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flamethatprometeusstole · 12 days

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Went shopping with a friend on the weekends and saw Apollo slaying over here.

#apollo #greek gods #i love this #apollo Ily

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flamethatprometeusstole · 16 days

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You know what? I’m just gonna fuckin’ say it. We need to romanticize the relationship between Ares and Aphrodite more.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know we all like to characterize them as the mean jock and dumb bitchy prep cheerleader who cheats on her wonderful and kind if conventionally unattractive husband because he’s not jacked or whatever, but how about we move past that Middle School level interpretation of things and look at it from another perspective.

Let’s look at it this way. Hephaestus shows up one day, kidnaps the queen of the Gods, his mother, and demands Aphrodite as his wife for the shitty life he’s had thus far. He doesn’t love Aphrodite. Not really. She’s a consolation prize. A pretty little bauble he can have around his workshop and occasionally have sex with.

Aphrodite isn’t some shallow and vapid bitch who cheats on her loving husband. She’s a powerful woman, a fucking child of Ouranos himself, and she’s the Goddess of LOVE, forced into a loveless marriage with someone who only sees her as a possession. She cheats on him with Ares because Ares isn’t the strong and charming yet deeply flawed man who really does love her.

Hephaestus has the gall to demand Aphrodite be loyal to him? MY man, you essentially press-ganged the Goddess of Love into a loveless marriage. HOW DID YOU THINK IT WAS GOING TO GO?!

I feel for Hephaestus, I really do. He got dealt a shit hand and he’s absolutely a sympathetic character, but I think it’s time we stopped hating on the Goddess of Love for being with the person she loves, rather than the man who forced her into a truly miserable and doomed union.

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flamethatprometeusstole · 16 days

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I thought about what to make of aphrodites room since I didn't want it to be a bit too generic depiction of olympus you know all white and with clouds everywhere and nothing really personalized for a deity so it'll be easier to draw, really tried avoiding that

I definitley wanted aphrodites room to be very dim and with red lights afterall that lighting get's associated with sex alot[or danger, both go well with her] especialy when candles are in use, since aphrodite came out of the ocean and in my version shes practicly made out of water I decided to make her entire room a pool of some sorts, her temple of course isn't soaked, knees high full of water, it's just her room since thats where she goes to rest, it's her private area so it's dedicated to making her comfortable and barely anything else

she lived her whole existance till this point in the sea so her rooms full of water because well it's what she knows the most and she has good memories with it, for her getting in water is kinda like eating a childhood meal for us if that makes any sense

ALSO as some of you may remember my aphrodite falls apart when she gets upset, so if she falls apart there she'll just become a part of the water and won't have to "look for her parts" persay after getting better

her room is beasicly a pool with an outline close to walls where the candles sit and lighted the place up a bit

#greek mythology #greek gods #greek myths #mythology #greek goddess #aphrodite #ancient greece #aphrodite art #aphrodite's room #im already telling you i'll mess around with it so you'll probably see some other versions of it soon #but I do plan on going with that formula more #the candles and water are not going anywhere

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flamethatprometeusstole · 1 month

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some aphrodite art <3

#greek mythology #greek gods #mythology #greek goddess #ancient greece #aphrodite #aphrodite art #I wanted to see how gold would look like on her

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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i feel like max would say this

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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LORE | REKINDLED EPISODE 46 - STAY AWAY FROM HER

Previous episode | Next episode releases March 16th!

No no you're totally a great guy Hades- 💀

Thank you all so much for reading! It's my birthday today, and I couldn't ask for a better community to spend it with <3

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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Apollo wingmaning his boyfriend is one of my favourite parts of Admetus' myths.

I have to draw them like this

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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I've been thinking about how many people counting in people who study and undestand greek myths to their core say that "the gods are very childish" because there not, they never were, none of them.

