#hesione

[dilutedh2so4]

S.O.S- Evelyn De Morgan

:)

Appearance-wise I'm picturing Cassandra, but also… that's her aunty 🥺

The oracles said that there would be an end to the misfortunes if Laomedon set out his daughter Hesione as food for the sea monster,so he set her out and fastened her to the cliffs near the sea. When Heracles saw that she had been set out, he promised to save her if he would get from Laomedon the mares that Zeus had given […] But Laomedon refused to pay up, so Heracles set sail threatening that he would make war against Troy.

When [Heracles] took the city and shot and killed Laomedon and all of his sons except Podarces, he gave Laomedon’s daughter Hesione to Telamon as the prize for bravery and agreed to allow her to take with her whichever of the prisoners she wanted. When she chose her brother Podarces, Heracles said that Podarces had to become a slave first, and then Hesione could get him,but only after giving something—anything—in exchange. So when he was being sold, she took the veil from her head and paid for him with it. This is why Podarces was called Priam.

Apollodorus' Library, 2.104 & 3.136

Maybe Cassandra, foreseeing her enslavement to Agamemnon, would go up to those cliffs and think of Hesione - the aunt also taken by an Achaean after the city had been destroyed, their family all but wiped out. Only this time, there would not be a young prince to rebuild from the ashes.

Yet Cassandra would do what Hesione could not. Hesione bore Telamon a son who would help sack Troy because of who his father was. Cassandra would bring her captor's ruin, sometimes after bearing two sons who would die for who their father was.

CASSANDRA: Escort me on my way, and if in your eyes I do not seem eager, push me along by force! For if Loxias lives, Agamemnon, the glorious leader of the Greeks, will win, in marrying me, a wife more disastrous than Helen! For I shall kill him and plunder his house, exacting revenge for my brothers and my father! But this subject I dismiss. I shall not sing of the ax that will enter my neck and that of others, or the matricidal struggles my marriage shall bring about, or the ruin of the house of Atreus.

Euripides' Trojan Women.

Agamemnon has his tomb, while another is shared by Teledamus and Pelops, twin sons, they say, of Cassandra, whom while yet babies Aegisthus slew after their parents.

Pausanias' Descriptions of Greece.

[galusandmalus]

so like are we gonna talk about the misconceptions about Periboea and hesione

i actually prefer hesione as a character shes more important but i feel like if you actually look at the most detailed sources 😭

hesione goes willingly and periboea is enslaved and raped like its kinda the opposite of what people think

kill telemon

[ilektraheart]

I still wonder if Teucer looks more like his mom or dad...

Because if he looks like his mom, a lot, I imagined Priam looking like he had seen a ghost, the same eye was staring at him.... Only that it wasn't, it wasn't Hesione's

YESSSS THIS IS EXACTLY WHY MY TEUCER LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HESIONE it's such a peak concept, but also consider Teucer looking like both Hesione and Telamon, Priam seeing this boy who looks like his sister but also he can't help but avoid seeing in him the man who had taken her away from her home, I don't really imagine Teucer with any of Telamon's traits but like. Consider. Consider the following.

[dilutedh2so4]

Paris and Hesione, both children sacrificed by their parents for Troy's greater good, both rescued, both spending a large part of their lives away from their family as a slave

[dilutedh2so4]

Rotating Laomedon's thought process in my mind... When the gods asked him for payment in building his walls, did he think of Ganymede and Tithonus?

The latter is consistently his son, and some sources say the former was too. The gods gave divine horses as recompense for Ganymede, but did they ever give anything for Tithonus? Ganymede received eternal youth, whilst Tithonus was immortal but continued aging into a living death through the gods' trickery

Then, Apollo and Poseidon ask payment for building Troy's walls. Laomedon refuses, even threatening them. The gods had already taken so much. In his mind, why should he give anything more to anyone?

Of course, this leads to calamity. To appease their wrath, he is forced to sacrifice another child, his daughter Hesione. When the demigod Heracles rescues her, he wants Laomedon's divine horses in return – those same horses given in exchange for Ganymede....

Obviously it was foolish, but I can see why he crashed out again

[pelideswhore]

hesione naming her son after her trojan grandfather after she was taken captive and stolen from her homeland..... and then her son going to war with the cousins he never knew in that homeland..........

[kexytimes]

Could you draw Pronoia/Hesione/Klymene/Asia, the wife of Prometheus? (She has many names 🫠)

got this ask back in november, but finally got around to cleaning up this sketch I made for it

[aziscribs]

oomf.... periboea and hesione yuri just crossed my mind and I need to know if u see my vision

I DO I DO I DO!!! YES! I DO!!!!!I DOKOOOOOO!!@!@!!!1!1!1!3(2)2)(_3(+_!

I don't know if they ever admit it to each other BUT. I think those two women kissed. FOSHO as a reporter in the field I've seen them hold each other and look longingly into each others eyes.

I think the two of them have many moments alone with each other and I think most of them are comfortable silences. If they're not alone then they're with the kids and then they can roleplay lesbian suburban moms 💪 I honestly don't know if it's yuri or if it's bestiehood, but if they are besties they're for real for lifers like patchilles type besties (whenever they are depicted as besties) like the line is thin

1 billion likes and I'll draw them together