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gorgynei · 8 months

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λυκάνθρωπος / Μινώταυρος

#caption is ''lycanthrope / minotaur'' in ancient greek. bc im feeling silly #i know that like really werewolves and the minotaur have nothing in common BUT THEYRE BOTH ANIMAL PEOPLE! u have to #understand. its about the abstraction from humanity while also existing SO close to it.#werewolf #aceart #werewolfisms #minotaur #my art

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wolfythewitch · 1 year

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Odyssey

based on this poll

#art #the odyssey #odysseus #digital art #greek mythology #illustration #penelope #tagamemnon #im not sure if im using that tag right HAHA

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temeyes · 2 months

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//i wont say (im in love) plays in the background//

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peasantexchangeprogram · 2 years

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more modern viewers rly needs to learn the thousands years old tradition of "hes a cunt and a menace but i want to see what he does next"

#mine*#yeah this post is abt lestat HOWEVER #im learning abt classical greek epics rn. hes not special/

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brother-emperors · 9 months

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something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

#perseus #danae #komiks tag #long post #every other week i start to say something about how greek heroes are a good case study in diaspora and exile trauma #but man perseus makes me so sad. so does danae. she loves her son :(#perseus turning a whole island to stone is a huge mood. i would also do that if i were him #anyway (salutes) take care everyone i gotta watch yunho's new video it looks like a fucking movie im so excited #(i singled out ovid bc i remember the fucking shit perseus discourse that ran through this site. i remember #im preemptively loading a gun and pointing at it before it can touch this post #it hasn't died out either i see it on twitter all the time in the most ANNOYING ways possible i am TIRED #esp bc they're actually doing medusa a narrative disservice like congrats! you made it worse! stop telling me it's better!!!!)#it’s all greek to me

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kanej-is-superior · 1 month

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The Greeks would've easily won the Camp Jupiter vs Camp Half Blood battle. Not because of any logical, strategic reasons though. Its because they're batshit crazy

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo headcanons #percy pjo #camp half blood #annabeth chase #camp jupiter #pjo #pjo series #no bc the romans would be going on with their stupid latin orders and then the greeks would just be throwing poisonous snakes around #and dropping out of trees #on fire #screaming #waving a knife around #tell me im wrong

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lesbianshepard · 6 months

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remember when that quote "It's rotten work. "Not to me. Not if it’s you" was going around tumblr from Anne Carson's translation An Oresteia and then there was another wave of scandalized "how DARE you romanticize the relationship between Orestes and Pylades! They're cousins!" like....they're from an ancient greek tragedy. they're all related. even achilles and patroclus were cousins according to hesiod. the greeks did not care.

#m #im sorry but if u want 10000% pure 'unproblematic' relationships....dont look at athenian tragedies #like for the record im against incest but uh #ancient greek heroes were just Like That

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eternallovers65 · 4 months

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The idea of poseidon only helping percy because he saw athena not helping annabeth is so funny because it shows how messy the Greek gods are like wdym you have a millennium old beef with your niece and the only reason you saved your kid it's so you can say you're better parent than her???

#im sorry to everyone who thinks poseidon did it because he loves percy (maybe he does) but i promise you he was putting his interests first #greek gods are the selfish mfs out there and athena proved that for us they dont care that much #also as i said before even if he did that to prove to percy he doesnt need to do all of that to have his love poseidon still needs to prove-#himself a lot more and it just makes sense for greek gods to be this messy #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #poseidon #athena

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greenhybrid · 4 months

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Yall have reached Swiftie level of delusion trying to find a single pixel of two Italian kids in a gambling hotel

#percy jackson #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo series #clarisse pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo fandom #greek gods #fanfiction #greek mythology #taylor swift #swifties #don’t worry im a swiftie

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callisteios · 2 years

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i made a uquiz to figure out which greek god you share vibes with

#uquiz #quiz #classics #gods #greek gods #i made this on no sleep so im sorry if its a bit rude #tagamemnon #also no one told me these take effort to make #i mean not a huge amount #but still #herakles is a result but im 99% sure you can't get him #you're welcome :)

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singing-graverobber · 5 months

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I think one of the most beautiful things about learning an ancient or dead language, is the pure humanity thereof.

