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when you look into your compatriot’s eyes and divinity stares back. or something.

been Thinking about atreus and thyestes a lot lately…the Bastard Brothers

#loooooove this stufffa ahhhhhhhhhhhhh #the fourth one with them fighting is so juicy and dynamic adjkgfhsdg #BASTARD MAN BASTARD MAN #no but the way your atreus looks soo much like agamemnon #i love it. agamemnon is a daddy's boy obviously #i bet menelaus was a mamas boy tho #the one with thyestes annoying the two of them jskfgjksdfg and agamemnon clutching his lil brother's hand protectively #my heart #the last one is peak #wow #the expression on atreus' face #he knows what hes doing #i keep going back to that line from the article about atreus ensuring the legitimacy of his own children by making thyestes eat HIS dammmmn #theyre both Up To No Good #Thyestes and Atreus really are the epitome of normal pretending to be crazy meets crazy pretending to be normal #also i might be seeing things but in the last slide they kind of remind me of agamenon and odysseus #might be thyestes' bastard face #love thessseeeeeeeeeeeee

smokey07

Achilles wishing he and Patroclus could conquer Troy together sounds like a love story

But Diomedes told Agamemnon that he and Sthenelus would stay even when everyone leaves sounds like a hostage situation.

#lmao that speech always takes me out #hes like #EVEN IF EVERYBODY LEAVES #ALL OF YOU COWARDS #EVEN YOU AGAMEMNON #me and STHENELUS #and sthenelus in the background is like :00000 #bruh #me???#its hilarious ppl really underestimate how hilarious this book is #i love you canon diomedes

lockettopia

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"CYPRIA 11: ACHILLES RAIDS THE TROAD"

For nine brutal years Achilles and his Myrmidons ravage the surrounding towns of the Troad, beginning with the sacrilegious killing of the Trojan prince Troilus at the sanctuary of Apollo, sealing the god's undying hatred. Achilles raids Mount Ida, captures the prince Lycaon by night and sells him into slavery, sacks city after city including Hypoplacian Thebes where he kills Andromache's father and seven brothers, takes the priest's daughter Chryseis as a gift for Agamemnon, and burns Lyrnessus, killing the family of the noblewoman Briseis before claiming her as his own concubine.

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kashuan

that was actually the precise reason I was looking up papers on the subject, so thank you, author, for answering my number one question

narcissa-black-supermacy

holy shit that analysis of him wanting to "ensure the legitimacy of his own sons by forcing thyestes to eat his" is INSANE and so on point wow

where is this from??

i do wonder how this is not a more widespread take, i'm so sure the legitimacy of the kids was questioned by Atreus once he found out. imagine the toll of it on everyone involved. and like. theres no genetic test either.

kashuan

the paper is here! highly recommend checking it out, it's free to read and a great analysis of seneca's thyestes!

#a wow its a whole ass actual paper oh MYG OD im so excited akjdfhsdjkgh im gonna go read that tonight #sometimes i get hyped about quotes posted on here and more often than not its just some uncited book or adaptations wo much ground to it #i love reading good papers especially if its about the Atreides somehow. its my fanfiction

kashuan

that was actually the precise reason I was looking up papers on the subject, so thank you, author, for answering my number one question

narcissa-black-supermacy

holy shit that analysis of him wanting to "ensure the legitimacy of his own sons by forcing thyestes to eat his" is INSANE and so on point wow

where is this from??

#i like to think them of being aga > menelaus > anaxabia in terms of birth order #and agamenon is like. a copy of his dad. theres almost no room for doubt.#and anaxabia is actually thyestes #its from the time when she was already cheating #like maybe when atreus was away on some kinnd of war mission #and she realizes shes pregnant #so when he comes back she immediately seduces him to lower the suspicion but theres still like a gap of a month or so #and they tell him she was just born pre mature #but its a lil suspicious and thats what eventually leads atreus to question everything later down the years #and menelaus #oh boy #menelaus is ambigious #okay #nobody actually knows for sure if hes atreus' or not #and the stark differences between him and agamemnon both in appearance and behaviour dont really help #menelaus is sort of oblivious to this because hes sure that the issue was much later only around anaxabia #and also agamemnon fights anyone who dares imply otherwise #but its ambigious #GOD PLEASE someone make a tv series about this family already

ahhh i just wanted to say thank you for the super sweet tags you left on my comic post 😭❤️ after being away from this fandom for a few years I was a little nervous about still getting the characterization right both visually and verbally so your tags made me soso happy to read! tysm, you made my day ❤️❤️❤️

you're very welcome and it's absolutely my pleasure, we're so blessed to have you return to this fandom and grace us with this art ❤️❤️❤️ i'm obsessed with your comics and honestly wish i could express it in a better way than just ranting in the tags

i also wrote a whole essay in the tags about your comment about the sotry of iphigenia not existing yet during the making of the iliad and how , while we have no conrete proof, many evidences point to the opposite, including actual things said in the iliad itself, but tumblr decided to delete it so oh well

i actually think there's a huge advantage to you posting stuff after being away from the fandom for a while, because (without pointing fingers) i feel like there are certain trends (that i hate) that are hard to avoid for artists and writers in fandom when you're stuck in it for a long time. like certain headcanons that are not necessarily good or accurate that seem to be developed and just accepted into popular fanon over time cause they gain lots of notes and sell well. so when youre an old artist coming back to a fadnom you can be more authentic and creative in your characterizations.

like especially what i said about odysseus and achilles. there's a very specific way they're both portrayed in fandom nowadays, mostly under influence of latter books and media that came out (like the epic musical and a song of achilles) and its almost impossible to avoid, but its not accurate at all. i hate all that fanart where odysseus is so charming and tall and buff and him and penelope are the epitome of beauty. like. no. i wanna see that ugly ratty cunningness in his look. the expressions on your odysseus kinda remind me of rick from rick and morty ahahaha. and in general it has the exact right balance of being cartoon-like comical (which i actually think is important because the iliad, at least in my eyes, is a HILARIOUS book) but also very serious and true to source.

