#sophocles light

[angelnightrose]

Decayship chibi presents for @bella-nile and @confuzzeledpanda :3

#angel's art #decayshipping #sophocles light #tenebros darkness #holiday art #chibi #friend ocs #look at these boys they're adorable #i love them a lot #i also love my friends a lot #ver goods all around :3

[confuzzeledpanda]

Do you want the masculine or feminine side?

I can do both

#cycles #panda art #Sophocles Light #It my son #I love he and his shapeshifting ways X3

[othellho]

Sophocles, Elektra, trans. Anne Carson [1123-1140].

#classics tag #light tag #anne carson #Sophocles

[lets-get-lit]

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

- Sophocles, Antigone

#quotes #books #literature #lit #classics #academia #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #book #book quotes #quotation #Sophocles #Antigone #Play #Greek Play #Fiction #The Theban Plays #greek literature

[bethhiraeth]

I'm NOT going to say this again

Classic Texts are those that are considered part of the literary canon. Some examples are Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby or To Kill a Mockingbird.

Classical Texts are texts that originate in classical times from Greece and Rome. Some examples are the Iliad and Odyssey, Antigone, and Plato's and Sophocles's works.

Please, for the love of god, get it right

#classic literature #classical literature #classics #ancient greece #the odyssey #mythology #the secret history #light academia #dark academia #the iliad #the oddyssey #pride and prejudice #the great gatsby #to kill a mockingbird #rome #antigone #plato #sophocles

[beljar]

I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, is no less ominous than excessive grief.

Sophocles, from Antigone, -441

#sophocles #antigone #ancient greek literature #dark akademia #quotes #spilled ink #tragedy #words words words #light academia #silence #grief

[hyena-frog]

#red rising #light bringer #I was going to add a joke POV like Sophocles but I didn't want to mess up the results #my post #my chart

[baejax-the-great]

I’m about to have a weekend in which I go to a wedding, a bridal shower, and a baby shower (Yeah my family decided as long as everyone was in town, we’d get them all done at once). I’ve been told I’m also going on a boat ride.

I haven’t seen my family in a while, and when it comes down to it, they mainly patiently tolerate me. I am way too queer and nerdy for them, and they have never once shared any of my interests. My sister, on the other hand, is getting worked up with anxiety over the thing, because they tolerate her a lot less patiently (for good reason, but that’s neither here nor there).

So I was like, Sister, I have news. Since I last saw everyone in the family, I read the Iliad, read multiple novels concerning the characters in the Iliad, and learned I could access 100 articles a month on Jstore which resulted in me reading a bunch of academic articles about the Iliad and various art depicting the lads while arguing vehemently over certain interpretations.

What this means is that should you wish to derail a conversation, any conversation at all, you just have to mention Achilles and I’ll take it from there. I have at least three hours of material locked and loaded, ten hours with the mildest encouragement.

Unlike the rest of the family, my sister actually finds me funny, so I have no doubt she will be pulling the trigger.

#I have not told her I've written 25k words of a novel about Ajax #yeah that's my pet project idk if it will ever see the light of day #it also means to prove my point I have been texting her random shit about the iliad all day #sorry babe you're going to be learning whether you want to or not #I have also read sophocles plays #and I'm reading Lavinia right now #side note nobody ever says it but I'm pretty sure Teucer was the 3rd sexiest achaean

[whyoneartheven]

it just hit me that Oedipus quite literally goes out with a bang

#like #there's a big light and whatnot #and he's just gone #oedipus at colonus #honestly it was a fabulous sequel and i would definitely reread #sophocles #evie rambles #alrighhtt #now back to my essay #on #you guessed it #oedipus

[error404-lostinspace]

I feel like I’m a Sophocles character

#Sophocles is one of my favourite tragedian #tragic hero #spilled thoughts #writblr #dark academia #light academia #writeblr #romantic academia #greek tumblr #ancient greece #sophocles #spilled feelings #text

