#polymnestor

[dilutedh2so4]

In my mind Apollo did rescue Hecuba after the fall of Troy and all this talk of her turning into a dog is just the bitter ravings of Polymestor (especially given that Kynossema is within his lands)

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The Polymnestor Butterfly, Papilio polymnestor [Pl. 28] | The Naturalist's Miscellany v.1 | Biodiversity Heritage Library | Flickr

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hi aly!! happy pride month!

i’ve seen you post about butterflies a few times and i was wondering- which species/type is your favorite?

(also i was totally inspired by your pfp frame so i did one for mine lol)

HI RAINE! :D happy pride month! your pfp looks great!!! :)

AND THANK YOU FOR ASKING ABOUT MY FAVORITE BUTTERFLY!!! i know you probably wanted a singular answer as to which one is my favorite, but i am insane af when it comes to these beautiful lil creatures so i fear i cannot choose 😭 i love them all too much! 🫶 but here is an quick summary of my top ten favorites:

here is a spicebush swallowtail, or Papilio troilus! it is commonly found in north america, it loves deciduous woods and swamps, and i’ll bet you can guess what this pretty lil butterfly’s most common host plant is! (if you guessed a spicebush, you would be correct! 🫶)

this small guy is a chalkhill blue, or a Lysandra coridon! they are found in the palearctic, they love chalky grasslands, and the female chalkhill blues are actually brown rather than blue! :)

this is a red-spotted purple, or Limenitis arthemis! they are spread all throughout north america, they like birches and willow trees, and their scientific name translates to “harbor goddess” in greek! <3

here is a mourning cloak, or the Nymphalis antiopa. this butterfly is native to eurasia and north america. it is montana’s state butterfly, it has one of the longest lifespans of any butterfly (it can live up to a year!), and it is called the camberwell beauty in england!

this is a polyura jupiter! it is found in indonesia and other islands that surround it! the larvae supposedly feed on albizia stipulata! :D

this is a Morpho aurora! it is neotropical, it is found often in the rainforests of peru and bolivia, and it is named after the roman goddess of dawn, aurora!

this is the blue mormon, or Papilio polymnestor. it is found in south india and sri lanka, it is the fourth largest butterfly in india, and it loves areas with heavy rainfall! :D

this is the eastern tiger swallowtail, or Papilio glaucus! it is native to eastern north america, the first known drawing of a north american butterfly was a drawing of this butterfly in 1587, and it gets its name from its distinctive black “tiger” stripes! :)

this is a malachite, or a Siproeta stelenes. it is a neotropical butterfly found all throughout central and northern south america, it is one of the most commonly found butterflies in south america, and it is named after the mineral malachite because of its similar bright green coloring.

and last but not least, here is a marbled white, or Melanargia galathea. this species can be found in forests clearings and meadows across most of iran, southern russia, asia minor, and europe, they are most often seen out and about during june through september, and the butterfly larva love eating grass! :)

ANYWAYS EXCUSE MY MUCH TOO LONG BUTTERFLY RANT! THANK YOU SM FOR THE ASK RAINE 😭 <3

(also, i looked for a raine butterfly cause it sounded like it could possibly exist, but there sadly isn’t one :( don’t feel too bad tho, there are some cute little mites and beetles called rain bugs and rain beetles respectively, which is semi-close to your name! :) oh and the mites are a beautiful bright red! they’re pretty cute! :])

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Hecuba Blinds Polymnestor.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 18th century???

I found the following scraps of info in one of my notebooks (I didn't make a note of the source material - tut tut - but I think it's probably the unscholarly site I don't really like to mention!):

Hecuba was a queen in Greek mythology; indeed, as wife of King Priam, she was the queen of Troy until the city was destroyed by the Greeks in the Trojan War. Her story is told in the Euripidean tragedy which takes her name, set in Troy after the war but before the Greeks have departed. The play depicts her grief over the death of her daughter, Polyxena, and the revenge she takes for the murder of her youngest son, Polydorus.

Polyxena was Hecuba's youngest daughter, who was sacrificed by the Greeks on the tomb of Achilles, to whom she was betrothed. Her throat was slit by Achilles' son, Neoptoemus, aka Pyrrhus.

