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fiprobably · 3 days

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CW: Death/death symbolism (skull) (especially chxld death) below the cut

Spoilers for EPIC: The Underworld Saga's first song "The Underworld"

i keep thinking of the infant from that night.

Bonus: Odysseus in "The Underworld"

#as you can see i'm depressed about this #odysseus #astyanax #battle of troy #jorge rivera herrans #the underworld #the underworld saga #epic #epic the musical #greek mythology #greek myth #fi probably draws

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harrietswrittenworlds · 9 months

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The Song of Achilles

My heart feels sliced clean in half. I have never read anything as heartbreaking as this. I am currently shedding tears as I write this. The Story of Achilles and Patroclus. I want to rage at the gods! The grief rose from the pages to swallow me whole. I drowned in Achilles grief. I knew he'd die but still, like Patroclus, anything but his death, anything but that. The gods do not fight fair! Why do all good things have to die young?

Their love was pure till death, till the Underworld claimed them. It was them against the world. Ten years of bloodshed and pain, –soulmates. The tragedy of their romance tears me apart.

I have not read the story of Achilles from this angle, gods the tragedy of it kills me. The beauty of it, the fragility and the brevity of it. Sweet, fleeting!

I'll need a week to recover from this pain. What am I saying, I cannot recover from this book. Never.

It is not enough for me that they find peace in the Underworld, it not enough. The helplessness of my rage is almost amusing but damn. Their love is pure. Even the Fates, the wishes of the gods could not withstand it. A love for eternity, a love made for always and forever.

#the song of achilles #madeline miller #achilles #achilles and patroclus #battle of Troy #book soulmates #unhinged #tragic romance #eternal love

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cocopopsluvr333 · 10 months

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always an angel, never a god

#boygenius #pheobe bridgers #lucy dacus #theotheronewhosenameicantremember #julien baker #always an angel never a god #always an angel #never a god #not strong enough #iphigenia #greek mythology #battle of troy #angel #romeo and juliet #agamenon #artemis

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bitchout · 2 years

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“My hand was the one you reached for, All throughout the Great War”

-Taylor Swift

#I could not stop thinking about this #first vision when I heard the lyrics #midnights taylor swift #the song of achilles #not my photo #taylor swift #patrochilles #achillies #patroclus #greek mythology #homer #the illiad #the oddyssey #meet me at midnight #madeline miller #odysseus #battle of troy

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quinn-fucks-shit-up · 2 years

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I don't believe in the expression 'dont look a gift horse in the mouth' because that's exactly what the Trojans did, and look what happened to them

#trojan horse #greek myth #greek #expression #turn of phrase #battle of troy

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wheresmypineapplebro · 2 years

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

#The Song Of Achilles #Achilles Pelides #Patroclus #achilles and patroclus #tsoa achilles #patrochilles #Battle Of Troy

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ragesingoddess · 11 months

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thinking about hector having to face achilles and how scared he must have been and how many guts it took to stand up and fight him knowing beforehand that he was not leaving that battle alive.

imagine looking to your enemy's eyes and finding a shell of person; a person who hasn't eaten or slept in days, a person with absolute fury in his eyes, a person wearing the armour made by a god and fitting it. a person who genuinely has nothing to lose and worst of all a person who has come to terms with the fact that he is going to die. a person who craves it.

this is the core difference between the two of them during their final battle: hector knows he's going to die and he doesn't want to. he has a family and a newborn son to return to and a city that he knows is going to fall without him and all around has plenty of reasons to want to make it out of that fight alive. achilles also knows he's going to die but unlike Hector achilles doesn't want to be alive by this point anyway. hector is fighting for his life while achilles is fighting to try and mend his vengeful heart.

hector had everything to lose; achilles had lost everything already.

and then imagine looking into your enemy's face with pleading eyes. the enemy who has cost you so many of your brother's lives, who's made so many of your sisters into slaves. the person who you know is going to kill you. imagine looking into that person's eyes and having to beg him to at least spare your dead body and give it a proper burial. mind you, these were the times when people believed an unburied person's soul could never reach the afterlife. an unburied soldier was cursed to stay dishonored and alone, wandering through the depths of the world without a physical presence to offer.

and imagine your enemy laughing. and promising to feed your body to the dogs.

and after all of this hector still, still found it in his heart to fight him.