The gods are what a true adult act's like, a child causing chaos would get some sort of punishment from the grown up's however adult's can cause as much chaos as they want and there will be no one to stop them other than other adults, it is very rare to see younger people go agains older either out of respect, fear or knowlage they are higher in hierarchy than them and people are more likely to side with them

there are many moment's when a god act's out and humans are being hurt, the only thing humans then can do is either plead and hope they will lisen or go to other gods and hope they will help, of course there are moments when humans tried to go against gods but from what I know at least, the only moments when a human get's to "beat" a god is when they trick them in some way and if the god realiizes there being tricked they react with anger and human get's punished

that all sounds quite familiar

the gods do not act childish at all they act like adults dealing with children but with no filter. In this essay I will-

#I am praying this makes sense #cuz I'm writing it REALLY tired #so I could be just bullshiting really hard #greek mythology #greek gods #greek myths #greek goddess #ancient greece #myths #analysis #kinda #mythology

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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I love memetic communication when it gets to the point of being incomprehensible because can you imagine showing someone this picture

And asking them what Greek god it represents

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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Imagine ignoring and villianising the original feminist hero in favour of a straight love story 💀

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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AND CHILDREN ADOPTION

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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Do I know I will have at least 12 people slide into my dm's over this? Yes, Do I know it will not Do well with notes? Also Yes but

It's not always about the money spiderman

#greek mythology #greek gods #greek myths #mythology #greek goddess #greek myth #ancient greece #ancient greek #zeus #zeus greek mythology #I'm ready #I'm ready for it

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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this is Them

guess who has a new ship obsession

#So true #so true op #I belive in hyacinthus not understanding shit apollo says but still being swoon by it every time #I love them #hyacinthus #apollo x hyacinthus #hyacinthus x apollo #incorrect greek mythology #incorrect greek gods #incorrect greek mythology quote #greek myth memes #apollo #I don't usualy reblog or like incorrect greek gods/myths stuff #But this is #the only exception

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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Anne Carson (2009)

Arthur S. Way (1898)

George Theodoridis (2010)

Ian C. Johnston (2010)

E.P. Coleridge (1910)

Theodore Alois Buckley (1892)

John Peck, Frank Nisetich (1995)

R. Potter (1906)

M. L. West (1987)

William Arrowsmith (1958)

Philip Vellacott (1972)

Michael Wodhull (1782)

Kenneth McLeish (1997)

David Kovacs (2002)

Andrew Wilson (1993)

Euripides - Original (408 BCE)

#This always menages to move me so much #favorite #ancient greek #euripides #greek mythology #bloodline curse #mythology #pylades #house of atreus #orestes #it's rotten work #translation #linguistics #plays #theatre #ancient greek theatre #<3

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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LOUD REBLOG

I don’t know if it’s cultural/latent Christianity or just standard media illiteracy, but people need to seriously read up on the nature of mythology in ancient cultures. Like seriously.

So many people treat myths as factual accounts of events. I have never seen any literary scholar, anthropologist or historian make the claim that this was the way the ancients viewed their myths. It’s metaphor. It’s allegory. It’s symbolism. It’s a narrativised ritual. It’s artistic social, political, cultural commentary, instruction or expression. The claim that a myth should be interpreted literally is never made by serious researchers, because it

1) is inherently unprovable and unarguable, which renders it scientifically irrelevant.

2) it blocks off many more salient interpretations that can co-exist with other contradictory non-literal interpretations.

3) it does not seem consistent with the way myth was treated by storytellers and scholars of the time.

Myth is an inherently flexible medium. It’s beautiful and elegant in its manifold meanings. Stop trying to make it a literal account. It isn’t. Never has been. Do your research about the culture, the medium and the traditions you discuss, before making wild statements, before writing ahistorical retellings, or trying to cancel gods or the people who follow them, based on texts that were written (and before that orally handed down) thousands of years ago in a cultural tradition entirely different than ours.

STOP PROJECTING YOUR OWN LITERALISM AND REJECTION OF COMPLEXITY ON OTHER CULTURES.

It’s ignorant, it’s incurious, it’s incorrect and frankly disrespectful, racist and colonialist to insert your misunderstood notion of mythology in a culture that you have barely researched.

Some people need to be a bit less concerned with being seen as perfect paragons of moral righteousness, and a bit more with not spreading misinformation, cultural ignorance and media illiteracy.

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flamethatprometeusstole · 2 months

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Someone hear me out

(It's ever funnier when you know warriors from sparta were also often poets too)

#greek mythology #greek gods #greek myths #apollo #apollo x hyacinthus #apollo and hyacinthus #hyacinthus #hyacinthus x apollo #greek myth #Sparta #Hyacinthus prince of sparta my beloved #greek pantheon

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