#greek wall

[notacluedo]

how the ride back from skyros went

#Imagine ur Pyrrhus and ur like 13 and this random middle aged dude takes u to an island to a guy who’s dying #That HE voted to leave on the island and he’s like lol steal his bow <3 #Also love that these two are the ones who alleged threw astynax off the walls of Troy in different versions😭😭😭😭 #Pyrrhus #neoptolemus #Odysseus #the iliad #greek mythology #my art #My mum still only knows Odysseus as the guy who threw a baby off a wall bc we watched Troy fall of a city together

[fire-flower-work]

Δεν το ξέχασα ποτέ

Δεν σε ξέχασα ποτέ

#greek #greek quotes #γρεεκ #γρεεκ ποστς #ελληνικά #greek chat #friend quotes #funny greek quotes #quotes om walls #quotes #graffiti #wall #her

[athanasiaaaaa]

Κάπου στην Άνω Πόλη τον Σεπτέμβρη

(μου λείπεις!)

#greek posts #greek tumblr #γρικ κουοτς #γρεεκ #γρικζ #γρικ ποστ #γρικ ταμπλρ #γρεεκ ποστς #θεσσαλονίκη #άνω πόλη #ελληνικο tumblr #ελλαδα #film #mine #greek quotes #quotes #quotes on walls

[imaginal-ai]

"Hercules and His Lover, Iolaus, in Moonlight" (0002)

(More of The Hercules and Iolaus Series)

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#lgbtq #ai gay #greek mythology #ai men #bodybuilder boyfriend #ai muscle #muscular #gay couple #gay men #bisexual #gay love story #ai artwork #ai generated #ai art community #ai image #gay ai art #wall art #wall decor #men kissing #gay romance #ai fashion #fashion illustration #art direction #symbolist art #ai hunk

[andy-clutterbuck]

(◡‿◡✿)

#SANTA #Andrew Lincoln #* #andygifs #excuse me but the nose™️ #the english muffin lookin a little burnt #HEART EYES #i love me a sweaty man #timeshare in the santa beard #pack your bags i'm driving the bus 🚍 #put the lollipop stick down pls im fragile #when you put your hands on both sides of a cat's face and scratch? yeah #that one little spiky curl #perfection #gonna make like those ancient greek fantasies and fan him with palm fronds #eye crinkles are so sacred #one day your lips will not make me want to bust through a wall like the koolaid man

[snowyarcher]

Hell, you were the rightest of my wrongs

- Unknown

#literature #poetry #quotes #writing #greek walls #love #love quotes #poem #relationship quotes #romance #love poem #heartbreak

[maedhrus]

– sarah ruhl, "eurydice" (insp.)

#the terror #the terror amc #joplittle #thomas jopson #edward little #theterroredit #*mine #one can believe in anything if one is delusional enough! #anyway joplittle as orpheus and eurydice argue with the wall #i feel pretty meh about the colouring here but oh well #me (wise and insane): joplittle greek tragedy #their love language is yearning gazes

[brother-emperors]

Not long after, some cattle were stolen from Euboea by Autolycus, and Eurytus supposed that it was done by Hercules; but Iphitus did not believe it and went to Hercules. And meeting him, as he came from Pherae after saving the dead Alcestis or Admetus, he invited him to seek the kine with him. Hercules promised to do so and entertained him; but going mad again he threw him from the walls of Tiryns.

Pseudo Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2.6.2

Iphitos, Herakles, and behind the scene of the murder: Iphitos gifting Odysseus with a bow, and then Odysseus, alone.

okay, so I quoted Apollodorus first, but what actually intrigues me about it is how it goes against a general narrative by making it seem like the act was against his will

Sophokles, Trachiniae

Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica

Herakles and Omphale, Elmer G. Suhr

I'm also fascinated Odysseus' in this moment of the arc, with rituals of friendships cut short and paths diverging where they might have otherwise continued along side each other. there is a tragedy and intimacy of it and the role it plays in the Odyssey that gets to me. Odysseus strings his bow and its a kind of crescendo of several different threads coming together!! and underneath it all, inescapable, Iphitos. everything's interconnected! we're all made up of the people we met along whichever roads we take!!

Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras, edited by John Marincola, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Calum Maciver

The Odyssey, trans. Fagles

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#it's all greek to me #iphitus #herakles #odysseus #drawing tag #if i think about the iliad-odyssey for too long i start weeping wailing clawing at the walls etc #or i end up doing an illustration that started out very simple then added in (literally) more layers to it #but! ive cast my thoughts out onto this illustration and im once more free until something else takes up residence in my brain

[ravenofsilver]

Sometimes I see posts wondering if Patroclus and Hyacinthus would be friends in the afterlife.