Polydorus was murdered by King Polymnestor, King of the Bistonians of Thrace, and Hecuba's son-in-law by marriage to her eldest daughter, Ilione. He had been sent to the king for safe-keeping along with jewels and gold, but Polymnestor betrayed Priam and Hecuba and threw their son into the ocean, while keeping the treasure. In revenge, Hecuba arranged for Polymnestor's sons to be killed and his own eyes to be scratched out.

Hecuba had 19 children, including the war hero Hector, and Troilus, both of whom were said to have been born as a result of union with the god, Apollo. She appears six times in Homer's epic poem about the war, 'The Iliad'.

Priam reputedly had 18 daughters and 68 sons by several wives and concubines. Most of his children were slain by the Greeks during or shortly after the Trojan War.

[dilutedh2so4]

Combining this with the variant where Polydorus also survives because Iliona swaps him with Polymnestor's son, I've always thought the two should've gone on a revenge tour together

Thinking about grown up Astyanax that survives and goes with Andromache. Thinking about Tall™ Andromache and Hector being a beast and wishing Scamandrius would surpass him, so he just grows up into this absolutely unbeatable warrior that can throw you across the room and is 2 heads taller than everyone. And he WILL hunt down every last living Achaean leader and tear them into little pieces. And Andromache hates it but part of her doesn't and she's always there at home with helenus to hold him when he comes back after months and he still hasn't washed the blood off so he can show his mom that he's avenging their family and the city he's king of. And he looks way too much like hector so it's extra terrifying when he finds his targets.

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February 2025 Reading 

Purgatorio- Dante  (1321)  Continuing through Purgatorio 

Canto 19   Level 5: avarice  Actually still on the fourth level at the start, Dante has a dream of a Siren, who is ugly and deformed. But as he stares at her, she is transformed into a beauty, and she sings so enchantingly that Dante feels he could pull away only with difficulty. Dante feels a love towards her, when another heavenly woman shows up and throws the siren into confusion. The heavenly woman calls on Virgil, who tears the deceiving veil off the witch and she is once again exposed as ugly.  

Dante and Virgil are then called by an angel to the passageway up to the next level, and on the way, Dante asks about the dream. Virgil explains she is an ancient witch, a symbol of the deceptive beauty of earthly things, when the reality is that these things are actually dangerous for us. Only divine grace can expose them. 

The reach the fifth level where people are lying face down everywhere. Dante converses with one, Pope Adriano V, who tells him that he converted after receiving the office of Pope, only to find it brought no peace and exposed the false life he was living. As a punishment for avarice, those whose focus was too excessively on earthly things are bound and made to lie face down. Adriano asks Dante to have his niece Alagia pray for him and the canto ends there. 

Canto 20  Level 5: avarice cont.  The canto starts by saying Dante wanted to stay longer to hear more, but couldn't. He likens this to having to pull a sponge from the water before it has soaked up all it could. But he moves on stepping gingerly to avoid the prostrate penitents as he moves along the inner portion of the road.  

Dante curses the ancient she-wolf, symbolizing greed, that we met in Inferno canto 1, as claiming more victims than perhaps any other sin, and asking how long until God comes back to clear up the mess and banish sin. 

As Dante and Virgil move through the bodies, he hears praises of Mary for her humility in accepting the manger as the birthplace for her child; the consul Fabricius who turned down bribes and died poor; and Saint Nicholas, whose generosity saved some young maidens from being prostituted.  

Dante comes closer to find out who it is that recalls such worthy figures, and offers to bless the soul with petitions to help him on his way with prayers when he returns to earth. The soul declines any favors but replies that he is Hugh Capet, father of the lineage of French kings. He laments the avarice of Charles of Anjou in particular, who he lambasts as an avaricious man through fraud and deceit. He notes another Charles that will come in treachery and cause division in Florence, leading to Dante's own ouster. Then he mentions a third Charles (the second) who will imprison a pope and in doing so, commit the same measure of crime that was committed against Jesus. 

