Greek Mythology Sideblog

Nova or Raven | He/They/Sun | Greek Mythology Nerd

[odysseyofstarlight]

Hello, I am Nova or Raven (he/they/sun). I am a huge Greek Mythology nerd and decided to make a separate blog for all my posts about it!

My posting will be revolved around the original mythology and perhaps some things in Ancient Greece as they appear in my research. I am not a Classicist, this is something I do for fun.

I am very aware of the fact that the gods of this mythology are still worshipped. I have immense respect for that and how these are deities, heroes, and stories that are foundational to an ancient religion that still lives through people.

You can find my main blog over at @novasbloghub and this is where likes and follows will come from. The blog itself is inactive however.

@thechaoticfanartist is my most active blog and where many of my drawings come from. That blog is a chaotic unorganized mess.

[rahdoingart]

A bunch of sketches of different gods and heroes

[wolfythewitch]

Suppliant my children's murderer to implore, And kiss those hands yet reeking with their gore

(2/2)

[wolfythewitch]

I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before

I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.

(1/2)

[starweaverblog]

Dionari based of my favorite pottery art of them ✨️ ♥️

[venomspecs]

Lovely-haired goddess SHOCKS sailors by speaking with human voice

[aziscribs]

Genuinely what it feels like to be reading the Iliad and the next book is titled some shit like "Patroclus fights and dies"

[most-sane-classicist]

I hate having hobbies that sound boring as fuck to average people "what do you like to do in your free time" "uhh I like to read sometimes" but they don't even know about the rage of Achilles son of Peleus so theyre just gonna see me as boring

[bad-greek-myths-comics]

[odysseyofstarlight]

i ain't typing all that again

[anonimea1y]

odysseus in adaptations: (guilt-ridden with all the atrocities he's committed during the war)

odysseus in the trojan war: okay neoptolemus hit the second tower

[sneakysnekoden]

lovingly

[finelythreadedsky]

having vague thoughts about telemachus being capable of stringing the bow (accomplishing the impossible task that will allow him the throne of ithaca) needing a few attempts but still very much about to do it, until he is denied by his father. And he obeys.

Top ten narrative counterfactuals of all time!!!! It's such an incredible moment for manhood and generational relationships in Homer. A Homeric warrior has an aged father who can't fight and a baby son who also can't fight, no matter how little sense that might make in the narrative timeline. There's only room for one generation of men in a family. So accessing full adult masculinity in Homer means one of two things: either your father is dead (Agamemnon, Menelaus, Diomedes, Orestes) or you've displaced him and pushed him into old age and out of the picture by coming into manhood (Achilles, Hector, Ajax, Odysseus himself).

Telemachus spends the first four books of the Odyssey trying to reach adulthood by figuring out of the first thing is true. If Odysseus is dead, then he can hold a funeral for him, send his mother away, and take up authority over his father's household, a thing which he alone properly has the right to do. But Odysseus is not dead, and then you get this narrative feint at the second thing, at the possibility of Telemachus becoming a man and/by displacing his father, taking up authority in his father's house even while his father is still alive, as Odysseus evidently did to Laertes decades ago. But he doesn't do it! He doesn't do it!

And part of what book 24 does is to show you the effect of him not doing that, and what it means that his father's return has consigned him to continued boyhood. PLUS it puts the father-son relationships of Laertes and Odysseus and Odysseus and Telemachus up against the divine father-daughter relationship of Zeus and Athena.

[geekynerfherder]

'The Odyssey' by Eleonor Piteira.

Wraparound cover art for the Wraithmarked Creative special limited edition of 'The Odyssey' by Homer, available through Kickstarter.

Available as a giclee print through Eleonor's Inprnt store.

[notacluedo]

nausicaa <333my blorbo<33

[neoxid]

Sketch of Ares God of war

[thechaoticfanartist]

His prayer went up and Phoebus Apollo heard him. Down he strode from Olympus's peaks, storming at heart with his bow and hooded quiver slung across his shoulders. The arrows clanged at his back as the god quaked with rage, the god himself on the march and down he came like night. Over against the ships he dropped to a knee, let fly a shaft and a terrifying clash rang out from the great silver bow. First he went for the mules and circling dogs but then, launching a piercing shaft at the men themselves, he cut them down in droves— and the corpse-fires burned on, night and day, no end in sight. —Iliad, Book 1, Lines 50 - 60, Robert Fagles translation.

apollo sending plague in iliad book 1 has got to be one of my favorite moments in the whole poem