throes of cosmic despair

25 // mostly foaming at the mouth over the odyssey // header quote from podcastwizard

[verdantlyviolet]

Telesilla supposedly coined the unique Ancient Greek (Argolic Doric Greek) word:

philelias / philhelias

.. meaning sun-loving song, in reference to a song sung to Apollo.

ἡ δὲ εἰς Ἀπόλλωνα ᾠδὴ    ― φιληλιάς,― ὡς Τελέσιλλα παρίστησιν.

The song to Apollo is the philhelias,     [the sun-loving song],' as Telesilla has it.

from Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists, Wikipedia

[philhelias-moved-deactivated202]

Apollo holding the kithara from the Temple of Venus at Hadrian’s Villa (detail)

Attested to Apollonios, circa 150 AD

[urholyurdivine]

` Lady Athena moodboard 🤍🦉 `

[carrionhearted]

Sorry for infodumping about my special interest out of nowhere, you said a keyword and it activated my unskippable dialogue

[indigosfindings]

im always standing in contrapposto so that if any gorgons happen to gorgalyze me people will think im a renaissance statue

[yuriartillery]

haha thats so funny [face gets gravely serious] but were you not a staunch and trusted ally i would have you executed for such a joke

[cerasifera]

guises of the grey eyed godess

[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.

[zaraasays]

Clytemnestra, what’s on your mind?

[kebriones]

Hermes sketch

inspired by these depictions of him:

[hamletofficial]

In The Odyssey, Odysseus is extraordinary for the flexibility with which he can inhabit many different names, or no name at all. It is this quality of being multinamed and nameless that enables him to survive. By contrast, almost all the warriors of The Iliad yearn to have a name and a story that lasts forever. Their many names and titles, as sons and brothers and comrades and fathers and rulers, are essential to their identities, their connections with one another, and their fame after death. They fear, above all, being humiliated (cursed with a negative name), or forgotten and nameless. The lists and catalogs of names are essential to the poem’s own work, of memorializing and mourning the dead. Once the bodies return to dust, these syllables are all that remain.

– Emily Wilson, Translator's note for The Iliad.

[auroradiation]

[mournfulroses]

Oscar Wilde, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde

[cyberxbattalion]

[seasaltandwisdom]

you cannot be anti-immigrant and a Zeus worshipper.

being an anti-immigrant hellenic polytheist is directly against the Gods, and you are not welcome to my blog.

[numinous-archives]

Preach!

Zeus (and other deities like Athena) even had the epithet Xenios/Xenia, signifying patron(s) of foreigners,

associated with hospitality of guests, foreigners, and general visitors

[wolfythewitch]

Athena, Odysseus, and Telemachus for class

[irrevocablecondition]

this line was WASTED on a 1am tumblr rant

poetic and cunty with it, ate that the fuck up (and i'm incredibly humble too as we can see)