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“[The Iliad] is remarkable for the way that its preoccupation with mortality and the human conditions extends even to the enemy. The killing of Hektor by the central figure of the Iliad, Achilles, is a great victory for the Greeks, and yet the camera immediately shifts, as we witness the gut-wrenching reactions of Hektor’s mother, father, and wife to his death. Similarly, the Iliad ends not with the funeral of Achilles, who is doomed to die very soon, but instead with the funeral of Hektor. Achilles’ own short life and imminent death resonate throughout the laments that are sung for his deadliest enemy. In the words of Simone Weil, who was struck by the equity of compassion with which the suffering of the Greeks and Trojans is narrated: “The whole of the Iliad lies under the shadow of the greatest calamity the human race can experience - the destruction of the city. This calamity could not tear more at the heart had the poet been born in Troy. But the tone is not different when the Achaeans are dying, far from home.””

— from The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy, by Casey Dué

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this is your daily reminder that greek myth is weird and their family tree is more like a tumbleweed than a tree

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reap what you sow

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You artwork is amazing! I was thrilled to see some 'Song of Achilles' art on here because I was honestly beginning to think that I was the only one who had read the book! Hope you have a great day x

Oooh my, thank you very much! <333I fell IN LOVE with this book first time I read it and it hurts me to see there isn’t more art of it around. So I’m on my mission to change that! Hope you have a gorgeous day (and enjoy this quick doodle of Prince Handsome)!

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the death of patroclus

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protector of the flock

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vincenzo sanguineti, clash of cultures: a psychodynamic analysis of homer and the iliad

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The rage

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–if that ever happened.

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obsessed with the pacing of the iliad. like you wait 16 books for patroclus to enter the battle and then he does and just dies instantly. go girl give us nothing

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some quick warmups of the soft boys from Song of Achilles :‘3

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ehh…ok…this week theme of illustration friday is “wisdom” and I had no idea what shall I draw ^^; ….so I drew born of goddess of wisdom …..I hope it’s ok :3

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in case anyone was wondering i’m STILL not over iliad 3. helen really fucked around and found out didn’t she :)

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“She is a goddess, beautiful and terrifying”

Thetis, inspired by my recent reading of The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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Achilles wip (what do you mean by ‘drawing a death scene is not a good coping mechanism’)

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It's been weeks since I've finished The Song of Achilles, and I cannot stop thinking about it. So I decided to design some of the characters from the book for my portfolio. Here is the lineup before the Trojan War. I was influenced a lot by Michelle Cheng's TSoA project, as well as the design of Achilles and Patroclus in Supergiant Games' Hades. So you might spot similarities between my designs and theirs YvY I'm working on the characters during war time atm. I decided to read the full Iliad book for more context about these characters, and it's one hell of a book so yep it's gonna take me a while haha YvY

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more iliadchilles doodles