#anyway ive ranted enough sorrryyyyyyyy idk when to stop #i love your stuff so so so much its been stuck in my head for days #never stop pls #do let us know if theres any way to support you like buy me a coffee or some kind of platform #id love to #asks

kashuan

rewatched iphigenia (1977) yet again the other day and I always think whenever I finish it, how did this event not basically permanently destroy all of the main relationships at play here sdgdsg wanted to sketch a few one-off scenes based on my thoughts about that

#these are INSANE #INSANE dialogues OP #why do they keep giving millionical budgets to people like nolan instead of OP??? this would go so HARD in cinema are you kiddin me #iphigenia as the catalyst for the crack in so many relationships #agamemnon with odysseys agamemnon with achilles agamemnon with menelaus #agamemnon with clytemnestra #literally an impossible situation #the odysseus - achilles talk #daaaaaaaamn #i suggest you make your peace with that sooner than later #all high and mighty #thats exactly how he would talk to achilles tho #im also obsessed with the way you draw them all OP #its like #you GET IT #the way achilles is a warrior not in the same way diomedes or agamemnon are but like in a young divine kind of way #beardless and smooth and his strength coming not necessarily from real muscle but his divine power #and hes an absolute drama queen with his expression dispplaying exactly that #but hes also not a twink and there so much youth-driver sense of injustice behind the things he says and does #and odysseus is a lil weird and crooked and simultaneously so exhausted but also there to get shit done and also a tiny lil bit ugly #the way he SHOULD be i hate when they make odysseus all buff and sexy its like. no he needs to look a little like a rat. A LITTLE BIT #and agamemnon with that wide dad bod and majestic atreus hair and all hairy and very very impressive and strong but with a wine belly #the iphigenia dream is an insane take #all of this is INSANE #litearlly where to i sign up to donate all my available savings for you to make a full action comic out of this?????

pies-in-the-skies

me: truly a well crafted tragedy is such a bittersweet pleasure to take in and serves a purpose, not just as a sad story but as a reminder that even that which ends badly might not have happened in vain or for nothing. The love, the grief, the actions still meant something simply for having taken place and for us partaking in it.

me when said tragedy is about to actually unfold, sweating: ok but consider this. i dont want this to happen

adrenaline-revolver

as much as I enjoy recreationally hating on Agamemnon I gotta say. If the gods made me sacrifice my daughter over a war I’m not coming back empty handed. I’m taking everything that isn’t nailed down. I’m taking a hammer and ripping out the nails to get what was nailed down. My child died for this I refuse to allow that to be in vain in any possible way, we going full scorched earth boys.

mizipop

@ilektraheart heheh

yap: physical violence is something she definitely can’t wield so she learns to think of it as inferior or beneath her. sometimes she baits her mother or aegistheus into hitting her (which they immediately regret) so she can gloat over how her hatred (verbalized, self-justified) is much more righteous than theirs. because she believes herself to be the winner of the confrontation, tears annoy her to no end and the frustration just invites her into a whole meltdown.

mizipop

some designs to get out of the way

#BEAUITFUL #these are CORRECT

hauntedchronicler

thank you ao3 for always delivering what i need alongside insights into strange and beautiful lands of which i have no knowledge

riverlarking

the "biblically accurate angel" trend is such a perfect encapsulation of a pet peeve i have which is everybody wants to criticize the bible but nobody wants to read the bible. like when people were drawing crazy amalgamations of eyes and wheels talking to mary and saying "be not afraid" and everybody was like omfggg OF COURSE she was scared. like no actually the angel looked like a guy can you read 3 lines of text... they were saying be not afraid because it's scary when a random man suddenly shows up in your house and starts talking to you

anthro-apology

Anne Carson (2009)

Arthur S. Way (1898)

George Theodoridis (2010)

Ian C. Johnston (2010)

E.P. Coleridge (1910)

Theodore Alois Buckley (1892)

John Peck, Frank Nisetich (1995)

R. Potter (1906)

M. L. West (1987)

William Arrowsmith (1958)

Philip Vellacott (1972)

Michael Wodhull (1782)

Kenneth McLeish (1997)

David Kovacs (2002)

Andrew Wilson (1993)

Euripides - Original (408 BCE)

dykeselfcest

recent epidemic of adaptations that take lots of liberties with the source material and also, separately, are bad. but then if you say "this is bad" you get hit with "you're just being a source material purist and you don't understand the vision"...like. well actually I think it rules when people do new and different things with classic works. I just think these particular new and different things suck ass.

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