#erigone

[nardialrose]

"Dionysus is a dumb, silly looking god who even made his lover's doggy immortal!"

-Lucian, The Parliament of the Gods 4.4

[kexytimes]

Might I humbly request a drawing of Erigone, the daughter of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus?

yes you may🥰

[jejesoso]

She doesn't even go here!

When the subject is priestesses in greek mythology and someone mentions Medusa:

[neorestes]

What/who did you miss the most from your youth Orestes?

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Fun fact: Orestes' infant half sister was named Helen, after his mother's sister! In spite of the war taking Iphigenia away, Clytemnestra never blamed or hated Helen.

[scuorge10]

Hmmm

[lesbodysseus]

My designs for the children of Clytemnestra!

+ bonus doodle with Orestes and Helen of Mycenae because I couldn't incorporate her

[ginandjack]

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

-Aldous Huxley

[lesbian-iphigenia]

"And even if we'd been granted freedom, we'd have still felt alone. Because humans are the cause of all this pain. We're creatures who can't seem to love without exploiting" is actually very The house of Atreus coded. If you think about it