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Shrine/Altar offering ideas to a certain hero.

(Pt 2)

Little wooden figures - Eurydice, Daedalus, Atalanta

Star jewelry - Andromeda, Cephalus, The dioscuri

Dried roses - Helen, Aeneas, Iphigenia

Combs - Leda, Ganymede, pandora

Citrus slices - Achilles, Neoptolemus, Cassandra

The fact that both Cephalus and Odysseus were both kept as 'lovers' of two goddesses who are related is just a really funky coincidence. The sunny-side up goddesses have a thing for this family line who would rather just be at home.

#This is with the understanding that in some myths Odysseus is a descendant of Cephalus.#That's not even getting into the coincidence that both these fellas go to their wives in disguises though thankfully OdyPen didn't end with #tragedy #btw if you can't tell: this statement is said in a mostly jokey manner. please don't get on my ass about this.#Mad rambles #shot by odysseus #odysseus #odyssey #tagamemnon #greek mythology #cephalus #circe #eos #anti madeline miller #<-just to cover my ass. nothing against the fans of her but this post isn't for y'all tbh.#btw: I think Circe is fucking awesome. This is not to hate these goddesses. they're immortals. they do what they want.#save me morally gray circe

"There is a sanctuary in which are set statues of Demeter, her daughter, Athena, and Apollo. At the first it was built in honor of Apollo only. For legend says that Cephalus, the son of Deion, having helped Amphitryon to destroy the Teleboans, was the first to dwell in that island which now is called after him Cephallenia, and that he resided till that time at Thebes, exiled from Athens because he had killed his wife Procris. In the tenth generation afterwards Chalcinus and Daetus, descendants of Cephalus, sailed to Delphi and asked the god for permission to return to Athens."

– Pausanias, Description of Greece

The only descendants of Cephalus in Cephallenia are Odysseus' descendants – so Odysseus and Penelope's great grandchildren to whatever degree moved out of Ithaca to Athens? That's wild 😭

#“yeah grandpa really lost his mind trying to return here but i hate this place so”#If you go with the ancestry that Odysseus' Grandfather is the son of Cephalus and Procris - then Odysseus is more Athenian than Ithacan #i can't find a source for who chalcinus and daetus are tbh #Descendants through Odysseus? Through Ctimene?#odysseus #odysseus of ithaca #cephalus #procris #greek mythology #the odyssey #pausanias

Me? going insane over the relationship parallels of

Athena/Pallas - Zeus/Metis

Aeneas/Creusa - Orpheus/Eurydice

Odysseus/Penelope - Cephalus/Procris

...more likely than you think 😭😭😭

Aurora and Cephalus

Artist: French Neoclassical School

Date: 1810

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private collection, Austria

Description

This painting depicts Cephalus, son of Hermes and Herse, who in Greek mythology was beloved by the goddess of Dawn (Eos or Aurora), and was carried off by her to live on Mount Olympus. Within the width of the canvas, the artist has achieved a dramatic yet graceful transition from the clear, bright light of Dawn, to the starry darkness of the night sky, the putto and horses' eyes turning towards the viewer with a certain knowingness, their faces illuminated by the burning torch.

#mythological art #mythological scene #chariot #aurora #cephalus #greek mythology #neoclassical school #french culture #oil on canvas #fine art #artwork #neoclassical style #flight #blue horizon #clouds #oil painting #french art #european art #19th century painting

cephalus and Procris get a happy ending?????????? maybe???

we all know the story of Cephalus as one with a sad af ending, where he accidentally killed his love after finally being free from Eos. but I stumbled upon a strange ending after that by Lembus "The god told Cephalus, when he was consulting the oracle about children, to have sexual intercourse with whomever he should encounter first. He met a bear and through intercourse with the bear (arctus), he begot a woman, by whom it is said that Arceisius was appropriately named" -Heraclides Lembus, On Constitutions HMMMMMMM A BEAR HUH GEEE it kinda REMINDS me of how a different god Did bear things "She chose to occupy herself with wild-beasts in the mountains together with Artemis, and, when she was seduced by Zeus, continued some time undetected by the goddess, but afterwards, when she was already with child, was seen by her bathing and so discovered. Upon this, the goddess was enraged and changed her into a beast. Thus she became a bear and gave birth to a son called Arcas" -Hesiod HMMHMM HMMMM goddess of the hunt sure is connected to bears. but its not like she would be connected to the cephalus/procris myth-

