#indomeneus

[blackivyart]

It's that time again...

Focusing on lesser known characters this time around!

Weekly illustration poll!

Machaon

Antilokhos

Indomeneus

Nestor

Other(Comment below)

Voting ended onMay 3

[ithacantrickster]

Who is your favorite greek mythology character with zero information about them?? Like characters who the only things we know about them is their name and MAYBE their parent's names. And how do you personally characterize them? Me personally I love Euippe (Diomedes' wife in Italy) and Comaetho (Diomedes' sister)

hmm! okay, the iceberg model feels apt here (my excuse to yap about more characters - even those that we have some info about - at once)

on the top: the Epigoni, and yes, I'm aware they are quite popular ( at least in the fandom space I lurk in) and we do have info about em. the Argive boys who finished what their fathers couldn't and finally brought down seven-gated Thebes. in the Iliad they're a footnote, though. Sthenelus and Euryalus get the odd mention and that's your lot. unsatisfying, if you ask me! hence why they're here at the top. Palamedes belongs up here too I guess. brilliant man, invented several things depending on which source you trust, framed for treason, executed/killed in several different ways depending on which source you trust too. would Rhesus count up here? he's a bit more renowned too but whatever, I love that deeply unlucky man with excellent horses, 10/10 would discuss further

middle of the iceberg: Meriones. I will die on this hill. he and Idomeneus are one of the most functional partnerships in the entire Iliad. there's even a scholarly reading of Meriones as a ritual substitute figure for Idomeneus, so a therapon, essentially, how interesting is that. concept of "therapon" as the readiness to die for someone, delicious

and the bottom of the iceberg are Antenor's sons haha, collectively as a unit. that guy has, what, approximately seventeen sons mentioned across various sources? they show up throughout the Iliad in various states of dying.

over and over again. new son. dead son. new son. dead son. how many more of Antenor's sons has to die for this blasted war to end!! hshsh