#ilion

[supermalmoart]

[ilionproject]

Pallas -Robot dog- Blind box series 0.1

[ulises-aithon]

What do we know about troy?

I'm having so much with polls that want to test out my lovely moots and the tagamemnon community, just for the lols 🩵

How would Troy's area look like during the Bronze Age?

Savannah

Desert

Alpine forest (conifers)

Beech/oak/pine broadleaf forests

River valley and delta (azonal with reeds/mudplains)

Laurisilva (laurel forests)

Semiarid lanscape like some Aegean islands

Voting ended onMay 23

Reblog with your answer and why you think it is, and next week I'll answer it! Have fun and stay curious! 🩵

[unteriors]

Spring Street, Ilion, New York.

[firinnie]

Oracle twins of Troy!

In general, I have a lot of golden thoughts so it's nice if you read them! As I love Cassandra, I am also fascinated by her brother Helenus.

In my Au Priam and Hecuba sent Helenus (then called Scamanderus) to Phrygia. This is a special place for two reasons, because one of the suitors of Cassandra, Coroebus (who gave his life in the Trojan war when he tried to protect her!) came from there! What is even more interesting? His father, King Mygdon of Phrygia … fought in his young adulthood on the same side as Priam of Troy in war! Wow, they like friends, this is a very cool information right??? I think Troy would like to keep relationships with city of Phygia by sending their sons to school would be very interesting.

And again, for two reasons. First of all, Coroebus would fall in love with kind & intelligent Cassandra from the stories which her brother told and not only in her appearance as other suitcases did. And besides, I want relationship of ths poor twins to be very complicated. Like, they love each other but Helenus suddenly returns, his beloved sister behaves as if she lost her mind and there is a war in front of their house because a stranger who turned out to be their lost brother (Paris) kidnapped someone's wife (Helen).

Additionally, I have an idea that Apollo has cursed Cassandra with "no one who NOW is behind the walls of city will believe you in terrible visions that I will send." What does it mean? This means that the curse that was imposed on her is still here … but Helenus (and even Coroebus) are not under its effect, because they were no longer in Troy at a time when Cassandra refused love to God. This means that Helenus may not believe his twin of his own will :)

At my arts - twins with colors (ugh, why is he so like my Odysseus? I need to do something with old king tho), a scene from the Iliad in which after the death of Paris, Helen is forced to marry his brother … and Helenus for some reason also fought for her hand? Boy, you were supposed to be the intelligent one. And next is the scene in which Cass is after vision, all scratched and in her own blood/ Helenus wants to disintegrate the wounds so he pours some vinegar onto a cloth. He has no idea what happened to his sister, he has no idea what to believe but he really wants to help her. And the last art, i.e. young twins who interested wrong God. BTW … I used yellow and blue for them because they are complementary colors. Cass has yellow, which unfortunately shows her attracting to Apollo but she wears some blue. Helenus has blue besides because it is a color that will show coldness and distance. He publicly does not take Cassandra seriously but privately apologizes for it and says that he is too weak for standing on her side. He doesn't lie, she believes him and understands it too, but this hurts a lot. In general, it is difficult to love someone when divine forces on the road and Helenus did not pass the test. Coroebus do! But we'll talk about him later. For now I will say that he and Hel do not have a good relationship.

[kallistoriae]

— troy

(troia: greek for troy // wiluša: hittite name of the city of troy // ilion : other greek name for troy)

[id: poem in three columns. the first letter of each line in each column is grey, the rest of the text is white, the background is black. it reads:

torn apart / warped / invaded;

ripped open / in their throats; / lied to & about

over & over / listen to me— / is this a dream if

i am sorry—the poem is / unending / our name is barren, nothing but

a trap, a distortion / singing / nameless deaths

[second column] alight with memory]

[hekioftroy]

You don’t hate Cassandra for speaking of futures that you can’t believe? I hear that she isn’t well-liked in Troy at all. Everybody thinks her crazy and is quick to dismiss her but you seem different.

Kassandra is my sister...how could I ever hate her? I cradled her in my arms when she was but a little child. She and Helenos were like sun and moon, yet alike in many ways. I could never despise her for her visions, though they unsettle me.

I know she is strong, and that she strives always to choose rightly. She would never wish disaster upon Troy. She suffers, perhaps she is ill, but she is my sister, and I will always protect her.

[fawnblooms]

Here, have a Spartan king WIP. Because I love you :-) ❤️