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[mikeybooch]

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From Book V of Homer's Iliad. Upon being grievously wounded by the Achaean warrior Diomedes, the hero Aeneas is saved through divine intervention from his mother, the goddess Aphrodite. 

The characters are depicted here in historically inspired looks from the late Bronze Age, the period when the Trojan War was believed to have been set. Aphrodite's look in particulate is based off of Mycenaean frescos as well as Cypriot idols. 

[sarafangirlart]

Hera and Iris

“The statue of Hera is seated on a throne; it is huge, made of gold and ivory, and is a work of Polycleitus. She is wearing a crown with Graces and Seasons worked upon it, and in one hand she carries a pomegranate and in the other a sceptre. About the pomegranate I must say nothing, for its story is somewhat of a holy mystery. The presence of a cuckoo seated on the sceptre they explain by the story that when Zeus was in love with Hera in her maidenhood he changed himself into this bird, and she caught it to be her pet. This tale and similar legends about the gods I relate without believing them, but I relate them nevertheless.”

Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 17. 4

“So she (Iris) spake and seated her beside the golden throne, even as a hunting hound of Artemis which, when it hath ceased from the swift chase, sitteth by her feet, and its ears are erect, ever ready to receive the call of the goddess. Like thereto the daughter of Thaumas sat beside her throne. And she never forgetteth her seat, not even when sleep lays upon her his forgetful wing, but here by the edge of the great throne with head a little bent aslant she sleeps. Never does she unloose her girdle or her swift hunting-boots lest her mistress give her some sudden command.”

Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 216 ff

[yimmygee]

the unraveling of callisto 

[harpertheidiot]

I saw a post like this recently so I'm making a classics version

Spin the wheel. This Greek mythological figure is trying to kill you

Spin the wheel again. This Greek mythological figure is trying to protect you

Are you surviving?

100% no, my corpse is desecrated

100% no, but I am given a proper burial

Yes, but with major injuries

Yes, but with minor injuries

100% yes, not a scratch on me

Other (explain in tags)

Voting ended onJul 21

[sleepdeprivedsurgeon]

Armand got in on the ground floor of that 20 year old loser. kept checking in on him like he was proofing sourdough until he had a beautiful geriatric fag ready to go into the oven of vampirism and emerge the perfect companion. he saw Daniel sniffing around for coke at Polynesian Mary's and said give me fifty years I can make him the hottest guy you've ever seen. and Louis was just happy he was finally taking an interest in investment because it gave them something to bond over besides missing that blond man's pussy. like it's the only long con Armand has ever successfully pulled. hard work pays off in the form of a 70something boytoy who looks suspiciously like your evil father. i'm so proud of him. my weird bug.

[demonprincex]

im obsessed w this take

[medusaspeach]

Doing the Queen's Makeup - Iris & Hera

Thought it'd be cute for Iris to have a little crush on Hera, and for Hera to be oblivious to it.

[temperamentalgreen]

🍐🐄 Hera Pais, the cow eyed bride🪵🏛

 "I sing of golden-throned Hera whom Rhea bare. Queen of the immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty: she is the sister and the wife of loud-thundering Zeus, -- the glorious one whom all the blessed throughout high Olympus reverence and honour even as Zeus who delights in thunder." -Homeric Hymn to Hera

"The presence of a cuckoo seated on the sceptre [of Hera] they explain by the story that when Zeus was in love with Hera in her maidenhood he changed himself into this bird, and she caught it to be her pet [in order to seduce her]." - Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 17. 4

I’m currently reading "The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad" by Joan V. O’Brien. She argues, sometimes speculatively, about the early cult origins of Hera, but I still find it very interesting.

The book suggests that Hera’s early rites in Samos might have portrayed her as arriving annually on a horse drawn chariot at a confluence of waters, where her bathing and binding to a cultic tree were believed to renew all life, presenting her as a goddess of the seasons.

There also seems to be an argument that she had a connection to the Potnia Theron, based on the large animals associated with her and the artifacts found at her temples, such as lions, griffins, and sphinxes. Her association with domestic animals like cows and horses could suggest that she was seen as a tamer of beasts, and her yoking of the bull may be parallel marriage and the "taming and yoking" of the bride.

I find this especially interesting because it aligns with my view of Hera as a goddess who makes things perfect.

In some traditions, it seems that she was worshipped in different life stages with epithets such as Hera Pais (the young maiden before marriage) Hera Teleia (the married woman) Hera Chēra (the widow or separated woman)

I drew her here as Hera Pais, a young maiden, the Kore of Samos, dressed in red and yellow thought to be the colours of bridal wear in antiquity. I would like to draw her again soon, I really enjoyed drawing her but I have to work on drawing animals, the cuckoo looks too much like a pigeon lol

[pmamtraveller]

The Wait by Darian Mederos

[theia-mania-comics]

Queen of the Dead part 2, 115

[lockettopia]

Character designs for my upcoming book "Lockettopia: The Trojan War Cycle."