You could do or learn something more functional, sure, but you're taking time to understand the essence of a people long left behind in time.

These people, now dead for centuries or even millennia, wrote things down and in doing so, said:

"I was here, remember me"

And here, eras later, we take time to decipher, read, and understand it, to say into the void of their existence:

"We see you, we know you, you are still alive."

#history #history quotes #latin #greek #archaeology #languages #im just trying to motivate myself for my latin exam tomorrow

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alibonbonn · 5 months

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Helenus and Cassandra

#their sibling beef must be insane like theres no one else like them #thinking about things that Hector Paris Helenus and Cassandra were doing in the face of impending doom #thinking about how Helenus outlived all his siblings and presumably died of old age #yo they're just like my Hongkonger angst #sorry im so offline recently my mental is not very good ;w;#Cassandra #Helenus #the iliad #trojan war #greek mythology #alidraw #alibonbonn

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wolfythewitch · 6 months

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hello sailor

#i dont think im using that phrase right but he IS kind of a sailor so #tagamemnon #art #digital art #odysseus #odyssey #the odyssey #greek mythology #i am a Sick so heres an ody that looks as miserable as i feel

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cruelsister-moved2 · 1 year

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so greek police shot a 16 year old romany boy in the head this morning and I haven't seen anywhere reporting on it

donate to the european roma rights centre: link

#I don't wanna do a 'why is no one talking about this' thing but. ykmow #and this is like the third time in about a year that Greek police have killed a rom btw #actually almost certainly more than that but there have been 3 high profile incidents im aware of #I only know UK based GRT charities so if anyone would like to add more charities that operate in EU be my guest

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thoodleoo · 2 months

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the sexual tension between a guy and the eagle repeatedly tearing out and consuming his liver

#tagamemnon #greek mythology #literally rearranging his guts. thats all im gonna say #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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celesterayel · 4 months

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midnight secrets | luke castellan

pairing : luke castellan x nyx!reader

request: can you write about luke and a daughter of nyx? <33

IN WHICH — he knows only one true thing: you put all the stars to shame.

"now I just wanna stay here and fall into midnight. Want nobody else now, only you, feel right" - a.

w.c. 1.9k

warning(s) : soft ゜✭・.

✩ ‧₊˚ author's note can you tell when I was younger I had fallen in love with the night and the idea of it? cuz I did. very much so, I'd say. also water, always loved the concept of it--the fragility and softness of it, like a balm against my skin.

long, long ago you learned of the sea of stars and their stories, from which rose their beginning and end. the stars were beings of heat and fire; they were beautifully mortal and alive.

they danced upon the domain of zeus; showering the sky with lights when night fell and befitting the world with their glow.

but as the sands of time bade the next and the corners of the sky dulled, the toll of living and breathing became too much. and so in the vast space of nothingness among the empty silence, the stars took on the duty of protecting a human and god: following where they might go, to every lifetime and universe as if they could erase the tragedy of the divine that swam through their blood.

and when each stars’ child died and their soul followed its ache to finally rest, the star would fall out of the sky in a blazing trail of destruction and divinity to taste freedom one last time and meet them in the next life.

there had been something raw and gruesomely alive about the stars when you learned of the story and so everyday, you’d trapeze the mortal line between night and sleep to watch them in absolution. you yearned to find an answer as to why? why would such immortal and imposing celestial beings like the stars willingly ruin themselves for us humans, for us beings that hungered for war and found pain like a symphony?

you learned your answer when you met luke castellan, your own tragic star who would follow you when the blood of the gods stopped flowing through your veins and your existence came to its calamitous end.

you had spent most of your life curiously confused as if there was something missing that made you feel broken; a piece of the puzzle that made drizzles seem like hurricanes and everything seem like an unsolvable mystery, constantly itching at your skin as if you just needed to pull back the layers and scratch.

and then, one day it stopped.

the buzzling in your head faded and you seem to finally just be.

