#kleos

[xnderx]

i don't CARE if he doesn't have an official design yet I LOVE gentle giants and I NEED to draw them all

[jekisatsu]

Block tales sketches + hero concept design

Contains body horror and blood

[call-me-caravaggio]

The loser Achilles who could only ever achieve nostos or kleos because of his prophecy vs the chad Odysseus who got kleos as a byproduct of nostos

[sageishereee]

How about some fluff? In the case of Kleos taking care of the pregnant reader?

OH YES 🤑🤑🤑

Kleos is so gentle taking care of you. Holding your hair back when you throw up, massaging any part you want. Your feet? Hes working on keeping the swelling down. Back? He personally massages it. Anything you want he takes care of. He has the council watch over you if he can't. Robur, Reginald, and Azuri are great caretakers! (Not so much Reginald but he makes sure to protect you, you are carrying the heir after all.)

Kleos always makes sure to make you any craving you want. Oh you want some really weird food combination? Hes making it.

He doesn't judge you for your body changing, he kisses every part of you so gently it makes you wanna cry. He doesn't judge you when you cry for dropping food or something random. He just holds you and rubs your back.

When you give birth to Cassie (yes it's Cassie DUH)

Hes sobbing, so is Robur. Azuri had helped keep you calm while Reginald protected the room. Shes so tiny in his arms.

After the pregnancy he still takes care of you of course! He never makes you feel ugly or judged for your body changing.

Hes genuinely one of the best men to marry 🤑

[cescalovestowrite]

(The Cretan Lies) provide an interesting corrective to the heroic code as presented by Sarpedon in the Iliad. That code is built on the interplay of privileges and obligations, with the availability of wealth and luxury goods (including meat) for participation in a prestige economy of gift exchange taken for granted. Odysseus' Cretan Lies show a very different picture. This is a world not of established heroes, whose first preoccupation is kleos and the need to live up to the reputation of their fathers, but of restless adventurers and self-made men. For these figures wealth is not to be taken for granted, but has to be actively pursued, and acquired with ingenuity and resourcefulness. Metis is for these people in the margins of the heroic world more important than bie, mind more import than might. In this connection, Olga Levaniouk has recently drawn attention to the peculiar way in which Odysseus casts himself in the Cretan Lies, in particular the one he tells Penelope. In the tale to Eumaios he is the bastard son of a rich Cretan, Castor son of Hylax, and does not receive much of the inheritance; and in the tale to Penelope he is the younger son of Deucalion son of Minos, with Idomeneus as the older, and "better", brother. In the second case Odysseus significantly names himself Aithon, "Burning", a name signifying unfulfilled desire and need for adventurous action.

In this important way the traits of the disenfranchised younger or illegitimate family member come to typify Odysseus king of Ithaca himself, even though he is an only, not a younger son. But he is like a younger brother to heroes with much larger and more centrally located estates. Odysseus is the quintessential self-made man, smart, gain-seeking and resourceful.

The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey, by Egbert J. Bakker

[sharky-the-idiot]

hey guys it's me Kleos from Block Tales I think

[spineless-lobster]

Bouncing on it in a way that gives kleos to my name

[sarafangirlart]

Since the name Cleopatra mean “glory of the father” how come there isn’t Cleometra? Is that even the correct way to spell “”glory of the mother”? lol