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TRIKARANOS CHAPTER I: S·T·T·L

TRIKARANOS is a dramatized narrative based on ancient events following Crassus (and Pompey and Caesar) through the years 87-48 BCE. Intended for an adult audience.

⭐ Trikaranos will always be free to read. In the near future, you’ll have the option to support this comic & my ability to spend time making it (I Am Extremely Fucking Broke And Have Bills To Pay etc etc) through Patreon! currently, I have a tip jar!

⭐ There is no set update schedule (chapters vary in length and will be posted as I finish working on them)

⭐ alternative places to read it (coming soon!)

CREDITS all additional art used are in the public domain, and the specific images used are open access, etc

🍊the first collage panel is combination of: Plate 113: Greeks Battling the Trojans (from Ovid's Metamorphoses), Antonio Tempesta / The Trojans pulling the wooden horse into the city, Giulio Bonasone (after Francesco Primaticcio) / Terracotta hydria displaying Achilles waiting to ambush Triolos and Polyxena 🍊the second collage panel is: The Lictors bringing Brutus the bodies of his Sons, Jacques Louis David / the paint over of Brutus executing is own sons is my own work based on the composition of this relief of Brutus and condemning his sons to death. 🍊I also used my own art: a panel from the Prologue, and my own illustration of Brutus with the bodies of his sons

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UNDER THE CUT creator’s commentary, ancient citations, whatever else seems relevant. ideally, this is optional! you shouldn’t need the citations for it to make sense as it unfolds since it’s a comic and a story first and foremost, but it’s here if you’re curious about something or want to see where the inspiration is coming from!

I'm so fucking normal about Crassus and his family (<<< this is a lie)

Marcus Crassus was the son of a man who had been censor and had enjoyed a triumph; but he was reared in a small house with two brothers. His brothers were married while their parents were still alive, and all shared the same table, which seems to have been the chief reason why Crassus was temperate and moderate in his manner of life. When one of his brothers died, Crassus took the widow to wife, and had his children by her, and in these relations also he lived as well-ordered a life as any Roman.

Plutarch, Crassus

like, it actively fucks me up that this is something that's survived about him for over 2,000 years. they all ate together at the same table. Jesus Christ.

so! Crassus' dad! Publius Licinius Crassus (consul 97) fought on the side of Cn. Octavius (consul 87) in the Bellum Octavianum, and it didn't go great for him.

Crassus: A Political Biography, B.A. Marshall

also. currently, if you look Publius Licinius Crassus up on wikipedia for an overview, his page lists his son (and also my main character for this comic) with the cognomen Dives, which is in-fucking-correct.

Marcus Crassus and the Late Roman Republic, Allen Mason Ward

and to circle back to houses and meals shared with family, some citations that made me feel some kind of way when I read them

Marcus Crassus and the Late Roman Republic, Allen Mason Ward

finally, there is discourse or whatever on the placement of the sons of Publius Licinius Crassus. Crassus is the baby brother here simply because I'm writing this story and I get to pick the themes, but also because no one has provided a solid enough argument for him being the second eldest son that I'm willing to buy into with enthusiasm, and I'm more inclined towards G. Sampson's conclusion on the matter.

Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae, and the Invasion of the East, Gareth C. Sampson

and while I'm just kind of talking about stuff that I read that I enjoyed, this article by Martin Stone lives in my head rent free

A Year of One's Own: Dating the Praetorship of Marcus Crassus, Martin Stone

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Hermes,making deliveries at late night: How are still up?

Hephaestus: oh whenever I feel tired I just put some of dionysus' sugar in my coffee

Hermes: sugar? What do you mea- *watches as Hephaestus takes out of a zipploc bag a couple spoons of cocaine, mixing it in with his coffee*

Hephaestus: is super healthy, too! No added preservatives!

#hepbaestus #hermes #greek mythology #incorrect greek myths

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Poseidon: I was once arrested for being too cool

Zeus: The charges were dropped when they realised there was no supporting evidence

#greek mythology #incorrect greek myths #zeus #poseidon

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incorrectgreekmyths · 2 months

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Hera, brushing Hebe's hair: you are beautiful and capable of great things

Hebe: *smiles widely *

Hera: like murder

Hebe: ....

Hera: don't do that though

Hebe: o-ok-

Hera, whispering: unless it's completely necessary

#hera #hebe #incorrect greek myths #greek mythology

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incorrectgreekmyths · 3 months

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Hera: alright, ta-ta, I need to go. Bye-bye, Demeter.

Demeter: bye, love you-

Hera, surprised she said that:....

Demeter,also surprised that she said that:...can I delete speech?

Hera: I heard it! I heard it! I heard you say it!

Demeter: no, no, no!

Hera: hahahaha!

