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“Yes,” the oracle said, “you will be remembered for generations, and the tales of your performance will be spoken of by poets for centuries.”

“That is a greater honor than I could have dreamed,” replied Hegelochus.

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Hegelochus: A wonderful actor whose career was cut tragically short by a mispronounciation during a performance during the City Dionysia. He never worked again, and everyone made fun of him for centuries to come. Including me, but hey. This one's for Hegelochus.

Vultures: The vultures that were sent as eternal torment to pick at Prometheus's liver. What's their deal though.

Hegelochus was one of my favourite people I’ve read about in history. As an actor, I understand his mortification.

Psychic: *reads my mind*

My mind: there was an actor named Hegelochus in four-oh- eight B.C who messed up one of his lines oh so famously...

Instead of saying "this too shall pass," the ancient Greeks would say "after the storm again, I see a weasel." The weasel was the favored animal of the trickster god, Ἡγέλοχος, so basically it stood for enduring incongruity and neverending absurdity

First day as an early-3rd-century warlord and I am fighting in the bloodiest civil war of my country’s history. Very few records were kept during this time and even fewer have survived, but I am one of the only people of my era to have an accurate, physical description that was verified by multiple sources. Was it because of my meteoric rise from sandal-weaver to king? My heroic exploits? My compassion for the downtrodden? No. it was because my contemporaries would NOT stop roasting me about my extremely big, stupid-looking ears.

Kilaaq tataanagaiskaaq hagišiioq.

Kilaaq tataanaagaissaak hagišaap.

After the storm again, I see the weasel.

After the storm again, I see a calm sea.

every day i think about thats so crates and its driving me insane HOW am i supposed to study plato sensibly under these circumstances

Historical people I know who are famous for being bad at stuff but not really doing harm on a major scale:

Ea-nasir

Hegelochus

May I one day fuck up so bad that it is remembered for all time

Ultimate Word Tournament!

verklempt (English, Yiddish) פֿאַרקלעמט [vɚˈklɛmt] [fɚˈklɛmt] Overcome with emotion, choked up.

γαλῆν (Greek, Typo Dialect) galên [ga.lɛ́͜ɛn] a weasel. Famously said by Hegelochus instead of "γαλήν" (calm sea), putting him out of a job and mocked by all to this day.

Verklempt Propaganda

Cassandra is tired. She's trying to find her way to a home that doesn't exist anymore, and she's being asked to fight every step of the way. She doesn't want to fight the funny bad diction actor, because she knows how it ends. She knows which one of them wins, and she knows enough that skipping to the end won't do a damn thing.

Hegelochus is simply very lost. He got thrown out of the Dionysia for his mistake and he would like some work, please be very nice to him. Where is he.

call me Hegelochus the way she let me see her weasel

really feeling hegelochus today

in 408 b.c. there was an actor named hegelochus in euripides’ orestes. and he was supposed to say “after the storm, i see again a calm sea”. but he messed up the accent and he ended up saying “after the storm, i see again a weasel”. this mistake ended his career and he got made fun of in a bunch of texts, including aristophanes’ the frogs.

anyway um hes just like me fr fr

Inspired by the short song by itskeyes on tiktok and the real life Hegelochus’ mispronounced line

[ID: a two panel picture with the words “After the storm again, / I see a weasel” The top panel shows a hand on a rainy window in black and white, and the bottom shows a photo of a weasel over top of an ocean sunset. /end ID]