And I want to assure you that no. They would absolutely not be. Why would Patroclus and Achilles be fond of one of the best-beloved of Apollo, the god who played a most direct hand in both their deaths?

Don’t get me wrong I see the parallels. But still absolutely not.

I do think Hyacinthus chills with Adonis. In some myths, Apollo is listed as one of Adonis’ lovers. I think out of the three, Apollo would have been the one to give that mortal the most freedom, the most room to breathe.

Similarly, in his courtship of Hyacinthus, Apollo took him to new places and taught him new things.

I think if there is anyone who could really appreciate what this means, it would be the two of them. So. Adonis and Hyacinthus are friends in death. But Patroclus and Hyacinthus would absolutely throw hands because they’re both slightly unhinged and very much in love.

#greek mythology #patroclus #achilles #patrochilles #hyacinthus #apollo #hyapollo #tsoa #song of achilles #the iliad #adonis #I’m rereading the Iliad and odyssey and for the first time reading apollodorous #and like. it has nothing to do with anything #but the posts speculating that Hyacinthus and Patroclus would get along are So Weird #homies. fellow web gremlins. Apollo fucking threw Patroclus off the walls of Troy #Apollo guided Paris’s arrow #Hyacinthus and Patroclus have to be kept separate at all times they WILL start throwing down #and that’s assuming they were even in the same place #Hyacinthus had no body yall. no way to pay the toll. how he gonna get anywhere? #he is maybe living on in the flowers (or so I would hope) and far far away from Patroclus and Achilles.

[skellynoodle]

Was joking with a friend about the confusion the early Greco-roman Christian converts felt, and we decided that Dionysus and Jesus need a sitcom a la saint young men

#dionysus #jesus christ #history #greek mythology #christianity #they’re friends argue with a wall

[missagonyy]

A few last Xena sketches - Minya, Discord, and Strife.

😅

Sorry, I’m editing this to add Callisto

#xenaverse #xena: warrior princess #xena fanart #xena #xwp #xena warrior princess #thespian #minya #discord #strife #eris #greek goddess #greek mythology #greek myths #hercules the legendary journeys #htlj #joel tobeck #Meighan Desmond #Alison Wall #fanart #sketchbook #ink drawing #illustration #90s nostalgia #90s tv shows #callisto #hudson leick #Salmoneus #Robert Trebor #Hercules

[withlovefromolympus]

idk who in the pjo fandom needs to hear this, but:

There are demigod children of Aphrodite who are aroace, and they are extremely valid Aphrodite kids.

Aphrodite loves and accepts them as her own as much as she does her other children. As the goddess of love, she’s the goddess of all kinds of love, not just the type that’s romantic (or sexual), so aro and/or ace kids of hers simply express the familial/friendship/ect relationships of her domain, which are also important forms of love <3

#aphrodite #Percy jackson #aphrodite cabin #cabin 10 #greek mythology #hope this clears things up #this is canon #argue with the wall #percy jackson and the olympians #greek gods #pjo #pjo tv series #pjo disney+ #CHB #aroace #aromantic #ace positivity #aro positivity #asexual #pjo hcs #it’s the truth #positivity #lgbtq+ #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #love #greek myth #pjo hoo toa #important

[finelythreadedsky]

i make it a rule to always include translations whenever i quote anything in ancient greek or latin (or any other language other than english) in all my academic work but here on tumblr dot com i like to have a little incomprehensibility sorry

#its the aesthetic quality of text that has no intention of making its meaning clear to the reader #like did you know that in antiquity they had the idea of putting spaces between words to make things easier to read #and they actively chose not to do that because they thought an undifferentiated wall of uniform text looked better? #that's me sticking untranslated greek on my blog #mine

[imaginal-ai]

"Hercules and His Lover, Iolaus"

(Hercules 0001)

#lgbtq #ai gay #greek mythology #ai men #bodybuilder boyfriend #ai muscle #muscular #gay couple #gay men #bisexual #gay love story #ai artwork #ai generated #ai art community #ai image #gay ai art #wall art #wall decor #men kissing #gay romance #ai fashion #fashion illustration

[greekmythcomix]

It occurred to me yesterday in class, not for the first time, that Ancient Greeks looking back at Mycenaean era walls and saying ‘The Cyclopes must have made them’ is rather like certain modern people looking at the Pyramids and saying

#they probably did t actually say that it was probably ancient propaganda to make themselves look good that the Cyclopes had helped them but #it helps my students realise how dumb the ancient aliens theory is #ancient aliens #cyclopean walls #greek mythology #greek myth

[aphemera]

rewatching interstellar trying to connect it to odysseus because i’m completely normal about him

#i’ve been meaning to rewatch it for like 5 years now #some of the scenes are so nostalgic #so excited for the walls scene because it scared me sm as a kid #odysseus #greek mythology #tagamemnon #the odyssey #nasa