PARIS' death is not told by Homer, but appears later in the Posthomerica, where Paris is mortally wounded by Philoctetes using the poisoned arrows of Heracles. Dying, he is carried to Oenone, the nymph he abandoned for Helen, who alone can heal him. Bitter and betrayed, she refuses, so Paris dies not just from the wound, but from the consequences of his choices.

I welcome your feedback on the character designs! :D And Please share with your followers. xoxo

[ticinhas]

Tagged by @persephoneism, I’ve been off tumblr lately and only saw it now, but thank you :).

Currently craving: Ice cream and I’m going out to get some after I write this!

Currently watching: Bridgerton, I’m having much fun with this season. Also have started knight of the seven kingdoms bc I’m in a hostage situation with asoiaf.

Currently reading: I usually read many things at the same time. Da Poesia by Hilda Hilst, Seminário dos Ratos by Lygia Fagundes Telles, Why comics by Hillary Chute and Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson.

Last song listened to: Coisas Naturais by Marina Sena

Favorite color: what you get between red and pink

[echoesofamonth]

i’ve been thinking about how would the crown curse affect simone since its magic wouldn’t exist in fionna’s world, and i am very curious to see if they’re going to address this as a mental illness. it would be really touching if she had a deteriorating condition such as dementia or alzheimer, and ghosted marshall because her mind quite literally forgot about him, not because she was threatened by his mother, or because of shadowy mysterious motives. it would make the crown an even nicer analogy and would fit so well with i remember you

[lightningcrashes]

THE DEVILS 1971・dir. Ken Russell

[deathlessathanasia]

Do you think that if Hera hadn't married Zeus she would have married someone else? If yes who?

Many scholars agree that originally Hera was independent of Zeus and only gradually became his wife, but speculation about what the pre-marriage to Zeus Hera was like and who (if anyone) was her „original” partner differ (and are more or less believable).

Some have suggested she was originally paired with a figure named „Heros”, etymologically linked to Hera's name. The Heros-Hera pair would have represented the quintessential marital and ancestral divine couple in the Mycenaean world, and the patrons of the Mycenaean power centers. More about this in Walter Pötscher (1961) „Hera und Heros”. It's a quite interesting read.

Others have suggested Herakles as her earlier consort. His relationship with Hera would have represented a gynaecocratic marriage belonging to a „pre-Achaean” matriarchal (the idea dates from a time when the concept of matriarchal prehistory was very popular among classicists) community. Arthur B. Cook (1906) „Who was the wife of Zeus?” is one work that discusses this theory.

Another idea is that she might have been paired with local river gods, such as Imbrasos at Samos. Involves Hera being interpreted as an earth fertility goddess (which is a concept some other scholars reject). More about this in Joan V. O'Brien (1993) „The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero and The Goddess in The Iliad”.

A different belief is that she must have had no partner at all; she would have been a consortless, independent „virgin mother goddess” originally. More about this in Marguerite M. Rigoglioso (2010) „Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity”. (I didn't care much for this book and didn't find many of the arguments within it particularly convincing when I read it some years ago, but that is where you can find the evidence, such as it is, discussed.)

And you can come across some other conjectures besides these. Such as the binding of Hera's statue with lygos branches at Samos supposedly representing the goddess' (sexual) union with the tree itself (Kipp, 1974). I even vaguely remember reading about a possible Hera-Poseidon pairing as well.

Whether or not she would have had another husband if she never came to be considered the wife of Zeus depends on how essential the identity of wife is to her being. The etymology for her name proposed by Pötscher, for instance, makes her „the (marriage) ripe woman”. In this view, by her very nature she represents the woman ready to get married and the young wife. Another suggested etymology (Willi, 2010) would make her the „female partner” par excellence, the woman who is attached/attaches herself. But other suggested etymologies exist as well, and so does the idea that she could have been an unmarried goddess in the beginning.

Anyway... This is an interesting topic but too speculative for me to engage with more directly. I think it's definitely possible that she would've had some other consort if the connection between her and Zeus had not developed the way it did, but I can't begin to guess who he would have been.

[fostydosty]

I’ve also seen it suggested that Argus Panoptes was a consort of hers, and he was conflated with Zeus. Evidenced by a statue in Argos of Zeus seated near Hera, but the All-Seeing Zeus statue had 3-4 eyes, much like archaic depictions of Argus.

Argus/Argos is also just the masculine form of Argeia, Hera’s name denoting her as patron of Argos.

[palamedestragedy]

one more for the crowd

[marxisforbros]

Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin

[kexytimes]

Clytemnestra:

Also Clytemnestra 3 pages earlier: