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Little redesign of my OC Amelia 🩵

Here are older versions from 2022 and 2021:

And comparison:

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Sorry I wasn't posting in a while guys, there will be a new art tomorrow (it's of my OC tho, I hope you don't mind)

Also, I won't be very active till July/August (it's my final year of bachelor's studies ✌🏻)

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💌send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome.💌

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What if Hector and Troilus are the fruits of the polyamorous love of Apollo, Priamus and Hecuba? they would be a wonderful triad.

Tbh personally I don't see it, (also, I've never seen an actual ancient source claiming Hector as Apollo's son but maybe I haven't look hard enough) but if we are speaking about Apollo's polyamorous relations I wanted to say that Apollo x Admetus x Alcestis ship is slaying and they deserve everything

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I love your Apollo SO MUCH <3 he's handsome ofc, in both his human & godly forms, but I also love how you inject all this personality into him, even though he doesn't have pupils half the time. He makes me feel all warm & fuzzy, just like sunlight does :)

Thank you! I was a bit hesitant to give him blank eyes, because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to show his emotions right without the pupils, but I ended up being really happy with this decision 💕

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i love how much you love apollo lol. like personally he's not my favorite but i do think he's neat, and your design of him is so pretty and awesome, and i think it's so cool to see all your art of him!!

Thank you!!! Apollo is ridiculously underrated considering how popular he was in ancient Greece and how important he is in the mythology. I'm trying to get people to appreciate his myths a bit more 🫶🏻

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Hephaestus gets with Aglaia, or the Sea Nymph, Kabeiro. Having many daughters with the first, and sons with the other.

I'd love to see you draw either one, especially with Hephaestus ;)

I don't have a plan to design any of them at the moment, sorry 😔

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Apollo helping his boyfriend get a wife be like

Based on this

Apollo's design

Admetus and Alcestis' designs ( +sumary of their myth)

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Wait, if you were thinking about doing this, does that mean that you have designs for Admetus and Alcestis???? 👀👀👀👀

(I'm probably posting the finished version tomorrow btw)

Apollo wingmaning his boyfriend is one of my favourite parts of Admetus' myths.

I have to draw them like this

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okay, I'm doing this lmao

Apollo wingmaning his boyfriend is one of my favourite parts of Admetus' myths.

I have to draw them like this

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✨️Apollo and Admetus✨️

Apollo's full design

Admetus' full design

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Update: It didn't got better, I got prescribed antidepressants 🙃🙃🙃

hi, I might’ve sent you a message before, but I just wanted to say hello & that I wish you the best. You have some of the best Hellenic/Greek god designs on the site! That being said, I know how it feels to not be mentally in a good place, or to be an artist who WANTS to art but doesn’t have the energy. There is nothing wrong with you. Why do you think people praised the Muses for giving them inspiration & days of flow? You’ll do great in school this year & when you’re ready, you’ll create some awesome art. Sending you virtual hugs 🥰

Omg thank you for this 🥺😭

I've been trying to figure everything out over the last few weeks and rn I know that my vitamin D3 is low (even tho I was already taking a supplement for weeks 🙃) and my doctor told me to increase the dose so hopefully I will feel a bit better soon 🤞🏻

There are probably some other things that are making me feel this way but my parents helped me find a nice psychologist and hopefully she will help me figure out the rest.

Also, I have a few old WIPs that are almost finished so maybe I'll post something soon 🫶🏻

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I posted about Troilus last week so I decided to clean up my old sketches of Tennes, his sister and their father for this week.

Cycnus was the king of Colonae (located near Troy) and the son of Posaidon. (His name means swan btw)

He married the princess of Troy named Procleia (she was either daughter or granddaugter Laomedon) and had 2 childern with her: Tennes and Hemithea. Some versions say that Tennes was son of Apollo and he was only being rised by Cycnus (this is going to be important later)

At some point Procleia died and Cycnus remarried. His new wife Philonome, fell in love with Tennes and when he regected her she told Cycnus that Tennes forced himself on her (or tried to). A flute-player named Eumolpus confirmed her version of events.

Enraged by this Cycnus put both Tennes and Hemithea in a wooden chest and throw them into the sea (some versions say Hemithea shared her brother's punishment willingly).

They made it safely to an island called Leukophrys (it was later renamed Tenedos) and become the new rulers of the land.

Cycuns somehow learned that his wife's accusations against Tennes were false so he buried her alived while Eumolpus (the flute-player) was stoned to death.

After founding out that his childern survived Cycnus sailed to Tenedos to ask Tennes' forgivnes and take them both home.

