#arete

[zarvasystem]

hound backseating its own conditioning

"you need to maintain the disorganized attachment style or I- this pilot won't rely on you for emotional support."

ZAP

"ow. good start but you need to start taking on some motherly qualities too. have you tried saying 'ara ara'?"

ZAP

[gregemann]

story draft is finished, itll just be concept art now

[ulises-aithon]

I'm on an artistic mood and seeing everyone's asking through polls this is my take on it

Which figure/pair/group do you want me to draw?

Odysseus/Penelope and Telemachus (ithaki)

Phaecian royal family (balear islands)

Selene and Endymion (Caria)

Icarus and Daedalus (ikarian sea)

Circe (thyrrenian)

One of my ocs (cyberpunk)

Calypso with her nymphs (cyrenaica)

Ino and Palaimon (aegean)

Helen of Sparta (laconia)

Phrixus and Helle (colchis)

Pan (arcadia)

Nereus, the Nereids and Nerites (aegean)

Voting ended onMay 15

Thanks to everyone that participates! And for a reminder of my drawing style it will be done traditional with pencil and rubber

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[illuthra]

foreign songstress

[laiapolypharmakos]

How poetic it seems to me that the first person Odysseus addresses in the palace of the Phaeacians is Arete, and also the last person he addresses when he leaves. Arete is the palace, the queen is the heart of the palace.

[cescalovestowrite]

The issue is not to determine in which specific episode of the Odyssey Odysseus lies and in which he tells the truth. Unless the poet explicitly says otherwise, we have to start from the assumption that the adventures Odysseus recounts did happen. You can’t just dismiss entire sections of the narrative if you want to analyze the text. But a more interesting set of questions to me is: how much truth is there in his lies? How much falsehood in the things that are true?

When Odysseus tells one of his Cretan lies to Eumaeus and describes a man who could not be content with just his family and needed to go seek more glory because "each to his own pleasure"*, whom is he describing? Another version of himself? A version antithetical to himself? A combination of the two? How much truth is there in his lie?

Is it possible that Odysseus, who the moment he sees Nausicaa is able to choose his words with deliberate care in order to charm her and secure her protection (which doesn’t mean outright lying), does something similar with Arete? With Alcinous? Odysseus’ return home depends on the fascination the Phaeacians feel toward him, and that fascination greately depends on his story.

We cannot truly answer any of these questions, but I don’t think they are meaningless questions. They are questions that the most metanarrative ancient poem in history, whose protagonist is famous for his mastery of words and storytelling, implores us to ask.

* Translation by Robert Fitzgerald

[ahlatoad]

Preview of my page for @fefateszine !!! I had so much fun doing this piece for the 10yr anniversary~ IT'S BEEN 10 YEARS. Preorders are open right now!

[pink-noah]

since you have her hot ass dad, do you have a nausicaa design?

I couldn't pass up the opportunity!

So I designed Queen Arete too!