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[lockettopia]

⚡COMING TO KICKSTARTER IN 2027⚡ 📜Lockettopia: The Trojan War Cycle📜

When King Peleus discovers his sea nymph wife Thetis secretly laying their infant son in a magic fire to burn away his mortal half, he intervenes, and the furious Thetis abandons husband and child, retreating to the sea. A young boy named Patroclus arrives at Peleus's court after accidentally killing a companion in a game of knucklebones, and the two boys become inseparable brothers in all but blood. Recognizing that his son carries a divine legacy to uphold, Peleus delivers both boys into the hands of the centaur Chiron on Mount Pelion, the great mentor who raised Heracles, Jason, and Asclepius before them. Under Chiron, the boy is renamed Achilles and raised on the meat of lions and bears, trained in strategy, medicine, and combat, forging one of the greatest warriors the Greek world has ever known.

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The Trojan War Cycle brings together The Iliad, The Odyssey, and surviving poem fragments of the Epic Cycle: The Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou Persis, Nostoi, and Telegony, to reconstruct the full myth in sweeping, chronological order.

Kickstarter Link:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tylermileslockett/the-trojan-war-cyle

[orpheuslament]

She posted your message to her stories jsyk

can you imagine being so confident & yet so incredibly stupid. how do you think that must feel

[luc-eed]

Hector's death

[blueheartdisaster]

Helen of Sparta interpretation

"Who on earth could blame them? Ah, no wonderthe men of Troy and Argives under arms have sufferedyears of agony all for her, for such a woman.Beauty, terrible beauty!deathless goddess – so she strikes our eyes!"

Black and white sketch as the main conception of Helen.

Some closeups of the final piece

What we actually know of Helen's appearence according classic works is pretty vague. Homer describes her as white-armed (so obviouly a fair sking is correct), lovely-haired and long-dressed.

But on a surviving fragment of a poem written by Sappho, Helen's hair is described as Xanthe (a tone anywhere between blonde, light brown or reddish). And in other lyric poems stays she has gleaming blue eyes.

References

I know the dressing with this kind of makeup and hairstyle are't pretty accurate and some reinterpretations of Helen are portraying her with the minoan but I really wanted to incorporate somewhere the swan brooch (in reference of her birth from an egg as daughter of swan-transformed Zeus and Leda).

Helen's expression, incredibly expressive and vulnerable, was done as if she were looking at something that moved or pained her. She doesn't fall into the typical "femme fatale" frame, but rather humanizes her. The ritual red marks already feel like part of her iconography to evoke the sacred or even sacrificial aspect that mythology attributes to her (the woman for whom a war was fought).

and for the peplos color I went from something similar to the Tyrian purple. Not just because of her status as queen of Sparta but also gives her a majestic and regal, yet melancholic, presence, very much in keeping with her duality as a desired woman and a cursed one.

[universalzone]

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[thisismydesign-ai]

Achilles wished all Greeks would die, so that he and Patroclus could conquer Troy alone… it took divine intervention to bring them down

(Reupload cause the links were wonky!!)

Prints here: etsy.com/shop/oliviabrett21

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[trojan-war-iliad-greek-mythology]

Okay so here me out…

In ancient Greece, hospitality was one of the most important things right? In the Iliad Glaukos and Diomedes, who were enemies, found out that their ancestors were so called ‘guest friends.’ Which means that the one opened his doors for the other in need. So back to Glaukos and Diomedes, they switched armor and promised that they wouldn’t kill each other. Because killing your guest friend was a huge crime in ancient Greece, even in time of war. After Achilles killed Hector in the Trojan war, King Priam comes to visit Achilles to ask Hectors body back, Achilles didn’t kill Priam and welcomed him, according to the law of hospitality. After Achilles died, and his son Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus arrived at the battlefield and Troy was taken. Pyrrhus killed King Priam next to Zeus’ altar. So hear me out, this was a crime, because Achilles and Priam were ‘guest friends.’ This makes the murder of Priam a crime, even in times of war.

[criodeus]

i've never read the iliad and i've seen like 5 patrochilles posts and i'm already SUPER PISSED