftw)

Hmm…yeah, I think that’s about all. Welcome to the land of my blog then, traveler! Xenia to everyone who visits this realm!

[kebriones]

watching an artist i know visit thebes and suffer through the torture and darkness vortex that town really is and feeling validated. thebes is like they distilled everything bad about a greek town and condensed it. thebes is cursed and miserable and if you go there you also feel cursed and miserable.

[herb-on-a-stick]

Its kinda poetic isnt, how the vibes of the myth still / again presists in the place

Desolate & abandoned, hanging in there but feeling like half a corpse

Once famed for its texiles & many gates

But its founding myth already cursing the land, the curse(s) only getting worse over the generations of heroes until it got sacked by the epigoni

The city historically getting utterly destroyed by Alexander the Great as well, today half abandoned and quiet.

Sitting on hills between farm land and distant mountains. Buildings empty and falling apart, unfinished construction sites, tall grass overgrowing half forgotten neolithic graves next to a kindergarden, an excravation site that was once a mycenean palace sits gated and locked in the middle of a road, between one building and the next,barely big enough for a house or two. Awkward conversations and injured cats...

Its quite an expierence

Not a place to go to have fun and party but when you want to expierence how the vibes may have been in the city mytholgoically its great

Todays town somehow still seems to radiate those vibes, like an invisible veil spreading its hidden shadow and curse over the land

[cyborgsheep]

Pentheus, the King of Thebes, was torn apart limb-from-limb (sparagmos) by his own mother, Agave, and her sisters in a Dionysian frenzy for defying the god Dionysus.

（I want to portray the terrifying side of Dionysus!)

[blended-ice]

Some Odysseus Trojan war fits

[agapidraws]

[Homer, Iliad 5.885-895] Then with an angry glance from beneath his brows spake to him Zeus, the cloud-gatherer: “Sit thou not in any wise by me and whine, thou renegade. Most hateful to me art thou of all gods that hold Olympus, for ever is strife dear to thee and wars and fightings. Thou hast the unbearable, unyielding spirit of thy mother, even of Hera; her can I scarce control by my words. Wherefore it is by her promptings, meseems, that thou sufferest thus. Howbeit I will no longer endure that thou shouldest be in pain, for thou art mine offspring, and it was to me that thy mother bare thee; but wert thou born of any other god, thus pestilent as thou art, then long ere this hadst thou been lower than the sons of heaven.”

[epic-writing]

Words of Love

Love comes in different forms and wears different faces.

The ancient Greeks had words to express that, and the captains of the Epic Writing Server have selected a few of them as prompts for the week leading up to Valentine's Day. May these prompts inspire you to create your own portrayals of that love - whether it's for the characters in Greek mythology or another fandom!

You can add your works to our collection on ao3 by claiming the prompts here:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/epic_writing/requests

[wolfythewitch]

Come, enough of this now. We’re both old hands

at the arts of intrigue. Here among mortal men

you’re far the best at tactics, spinning yarns,

and I am famous among the gods for wisdom,

cunning wiles, too.

[lyculuscaelus]

Odysseus is secretly a chum salmon.

I mean, growing up in a rocky bed of a small stream until maturity, moving out to sea with others where they remained for years, then leading an arduous journey back to that rocky bed of a small stream where he called home, with friends and companions lost along the way, until he finally made it back to that rocky bed of a small stream where he’d spend the final days of his life seeing to his eggs hidden safe, until a gentle death claimed him so far from sea…

[simoondraws]

Under Divine Protection

[olecap]

my diomedes design

[lyculuscaelus]

Of all the uwuification of characters, I grieve the most for Argos.

[aster-aspera]

Fact checking

Aka how do you actually check your sources???

There's been some very good discussion on tumblr lately about the difference between trained, academic reading and learning vs hobbyist reading. So here are some tips to engage critically with sources and information. (Disclaimer: I'm an archeology student, with a non-academic interest in classics, so this post is going to be slightly biased to my interest and areas of study. It's also tailored to laypeople who have no particular academic experience, so this might seem obvious or incomplete depending on your own experience.)

Step one:

Find the article. Did you hear something cool/suspicious/shocking in a youtube video, news article or tumblr post? LOOK IT UP. Type it into google, a lot of new articles are published open access these days. You can also check google scholar, academia.edu, DOAJ, JSTOR or hit up friends/acquaintances with university access.

Then, read the article, preferably. At the very least read the abstract as attentively as possible.

Check the methods for things like sample size, internal validity (is the method appropriate to answer the question they're asking), external validity (how representative is the method/group for populations as a whole (for example: was the study only done on elite burials? You can't always generalise those results to the population at large)). Read the results and discussion.

Check that the authors are citing other sources: are they backing up their claims?

Check the tone: is it neutral, professional?

Step two: Check the article.

Who are the authors? Do they have expertise in this area? (For example, there's a study that claims octopi come from outer space. No octopus experts were involved in this study) Do the authors have any conflict of interest? (what universities/companies are they associated with? Who's funding the study?) You can google them quickly to see where they've studied, and if they've written other articles on similar topics.

When was it published? How outdated is your information? This is going to vary from field to field. Some fields move very fast, while smaller fields take longer for things to shift.

Check the journal: What is their focus? This will clue you into potential biases as well as priorities that the researchers will have. What is their peer review process? You can do this by just typing the journal name into google, and you'll usually find it after snooping around on their page a bit. You can also check the impact factor of the journal. This is a number that tells you how important/well respected the journal is (basically how many citations it gets). Impact scores tend to vary quite a bit (eg the quarterly journal of economics has an SJR score of 35.995, the American journal of archeology has an SJR score of 0.422. They're both top journals in their field, but the size of their field varies). Additionally: check that this is not a predatory journal. Lists of predatory journals can be found online.

