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ALNST X ILIAD ROUND 1: EPEIUS VS LESSER AJAX

Who would be more likely to win?

Epeius

Lesser Ajax

Voting ended onMay 8

Pairs have been selected via spinning wheel

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#alnst x iliad tournament #epeius #epeius of phocis #ajax #ajax the lesser #lesser ajax #iliad #the iliad #homer’s iliad #tagamemnon #homeric epics #greek mythology #greek myth #classics

this passage in quintus' posthomerica made me hold my breath as i read it. odysseus is a wolf and the carnage is about to begin.

[...I]n [Odysseus'] wisdom he stopped the general onrush and with nimble hands he quietly opened both the ﬂanks of the wooden horse, guided by Epeios of the ashwood spear. Raising his head a little above the planks, he peered all round to see if any Trojan was awake. As when it feels the pangs of grievous hunger, a wolf comes down from the hills in urgent need of food straight for a spacious sheepfold, steering clear of men and dogs whose purpose is to guard the ﬂock, and crosses the fence of the fold with feet unhindered; Like that Odysseus came down from the horse.

#i'm just continually fascinated by how the sacking of troy is at once meant to be horrific and triumphant #i guess that's war for you #odysseus #epeius #posthomerica

Odysseus: HOLY SHIT I JUST HAD THE BEST IDEA!

Epeius: I don’t have the time to devote any thought to whatever idiotic idea you’ve come up with now, Odysseus-

Odysseus: Giant wooden horse.

Epeius: …I’ll get right on it.

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #the iliad #the trojan horse #odysseus #epeius #source: discord

I constantly miss the aeacides but the trojan war aeacides especially I miss them a lot

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #classics #the iliad #achilles #neoptolemus #Pyrrhus #menesthius #Epeius #tagging so u guys know who I'm talking about specifically these 4 are very dear to me #edit #I forgot #ajax the greater #and #Teucer #I'm sorry ajax and Teucer oomfs if u guys see this.... 💔

pay per view efvent champion boxer Epeius, son of Panopeus, vs the Godlike Euryalus. two talents of gold full access tv-ma

#book 23 #epeius #euryalus

So... we all know that Apollo had a prophecy that Troy would fall at the hands of Aeacus's descendants

Peleus & Telamon sacked Troy with Heracles, Achilles was the greatest terror to fight against the Trojans, and Neoptolemus killed an old man and a royal baby...

but... fun fact! The guy who built the Trojan horse was also a descendant of Aeacus.

Remember that half-brother Peleus & Telamon killed out of jealousy? Turns out he managed to father a set of twins in his short life. One of those twins had a son named Epeius, who Odysseus commissioned to build the horse.

#I guess the Aeacidae made a team effort #aeacus #peleus #achilles #neoptolemus #epeius #the iliad #greek mythology #greek myth

Fragment of a relief (perhaps part of the armrest of a ceremonial throne) from the island of Samothrace, depicting figures identified by inscriptions as Agamemnon, his herald Talthybius, and Epeius, builder of the Trojan Horse. The scene is thought by some scholars to represent Agamemnon’s initiation into the mystery cult of the Cabeiri on Samothrace. Artist unknown; ca. 560 BCE. Now in the Louvre.

here are some descendants of aeacus i find underrated because they aren’t just peleus, telamon, their sons, phocus, and neoptolemus (so yes this is a list of achilles, greater ajax, and teucer’s secret relatives):

- pylades (yes he’s descended from aeacus via his father strophius, a grandson of phocus. He’s pretty well known but most people overlook his descent from aeacus)

- medon, ajax the lesser’s illegitimate half brother who fought in the trojan war with him. Descended from aeacus via alcimache, his mother and aeacus’ daughter

- alcimache. WHY DONT I SEE ANYONE TALK ABOUT HER YES PELEUS TELAMON AND PHOCUS HAD A SECRET SISTER

- panopeus, member of the calydonian boar hunt and son of phocus and his wife asterodia. He also took part in this campaign against this other kingdom and swore by athena and ares to not lay his hands on any of the loot taken but broke his oath immediately. As a result, his son epeius was cursed to be unwarlike

- crisus, pylades’ grandfather and panopeus’ twin brother. For some reason theres this myth of them fighting in the womb as fetuses

- epeius, architect of the trojan horse. Descended from aeacus via his father panopeus, a son of phocus. I find this super interesting since there was this prophecy that troy would fall to the descendants of aeacus but nobody ever talks about how the guy who literally built the thing that allowed troy to fall was one of them

- aegle, sister of epeius and lover of theseus. Some sources state that theseus left ariadne for her

- eurysaces, son of ajax the greater by tecmessa, a slave he captured during the trojan war