#antiphates

[dilutedh2so4]

I've been trying to find the names of Sarpedon's wife and son, but in the meanwhile here's some other members of his family

Homer's Iliad, 5.

Homer's Iliad, 6.

Vergil's Aeneid, 9.

Vergil's Aeneid, 10.

And for the variant where his mother is Europa:

Apollodorus' Library, 3.

Diodorus Siculus, 5.

[l-egionaire]

My Warrior!Penlope AU: Final Boss

So, in my Warrior Penelope AU, I mentioned that Penelope would spend ten years in the land of the giants before then making her way home. This begs the question: If Penelope never pisses off Poseidon or Amphirite, who's the "final boss" of her journey? The last enemy she has to overcome before making it home and killing the suitors? Easy: Antiphates.

If you don't know who that is, in mythology, he's the king of the Laestrygonian's (the giants who live in the Land of the Giants and who back sing for Poseidon in "Ruthlessness.") And he's the major obstacle to Penelope during her time in the Land of the Giants.

When she first arrived, she'd met a young giant lady gathering water from a fountain and kindly asked her for her help. The young woman led her to the mansion of the king and she humbly asked for help from him to return home. Unfortunately, she found no hospitality there, for the king immediately decided to eat her and only a well thrown axe into his eye was able to save her from ending up going down his throat.

And her troubles only grew from there. The king ordered his men to go the shore and hurl rocks in order to destroy her single vessel, stranding her there. Then, he'd put out a kind of bounty on her head with all his citizens, saying that she was to be eaten on sight. Thus, Penelope spent the next ten years struggling to survive, having to scurry from place to place like a rat and live in a cramped, wet cave in order to avoid being seen and hunted down. The few times she was caught, she then had no choice but to flee or, if she could, work to kill her discoverer, at one point even having to kill a giant child who had found her and was following his parents instructions to get her.

After getting her blessed arrows and quiver that constantly replenished themselves from Artemis in her tenth year, Penelope went to work systematically killing giants one by one. Using her superior speed and smaller size to fire off volleys of arrows into their eyes, feet, ears and necks in order to bring them down close enough that she could use the new axes, spear and spiked shield she'd carved from the dead bones of their tribesmen to slit their throats or stab their necks in the proper place to make them bleed out. Once she'd killed as many as possible, she proceeded to go straight to the kings manor, where she found him sitting on his throne.

She stood before him, soaked in the blood of his people and, in an eerily calm voice, told him that the bounty on her head was over, that she would be making a boat and leaving and that before she did, she was going to kill him to make him pay for having trapped her in this hell. The king laughed at her so hard, he could barely see through the tears of mirth in his eyes. As he thanked her for giving him such a good laugh before he had a nice snack......she shot an arrow straight into his mouth, piercing his uvula.

The king screamed and clutched his throat, and the battle began. The smashing of clubs, the hurling of ship sized fists, the firing of arrows and hurling of spears....and it all ended with the king on the floor, the outside of his throat now bleeding as profusely as the inside.

For a moment, Penelope was filled with wild glee, the monster that had kept her prisoner away from her family for so long now dead. And then-

"ANTIPHATES!"

"DAD!"

Two sets of footsteps quaked through the manor as the kings wife and daughter ran over yo his dying body, his wife cradling him tenderly.

"No, No, No! P-please! Don't leave me...." Tears flowed down the queen's face like a river down a mountain's peak. She gave a grieving, angry glare at Penelope. "YOU MONSTER! YOU TOOK MY HUSBAND!"

Penelope's hands trembled. As she stared at them all, just for a second, she wasn't looking at the queen of the giants and her daughter holding the king, but rather herself and Telemachus holding a dying Odysseus.

She then recalled the words of another giant that she had slain, practically a lifetime ago.

"What gives you the right to deal a pain so deep? Don't you know that pain you sow is pain you reap?"

While her daughter clutched her father's dead body, the queen then rose to her full towering height and glared down at Penelope.

"You're going to PAY for this!"

The fingers on her bow stilled....and Penelope raised it up to point at the queen's face.

"No. I won't."

THWACK!

After another hour of fighting, of running, of screams of rage and tears and death, Penelope left the mansion even more bloodstained than before, her face weary but numb and went to begun building her boat. Hoping to leave the land and its nightmares behind.

[profs-artblog]

artfight attack for @becdecorbin

[becdecorbin]

lmao came across this old doodle.

Antiphates, as a homunculus, grows organs and body parts in excess and donates or sells parts they don't need.

so yeah you can get a cool new body part grafted on by an otherworldly surgeon. yay

[mythology-facts]

antiphates

“unspeakable”

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- gigante king of the laestrygones

- antiphates is known as five different figures in greek mythology. most commonly, he’s known as the king of the laestrygones. they were a tribe of gigantic cannibals, that odysseus and his scouting party ran into.

- the second figure (antíphates) was a trojan warrior who was slain by leonteus

- third (antiphatês), was the son of melampus and iphianeira. he married zeuxippe, the daughter of hippocoon. their children were oecles and amphalces

- another antiphates was one of the greek warriors who hid in the trojan horse

- the last but not least antiphates, was the son of sarpedon. who accompanied aeneas to italy where he was killed by turnus.

[becdecorbin]

more dopey harpy nonsense asfdsg. this time with Paramirum/Antiphates, being based on a white dove to contrast with Laistrygon's crow/raven.

referenced baby pigeons for Paramirum, too. they're so gormless, I love them.

[becdecorbin]

pumpkin time.

[becdecorbin]

letter opener nose.