#takes some serious guts is all im saying #also thinking about how Hector was literally wearing achilles previous armor #how purposeful it is that on that battle it was as if achilles was only fighting with himself #anyway #achilles #hector #the iliad #greek mythology #hector of troy #homer

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souredfigs · 5 months

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Me,a starstruck 15 year old reading the Odyssey for the first time : *sighs* wish I was born in 12th century BCE so I could see Troy and-

The fucking Sea people: BRING US THE GODDAMN WARSHIPS

#pLEASE #the sea people theory haunts me in my dreams #keeps me up at night #their origins are highly disputed and we can never put exactly where they emerged from but they wrecked HAVOC #towards the end of the bronze age #egypt under ramses iii was only able to defend itself theres an entire depiction of the battle that was found #they basically destoryed so many major cities including troy #we know this becuase theres a layer of charcoal in thr ruins of troy #when you think about it actually #its very easy to see how homer wrote the illiad and odyssey #because he grew up during the dark ages of 400 years where he was surrounded by these ruins #and he was like “fuck it might as well write a fanfic”#okay #i will shut up #homer #the illiad #the odyssey #bronze age civilisation #12th century bc #sea people theory #and vampy ranting about history

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constanzarte · 5 months

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Antoine Wiertz - Battle of the Greeks and Trojans for the corpse of Patroclus

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generouskittentidalwave · 1 year

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Honestly with both Hermes helping Odysseus and Athena helping Odysseus it feels like they are basically his non biological parents with Hermes being the fun and mischievous dad and Athena being the strict and caring mom and then you have Odysseus who is the perfect chaotic combination of both of them

#Seriously Odysseus has Hermes fun cunning and mischievous traits #Paired with the fact that he has the same wise and brilliant mind along with great warrior skills and battle strategies like Athena #And now you have the chaotic fusion of the two that is Odysseus #the odyssey #odysseus #homer's odyssey #the iliad #homer's iliad #athena #hermes #greek mythology #epic the musical #epic: the musical #epic: the troy saga #epic: the cyclops saga

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nikoisme · 8 months

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Hey y'all ever think about the fact that Scamandrius is a baby during The Iliad? Meaning that he was born during the war?? And what if Hector fought so he could give his baby son a safe world to live in??

#the iliad #hector of troy #tagamemnon #greek mythology #in my mind there's an alternate universe where hector gets to raise his son #it's a way for me to cope with the fact that he never gets to raise his boy #god fuck these little characters make me weep like a widow #but hector might have spent time on the battlefield while andromache was carrying their son #and apart from worrying about not fucking dying he worried about his wife #and every battle he fought was to meet his son and-#yOU GET IT #I DON'T FEEL LIKE TYPING OUT EVERY EMOTION THIS MAKES ME FEEL; OKAY??

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0lympian-c0uncil · 4 months

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I am watching "Troy" and holy fuck is Paris of fucking idiot like bro takes a queen and then thinks that No consequences will happen to him and he tries to act a high in mighty and try to tell his brother how he's going to kill Menelaus a war hardened king, Even though he's never fought in his life, he almost gets killed by him and then his brother has to step in and save him. Like did he think he was going to win by just pure will like, That's not how war works but I hate him so much.

(NOT TO MENTION PARIS WAS FULLY CONTENT WITH THE FACT THAT HE WAS GOING TO TAKE HELEN AND ABANDON HIS HOME SO THAT THE GREASE COULD COME AND MURDER HIS FAMILY HE DID NOT GIVE TWO SHITS)

Also not to mention they made Achilles like insanely straight and Patroclus is his fucking cousin. Look how they massacred my boys!

The only respectable characters in my opinion are Hector who is the only brains of the movie and Ajax. he's not even reasonable. I just like him because he took a spear to the stomach and continue to beat the shit out of Hector.

Although I will say, Achilles personality on point.

Like I am literally rooting for the Greeks because the Trojans are just so fucking stupid in this movie like Greeks just kill them already. I'm begging you please. They're stupidity is hurting the world!

#Just to be clear #I'm saying stupid #Of like not battle strategy cuz their battle strategies amazing. It's impeccable but in general they're just stupid #Also the utter disrespect of patroclus and Achilles oh my god!#anyways can the movie just be over #achilles #helen of sparta #paris of troy #menelaus #greek mythology #greek gods #greek heroes

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luciuscaelus · 1 month

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Who mourns for Antilochus?