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Little Dionysus constantly wanders off and has trouble understanding the world he sees through his divine eyes the older he gets and the more his powers grow, so Ampelus has been assigned guide duty by Silenus.

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(Little) Iliad the comic

Tbh for the Priam family, Achilles sounds way more terrifying than a random monster.

P.S. Based on my HC that Neoptolemus had Achilles’ eyes, so Hecuba was staring into the eyes of a dead man, a horrifying dead man.

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oh, agamemnon...

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paintings of ulysses and the sirens rated by how securely he is tied to the mast

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I’ve lovingly clowned on the Iliad a lot as I’ve reread it but I really can’t clown on the scenes where Achilles grieves for Patroclus. No matter what the translation they always get to me. It always makes me cry every time I read it.

Achilles laments all of the plans he had. The future that Patroclus lost. He thought that someday after he died Patroclus would pick up his son and show him all the things his father did. He thought that Patroclus would outlive him by a long time. He thought he would rest easy knowing that his son and spoils and women were in good hands and his best friend was living a long time even without him.

Achilles always knew he would die young. He never thought though that Patroclus would die first.

And whether you read them as friends or lovers Patroclus was so clearly the most important person in Achilles’ life. And if you’ve lost someone on that level of importance in your life far sooner than you expected to you can feel it radiate off the page.

I read this 3,000 year old poem and I feel my own grief open up all over again. I feel all the years those I’ve loved who have died too young never got to see. All the things they planned to do. I can feel again all of the times I myself have been doubled over in the dark and pulling at my hair wondering why it had to be this way.

Everything changes, everything stays the same. I understand, Achilles. I get it.

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Beautiful Helen

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venus & aeneas

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Let everyone remember now the kindness of poor patroclus

The entire book 17 destroyed me so here you go <3

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book 1, the quarrel

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Lion-hearted Achilles

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The ghost of Patroclus visits Achilles

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From reading the Iliad, the Aeneid, and other classical epic poetry it seems like the disadvantage to having a god for a parent is that they’re not really there for you physically a lot when you’re growing up and when they are there sometimes they try to do it in disguise so you don’t know when they’re spying on you or think that quality time involves giving you some sort of random morality test.

The advantage seems to be that when you’re inconvenienced you can yell “mooommm/daaaddd, they’re being mean to me!” and then your parent will show up and be like “oh it’s okay baby we’re gonna make them suffer so bad” and then your enemies get infected with plague or something.

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Yeah the Iliad calls Patroclus the best of the Greeks at using spears. Sorry, he’s not a soft boy. He’s a spear boy. And in Ancient Greece guys who fight with spears are the most brave and cool.

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In the baths

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Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector by Alexander Rothaug

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Quick doodle of Paris and Priam son-fatherism

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Aeneas and his backup

(yes I ignored Agenor, I am not drawing side character number 298)