#polyboea

[fovfvk]

I started drawing a comic about Hyacinthus 🌟 These are the main characters

Polyboea – sister of Hyacinth

Zephirus – god of the west wind

Thamyris – Thracian singer

Hyacinth – The youngest of the sons of Amyclus – King of Sparta

Apollo – in this interpretation also Delius (one of his many epithets), the god of a lot of things in his earthly guise

[oxyintelligent]

“Polyboia, a goddess identified by some as Artemis, and by others as Kore.”

- Hesychius of Alexandria (5-6th cent. A.D, Greek grammarian)

The only other mention of the moniker Polyboia in ancient Greek texts, besides the famous myth of Hyacinthus’ resurrection where his sister is given this name. I found an expert that links these two accounts: “[…] there is an amalgamation between Apollo and Hyakinthus (Nilsson, 1906, p. 139) as is evident in the epithet Apollo Hyakinthos (Nonnus. Dion. 11.330). Hyakinthus also had a sister, Polyboia, whom Hesychius identifies with Artemis.” - this great thesis. It’s all speculation, but v cool stuff

[gotstabbedbyapen]

Polyboea: Why are your knees red?

Hyacinthus: I knelt for too long this morning.

Polyboea: Morning prayers, huh?

Hyacinthus: ... Yes, prayers. *wipes his mouth*

Apollo: *invisible, cackling behind Hyacinthus*

[hycinthrt]

she had a brother. once.

[jejesoso]

Artemis retellings part 3

Retellings really like to make female characters 17 years old

Sorry, but there was only the spanish version on Amazon

So it's inspired on the myth of Callisto but the protagonist is Polyboea

Thamyris is part of the story

Apollo talks to Artemis that not every woman wishes to be a eternal virgin

At some point she visits a temple of Hestia where a priestess says that Polyboea was chosen by Artemis or something like that

Of course the book goes with the stereotype that every lover Apollo had suffered a tragic end 🙄

Orion is mentioned

Well that's ridiculous

If the cover and synopsis feels familiar it's because

I posted about the prequel a while ago

It's terrible...

This one is also really bad

Cassandra is living with Artemis and some guy named Saber

Is Cassandra of Troy, reincarnated

"but Apollo had this knack for forgiving others that Artemis hadn't attempted to master. She preferred to nurse a grudge into a long, drawn out hate."

HUH????

Apollo LOVED to hold grudges and would refuse to forgive sometimes!

"She was the type of woman he always thought he'd marry, only she'd be one of his kind, and mortal."

The worst part is that I totally believe the writer would have Artemis getting married 😐

"Once he's accomplished what he'd set out to do, then she would be free to get her revenge on Cassandra and she would have her brother back."

Wait, she really thinks the remaining Olympians will let her go back home? 🤦‍♂️

This Leo guy is the lover of Athena. It's dumber than what you think

Greek deities can die here, through the Blade of Olympus- I mean Olympian Dagger

"Hecate, their sister, the mother of witchcraft, invented a potion that would strip an immortal of their power and turn them to stone."

But Hecate wasn't their sister?

This is Demeter and Hestia erasure

Hera is part of the plan to kill Zeus

Zeus had put some curse on Hades and Persephone that forbade them from leaving the Underworld

Looks ok

The quality isn't the best but I hope you can understand the text

[k1k00sss]

I love the version of the Hyacinthus myth where he gets ascended to godhood along with his sister Polyboea. Literally the only mention about it that there is is Apollo's throne description in "Description of Greece" by Pausanias who was a greek traveler but I love it.

[gingermintpepper]

Insane brainworms tonight but after listening to almost nothing but Hozier, Lord Huron and Monster Hunter OSTs for the past three-ish weeks, I am now thinking of a Hunter/Rider Hyapollo AU entirely because I cannot get the image of Apollo crossing blades with Hyacinthus over Malzeno.

Like, Apollo would never ride Malzeno but he would be protecting Malzeno. Like he is absolutely studying the Qurios and specifially ways to rid the monsters in the valley from them when the people in a nearby village put the request out to the Guild for Hunters who can handle the berserk Malzeno problem. Hyacinthus is definitely a Master Rank Hunter who's on a specialist expedition from said Guild to put down the Malzeno and because Hunters don't really know about Riders, is gonna be taken entirely by surprise when him and his party are stopped by this blond Wyverian riding a Seregios drawing a line in the sand with his arrows and refusing to let them travel any further until they assure him they're not poachers/tourists or idiots.

Like, I need Hyacinthus stepping up to speak for the party only for Apollo to shoot an arrow and slice his cheek as a warning because he's crossed over the line. I need Polyboea (the expedition Handler) FURIOUSLY trying to get into contact with the base because "hey, hi, hello, you guys did NOT tell us that this was Seregios territory, nor were we informed that there was also a Wyverian village in the area what the FUCK??". I need Harpalus immediately popping open his helmet to smoke because it's already bad enough that this was an expedition to catalogue and possibly slay a berserk Elder Dragon (which, genuinely, truly could end in any or all of their deaths) but now you're adding pretty boys claiming to be Monster Riders (???) to the mix and truly he cannot be bothered to take this seriously.

All while in the center of the drama, Apollo still has his bow drawn and Hyacinthus is trying to reason with him (read: buy Polyboea time for that update because what the HELL is going on here) only to be immediately de-escalated when Apollo catches sight of Hyacinthus' Palamutes.

[chaoticdumbassrogue]

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The hyacinth has many meanings, the most popular meanings being "playful joys" and "deep regrets."

Apollo has been searching for his playful joy only to find it under his very nose.