luke castellan was the rain before the storm, the pain before the raw scream; every fatal, holy thing that meant absolution and destruction in the same manner. a price you were willing to pay if it meant loving him.

and you did–love him that is. every part of you ached with love for your golden boy who had weathered storms like they were his prison and had wanted like it was a fatal wound that might never heal.

you first met the golden castellan boy nearly a year after coming to camp where you were claimed to be a child of the night and stars, the goddess nyx; an absolution of divinity that you would be every dark, enchanting thing he would know. you were the only thing that would allow the hurt in him to finally cease its dance and just allow him to simply be.

while the blood of the gods flowed through your veins, the peace only night could bring was your cover. it was every paceless sleep spent at the docks praying to your mother for one more star to keep its dance, it was heaven and heartbreak in the same measure.

when both man and monster fell to slumber, it was the knowing that eventually everyone would cease their dance sooner or later.

people would watch you like you were a painting come to life as the moon basked you in waves of starlight and the forest came to life in your presence. when the night grew tired of its waiting and the stars lost their way, it was you coaxing them back to life to the restlessness all beings underwent.

you were a creature of presence and peaceful destruction, misfortune and desire–every loud, unsaintly thing the brown-eyed, dimpled boy had thought.

and he was your exact opposite: bold, bright and charming like the sun. it was as if hermes had threaded gold through his veins and ichor had poured forth to create whatever celestial thing luke was. a type of burn only the sun could bring when you went off to your death.

the night had settled upon the camp long ago and so nothing but the loudness of silence and pensive dreams continued its echo. except for the child of the night and her sun who seem to find balance between the bumbling and the glow of the soft moon.

luke grabbed your hand and threaded his fingers, clutching you tightly as if you’d disappear with the breeze and never return.

he guided you to the docks where the river reflected back the divinity of the night sky and lapped gentle waves against the shore. you sat side by side, silently basking in the quiet.

breaking the silence, he asked, “what’s wrong?”

what was wrong? you didn’t quiet know. there was just a sort of cloak of discomfort that had settled over you that you couldn’t seem to shake off.

“do you ever wonder what’ll happen next?”

you settled his hand in your lap and grabbed it like it was a lifeline, tethering your aching body back to the living when all you wanted was to fade. he only rubbed the back of your knuckle, soothing the skin and the bone-deep itch all at once.

you turn to gaze at him, and suddenly you were jealous of the moon and how it shined so beautifully on him like it was made for him to bask under.

he turns to look at you, “before no. now…every moment, i begin to think what makes us so different from humans that we suffer tragedy while they can live how they please and without the cruelty of the gods. I think about what will happen when i finally pass on from this life to wherever my soul may go.”

you don’t think you could handle leaving this world after him. it was a type of pain that would kill you inside out, you decided. you knew it.

there is vulnerability in him that speaks out, “and then i dream that none of that matters because someday you and i make it out of here. out of this place and away from gods and monsters.”

you only grab his other hand and the one you currently have trapped and place a kiss upon each of the palms, embedding all the affection you have for him in that moment. it is something so humanely lived that the world stops moving and the gods see a love for the ages.

he plucks you up from his side and merely places you in his lap, wrapping you tightly in arms like there is no war spreading and reaching it’s claws from the horizon toward the two of you.

you simply close your eyes, soaking in the boy who's holding you like you are a divine being.

“open your eyes and show me the stars, pretty girl.”

all he can think is the moon and stars, which you've fallen in love with so many times has nothing against you. and suddenly your staring the biggest star in the face, wondering if in another life you were the moon and he was the sun king.

but when he kisses you, you realize no. he is simply the star that will follow you when your bodies turn to ash, being picked up by the breeze. and there is only the secret that luke castellan would allow himself a thousand years of destruction if it meant following you where ever you go.

you two are simply a star and his love.

#luke castellan #some poetic shit here #im doing mind games with yall #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo fandom #pjo series #luke castellan x reader #percy jackson show #annabeth chase #luke x reader #luke pjo #pjo x reader #pjo tv show #percy jackson x reader #percabeth #sun and moon myth #greek mythology #percy jackson series

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