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Athens and Sparta Adventures: Chapter 9: Libation Bearers pg. 16

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Quick Ref:

Tyrrhenians: Also Tyrsenions. A catch-all word for non-Greeks, especially pirates. Here Corinth is specifically describing Etruscans.

Megara Hyblaea: One of Megara's early colonies on the island of Sicily destroyed by Syracuse. The colony is the "Little Meg" referred to here and page 5 of this chapter.

Comments:

I have to open with a sincere apology that it took over a year to get started on the conclusion of this chapter. Apart from some bugs that needed ironing out in my original script, I was dealing with some large projects and then the unexpected death of my maternal grandmother (almost precisely a year after the death of my paternal grandmother, which made it harder).

I'm in a much more stable place now to finish this chapter off and I've already started brainstorming some future happenings, so let's round this one off! Hopefully this style isn't too drastic a departure from where I started.

Anyway, I think this is the second libation mention in this chapter?? Had to have some actual libations in here apart from weird dreams and vague references to the Oresteia of course :)

Special thank you to @en-theos who (apart from receiving the bulk of my rambling about where this whole thing is going and being a longtime devoted reader) modelled for me in person while I was drawing panel 5 :D

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Athens and Sparta Adventures: Chapter 9: Libation Bearers pg. 14

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The Persians: A tragedy by Aeschylus and the only surviving part of a trilogy. The play centres around the Persian queen Atossa waiting for news of Xerxes' campaign against Greece. Darius' ghost appears. It's a whole thing.

Promanteia: The privilege of consulting the oracle at Delphi before others, which could be very important during urgent political matters. People came from all over the Greek world to consult the pythia, so the line was probably pretty long!

Comments:

Since I've been revisiting Greece as a character, I've been thinking about her relationship with the others. I think although they haven't interacted in AaSA really, that Sparta just kind of acts on her behalf without actually interacting with her or consulting her.

Also, this may be the most insight into Sparta's thoughts and motivations that I've attempted to portray so far! Haha.