#Demophon

[melodyartist]

I've been afk (but not really) for a bit because I've been trying to write for the past couple of days but this chapter is kicking my ass for no reason, I've been planning it to go into a direction and it totally went elsewhere, it was supposed to be focused on a upcoming meeting with the kings and big Ajax warning Demtrios of it...

But everything that I was writing changed when Odysseus turned into a carpenter just like Jesus

And now I'm stuck with a veeeeery long flashback. I mean it's fun because I get to show characters that will come up later in the story like Demetrios' older brother (Demophon,he is an ass).

And I get to flash out a more in-depth relationship between these two "cousins"

But damn it's taking me a while and I fear it might get boring

[the-goddess-of-gays]

friendly reminder that the scene where Esperanza seizes Leo from the burning fireplace and screams at Hera for putting her baby in danger is a direct reference to the myth of Demophon, in which Demeter attempts to immortalise a newborn prince by anointing him in ambrosia and putting him to sleep in a fire several nights in a row.

interestingly, said myth ends when Metaneira, the boy's mother, snatches her baby from the fireplace on the final night as she thought Demeter was trying to murder her child. Demeter had been posing as a nursemaid when this interaction occurred. crucially, she never brought down her divine wrath upon Metaneira, despite the mortal queen's so-called 'disrespect'. notice any similarities?

[dilutedh2so4]

Athenian red-figure hydria, attributed to the Kleophrades Painter, 525-475 BCE.

Ascanius, Aeneas, and Anchises.

Locrian Ajax, Cassandra, and the statue of Athena.

Priam, Astyanax, and Pyrrhus.

Soldier looting a fallen warrior attacked by a Trojan woman with pestle.

Aethra and the sons of Theseus.

[galusandmalus]

underated characters

There's the favorite underrated blorbos who cleary have fans (ME) perseus, Bellerophon, Andromeda, Iphigenia (the black one version), Cadmus, Io. you can see a lot of the early generation of heroes. Then there's the underrated by EVERYONE The OBSCURE mFS Hyllus(one-horned son of Heracles who is basically the last myth where he loses a duel and grants Greece 50 years of peace), Demophon (son of Theseus who saves his grandma and aunts from Troy and loves the justice system), Alceme (mother of Heracles, hates Zeus and kills Eurytheus), Omphale (lady who force femms heracles). triptolemus... ascanius there the characters who are interesting, but people don't get their characterization because they've only had second-hand info like Guys Alcestis is INSANE SHE IS A CRAZY LADY WHO GLAZES HERSELF NONSTOP. She is literally GLAZED to DEATH.

guys minos sons have some cool lore too honestly

[amostcuriousmythicist]

Demophons mother is named Antiope in Pindar, Ariadne in the Odyssey scholia, and Phaedra in Apollodorus and Diodorus; in all these sources except for Pindar he shares a mother with Acamas. Putting Iope (daughter of Iphicles) in this position is thus prima facie a mythological innovation by Stesichorus

Demophon in Egypt by P. J. Finglass. Page 8

Few thoughts on this:

1) It seems no one could agree on who Demophon and Acamas mother was so they attributed them to every single one of Theseus romantic partners

2) Him being the son of Antiope is interesting since that would make him a full brother to Hippolytus

3) curious as to how the timeline worked in the Scholia to the Odyssey to where Demophon snd Acamas were the sons of Ariadne

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

Demeter attempting to make the youngest child of the king of Eleusis Celeus, Demophon, an immortal. The baby's parents didn't know anything about it, the plans of the divine are often secret. Demeter used purifying fire in her attempt, but the child's mother, queen Metanira, caught the goddess in disguise while in this process. After that, Demeter revealed her true identity to everyone, demanded a temple of her own and consequently the Eleusinian Mysteries were born.

Illustration of Demeter and baby Demophon by Willy Pogany

[artbyanca]

Metaneira begging Demeter to give back her son.