Hera, whispering to demeter as she stands close to her: I win you've exposed yourself to me

#greek mythology #incorrect greek myths #hera #demeter #source: dimension 20 #hera: love is a competition and now im winning #hera: em very normal

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Hephaestus: want to know something?

Apollo: tell me

Hephaestus: before I found Hera and Zeus were my parents...I thought poseidon was my dad?

Apollo, laughing: what?

Hephaestus: well we look a lot alike, just remove my scars and I look just like him!

Apollo, squinting at him: huh...yeah yeah! I can see that!

Hephaestus: but also....

Apollo: but also?

Hephaestus: he used to visit thetis, checking on her duties as a see godess, but I liked to think he was also checking on me, like he was trying to see if his son was okay.

Hephaestus: but then I learned that he wasn't....and I think it still hurts to know I didn't have a father that cared for me growing up.....

Apollo, putting a hand on his shoulder: I know that feeling, but we had great mother who did care for us

Hephaestus:.... yeah, we did

#greek mythology #incorrect greek myths #hephaestus #apollo

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incorrectgreekmyths · 3 months

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Is your AU of disco elysium with the stray gods video game or is something else called stray gods? Cause I’m confused as a stray gods fan and feeling I may misunderstand lol

Stray gods the video game!

#ask #allowingarien

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incorrectgreekmyths · 3 months

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Poseidon: you can know a lot about a woman just by looking at her hands, for example, hooves? She is a horse

#greek mythology #incorrect greek myths #poseidon #source: tumblr

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incorrectgreekmyths · 4 months

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So this episode confirms that a bunch of people saw Hephaestus, a sad flute guy with mother issues, said "i can fix him" and had a kid with

#hephaestus #percy jackon and the olympians

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Hermes: My 7 year old cant believe police officers dont go to law school

Hermes: "But their whole job is about the law, it doesnt make sense!" Yeah no shit kid, go to bed

#hermes #incorrect greek myths #greek mythology #source: twitter

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This is an invitation for you guys yo ask me about t, pls.

A Stray gods x Disco elysium au, where the hanged body is Harmonia, Hephaestus is Harry and Dionysus is Kim. Thats it, thats the post.

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A Stray gods x Disco elysium au, where the hanged body is Harmonia, Hephaestus is Harry and Dionysus is Kim. Thats it, thats the post.

#you might question why hephy gets to be harry well two reason: first #i feel like he is sad enough to bw harry #and Dio being kim is such a fun things to play with #imagine you are the god of excess and but after countless deaths in the family you finally s9ber up #just to see your half brother is a drunk mess duw to his trauma

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Hephaestus: I just wanted to tell you I have a massive crush on you Aglaea: Oh! So do-...*she notices Dionysus standing behing Hephaestus* who's the other guy? Hephaestus: I brought him for moral support Aglaea, smiling: are you serious? Dionysus, patting Hephaestus back: Im here for you man, do your thing.

#hephaestus #aglaea #dionysus #incorrect greek myths #greek mythology #source: twitter

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Eris, to hebe: Sometimes parents gotta tell little lies to their little kids, because they are too little to hear the truth. Eris: Like mom and dad and your inmortal goldfish, like how they would replace your goldfish every time it died. Hebe:....What? Eris, realizing what she just did: I mean uh...nothing! let's uh...talk about Herakles, I think he likes you! Hebe: My beloved goldfish lived 118 years with me before getting sent to Poseidon to be studied and to relax Eris: Uh right yeah! no no I know, forget I said anything! Hebe: ARE YOU TELLING ME MOM AND DAD LIED TO ME!? ARE YOU TELLING, GOLDYLECIOUS, ISNT INMORTAL AND DOESNT SEE THE BIRTHDAY CARDS I SENT THEM EVERY YEAR!!? I CANT BELIEVE THIS! *starts to walk away* Eris: Hebe where are you going? Hebe, with murder in her eyes:I WILL NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS!

#hebe #eris #greek mythology #incorrect greek myths #source: bobs burgers

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Zeus: *sleepwalking around Olympus*

Ares: Dad is a sleepwalker?

Hera: not normally, should we wake him?

Athena: never wake a sleepwalker, they could get violent, and whatever you do dont give them an axe

Hera: what? an axe? Why would we give him an axe?

Athena: Dont

Eris, handing am axe to sleepwalking zeus: LETS GIVE HIM AN AXE!

#zeus #hera #athena #ares #eris #incorrect greek mythology #greek mythology #source: bobs burgers

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Zeus, after artemis comes out to him: Oh you are a lesbian that's cool, do a fucking backflip then. Artemis:.... Zeus, angrily: DO FUCKING BACKFLIP LESBIAN!

#greek mythology #incorrect greek myths #artemis #zeus

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Sons Of The Labyrinth or The Things Our Fathers Do To Us

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