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#homer #the odyssey #the iliad

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starting a new fanfic :)

[last updated december 2020]

#it's always the most toe curling-gut wrenching-life changing fanfics tho like #vic.txt

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wondering if Andromache was ever able to love her other children or if she lost all the will to love another child after Astyanax was murdered

#haha im so funny #the iliad #hector of troy #astyanax #andromache #tagamennon #greek mythology #greek myths #ancient greece

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Made more Iliad playlists so I’m gonna make a compilation post with them all lol

Hector- Let me save you, hold this rope

Achilles- I said make me love myself so that I might love you

Helen- They made you a crown out of magazines they made you a crown out of peonies

Apollo- I bet on losing dogs, I know they’re losing and I’ll pay for my place

Cassandra- I wanted to see the world through your eyes until it happened

Andromache- Another mother’s breaking heart takes over when the violence causes silence

Paris- Cause Andy you’re a star, in nobody’s eyes but mine

Bonus:

Hector/Andromache- Say you’ll remember me, standing in a nice dress staring at the sunset

Hector and Apollo- Hey Domino I am stopping you from falling, one-two-three, don’t you dare go down

#the iliad #tagamemnon #hector #Cassandra #Andromache #Achilles #helen of sparta/helen of troy #Apollo #Paris

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i hate being unable to put into words what i think

#using tumblr as my diary #vic.txt

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The constant temptation and promise of everything and nothing in the odyssey. The sirens promise odysseus to know, and the lotus eaters promise him to forget. He could be an immortal, and he could be a beggar. Be known, and be a stranger. He could be alive, and he could be dead. He could be odysseus, and he could be nobody. And the man of many ways tries to be a little bit of everything.

#the odyssey #odysseus #interpretations tag

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#ancient history #copper merchant

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Hey that insulin donation post is a scam. The account is very new yet following a ton of people, seems like they searched some tags to find the right audience. Only 3 posts. Using the first last and middle name of a Kenyan man that died by police violence in 2019. Found evidence of posts from other now deleted blogs using the full name, same story. Earliest I’ve found so far is December 2022. Likely a bot? Google abdi hakim malfadho

thanks for informing me, I've already deleted the post.

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sinbad is actually my favorite character from magi, it's just that i hate his guts so much (affectionately) that i never speak about him out of spite

#magi the labyrinth of magic #magi #sinbad #sinbad magi #sinbad no bouken

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hyperfixation so bad you have instrusive thoughts about it and start crying because of it

#using tumblr as my diary #vic.txt

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When I saw this picture, I knew I had to draw it with Hektor and Andromache, it's perfect for them~

#the iliad #andromache #hector of troy

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#the iliad #hector of troy

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i promise i still draw hacks this up

#hector of troy #the iliad #helen of sparta/helen of troy

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og horse girl

#hector of troy #the iliad

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#hector of troy #the iliad #me

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i've been reading a lot about fundamental differences between homer and tragedy and one interesting thing is the preoccupation of tragedy with the conflicts of women's loyalties to their natal and marital families, which manifests in so many tragedies putting women in situations where they are forced to choose sides in conflicts between their husbands/fathers/brothers/sons (eg medea chooses her husband over her father and brother, antigone chooses her brother over her future husband and potential children, procne chooses her sister and father over her husband and son, creusa remains dedicated to her father and his lineage instead of her husband and his). women are supposed to forge chains between men by their marriages and tragedies are so often interested in what happens to those connecting links when things go sour.

and that's just totally absent in homer, there's never any tension between icarius and odysseus or between eetion and the house of priam or between autolycus and laertes or between tyndareus and either paris or menelaus and agamemnon. most of the time either father-in-law or son-in-law is totally absent from the narrative. there's nothing that would put a woman in the position of mediating between the family she was born into and the family she married into.

but you know who in homer does experience this tension between loyalty to natal and marital families? hector. in iliad 6 andromache begs him to adopt a more defensive strategy because she and their son will be totally lost if he dies, and hector speaks of having to fight for his father's glory and his own. andromache and astyanax will suffer if hector dies well and bravely fighting for a lost cause, but priam will benefit. hector even acknowledges that after troy's fall it will be andromache who suffers most, not priam or hecuba-- for them the memory of hector's glory will be a consolation, while for her it will only be more pain. hector is torn between his father and his wife, the family he was born into and the family he has created through marriage.

#hector of troy #the iliad

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do you ever think about hector seeing achilles on the battlefield for the first time. about the cold sweat of premonition striking him, making the spear slippery in his hands, and then he realizes that achilles is so young. about hector thinking of his brothers, of his son. and knowing in his heart that, like a man raising the cub of the lioness he's slaughtered, he could never kill this boy.

#the iliad #hector of troy #achilles #i'm in shambles