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[tenoart]

Haven't drawn her in awhile. Penelope time

[soundbuster]

No one asked, but here's my take on whether the Iliad or the Odyssey should be read first.

Firstly, they're not a standalone pair. Both are traditionally attributed to Homer, but they were originally part of a larger set of epic epics known as the Trojan Cycle.

The Iliad takes place during the final year of the war, focusing on heavy themes like death, war, and glory.

And the Odyssey is about Odysseus journey back home, filled with gods, monsters, and strange lands—the return just as important or more than the journey itself.

The order you read them in really depends on what kind of story you're drawn to, as each create a different experience to follow.

If you read the Iliad first like I did, you see characters in the midst of war, their lows and triumphs So in the Odyssey, when their fates are recounted by Nestor and Menelaus, it hits harder with an established emotional connection. Many didn't make it back or they died shortly after, which makes Odysseus's return and bringing order to his household so important.

But that doesn't make reading the Odyssey first any less. You become attached to Ody as a survivor defined by his suffering and longing for his family. The Iliad shows him as a soldier among many who suffer from the tragically weight of the war, showing why he wanted home so much. Iliad as a prequel can work really well. Like you first read Odysseus spending ten years in a war and another returning home, and then you read of that very war that made made him want home even more.

As an Epic the Musical fan, the same can be said about Ilium. It starts with the fall of Troy and the journey showing how much he wants to return home. Astyanax was just the last of many scars the war gave him, and Ilium can present previous ones for him and the other fighters on both Greek and Trojan sides.

In the end, there's no correct order. Just how you want your trading framed.

[mankillerhector]

Andromache and Astyanax at Hector's tomb, by @mossillustra requested by me!

[medusaspeach]

Rough Paris and Helen panel I liked. Held by Aphrodite, circled by Eros and Anteros.

[butchaeneas]

Hans Friedrich Schorer after Paolo Fiammingo Triumph of Cybele 1634 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

[b33brained]

this took forever so I’m posting it here too

Inspired by some art I saw on pin but the og creator wasnt credited

@hymntoody <3 Orpheus mention

[emmyscomms]

finally finished up the hermes piece :D

[flaviafulvia]

Sometimes discourse is funny because Achilles and Patroclus are literally cousins (once removed). That never stopped anyone from anything until like 75-100 years ago.

Also try finding anyone of much significance in Greek mythology who is not related to everyone else of any significance. The Iliad is like generation 7 of the world.