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littlesparklight · 1 year

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What did Zeus put in the royal line of Dardanos, anyway?

(Zeus+Ganymede, Eos+Tithonos, Aphrodite+Anchises, Aphrodite+Paris, and Paris+Helen.)

Originally this had been intended as a sort of "first meetings" thing, but I didn't want to draw Aphrodite twice, so I mixed it up instead. The gods are are supernaturally tall (Zeus the tallest among these, Aphrodite the shortest), Helen as a demigod is tall, Paris happens to be short. The thing that seems to signal that it's Tithonos that Eos is kidnapping on vase art is a lyre (contra, say, spears for Kephalos), so I included an eastern asymmetrical lyre that was usual in Anatolia for the time!

Individual images under the cut!

#greek mythology #ganymede #zeus #aphrodite #paris of troy #helen of sparta #anchises #tithonus #trojan war #eos #lightart #aphrodite and paris' kinda matching expressions #amuse me greatly

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