What are others saying? Check how many times the article has been cited. This can often be found in the metrics somewhere, or you can type the article's name into google scholar.

Just a note: really shitty articles can also get cited a lot, because academics love dragging their enemy's dead corpse through the mud. If you're really dedicated, go check some of the citations to see what they say on the topic (just click on the 'cited by' button)

Sometimes, there might be a metrics button, like in the picture below. Clicking this will lead you to an altmetrics page, where you can click on specific sites (eg bluesky or xitter) to check what other are saying about the article. You might find some experts here discussing or debunking the article, especially if its fairly recent, and the more official responses haven't gotten out of the peer review pipeline yet.

Step three: Read more.

If you're really interested in this field, I recommend looking for a introductory textbook, or a lecture series open online (or see if you can take up a class at a university nearby! Depending on where you live you might be able to enroll on a credit contract or something.)

One of the things you should pay attention to is the current and past paradigms that are relevant to the specific discipline. For example processual and post-processual archeologist will have very different approaches to archeology. Within the study of greek mythology, you have different paradigms such as structuralism, post-structuralism, ritualism, cognitive...

Try to understand the main viewpoints and theories behind each paradigm, and read different texts within each theory. When you're reading other articles, try to contextualise them in the right school of thinking. It can help you identify blind spots, and understand why certain methods were chosen or how the researchers came to certain conclusions.

It can help to be aware of the main thinkers associated with a certain school of thought (for example Binford for processual archeology, Hodder for post-processual.) If an article cites a certain author associated with a certain school of thought a lot, it gives you a hint as to what their allegiance might be. Additionally, looking at the publication year can also help! Certain paradigms are more popular in certain periods.

[lunamilliesapphire]

I have a tag game idea.

Reblog this with the last thing in your search history (If you don't wanna share it, that's fine ofc) then tag your moots

I'll start:

'Indiana Jones punching nazi'

No pressure tags: @manyfandomfanatic, @ruthiejacquelinerambles, @bobasbag, @palmolli, @realta-the-demigod, @vixxy-izzy, @nerdygremlininthewalls, @elronthemage,@blizzdreemurr2, and anybody else who wants to join!

EDIT: @flapjackerz, I forgot about you, sorry

[blizzdreemurr2]

I'vE been tagged again-- yAY >:D

aheM...

"awhem awaik \"

I was--I was trying to search that one song from Lion King- My keyboard is cursed, oK-

Tags, feel free to ignore if you don't wanna participate! I've just tagged a few people I thought might want to x3 : @i-love-zelda-16 @sleepyy-27 @yoshiyey

[sleepyy-27]

Tysm for the tag!

"Translate"

@majorproblems77 @whiteperle3 @dreamy-wolfy @nightyraven-art @linked-to-sleep @thejolteonmastertj @the-sage-of-aura-and-shadows @the-au-collector @bleper @bluepeeble @clarityobscured @codyis-not-cool @waterlilycrayon @yliisnear @treasure-goblin @thegreatcabbagewizard @thebackofourmind8 and open tags. :D

[clarity-reblogs]

Thank you for the tag!

"color"

@lunamilliesapphire @themortaldraw @codyis-not-cool @whiteperle3 @ahanarhorse @amayis-bigtower

[ahanarhorse]

"dog leg anatomy"

I was having a rough time drawing

@christian-zelda @sunset-peril @sunfloo-wers @readingismyhobby24 @magiowlio and anyone else who wants to join

[christian-zelda]

"why am i finding yellow jackets in my house"

We've found 10 yellow jackets in our within the last week, and it's very concerning.

@sunset-peril, @aikoiya, @nevermatchandscpsradadventures, @thetanzanitequill, and anyone else.

[revarrie]

Noooooo 😭😭😭 not the stingies. I wonder if there's a nest in a hole in the house or garage or attic? Either way, sounds like you need some Raid/Raid equivalent

Actually this is an opportune time for this because I actually have something interesting 😂

Mine was "cyano-kit" because I heard it on the news and went "now what even is that??"

Eh, my brain's a little dead today so I don't have many tags, but feel free to snartch if you want

@aikoiya @tunguszka20 @nevermatchandscpsradadventures

[tunguszka20]

Mine is

Szalonna

(it's a Hungarian good, if you put it through Google translate it's gonna say that it means bacon BUT IT IS NOT THE SAME AS BACON)

No pressure tags: @lyculuscaelus @thejudeduarte @blindhades

[lyculuscaelus]

Thank you for the tag!!!

“The Uruks turn northeast”

(To be fair they’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard)

No pressure tags: @luthi3n @jarondont @aaronofithaca05 @leynaeithnea @lili-home-to-embraces-and-hugs and anyone else who wishes to join!

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

i adore those little homeric micro-biographies characters get right before they're killed. no one is disposable, the poet says. this is the cost of war.

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[capablecapybara]

Hi my name is Ozy'mandias, King of Kings and I have two vast and trunkless legs of stone and a frown and wrinkled lip and a lot of people tell me I look like the Younger Memnon (a/n if you don't know who he is get da hell out of here!). I'm a statue but my visage is shattered and lies half sunk on the sand. I’m also a colossal wreck, and I stand in the desert of an antique land where I’ve been for a really long time (I’m ancient). I’m a lifeless thing (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly the passions the sculptor read and stamped on me, which yet survive. I love sculptors and I get all my expressions from there. For example today I was wearing a sneer of cold command and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was standing in the desert. The lone and level sands were boundless and bare, which I was very happy about. A lot of mighty looked upon my works and despaired. I put my middle finger up at them.

[lyaios]

very silly image i couldn't get out of my head