[softlytowardthesun]

[justmenoworries]

Lore Olympus Episode 260 Spoilers

I honestly thought we were done with the needless Demeter-bashing and slander but here we are. Honestly, I have only myself to blame. Demeter is RS' favorite punching bag after Hera, of course she's not gonna miss an opportunity to make Demeter look like a spiteful, dickish mother-in-law.

Also, real cool of Persie to completely wreck the Mortal Realm, then just send an apology note and some supplies as if that alone is gonna do it. Like, face your mom in person, coward. You're the reason she's going through all this shit.

Hebe's back, so that hopefully means we're resolving that stupid Apollo plot-line- oh, no. Wait. Now we're talking about Demophon. Rachel will do literally anything but advance her main plot.

(Also, Dog Hades looks like shit. I almost died laughing when I saw him.)

[monstrumpuella]

All Rules Need To Be Broken Followed

[soramystic]

More Tek'ko-e!

We have Taara Baileya, the Demophon of Krismarina and Star-Incarnate, and Ulfliet Yrungr Frize, main Thulan deity of Primal Ice, Sorcery, and the seasons! (His crows have names too but that's for later)

Bai is for a new story that's still in its infancy and Ulf is to feature in both Wind Weaver and its sequel, the God Quest.

[rorja]

writing is so funny sometimes?? because i become so dumb that i quickly open another tab on internet and ask questions like “how many trees and flowers bloom in February? like . are they a lot or…?” and then i’m stuck writing goofy lines such as this one:

[…] even in the harshest days of February, where the warmth is not prominent yet and the winds cradled still traces of last winter’s snowfalls, some trees gifted a delightful scenery nonetheless. Certainly not as much as the delicate landscape in spring, but quite not so scarce like the picture they offer in the late days of December.

+ ALSO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT ON OUR OTHER WORKS TTTT both me and ro are so happy you’re enjoying our writing! it makes us so so SO genuinely happy <33333 —rja 🐣

[my-name-is-apollo]

HOLD UP this is the first time I'm seeing eyelashes drawn in Greek vase art ??!!! Look at those glorious lashes on Heracles and Apollo!

The full thing -

Red-figured calyx-krater attributed to Myson (490BC - 460BC) depicting a. the contest of Heracles and Apollo for the tripod b. Acamas and Demophon bringing back Aethra

I thought the lashes might have been a part of the art style but it isn't there on any of the characters drawn on the other side of the crater, only on Heracles and Apollo.

[galusandmalus]

Demophon and Acamas save their grandmother from Troy.

I really like Demophon and Acamas; they are weird, I'm sure they barely spent any time with Theseus, and they ended up being better, more mature versions of him, lol. I supposed it doesn't completely make sense since Euripides still writes Theseus and Demophon to be incredibly wise in general. they saved their grandma, and from the alerted look on demophon it feels like shes been saved mid sacking.

Chad Demophon vs the Virgin Neoptolemus

[amostcuriousmythicist]

He (Stesichorus) finds fault with Homer, because he put Helen at Troy, and not her phantom, and in the other he finds fault with Hesiod…So innovative was he in his treatment of mythology that he said that Demophon, son of Theseus, on his voyage home…was brought to Egypt, and that Demophon was born to Theseus by Iope daughter of Iphicles

Demophon in Egypt by P. J. Finglass. Page 1

[sarnai4]

ngl i think the ares trial thing is funny cuz at least he killed a rapist like bro orestes, medea and demophon all got trials and were also found innocent 😭 i think they were just ok with murder in general how the fuck did they find medea innocent of killing her children and her ex's fiancé and her ex fiancé's father

Honestly, I'm under the assumption that the trials were less, "Did you kill somebody 🧐??" And more, "Would I have killed them too🤔??"

If the answer is yes for the latter, then the defendant is "innocent." I am such an Ares myth fan, but nobody in this lineup you mentioned should have been given the innocent verdict. Do I support his decision to kill his daughter's rapist? Oh yeah. Did he kill his daughter's rapist? Oh yeah. There's really no debating that, so you just have to be persuasive I guess. It's like one of those bad apologies where someone justifies what they did, only this time, it actually works.