Oct 17, 2025
Day 17-Hesione
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Day 17-Hesione
Some halloween sketches of patrochilles , prometheus, and pronoia! From my haunted house to yours, happy halloween 🧡🎃
"I was Hesione then. He would traverse the depths of Oceanus to find where I reside amidst volcanic fumes. Bearing gifts, all crafted by his own hands."
Based on this exerpt 👇:3
"[The Okeanides (Oceanids) address Prometheus :] ‘I raised to grace your marriage, when you wooed with gifts and won my sister Hesione to be your wedded wife.’" - Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
something about the central greek and trojan women surrounding the trojan war is so fascinating, like-
Helen | Hesione: both ripped away from their homes, their identities erased, stuck in a foreign land, unable to return despite those dear to them wishing for it - except helen's suffering and longing for home has an end, she gets to go back home.
Penelope | Andromache: both wives of great heroes, who lost their husband when their son was but an infant in their arms, both women who spend much of their life waiting and longing for their husbands to return to them - except andromache's never will, penelope gets everything back at the cost of her youth, but no matter what andromache sacrifices her family won't return to her.
Clytemnestra | Cassandra: both women whose deathes were caused by agamemnon, who was the reason for the death and destruction of something so dear to them, both women who are doomed by the narrative - except Clytemnestra had her semblance of peace, her semblance of victory, staining her hands with the blood of the one who took from her.
Dude why don't I see more talk about Priam?!
Like sure there is a lot more than to say that Priam was an old king of Troy, king of a great city, father to countless children and victim to the violence of Neoptolemous! So here are some small pieces of info or thoughts in regards to Priam that honestly I wish I saw people talk about more.
Priam is definitely an interesting figure. Most of us know him as the King of Troy; the leader of great age and great wisdom that kept his own land safe against the attacks of the Greeks however there is so much more to him indeed!
He had a long life filled with his own pains and adventures and daresay his mistakes! Priam was also a deeply emotional man! We already see that to the Iliad when he tries to persuade Achilles not only with words but also with emotions. No wonder he was the only one able to persuade him to give Hector back;
Priam and Achilles share the common factor that they are emotional!
The king of Troy being deeply emotionally traumatized acted out according to his own emotions too. Drastically one might say in many occasions when his efforts were in vain especially when he tried to save his sister, Hesione, who was also partially the reason why he was saved himself. Carrying the burden of his father's refusal to keep his word and this led to the dysanalogous reaction by Heracles which led to the domino of decisions and emotions on his part that indirectly led Troy to its doom!
Let's unwrap together some of these small facts and thoughts about Priam based on some later sources!
Thinking of Teucer's life as a child and adult.
He grows up in a family as both a member and outsider. His father, Telamon, raises him, shelters him, and lets him stand beside Ajax as if having a Trojan mother didn’t matter.
But that doesn’t stop the servants from whispering when they think no one is listening. How his mother, the war bride, brought foreign blood into the House of Telamon, himself being the poisoned dagger.
He's never outright rejected, but there’s always the awareness that his place there is conditional, not inherent, and that one wrong move could shift everything.
Ajax, however, is different. He doesn’t just accept Teucer. He includes him in everything.
As boys, it probably felt like being chosen again and again in a game where everyone else assumed Teucer shouldn’t even be there.
He doesn’t just become the rock that keeps Teucer steady; he becomes his shield.
And when they’re called to Troy, Teucer is returning to a home he never had.
The city only existed through Hesione’s stories. She told him about green fields, open skies, and beaches along the coast. It's something she lost long before he was born, but never fully gone in her voice.
To Teucer, Troy felt familiar despite never having seen it. A place he had imagined one day visiting. And now the first time he sees it is as part of the army sent to destroy it.
I imagine Hesione struggles to meet his eyes before he leaves. Not because she doesn’t love him, but because her son, the fruit of her suffering, will help burn the homeland she never got back.
Still, Ajax is there, and for a while, that’s enough.
They're an absolute unit when fighting. Ajax covers him as Teucer draws his bow, and lifts his shield as Teucer fires.
Two brothers moving as one, inseparable in the palace and battlefield.
And as the war drags on, I imagine Teucer watching every story his mother told him slowly fall apart.
The fields become razed, the beaches turn red, and the Troy he once imagined becomes a nightmare he wants to leave from.
Yet through all of it, Ajax remains.
Until he doesn’t.
And that’s what makes Ajax’s death so unbearable. He doesn’t fall in some final stand or heroic defense, but over Achilles’ armor, over pride, rage, and refusal.
And in losing him, Teucer loses the one person who never made him question whether he belonged.
He fights for Ajax’s burial and wins it, but there’s no real victory in that. Because when he returns home, the shield is gone.
Ajax was Telamon’s heir. The eldest son. The future of the house.
And only Teucer, the Trojan bastard, survived.
Conclusion to Telamon: the wrong son died.
Whether Telamon truly believed Teucer failed him or grief simply needed somewhere to land, the result is the same: Teucer is exiled.
And in the end, Teucer loses two homes.
The one he never lived in, and the one he belonged to.
teucer and hesione