#; (priam)

[wolfythewitch]

I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before

I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.

(1/2)

[literallyjusttoa]

"Sunny!" you cry, "Why did you draw the entire Trojan royal family from oldest to youngest in two days? That seems wildly unhealthy!"

"hurghhhhhhhh" I reply.

Anyways here's the full family portrait

(Only four of these people survive the Trojan war btw :D)

[official-english-major]

Rereading the iliad bc the epic the musical brainrot is real (and also bc the iliad is a banger)

[mircsy]

Still Mermay, and Odysseus got the perfect scheme in his head against the Trojans

[adriles]

seems to me that the best way to quell your grief is to stare at an old man for a very long time

[incorrecthomer]

Apollo: little Hector: Apollo: adopted Priam: lord, this is my son Apollo: now mine Apollo: *give Hector a bow* be free, my child

[littlesparklight]

Hektor is forced to linger without being able to go into the Underworld for twelve days.

Is haunting (like Patroklos did to Achilles in coming to him in his dream) always voluntary? And even so, would not Hektor maybe want to reach out, the longer he's stuck lingering, watching the grief around him?

And what if some of the haunting isn't even voluntary?

What if Hektor unintentionally haunted a couple of his family during those twelve days... did people see his spirit in the corridors and rooms? in the stables? Standing by Astyanax's bed?

And then the possible intentional hauntings, born from love and grief and wanting to assure even when there's nothing that can be done;

Does Andromache wake from dreams with her husband's ghostly touch on her cheek, but not having been able to embrace him? How many times? Both Andromache and Hektor yearning, and Hektor keeps reaching out, but they still can't touch.

Grieving parents waking up from dreams where Hektor assures them it doesn't matter if they will be able to bury him or not.

Paris waking up from a dream where Hektor assures him they'll have their talk, but it better not be any time soon (even a ghost can have foolish, useless hopes).

[greeknerdsstuff]

More >:^)

[sarafangirlart]

Poseidon being offended on Hera and Athena’s behalf is so funny. Poseidon being a supportive brother to Hera makes sense, tho he doesn’t usually get along with Athena so that’s more unusual. Hephaestus and Hermes were also on the side of the Greeks yet they think that Achilles has gone too far, which is interesting.

Iliad book 24.

[moplopbool]

Priam & and the princes of Troy!

[iroissleepdeprived]

"I fathered hero sons in the wide realm of Troy

and now not a single one is left,"

[wolfythewitch]

Suppliant my children's murderer to implore, And kiss those hands yet reeking with their gore

(2/2)

[ilions-end]

Helen and Priam observe the battlefield from the Trojan wall

Illustration by Helen Maitland Armstrong from the book Achilles & Hector: Iliad stories retold for boys and girls (1903) by Agnes Cook Gale

[elianzis]

I don't know how this came into my head :')

[illustratus]

The Death of Priam by Pietro Benvenuti

[adriles]

my 11 year old son enters this conflict after extensive warfare lessons by just beating some guys to death in front of an altar of zeus and shocking everyone with his capacity for horrific and unprecedented violence