"When Diana saw her, she said to her : ‘virgins hunt with me, but you are not a virgin, leave my company.’ Procris revealed to her her misfortune and told her that she had been deceived by Aurora [Eos the Dawn]. Diana, moved by pity, gave her a javelin which no one could avoid, and the dog Laelaps which no wild beast could escape, and bade her go contend with Cephalus. With her hair cut, and in young man's attire, by the will of Diana [Artemis], she came to Cephalus and challenged him, and surpassed him in the hunt. When Cephalus saw that javelin and Dog were so irresistible, he asked the stranger to sell them to him, not knowing she was his wife. She refused. He promised her also a share in his kingdom [of Phokis]; she still refused. ‘But if,’ she said, ‘you really continue to want this, grant me what boys are won to grant.’ Inflamed by desire for the javelin and the Dog, he promised he would. When they had come into the bed-chamber, Procris took off her tunic and showed that she was a woman and his wife. Cephalus took the gifts and came again into her favour." -Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae

wow Procris uses a disguise> "devoted to the arts Diana [Artemis] loved . . . [After begging for Prokris' forgiveness she returned to him and] she gave me [Kephalos] too, as though herself were gift of small account, a hound [Lailaps] her own Cynthia [Artemis] had given her, saying ‘He'll outrun them all.’ The javelin too she gave me which you see." -Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 732 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM wowie thats CRAZY, right she really gained favor with artemis/ diana just by being sad af

I THINK lembus was trying to make a connection of the bear BEING procris somehow returned by artemis/diana. the bear connection to the goddess, the fact that the bear never gets a name but the child birthed from the union IS. and in other sources THAT CHILD IS THE CHILD OF CEPHELUS AND PROCRIS "Procris. By her Cephalus had a son Arcesius, whose son was Laertes, Ulysses' father" -Hyginus, Fabulae

ladies and gentleman and that person over there I think the bear and Procris might be the same. i think the god is artemis/diana. and I think I might be in denial about a very sad story. this is my interpretation of Lembus's work.

happy ending jumpscare

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Aurora and Cephalus - (French Neoclassical School, Circa 1810)

While researching Odysseus' family on his father's side, I had the blessing (and curse) of learning about Cephalus. This exploration had some ironic and tragic similarities between Odysseus and Cephalus. Both were taken advantage of by goddesses and held captive by them. Also, they share a Suicidal connection to the sea: Odysseus contemplated suicide on Calypso’s island, while Cephalus took his own life by drowning.

Correct me if I’m wrong abt smth

There seems to be plenty of parallelism with Cephalus who seems to be the beginning of the line of Odysseus or at least the founder of his kingdom and Odysseus himself. For starters we also have a tragic tale between Cephalus and his wife Procris (although their story is massively different than what we see between Odysseus and Penelope) in which Cephalus and Procris swear to each other to be loyal and according to sources like Hyginus we even hear a similar recognition game process such as between Odysseus and Penelope

Yes we see Cephalus being loved by the goddess Eos (Dawn) and him rejecting her and Eos kidnapped him and carried him over to Syria and even she tries to break his bond with Procris (see for example Calypso comparing herself to Penelope to manipulate Odysseus into seeing her as the better option). The iconography between Odysseus and Cephalus is very similar too. See for example this red-figure kylix that belongs to the painter Douris:

Eos appears to grab Cephalus bu the arm, pulling him out of his way. Cephalus is dressed in chlamys almost identical to the one Odysseus has in his, let's say depiction in the underworld and he wears a Petassos hat, significant part of people traveling or working outside. He is even holding two spears which was also a description Odysseus has more often whatnot (see for example when he is ready to fight Skylla in the Odyssey). I actually love this image at how scared and surprised Cephalus seems while Eos seems literally ready to pull him up at the sky.

As for the suicide thematic it seems that Strabo connects the location of Leucas or Leucatas as a "leap tradition" place for those who suffered of love. He seems to place Cephalus as the first person to start this "tradition" when he throws himself off the end of Leucatas rock where he had also built the temple to Apollo to clease himself from accidentally killing his wife so yes it seems that the connection between Cephalus and killing himself out of love exists Ironically Odysseus even if he considered suicide out of desperation many times over in the Odyssey, he never did it for real even if he had chances of doing it.