#laocoon

[theraichme]

Penthesilea among other Trojans, by Jose Daniel Cabrera Peña in "Heroes of the Trojan War"

[kyleesarthell]

They're so tired of all this

[sksjjsjwjejsjwos]

“nooo the trojans were so stupid for taking the horse in” ok but a guy literally protested against it and got slimed out by athena right on the spot what did you expect

[nothing-impt]

Prophet Party (A little late-night doodle of the different prophets in Greek Mythology)

According to some sources, Melampus gained his prophetic sight by saving two snakes and raising them, so I thought it was kind of funny Laocoon and Tiresias hate snakes.

[katerinaaqu]

Okay I think I got the microbe of the song "Everything at once" and here's my own take on it with the Homeric kings queens and princes or princesses 😁

As sly as a fox -> Odysseus

As strong as an ox -> Hector

As fast as a hare -> Achilles

As brave as a bear -> Patroclus

As free as a bird -> Paris

As neat as a word -> Nestor

As quiet as a mouse -> Phoenix

As big as a house -> Ajax the Great

As mean as a wolf -> Ajax the Lesser

As sharp as a tooth -> Pyrhus/Neoptolemus

As deep as a bite -> Hecuba

As dark as the night -> Sarpedon

As sweet as a song -> Briseis

As right as a wrong -> Palamedes

As long as a road -> Achises

As ugly as a toad -> Thersites

As pretty as a picture hanging from a fixture -> Helen

Strong like a family, strong as I wanna be -> Agamemnon

Bright as day -> Helenus

As light as play -> Chryseis

As hard as nails -> Philoctetes

As grand as a whale -> Antilochus

As warm as the sun -> Cassandra

As silly as fun -> Sinon

As cool as a tree -> Polyxena

As scary as the sea -> Diomedes

As hot as fire -> Troilus

Cold as ice -> Chryses

Sweet as sugar and everything nice -> Scamandrius/Astyanax

As old as time -> Priam

As straight as a line -> Menelaus

As royal as a queen -> Andromache

As buzzed as a bee -> Laocoon

As stealth as a tiger -> Idomeneus

Smooth as a glider -> Teucer

Pure as a melody, pure as I wanna be -> Aeneas

[detroitlib]

View of a a reproduction of the Greek sculpture Laocoön and his sons in the Detroit Museum of Art. Handwritten on sleeve: "Museum."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[scuorge10]

Paris the Musical stuff

Small blood warning !!!

[conformi]

Francesco Ruggiero photographed by Panos Davios for Vogue Greece June 2026 VS Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus, Laocoön and His Sons, 1st century AD