#Homeric

[greekmythcomix]

DEATH in the ILIAD: an Infographic

(originally 2014, updated slightly for 2023 - hey it's almost as old as Homer's Trojan War was long!)

[mtolympusmemes]

Odysseus: I’m sick and tired of being called 'mortal' like, you don’t know that. Neither do I. I have never died even ONCE. Nothing has been proven yet. Stop making assumptions. It’s rude.

[cozyhearthyarnworks]

Our sixth fiber colorway is almost here - you can preview the listing on our website now, and it will become available on all five of our current fiber bases on Friday, May 24th 2024 at noon EDT 🌅 "Homeric" - Inspired by the wine-dark sea and the rosy-fingered dawn (art by Kristendawn) - Dark burgundy waves lay next to golden-pink skies, with a rare chance of a blue-green flash where the two meet. This colorway makes me want to curl up with a delicious drink and a good book, and sink into imaginative beauty. 

[transbutchblues]

i have just realized that there are at least 39 deaths in the Iliad that are anonymous. memory is such a crucial part of epic poems, especially with Homer. we get to know each warrior before his death, sometimes through a familial myth, sometimes by learning who possessed his weapon before him, sometimes just by learning his name or the name of his father. the Iliad is so unlike actual war because it is not a mass of bodies, each corpse is named and known, each death is distinguishable. they are all important, they are remembered through the existence and the telling of the epic poem.

and then there are 27 unnamed and unknown Trojans killed by Patroklos in Book XVI (l.784-5) and 12 anonymous young Trojans sacrificed by Akhilleus in Book XXII (captured in Book XXI l.27-32). we have no information about them other than the side they fought on. and i might have missed other instances of this happening.

it just feels so important that in the midst of a poem that values memory, some people still remained unidentified and unidentifiable — every soldier in the Iliad is a hero except for them, because they cannot be named nor recognized.

[teilzami]

Homeric's lifehacks!

Eat a hole in you cake, and steal your neighbor's! If the neighbor turns round, you can pretend to eat yours, and no one will notice anything!

But Olympic's better to turn around...

[illustratus]

Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas by Luca Giordano

[dhampiravidi]

so, uh…

no explanation needed, except it’s sometime before 300 BC, you’re a queer icon & your people think you’re a lil unhinged yet awesome

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Illustration "Homer" from The Story of the World's Literature By John Macy. Illustrated by Onorio Ruotolo. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925.

[tiedpawslikeheraklescloak]

Fandom: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer, The Odyssey - Homer

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Ascanius | Iulus & Astyanax & Telemachus, Astyanax & Cassandra

Characters: Cassandra, Ascanius | Iulus, Astyanax son of Hector, Telemachus, Elektra, Orestes, Iphigenia, Hermione, Neoptolemus

Additional Tags: Reincarnation, Modern Setting, Vignettes, Dreams

Summary:

They are the children of the Greeks and Trojans that fought at the end of the Age of Heroes, reborn in the modern world. They do not remember, but they do dream.

[bowman-01-blog]

The twenty-first century need to kink-shame Homer for talking so much about Demeter and Persephone’s ankles in this hymn

[greekmythcomix]

Happy Boxing Day!

If you’ve got a lull, why not try out my WIP project, ‘You Are Odysseus’…

Http://yaoljb.wordpress.com

If you're reading as Homer's Odysseus, you will at least get home.

If you choose a different path... well, that's a different fate, and a different story.

Please note: this is a short preview of an interactive text that is over 500 sections long. If you make it through to the end of this preview, you'll learn more about the full text and how to sign up to hear about it when it's finished.

In the full version, you can look forward to:

* A faithful rendition of the Odyssey, but as a second-person narrative

* A novel-length interactive reading experience, as a book (and possibly text adventure)

* The ability to read/play as Odysseus, making the same choices as he does in the original poem, or as your version of Odysseus, making the choices you think he should make, or as a completely other version of Odysseus, making... other choices

* Characterisations and literary features directly from and inspired by translations of the original poem

* All your favourite scenarios and episodes directly from the original poem, from Troy (as told by Menelaus and Nestor) to Ithaca

* Original, alternative story elements based on suggestions from the original poem, Epic Cycle, and ancient authors and playwrights

* many, many different ways in which to die

* Almost as many different ways to succeed (depending on how you qualify success exactly)

* The tiniest bit of teacher humour added, where appropriate. Mostly.

* An appendix explaining textual choices and background, including a bibliography, further suggested reading list, and a list of the 'correct' choices to make to correctly re-enact Homer's Odyssey.

If you'd like to read comics about the Odyssey in the meantime, go to GreekMythComix.com

If you'd like to know more, go to LauraJenkinsonBrown.co.uk

#odysseus #odyssey #youareodysseus #epic #homericepic #homer

#greekmythology #interactivefiction #interactivefictiongame #roleplaygame #chooseyourownadventure #chooseyourownpath

[mtolympusmemes]

Odysseus: I’m sick and tired of being called 'mortal' like, you don’t know that. Neither do I. I have never died even ONCE. Nothing has been proven yet. Stop making assumptions. It’s rude.

[cozyhearthyarnworks]

Even the skittish neighborhood strays are apparently curious about our new colorways, as evidenced by this adorable photobomb from my listing photoshoot earlier this week 😻

[envisitadecortesia]

Una vida en tiempos de entreguerras

El 30 de junio de 1933 el puerto de Barcelona batió otro récord, esa mañana fondeaba frente a la rada el transatlántico “Homeric”, que debido a su tamaño no pudo entrar en puerto y con su escala se erigía como el mayor buque de pasaje llegado hasta la fecha. El “Homeric” fondeado frente al puerto de Barcelona(imagen de Brangulí vía revista Ibérica) A bordo del “Homeric” llegaron 410 turistas…

[teilzami]

How to talk to each other, when you have a height difference - example on Olympic and Homeric

They have such a cute dynamics🥰

[dionysism]

"odysseus should visit diomedes after the events of the odyssey" "odysseus should go see menelaus" personally if i was odysseus im not going fucking no where ever again 😭😭 THEY can come to ithaca. i've been traveling long enough