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You know...I am a die hard Odysseus girl here, okay? But I frequently catch myself thinking about the OG Greek hero model haha or rather the most iconic speciment; Heracles himself.

We know that Heracles was named at birth Ἀλκαῖος (Alcaeus) or Ἀλκείδης (Alceides) with the word ἀλκαῖος coming from the word ἀλκή which means "strength" or "power" (so the name Alcaeus stands for "strong" or "powerful") However after he went mad by Hera's hand and he killed his children he ran to the sanctuary of Delphi and demanded an omen to cleanse himself. There Pythia (or for others Apollo himself) nicknamed him "Heracles" (Ἡρακλῆς) aka "Hera's Glory". After that point on the hero was called by everyone as Heracles instead

However imagine, just imagine if his mother, Alcmene, continued calling him by his birth name for the rest of his life? What if she was the only one who called him that? Or the only one Heracles allowed to call him that? Also bonus if Heracles was indeed named "Alcaeus" and the "Alceides" part was almost hypocoristic. So me imagine mama Alcmene still calling Heracles "my little Alcaeus" and still treat him with some of that tenderness of his childhood like caress his hair, ask him how he is or if he is eating well, allow him to rest his head on her knees etc...

Guys I am not okay...

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #heracles #herakles #hercules #alcaeus #alcaeides #alceides #alcmene #the labors of heracles

The House of Perseus

Never saw anyone draw all the perseids so I decided to do it!

#greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #greek pantheon #perseus #andromeda #Perses #Electryon #sthenelus #Gorgophone #mestor #Alcaeus #cynurus #heleus #Autochthe #perseus and andromeda #Persomeda #family tree #perseids

Heracles attacks Erginus, King of Orchomenus.

#greek mythology #mythology #olympus #roman mythology #Erginus #Ἐργῖνος #king of Orchomenus #heracles #Ἡρακλῆς #Herakles #Alcaeus #Alcides #Ἀλκείδης #God of strength and heroes #greek heroes

Is it really true, however, that Helen’s act is presented with disapproval in this poem? Many scholars have argued, to the contrary, that Sappho is celebrating the active assertion of female desire. Certainly, the poem emphasizes Helen’s erotic agency to an unprecedented degree. Like Alcaeus in his fragment 283, it does so in part by appropriating aspects of Helen’s own voice from the Iliad. [...] The poem thus resembles Alcaeus 283 in drawing upon Helen’s own perspective in the Iliad , by acknowledging her transgression while ascribing it to a combination of divine influence and her own agency. In comparison with Alcaeus, however, Sappho puts considerably more emphasis on the latter. She does so largely by demoting Paris from Alcaeus’s active “deceiver of his host” to the nameless object of Helen’s desire.

Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation, Ruby Blondell.

#ym will be like “i love helen!!” then spin around saying you cannot fathom her loving paris #helen of sparta #helen of troy #paris of troy #tagamemnon #sappho #alcaeus #greek mythology #trojan war #the iliad #cait is reading #mop #departure of helen #blondell

Why not wet our lungs with wine, Sirius is coming on, the dog days are upon us, streets and alleys warping in the swelter, cicadas in acacia trees, artichokes in flower.

Alcaeus, Dog Star

Pathfinder campaign height chart! XD

Designs are not necessarily accurate beyond height and general features, these were meant to be sketches and got more detailed than i originally intended. I basically just went based on everyone's foundry images and vibes. so if i draw the party members again with more specific info from my friends they might look a bit different lol