[voli-tile]

the Dark Urge and their Father.

margaret atwood, selected poems: 1965-1975 // santiago caruso, moonchild (detail) // frank bidart, half-light // nobuyoshi araki, feasts of angels: sex scenes // margaret atwood, alias grace // leonor fini, unconditional love // ocean vuong, prayer for the newly damned // carlo dolci, saint jerome (detail) // louise glück, penelope's song // georgiana luiza nicolae, i'll see you and i'll raise you hell // sophocles, elektra // nicole kiraga, tomatina // user veniennes on tiktok // kim jakobsson, i won't become // anne sexton, the civil war // unknown, likely by kim jakobsson // wikipedia, pyrrhic victory // alex morkh shadrin, solitude death hell

#damn this got long #the dark urge #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #durge #bhaal #web weaving #web weave #webweaving #webweave #ww #web #i learned what this type of thing was called literally today #and it's already my new favorite thing to be pretentious with #kidding i could never actualy be pretentious i just like to imagine what it'd be like sometimes #poetry #poetry collection #art collection #cw: gore #tw: gore #loved finding so many new artists and authors with this #realizing this kinda only suits a resist storyline sorry gang its just so compelling to me✌���

[confuzzeledpanda]

Comfort Boys with their comfort toys 💙💛🖤

#Panda Art #sophocles light #Orion Tesi #Cheshire Cat #tenebros darkness #decayshipping #Mel Decelles #Boris Black #IT MY COMFORT OCS!!! #I love they; they all make me happy #Possible sticker and standee design? 👀

[thelilylav]

He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

(He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother, The Hollies)

My art, The World at Its Beginning (Dustin Pearson), The Tyrant's Tomb (Rick Riordan), The Fall of the House of Usher (Steven Berkoff), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), Leto and her Children (William Henry Rinehart), The Moon Had No Light of its Own (Imaginary Future), My Love Mine All Mine (Mitski), Untitled (Lyra Wren), The Tyrant's Tomb (Rick Riordan), Electra (Sophocles), To Forgive (The Smashing Pumpkins), Unknown, The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), The Sun is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon), Doomed From the Beginning (@/veniennes on tiktok), On learning to write professionally (Interview with Jazmine Hughes by The Creative Independent), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), My art

#ok there i finally did it i have successfully captured all my emotions towards these two (is lying) #but like how r u supposed to sum that up in my defense #like their relationship to each other is complicated enough throw zeus in the mix and oh boy #but i finished the tower of nero and finally got to see these two happy so !!! #it was a surprisingly bittersweet ending but i rlly liked it #also expect another one of these for jason soon cause i am not done w that boy #i thought frank was gonna die in the tyrant's tomb too and am so glad he didn't idk if i could have coped TT #ricky watch ur back #percy jackson #percy jackson fanart #fanart #my art tag #web weaving #trials of apollo #the trials of apollo #artemis pjo #apollo pjo #lester papadopoulos #also if i messed up any of the sourcing pls lmk

[texaschainsawmascara]

Andalusia - Lisa Marie Basile / Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn / Runs in the Family - Amanda Palmer / unknown / Hate To Feel - Alice In Chains / The Lion In Winter - James Goldman / Letter To My Rage: An Evolution - Lidia Yuknavitch / Rupi Kaur / The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera / Amanda Palmer / Blud, "Glutton" - Rachel McKibbens / Medusa With the Head of Perseus, ‘Wound From the Mouth of a Wound’ - Torrin A. Greathouse / Easier Than Lying - Halsey / Playing God - Paramore / Nancy Lee / On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong / Enough - Suzanne Buffam / Antigone (Sophocles / trans. Anne Carson) / Family Tree (Intro) - Ethel Cain / Kellin / In The Blood - John Mayer / Antigonick - Anne Carson / The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch / Untitled, Jasmin R. / When Doves Cry - Prince / I AM ANGRY BECAUSE OF MY FATHER - Halsey / Courtney Love prays to Oregon - Clementine Von Radics / unknown / Cradle - Paris Paloma

