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katerinaaqu · 1 month

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Isn't it freaking adorable how both Odysseus and Penelope could remember down to exact detail what clothing she had packed for Odysseus before he left for war even 20 years later?!

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And she packed them herself. She didn't use the help of any servant or slave to do it. She wanted to prepare her husband herself. What is even more is that all the clothes were of vibrant colors which had me thinking;

What if Penelope deliberately prepared vibrant colored clothes for Odysseus solely so that she could see him from afar for as long as possible?! And man I can so imagine her doing the same! Like standing on the top of the hill where the palace is, wearing a vibrant dress that floats in the wind, holding baby Telemachus in her arms and watch Odysseus's bright tunic on the ship and Odysseus turning his head to look up at that aetherial figure on the hill almost leaning over the ship to see her JUST FOR A LITTLE LONGER until he cannot see her anymore and this is where he keeps looking at his island becoming smaller and smaller to the horizon, shedding tears of goodbye

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Man ninjas are cutting onions around me again!!!

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aaronofithaca05 · 1 month

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As you may have seen @katerinaaqu and I have been discussing about a head canon of hers, tatted Odysseus.

For a while we searched for Scythian tattoos as they are the closest society that allowed tattoos, we weren´t sure if in Mykenean Greece they were frowned upon but in classical Greece they were (criminals, shady or barbaric people wore them).

So to make it plausible we came up with this idea: in the middle of the Troyan war in a resupply day, Menelaus and Agamemnon find Odysseus been tattooed an olive tree by a Scythian, perplexed by this they told him that it was a nothing a king should do, shady look.

But Odysseus told them it was a memory of his home of Penelope and Telamachus, that at least if he died there it would have died with his family. Also is a display of Ody´s more flamboyant personality traits, he didn´t tattoed a small olive or branch, nonono, he tattoed a whole tree!.

As the real design is composed of branches inspired by Scythians tattoos of deer´s antlers, (the lack of trees in the steppes prevented them from forming a more floral and plant style; being deer's antlers where we find more plant 'like designs),

The olive flowers are simplifications of the actual flower,

Flowers for my beautiful wife, whom I longed for, for years

The leaves are blackouts of the originals and the olives are also simplifications.

The sweet fruit of my dear Telemachus whom I never saw growing

The images below are the sketches I made for having an idea of the placement and elements we wanted to include.

We chose the upper arm as it was more concealable and only be fully revealed to Penelope.

As you can see there´s a swallow drawing, it has it reasons, swallows (Hirundo rustica) have a year migration and came back to Europe and Greece in spring, being heralds of the season and all that entails (hope, regrowth, fertility...) but the most important attributes for us were; (Athena transforms into a swallow and flies away from Telemachus in the Odyssey). Also it is mentioned that the chord of Odysseus's bow "sang like a swallow" when he used it to kill the suitors symbolizing his homecoming.

Swallows have always been linked to journeys specially to homecoming. They idea was of one swallow (Odysseus) but swallows are paired and as a small reminder, the biggest and most ornate is Penelope, fully in flight and more artistically and Odysseus is the one below more naturalistic as he is lesser in his eyes than her. The swallows are more linear and not painted as it also seems more secretive and blank spaces for everyone except him (So he can say everything I have been writing to her)

These is the final rendition of the idea!

I hope you have enjoyed and that it becomes your new headcanon!

@katerinaaqu thank you so much for everything! It has been a pleasure!

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wolfythewitch · 5 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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essektheylyss · 10 months

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that's it, that's the Odyssey

#megs is reading #honestly is there anything better than a really fucked up sailor who would lie through his teeth until his last breath? no.#this is why black sails is great. this is why Fjord is great #grand tradition of fucked up sailors who cannot tell the truth to save their lives.#this is repeated like #once a book throughout but this one is really funny cuz it's like 300 lines from the end and it's to his own grieving father #anyway. reading poetry from 800 bce like 'do you think people in antiquity were whining over whether odysseus was actually the bad guy'#(the answer is yes but it does not make me laugh any less)

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huntseric · 4 months

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Art Summary

#digital art #digital illustration #art summary 2023 #art summary #ocs #odysseus #sailors #spiderverse #spidersona #1899 sebastian #epic the musical