Then he notes that the praises Dante had heard are what they all utter, only he happened to be uttering it a bit louder at the time Dante passed, and so was heard. He also notes that at night, they no longer utter praises, but curses against the avaricious: like Pygmalion, who killed his brother-in-law to grab his wealth; Midas, whose greedy wish became his curse; Achan, the Israelite who kept spoils back that were supposed to be destroyed and was stoned to death for it; Ananias and Sapphira, who, in the book of Acts, held back profit from a land sale and tried to deceive the church; Heliodorus, the treasurer of the King of Syria, who was sent to seize the Temple of Jerusalem's treasure and was kicked by a horse; Polymnestor, who killed Polydorus to get his wealth, and finally Crassus, the triumvir with Caesar and Pompey, whose avarice was well known- he was killed and his mouth filled with molten gold. 

Then Dante and Virgil move on when the mountain is shaken strongly and a heavenly choir sings "Glory to God in the highest". Dante and Virgil move on, but the canto ends with Dante wanting to know more of what just happened. 

Canto 21  Level 5: avarice cont.  |he canto starts with Dante still wanting to know what had just happened on the mountain, but as Dante and Virgil move down the road, they are aware someone has come up behind them. The soul greets them, and Virgil returns with a greeting that lets the stranger know that he, Virgil, is in eternal exile. This causes the soul to wonder how it is that Virgil has escaped hell? Virgil responds that Dante is among those that will go to heaven, but since he is still alive, he needed a guide to lead him through the realms since he is unable to see as they, the shades, do.  Virgil then asks about the earthquake and the shouting. The soul replies that nothing happens on the mountain beyond what divine will orders, including any meteorological events. But at the moment a soul feels itself purified from the sin it is being purged of, the mountain trembles and the shout follows. He explains that every soul, of course wants to ascend, but it also feel in itself, that it must pay according to divine justice the penalties for its sin, and so won't move until it feels itself free to do so. The answer satisfies Dante, who had been longing to know.  

Virgil asks who the soul is, and why he had been required to lay there for so many centuries. The soul mentions that he lived in the time when Titus had destroyed the temple in 70 AD, and avenged the blood of Jesus on the Jews who killed him. He was a famous poet, but not a believer. He had been brought to Rome from Toulouse (Dante had his info wrong, the poet was actually from Naples), and his name was Statius. He had a famous poem about Thebes, and was in the middle of a work about Achilles, when he died. But Statius reveals that his love of poetry was sparked by Virgil's Aeneid, and Statius himself would have gladly spent another year in purgatory for the privilege of living when Virgil lived. 

At this Virgil turns to Dante and gives him a look to not say anything. Dante has a hard time controlling himself though, and a slight smile escapes. Statius asks Dante why, and finally Virgil gives Dante the ok to tell who he is. Dante tells Statius that the guide with whom he has been speaking is the same Virgil. At this, Statius kneels and tries to hug Virgil's feet, but Virgil tells him to knock it off, since they are both no more than shades. Statius acknowledges this, but says that the very fact of his forgetting this, bespeaks his love for Virgil. Here the canto ends. 

The Golden Bowl- Henry James  (1904)  This is now the third Henry James novel I've read in the last two months. While I've been intrigued by the themes he is writing about, I'm going to confess that I really dislike his writing style. It just doesn't appeal to me at all. I wish I had known that before I bought the novels, but I didn't, and I had them, so I read through them. I really wanted to like them, but his style is just uninteresting to me, and I found myself more or less trudging through them all.  

But anyway, Prince Amerigo marries Maggie Verver, only daughter of wealthy American widower, Adam Verver. Invited to the wedding in London where Adam and Maggie are living is Charlotte Stant, a friend of Maggie's from childhood. But Maggie doesn't know that Charlotte and Amerigo were lovers in Rome, and that the only reason Amerigo and Charlotte didn't marry, was because they were both poor.  

They go shopping before the wedding and find a golden bowl, which Charlotte likes, but Amerigo thinks is flawed. But Charlotte can't afford the bowl. 

After Amerigo and Maggie marry, they have a son, and soon enough, Maggie suggests to her father that he propose marriage to Charlotte, who accepts. However, father and daughter seem more interested in their own relationship than their marriages, and Amerigo and Charlotte become close once again. 

Some of the ins and outs of relationship between the neglected spouses is given voice by the suspicions of Fanny Assingham to her husband Col. Robert Assingham, friends of the family. They have chapters long dialogs about things Fanny has noticed. 