#parallels #lisa marie basile #sharp objects #gillian flynn #amanda palmer #alice in chains #lidia yuknavitch #rupi kaur #milan kundera #paramore #nancy lee #ocean vuong #suzanne buffam #sophocles #anne carson #ethel cain #when doves cry #prince #halsey #clementine von radics #paris paloma

[soracities]

To me, reading classics is less about checking off some specific to do list and more just participating in a conversation that's been going on for as long as humans have been telling stories. And I don't necessarily love every classic, but I do love a lot of things that reference them and it's wonderful to be able to follow your favorite author's line of thinking, or understand the allusions in other media (music, film, etc.). Like Paradise Lost is misogynistic slog half the time, but it formed a lot of our modern conceptions of the devil and you can see it running through a lot of Neil Gaiman's work (and many others). Or a happier example I got to enjoy both Sophocles' plays as well as all the references to Oedipus Rex in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, doubling the enjoyment of both. Some people might similarly enjoy starting from their favorite authors and reading the works that influenced them, and following the long threads of conversation back as far as they please, if they're considering reading more classics.

This is exactly how I feel too, anon, you encapsulated it perfectly! I think the less dogmatic we are about the fixed boundaries (or fixed presumptions) of some genres the better and the more open and freeing our reading becomes!

#ask #Anonymous #a conversation is precisely what it is. Precisely !

[sleepnowmychild]

Prayers and hymns to Hypnos:

Anytime I find one in a book or site about ancient texts, I save it for later use. So here’s what I’ve collected so far.

Orphic Hymn 85 to Hypnos (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.) :
"To Hypnos, Fumigation from Poppies. Hypnos, king of Gods, and men of mortal birth, sovereign of all, sustained by mother earth; for thy dominion is supreme alone, over all extended, and by all things known. 'Tis thine all bodies with benignant mind in other bands than those of brass to bind. Tamer of cares, to weary toil repose, and from whom sacred solace in affliction flows. Thy pleasing gentle chains preserve the soul, and even the dreadful cares of death control; for Thanatos, and Lethe with oblivious stream, mankind thy genuine brothers justly deem. With favouring aspect to my prayer incline, and save thy mystics in their works divine."

Statius, Silvae 5. 4. 1 (Roman poetry C1st A.D.) :
*prayer by an Insomiac

O youthful Somnus, gentlest of the gods, by what crime or error of mine have I deserved that I alone should lack thy bounty? Silent are all the cattle, and the wild beasts and the birds, and the curved mountain summits have the semblance of weary slumber, nor do the raging torrents roar as they were wont; the ruffled waves have sunk to rest, and the sea leans against earth's bosom and is still. Seven times now hath the returning moon beheld my fixed and ailing eyes; so often have the lights of Oeta and Paphos revisited me, so oft hath Tithonia passed by my groans, and pitying sprinkled me with her cool whip. Ah! how may I endure? Not if I had the thousand eyes of sacred Argus, which he kept but in alternate watchfulness, nor even waked in all his frame at once. But now--ah, me!--if some lover through the long hours of night is clasping a girl's entwining arms, and of his own will drives thee from him, come thence, O Somnus! Nor do I bid thee shower all the influence of thy wings upon my eyes--that be the prayer of happier folk!--touch me but with thy wand's extremest tip--'tis enough--or pass over me with lightly hovering step."

By Sophocles in Philoctetes:

''Divine Hypnos, god who knows no pain, Hypnos, stranger to anguish, come in favour to us, come happy, and giving happiness, great King! Keep before his eyes such light as is spread before them now. Come to him, I pray you, come with power to heal!''

#hypnos god #hypnos devotee #hypnos deity #cthonic gods #hellenic deities #hellenic pagan #hellenic polytheism #greek mythology #hellenism #hellenic worship