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Ooooooooh you wanna interpret that fictional character as aromantic because there is subtext that would actually back that up and aromanticism would also add another layer to their character and would make so much more sense oooooooooooooooooh🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥🍥

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Reblog this and add the name of your favourite Greek tragedy

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Achilles didn't die a hero

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Ariadne inspired by the fashion of the "Ladies of Aigai" or the "Tymphaian women" when i visited the archeological museum in Βεργίνα.

Archaeologists have suggested these women had a ritualistic or priestly role, possibly as maenads or followers of Dionysus.

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It's odd how helen and medea have such a vast and frankly insane history of random feats that tend to be ignored. Both really do just be like... adventuring. It feels like it gets forgotten. I don't know why this aspect of their characters get ignored compared to male heroes. If we are so commonly using the apotheosis of heracles why not helen.

Is it because of the blinding thing.

I mean probably sexism. Some real internal shit. Not even the modern retelling feminist books really cover this.

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really underrated sibling dynamic is eldest freak loser sister no friends no bitches strange and offputting. and her really normal younger sister who loves her and hangs out with her.

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“What mortals do with fire is none of my business,” he says.

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Do you know you have thirty minutes 😳

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Hera in "my husband's least favorite stylings"

Bonus pride month outfit featuring iris

her sign says "I'm not straight but my girlfriend is"

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I think I would have really thrived as a Nantucket whaler’s wife…..I’m a professional yearner with a low sex drive, I love to be alone and have my space…..an intense emotional affair with another whaler’s wife while our husbands are at sea could have easily sustained me for decades

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How about we leave bros cows alone...?

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I just found out that a group of wombats is called a wisdom of wombats so if you're still taking requests- Athena with a wombat?

Omg that's adorable lolll

My requests are always open! Here u go (I'm sorry I'm really bad at drawing animals)

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hector design

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Pls pls pls I will eat all the sketches of Andromache if you spam them I need them I love her dearly

are you sure you want the rest?😭😂

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"Blorbo from my shows" no. Blorbo from my BA. Blorbo from my major. Blorbo from my primary source document.

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I've finished reading Iliad, and I'm surprised how little of it actually ended up in our day-to-day culture. Most of the well-known myths from the Troyan war come from different sources. Judgement of Paris? Mentioned in passing. Abduction of Helen? Briefly discussed. Trojan horse? Nope, that happened later. Laocoon and his sons? Don't show up. Achilles's heel? Not even mentioned, his death is forshadowed, but is not shown in the poem. Cassandra's truth? Nope, though she makes a brief appearance. I went in blind, assuming it's the full account of the Troyan war, but nope, it's just a 50-day episode from year 9 of the 10 year long war: Achilles's beef with Agamemnon, a series of skirmishes between the Achaeans and the Troyans, death of Patrocles that makes Achilles return to the battlefield and kill Hector, then it ends with long depictions of the burials of the both heroes. That's it, everything else we know from elsewhere. But also, I was surprised to find a bunch of amazing story bits that didn't make it to the popular culture, despite being absolutely amazing. The only two episodes from Iliad that I know from popular culture are the list of ships (actually the list of tribes, ships aren't named) and the farewell of Hector and Andromache. Maybe also Achilles's beautiful shield. But there's so much more in there, amazing stuff, just as deserving to be a part of our daily lexicon! There's a moment where Achilles talks to his horses, and they, to his surprise, talk back. There's the whole thing about the Achaeans building a wall around their ships as troyans fight back and almost break the siedge, the wall absolutely loathed by the gods for some reason -- it's depicted as a disgusting building that needs to be destroyed, and the earth where it stood washed after it's gone. In an alternative world, we would use the "Achaean ship wall" as a shortcut for some building we hate and wish was raised. There's the moment where Achilles kills so many Troyans that their corpses jam the flow of the river Xanthus. The river cries to Achilles to maybe go murder people somewhere in a field, then, as he tells it to shut up, becomes angry, leaves its bed and goes to beat the hero, and gives him such a thorough beating that it takes a direct divine intervention to save him. Again, in a different world we would use it as a shortcut for an ecologic disaster caused by human hubris, the nature itself fighting back, and Xanthus would be a powerful summon in Final Fantasy 7. Actually reading the source materials, books that that people mostly know from quotes and cultural osmosis, is a miraculous undertaking. For each well-known quotable moment there are several just as amazing, but overlooked by the culture. I'm getting to the Odyssey next, and I can't help but wonder what unquoted wonders I'll find there.