#epic poetry

[midsummernightsmemes]

ᴬʰ, ᵗʰᵉ ᴼᵈʸˢˢᵉʸ ... ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵗᵒ ʷᵃᵗᶜʰ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵘⁱᵗᵒʳˢ, ᵃˢ ᵒⁿᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵐʸ ᶠᵃᵛᵒʳⁱᵗᵉ ʸᵒᵘᵀᵘᵇᵉʳˢ ˢᵃʸˢ, ᵍᵉᵗ ᵘⁿˢᵘᵇˢᶜʳⁱᵇᵉᵈ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ˡⁱᶠᵉ. ᴮᵘᵗ ʷʰᵉⁿ ᵉˣᵃᶜᵗˡʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᴼᵈʸˢˢᵉᵘˢ ' ᵈⁱˢᵍᵘⁱˢᵉ ʷᵉᵃʳ ᵒᶠᶠ?

#literature #funny memes #funny #lit memes #literature memes #memes #odysseus #odyssey #the odyssey #homer #epic poem #epic #epic poetry #athena #futurama

[g0thicgr33n]

Virgil having the faggiest face of anyone on this good green earth

#virgil #epic poetry #ancient rome #chronic gay face

[thesarosperiod]

epic poem smackdown! tell me which epic is your favorite (and why! if you feel so inclined). apologies in advance to everyone whose favorite i left off but unfortunately tumblr is stifling my power with this ten option limit

#also if you pick homer tell me which one in the tags! #i didn't feel justified giving him two spots lmao #but i know people have strong iliad vs. odyssey feelings #have not read all of these btw but god i want to #tagamemnon #the iliad #the odyssey #the epic of gilgamesh #beowulf #tain bo cuailnge #the aeneid #mahabharata #ramayana #shahnameh #the divine comedy #classics #epic poetry

[slaymybreathaway]

No bc the way that Achilles had to literally spell it out for Patroclus to realise that he wanted to have sex, but when Odysseus tells the story abt the man only fighting bc his wife asked him to, Patroclus is like:

"Me! You're talking abt me! You're comparing me to Cleopatra and indirectly asking me to beg Achilles to rejoin the war! I understand all of your metaphors instantly!"

#the song of achilles #tsoa #tsoa incorrect quotes #incorrect tsoa quotes #madeline miller #achilles #patrochilles #patroclus #greek mythology #epic poetry #the illiad #incorrect quotes

[vyvilha]

#epic poetry #epic heroes #heroic epic #epic poem

[firebird04]

You really notice how different the ancient Greek concepts of honour and hospitality were when a complete stranger comes up to Telemachus and says:

"I killed a man. They're coming for me. Please take me with you."

And Telemachus is just like: "Okay."

#the odyssey #homer #epic poetry #tagamemnon #robert fagles #greek mythology

[pierrotsoup]

midwinter is heinous but also. Wishing everyone a very happy tolkien/berserk/medieval epic poetry/WW1 movies/dungeon synth/ethereal wave/freak folk/darkwave/illuminated manuscript/dostoyevsky/bulgakov/gregorian chant/long wandering walks through the fog/doing your makeup weird/hot tea season

#tolkien #lotr #silmarillion #berserk #epic poetry #the green knight #beowulf #dungeon synth #goth #russian lit #medieval #gregorian chant

[droptheguillotineplease]

The Poet Sappho / Fragment 94

#my art #Sappho #digital painting #painting #art #Illustration #poetry #greek myth #sapphic #epic poetry #ancient greece

[estherwordnerd]

I was waiting impatiently to find out what Emily Wilson's Iliad would have to say about Achilles and Patroclus and this is just the introduction but suffice it to say I feel safe going into this knowing she understood the assignment on a deep and profound level.

Like OK go off queen I knew we could trust you!

#“from at least the fifth century BCE onward” has blown my mind #remind me of that next time someone talks about gay media like it's a new fad #the iliad #homer #homeric epics #epic poetry #emily wilson #achilles #patroclus #achilles x patroclus #patrochilles #translated literature

[crown-eats-rocks]

hear me out guys but aot would make such a good epic poem. greek mythology style? that shit would go so hard styled as a classic tragedy. cmon. the fixed narrative with eren? the "standing atop my mountain of corpses" with erwin? the doomed lover in mikasa? the miserable survivor in levi and reiner??? the fulfilling a cycle in armin??? the born and bred into hate in literally every marley warrior (most notably, gabi)?????

