P R I D E

[antigome]

sure bro, i love the iliad. achilles, hector and *looks at smudged writing on hand* aging meninist 

[skeleton-richard]

#that’s both his name and his personality

[iliadtexts]

[likeniobe]

christopher marlowe is really out here writing this

[rpmemes-galore]

The Song of Achilles  {Sentence Starters}

“Will you come with me?”

“I wish he had let you all die.”

“I saw then how I had changed…”

“Name one hero who was happy.“

“I feel like I could eat the world raw.“

“He is half my soul, as the poets say.“

“It is not for them to say what I will do.“

“There is no law that gods must be fair.”

“Whichever you choose, you are wrong.“

“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever told you how I like it.“

“I know. They never let you be famous AND happy.“

“They are fools if they let my glory rise or fall on this.“

“Now I know how to make you follow me everywhere.“

“No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”

“You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.“

“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.“

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.“

“Perhaps you should get some new stories, so I don’t fucking kill myself of boredom.“

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.“

“It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.“

[lostminyard]

★  favourite scenes books: the song of achilles by madeline miller

“i feel like i could eat the world raw.”

i am made of memories.

[iicarys]

why do so many “icarus and the sun” artworks and stories portray the sun as a woman? do y’all know who controlled the sun? apollo. icarus is gay as fuck, y’all.

[jadedsoggy]

Sometimes it was helios, not Apollo. Icarus was still gay as fuck

[cctinsleybaxter]

“Icarus we just escaped prison don’t ruin it by flying too close to the sun”

[Icarus already fucking launching himself across the sky for the sake of some godly dick]

[erinye]

woops

[chesnaughtlover]

Guy getting himself killed to get some godly dick is propably the most Greek thing to ever happen in mythology

[xiggyxm]

I showed my friend this and he goes “Icarus want dat Dickarus

[fae-suggestion]

Discord is in my blood.

[waroftheposes]

“Agamemnon can suck my unbelievably pretty dick.” Iliad, book 9

[patrochilles]

The love of Achilles, like that of Alcestis, was courageous and true; for he was willing to avenge his lover Patroclus, although he knew that his own death would immediately follow: and the gods, who honour the love of the beloved above that of the lover, rewarded him, and sent him to the islands of the blest.

Plato. “Symposium.” (tr by Benjamin Jowett)

[xyperifaneia]

@parastatheis X

It is useless! Worse, it is foul– not even a pale imitation of the comfort Patroclus readily gave to him each night. PATROCLUS! What is he to do now that the only person he’s ever loved has been unjustly felled? Plagued still with the need which had always always always been filled, Achilles had visited it upon the only being near to him who was not just another soldier in this pointless and gods damned war. Perhaps that is a lie, yet still he clings to it as petulantly as he had clung to his lover’s body until it had been time to light it on the pyre.

“Leave me then!” Gone are the roars that had so easily burst from him just days ago; the mighty Greek lion tamed down to a being who could only whisper in cold fury. Ganymede was given a shove for good measure, his overture of... of what? His gentle brand of friendship? Whatever it was that had brought him around time and again, joking with them, playing with the young pair at their happy hearth-- he, the only person, besides Patroclus, who could stand Achilles’ pride with grace and even humor. Achilles cared for none of it. It had never been him who had known how to be decorous and well mannered, not he who found it easier for other men to recall his name rather than ever learn theirs. Now in his coiled up grief he takes to pacing, evading sleep and it’s torturous too short dreams. The only comfort left to him are his shield and spears, the very war he despises.

[wtfzeus]

Zeus: Hmm, that Europa chick really likes cows…

[turns into a really pretty cow]

[Europa hops onto the cow]

Zeus: I can’t believe that worked

[xyperifaneia]

crackedportrait:

you wish. #ism’t all your remembered for is your heel? 

aren’t you highly flammable? don’t make me color you outside of your lines

[xyperifaneia]

parastatheis:

this is some fucking nonsense i can’t believe this…. not only do u come into MY HOUSE and slander me like this, but u are about to start another fucking war about claiming the title of fairest. watch urself, kid.

I will start that war and end it all by myself

[xyperifaneia]

Ding dong, you are both wrong! Ganymede was only abducted because Achilles hadn’t been born yet. Dorian is a non-contender. Achilles is the #current Fairest Born Among Men.

[a-court-of-pain-and-night]

The Song of Achilles

[say-it-like-u-meme-it]

Send “Wanna fight Bro?!”for my muses reaction to yours trying to pick a fight after having one too many at the bar.

[sosaneitsinsane]

He’s going to Troy to k i l l men, not rescue them.