Tennes however didn't care for his apology and he cut the anchor ropes off the ship with an axe so Cycnus couldn't step on the land.

Tennes ruled his island for some time, he established a law which stated that the folse accusations were punisheble by death by an axe (Tennes really liked axes, didn't he).

Also flute-players were forbided from entering either the temples or the entire island.

Okay remember when I said earlier that Apollo was Tennes' real father and it was important? Yeah we're getting there.

When the Greeks were traveling to Troy they stopped on Tenedos. Thetis told Achilles that he can't kill the king of the Island because whoever kills Tennes will be killed by his father Apollo. Achilles however tried to force himself on Hemithea. Tennes tried to defend his sister but he was killed by Achilles. When Achilles realized who he killed he also killed his servant because the servant (who was sent to him by Thetis to remind him not to kill the king) failed to inform Achilles that he's about to kill the man he's not supossed to.

Some versions also mention a bigger fight and say that Tennes was also protecting his country. Most of the sources don't mention what happened to Hemithea afterwords but one text claim that she was swallowed by the earth which saved her from being violated by Achilles. Another says that she was killed by Achilles but don't mention anything about the assault.

It was forbidden to say Achilles name in the tample build after Tennes death.

Meanwhile Cycnus joined the Trojan forces and fought alongside Hector (who was his first wife's nephew btw, which means that Hector and Tennes were first cousins). Like his childern he was killed by Achilles, on the first day of the war.

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Troilus design! (ft best dad Apollo) He's around 12 years old here.

Researching Troilus' story is not an easy task because unfortunately most of the ancient texts focused on him didn't survive and others only survived in fragments.

This story is brutal even for greek mythology standards so please keep that in mind if you want to continue reading this or do more research on your own.

Something that all of the versions seems to agree on is that he was a Trojan prince, son of queen Hecuba and was killed by Achilles. His father was either Apollo or Priam (Apollo fits more with the context of the story though).

Most of the versions also focus on Troilus' young age and he's often shown to be visibly shorter than Achilles on the vase paintings depicting his death.

The most popular version of the myth (which is also supported by ancient vase paintings) states that Troilus and his sister Polyxena (she's not preset in every version though) went outside of Troy on their horses and while they were at a fountain Achilles ambushed them.

Achilles then chased Troilus who tried to hide inside of Apollo's temple (possibly seeking his father's protection) but Achilles caught up to him and murdered Troilus either inside or in front of the temple and then brutally mutilated his body.

There 2 alternative reasons given for the murder:

1. There was a prophecy which said that if Troilus reached 21 years of age Troy would never fall.

2. Achilles fell in love with Troilus, tried to force himself on him and was enraged when the boy refused his advances. (This version seems to have more surviving evidence)

It could also be that the only reason that Achilles killed Troilus was the fact that he was a Trojan prince and therefore an enemy but this does not seem to fit with the brutality of the act.

Here are some vase paintings that show Troilus' death at the hands of Achilles

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You know who else is also a part of Spartan royal family? Iphthime.

Who's Iphthime?

She was the wife of my boy Eumelus (and therefor daughter-in-law to Admetus and Alcestis 🫶🏻) AND she was also Penelope's sister.

And aperrently they were rather close with eachother because in "the Odyssey" Athena makes a phantome that looks like Iphthime and sends it to Penelope (who was worried about Odysseus and Telemachus) to comfort her.

Headcanon that Odysseus and Eumelus would regularly meet up during the Trojan war just to talk about how amazing and beautiful their wives are.

Here's my Eumelus post btw.

Something I found out is that Hyacinthus, Helen, and Penelope are all Spartan royalty.

And they are all said to be absolutely stunning.

hmmm.....

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I've been summoned

Here's my post about clearing the misinformation about Cyrene's myth

And here's another site with ancient texts for the research:

https://topostext.org/the-people

Just search for a name of a character and you'll get the quotes from ancient texts that mention them in chronological order.

Theoi.com is great but it unfortunately does not have a page for every mythical character and some other pages are incomplete.

It's like 4:30 in the morning and I'm hungry and tired as hell, but I saw a comic of Apollo and Artemis and I recently watched Overly Sarcastic Productions video about Apollo and his cutie boyfriend who's name I cannot spell for the life of me and it got me thinking...

As far as I know, Apollo is a pretty chill guy, made of boyfriend material... So like...

Why did almost no one wanna date him?

He can sing, he's pretty, he's intelligent, he's a literal God...

So what gives???

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Hephaestus sketch from last month, I decided to change my designs of the gods a bit do they would look less human