#is this my way of combining my special interests? #maybe #what are you gonna do about it #aot #attack on titan #snk #shingeki no kyojin #epic poetry #epic poem #greek tragedy #mythology #greek mythology #greek myths #oedipus #the odyssey #circe #levi ackerman #sasha braus #reiner braun #eren jaeger #eren jeager #eren yeager #zeke jeager #jean kirschstein #connie springer #armin arlert #mikasa ackerman #mikasa aot #eremika #annie leonhart

[gennsoup]

"Only a fool will wait for disaster to teach him."

Homer, The Iliad

#Homer #The Iliad #fool #disaster #Greek literature #epic poetry #poetry #poetry quotes #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes #books #words #text

[beluosus]

Homer, Iliad XXIII : 140-143

Then once more swift-footed divine Achilles Standing far away from the pyre cut a lock of his flowing golden hair Which he'd grown in honour of the river-god Spercheos. Aggrieved, he spoke, looking over the wine-dark sea

#wine darkness of actual product may vary #traduttore traditore #tagamemnon #dark academia #classic academia #classical studies #classics #homer #iliad #sea #ocean #poetry #quotes #ancient greek #epic poetry #moodboard #ἐποίησα

[whereserpentswalk]

Gilgamesh was likely a real king, which means the oldest written story we know is an RPF fic.

#196 #fanfic #rpf #fic #writing #fanfiction #gilgamesh #epic poetry #classics #mythology #fandom

[lionofchaeronea]

As the generations of leaves, so those of men. Some leaves the wind pours to the ground, while others The flourishing wood puts forth, and spring comes on: Likewise with men, one generation's born, Another ceases to be. οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν. φύλλα τὰ μέν τ᾽ ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θ᾽ ὕλη τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δ᾽ ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη: ὣς ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ ἣ μὲν φύει ἣ δ᾽ ἀπολήγει. --Homer, Iliad 6.146-149

#classics #tagamemnon #Greek #Greek language #Ancient Greek #Ancient Greek language #translation #Greek translation #Ancient Greek translation #poetry #poetry in translation #epic poetry #Homer #Iliad #The Iliad #dactylic hexameter

[thesarosperiod]

sleep-deprived brainstorm notes (click to expand) on gilgamesh and enkidu from when i was trying to pick a topic for my summer research. wrote these at approximately three am. still can't tell if i was onto something but here you go either way

(quote is trans. stephanie dalley, the article on patroclus is here)

#if there are typos don't tell me #my project is on grief so i might use pieces of this but not the whole thing #so i figured i may as well get some use out of it lmao #the epic of gilgamesh #gilgamesh #enkidu #classics #classical studies #epic poetry #literary analysis #id in alt text

[ironspdr6700]

So... I finished to read the Argonautica of Apollonius. Seriously? Seriously anybody is talking here about how, in book 4, Apsyrtus is killed by Jason and Medea.

How he is tricked by her sister into letting his guard down. How Jason slaughters him like a sacrificed bull (Apollonius says it, I'm just the messenger). How Medea averts her gaze because she cannot bear to see the death of her own family and therefore she is not yet the vengeful murderer of Euripides but Apsyrtus's last gesture is to soil Medea's white/shining veil.

How Medea wants to avoid it. How Apollonius needs a single verse to make it clear that she can't… SHE NEVER CAN.

How Jason tears Apsyrtus's body into pieces and LICKS HIS BLOOD THREE TIMES AND THEN SPITS IT OUT. How it is the same thing that Clytemnestra does with Agamemnon's corpse according to Sophocles' Electra.

How Apsirtus is killed in the foyer of a temple of Artemis and this goddess does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING because she is the only Olympian who accepts human sacrifices in mythology (cough… Iphigenia… cough)

THERE REALLY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS?!

#argonautica #greek mythology #Apollonius of Rhodes #Jason #Medea #Jason x Medea #Apsirtus #Clytemnestra #Agamemnon #Sophocles #Electra #Sorry if I wrote something wrong #English is not my native language #REALLY?! #NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THIS?! #greek gods #greek epic #epic poetry #euripides