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daydreamerfallingbehind · 2 months

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rip odysseus, you would’ve loved jimmy buffett

#wrote this while listening to son of a son of a sailor #but i have a vivid image in my head of him on calypso’s island listening to margaritaville #odysseus #greek mythology #also rip jimmy buffett

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pegasusdrawnchariots · 2 months

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What. The Count of Monte Cristo is so good :0

#NO-ONE TOLD ME???#I'm listening to it on the train gasping & shit #the narrator mispronounces a few words sadly & his French accent for the characters is sometimes impenetrable #but idc this book is so good I am LIVING #they locked this bitch up for 14 years!! no trial no charge!!#god help him he was only 19 & so on & so forth #I would've lost my mind #also. the using suicidal ideation to cope???#what is it w me & sailors who fantasise abt killing themselves #anyway he's just busted out of prison. naked. swimming for his life #the Edmond is out of his cage. yes. YES. the Edmond is free #I'm sooo ready for him to tear these bitches a new one but I'm only like 15% of the way through the book so. I assume all will not go well #anyway the more I read/listen to‚ the more I realise Edmond Dantes is Odysseus Lite #except at least Laertes makes it to the end of the Odyssey alive. unlike Old Dantes :( so Odysseus gets a point for that #I should've realised when they didn't give him a name tbh #anyway NO SPOILERS #I'm aware that it's 180 years old. STILL. 🤫#ALSO THE SCENE W NOIRTIER??? lich rally breathless #dripping w swagger. fuck les gendarmes. complete identity metamorphosis. drags his failson. fuck les gendarmes TWO!!#I'm sorry Villefort I'm sure ur not a failson #I just haven't read enough yet. & ur certainly not yr father lmfaooo #The Count of Monte Cristo

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dootznbootz · 22 days

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I just wanted you to know you're very wholesome and I admire that, because it's something hard to keep as you grow older. You're like Polites on cotton candy 🍭

Oh, thank you! 🥹 That's incredibly sweet!

I always try my best to look on the bright (yet still understanding) side of things as there always is one! :D There's good in everything! Even in darker aspects of a story/myth!

There's a lot of humanity and kindness in places you wouldn't expect and it honestly feels silly to act like such things aren't possible! :D

#Sorry this is a little late! I've gotten a few asks recently and I'm trying to space them out!!! :D #honestly. I love finding and creating little quirks and characteristics of characters and noticing them irl too #I just don't really see the point in bitterness about stuff. I know I can get fired up and angry myself but to only have bitterness is...#not gonna help in the long run.#There's only so much unwholesomeness in the world before you just get tired you know? :'D #I mean... unlike Epic Polites I DEFINITELY have “mean” moments. I'm not perfect but I always try and see good.#Honestly I relate to Odysseus a lot (technically Penelope too) but with the whole “so much love and hate inside one person”#as I have a lot of love (✿ ♡‿♡) ...but there's a lot of R A G E too (ʘᴗʘ✿)#also trauma O_O I am healing through this idiot.#I mean the reason why I love the Odyssey so much is that to me. It's saying no matter what you've done or what you've been through #you CAN know peace. the “Joy like a sailor” part really cements that to me.#The “sailor” is still covered in brine and he's cold but he can BREATHE again. It's a step in the right direction.#ask #simugeuge #🩵#Mad rambles

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fancy--that · 10 months

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Listening to 2023 Little Mermaid got me thinking of way too many octo Thomas and human Alex scenarios

#mermay was 2 months ago #Also looking back on the first fic i wrote i started thinking about Odysseus and Calypso #and a scenario in which Thomas wants to spend eternity with a handsome sailor lost at sea

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pd-lyons · 2 months

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For All The Sylvias , by pd lyons from Myths Of Multiplicity

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#erbacce prize 2014 #G&T&039;s #liverpool #Myths Of Multiplicity #Odysseus hearts #pd lyons photography #poetry #sailor knots #sylvia plath

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jedi-valjean · 1 year

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Odysseus' Strategy Notebook

PLAN TO DEFEAT THE TROJANS