#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

[conformi]

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

[grand-royal-authority]

Trojan people really were onto something going into the end.

They saw the entire Greek army vanish overnight, a giant wooden horse appear instead.

Then this man, this absolutely respectable priest points out the clear inconsistencies with this series of events with clear proof of the Greek's deception, get fucking mauled by two giant mythological snakes coming out of nowhere alongside his two sons (which I have to assume was just out of spite by the Gods).

So of course the man with a modicum of reason is wrong because he hit the giant wooden horse with a spear and DESERVED to be mauled by giant snakes.

The correct course of action would in fact be to praise the giant wooden horse and bring it inside, in complete disregard of the proof given by the respectable priest of the Greek's deception.

Troy deserved it's downfall, I stand with Laocoon