Maggie finds the golden bowl and buys it, having been told by the shopkeeper about Amerigo and Charlotte. She has her own suspicions and schemes to have her father Adam move back to America with Charlotte, while Maggie would stay in London with Amerigo.  

The Histories- Polybius (130 BC)  Polybius sets out to describe the history of how Rome became the dominant power in the Mediterranean. He gives a brief history of the Republic leading up to the first Punic War, but he essentially covers the period of the wars with Carthage as the period when Rome went from localized Italian dominance to wider Mediterranean dominance. He also takes one of the books (chapters) to cover the Roman constitution and structure of governance, because he believes that those factors, more than anything else, explain why Rome, and not Carthage or one of the Greek states, became the dominant power. 

A Handful of Dust- Evelyn Waugh  (1934)  This story is such a bummer that it could have been Italian rather than English... but it's not.   The beautiful Brenda Last gets bored with her life at the Gothic mansion her husband, Tony, loves, and embarks on an affair with... some dude. Everyone in their social circle is aware of it except Tony.  Brenda tries to set him up with a few prospective mistresses, but Tony proves uninterested. Their only son dies in an unfortunate horse accident, and Brenda decides she wants a divorce. Tony is willing to grant it but takes his time. Meanwhile, Brenda's lawyer asks for 4 times as much as Tony was willing to give, meaning he would be forced to give up his beloved family mansion. He decides to head for Brazil in search of some lost city, claiming he will settle all when he returns to England. Brenda's affair loses interest when he grasps that he won't be getting Tony's money, and in Brazil, Tony gets lost, imprisoned, and I believe, he gets dead too. The book ends with Brenda being left out in the cold and... well, who cares. 

Selected Works of Mao Zedong  (1927 – 1938)  Fairly uninteresting collection of essays from Mao. The only two that really interested me were On Practice and On Contradiction. At the time, Mao was engaged in guerilla warfare against the Japanese, as well as the Kuomintang occasionally, so two of the larger essays: On Guerilla Warfare and On Protracted War, covered details of his military thoughts, most of which didn't really interest me, so I only skimmed them. 

My bigger interest is in Chinese communism in general. I'll have to continue reading more in order to get the info I'm looking for. 

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Pune: Rare Blue Mormon Butterfly Spotted at Nplants Nursery in Viman Nagar

Viman Nagar, 10th October 2024: In a remarkable encounter, the Blue Mormon butterfly (Papilio polymnestor), a species typically found in heavy rainfall areas and evergreen forests, has been regularly spotted at Nplants Nursery Landscape Services in Viman Nagar, Pune. This butterfly, which is Maharashtra’s state butterfly and the second-largest species in India, has found a welcoming habitat in…

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file: Papilio polymnestor - Blue Mormons in mud puddling at Makutta (14).jpg

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SkyKid, Papilio polymnestor

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Hecuba Blinding Polymnestor

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Oil on canvas, 173 x 184 cm

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Giuseppe Maria Crespi

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Blue Mormon butterfly by pamsai, 200K views, thank you Via Flickr: Papilio polymnestor A beautiful visitor to my garden...

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Picture of the day for June 26, 2018

Picture of the day on June 26, 2018: Prepupa of Papilio polymnestor, Blue Mormon, a large swallowtail butterfly found in India and Sri Lanka. from Picture of the day for June 26, 2018

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Wikipedia picture of the day on June 26, 2018: Prepupa of Papilio polymnestor, Blue Mormon, a large swallowtail butterfly found in India and Sri Lanka. https://t.co/pjoxIlnE2K pic.twitter.com/2UcCwqKY6X

�� Om Bule (@ombule23) June 26, 2018

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Wikipedia picture of the day on June 26, 2018: Prepupa of Papilio polymnestor, Blue Mormon, a large swallowtail butterfly found in India and Sri Lanka. https://t.co/6xaUw6Pe49 https://t.co/gxP0ytMUBQ

Wikipedia picture of the day on June 26, 2018: Prepupa of Papilio polymnestor, Blue Mormon, a large swallowtail butterfly found in India and Sri Lanka. https://t.co/6xaUw6Pe49 pic.twitter.com/gxP0ytMUBQ

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