#Perseus and andromeda

[sarafangirlart]

Andromeda didn’t bear Perseus 9 children for y’all to ship her with the animal that tried to eat her.

[skywalking-through-life]

Y'all.

I hate to do this and I am so sorry.

The next chapter of 'waterbound' isn't ready yet, and I don't think it's gonna get there by Saturday. 😭 I think I need another week.

Between a truly wild two weeks at work and learning some new, vitally important historical information that led to me essentially having to rewrite half the chapter...I'm just not confident that I'll be happy with whatever sleep deprived mess I might manage to churn out in the next 48 hours.

(And even though I know y'all will tell me to stop apologizing and beating myself up about this, and that y'all can wait one more week for me to get this chapter together, I'm a little in my feelings rn, so like, feel free to ignore this little breakdown. 💀)

[justaz]

Currently loosing my mind thinking about Percy and Annabeth being Perseus and Andromeda reincarnated and them being actual Greek soulmates that find each other in every life, the perfect match……..that’s why Aphrodite was so invested in their love life in particular because Persephone let it slip at a party on Olympus that Perseus and Andromeda went for their third life to reach the Isle of the Blessed and that’s why their lives have been so hard and traumatic in comparison to other demigods’ lives because this is their final trial before eternal paradise

[haliaiii]

Percy and Annabeth except they’re Perseus and Andromeda

[joana-de-artes]

Perseus and Andromeda, very young and very early into their happy marriage

I'm really happy with Andromeda's design, I think she turned out very cute! She's based on the depictions of Nubians in ancient Egyptian artwork

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Charles Napier Kennedy (French, 1852-1898) Perseus and Andromeda, 1890

[jacobpking]

Perseus and Andromeda In a lot of classical artwork, I always see Andromeda depicted as white/greek, and since she's the Princess of Aethiopia, I wanted to try and make a more authentic, historically accurate depiction. I hope you enjoy! In other words: She's everything, he's just Perseus. (Nah jk, Perseus is a really solid dude overall, I just had to make the reference)

[maggie44paint]

Perseus haters try to read the original myths, challenge impossible

Just to be clear, no hate towards ppl who like the Ovid retelling, its completely okay to like Medusa with a tragic story (remember that Medusa was born a monster in the og greek myth tho!) , but it becomes a huge problem when you start to see it as the original myth and demonize Perseus who just wanted to save his mother Danaë from a literal assaulter.

[tchai-castor]

Drawing of Andromeda and Perseus

I tried using the old depiction of Medusa, if I were to draw it again, I think I'll use a different color palette

Perseus is based on the typical Minoan style.

For Andromeda, I decided that I wanted to show off some fashion from the region, instead of the traditional nude. However I didn't want to depict her wearing her full royal garb, so I settled on a more sober dress that would've been considered more mainstream. I was hesitating a bit between Ethiopian and Nubian (Kerma) influences, so I decided to base her hair on a modern traditional hairstyle from Ethiopia, as a reference to the ancient namesake. I'll draw a version later of Andromeda in full royal garb.

[tomoleary]

Edmund Dulac “Perseus and Andromeda” (1919) Source

[sarafangirlart]

It’s so funny seeing modern adaptations make it so Perseus didn’t want to marry Andromeda bc “that’s wrong I’m just some guy and she isn’t a prize to be won 🥺🥺🥺” when it would be way more progressive (and adorable) to have him be a complete and utter simp who does anything she asks.

[thefugitivesaint]

Gerda Wegener (1886-1940), 'Persée délivre Andromède', ''Le Sourire'', July 6, 1933 Source

[aliciavance4228]

On short:

[thebeautifulbook]

TALES OF TROY AND GREECE by Andrew Lang (London: Longmans, Green, 1907). 17 illustrations by Henry Justice Ford.

source

[softlytowardthesun]

I’m thinking about Danaë, Perseus, and Andromeda.

Danaë was a princess, once. Her happy life was upended the day her father caught wind of a prophecy that his grandchild would be his undoing. She was imprisoned in her own home, and when her son was born, she and the baby were banished and left for dead. Yet Danaë powered through, as heroes are known to do in these types of stories. This single mother in a strange land raised her son with pride — not hubris, but true, righteous pride. They have no need of gods or monsters or the kingdom that cast them out; all mother and son need are each other.

Perseus’s call to adventure begins when yet another evil king decides to treat Danaë as an object instead of a person. Polydectes will force Danaë to marry him unless Perseus can cross the world and return with the head of the Gorgon Medusa. Perseus is in no place to protest, not when the truest hero he’s ever known is counting on him. This is not a quest for glory, but piety: the duty a child owes to their parent.

In his travels, Perseus meets Andromeda, chained to a cliffside and awaiting her grim fate. She too, has a story of a mother and child. Queen Cassiopeia foolishly offended a long list of sea gods and their kingdom will be washed away unless the gods exact their price. Cassiopeia did the offending; it should be her on the cliff. But Andromeda has to suffer for the sins of her family, just like Perseus. He chose to risk his life for his mother; Andromeda had her fate chosen for her.

Maybe Andromeda tried to talk herself into thinking her death would mean something. She’s grown up as a princess, where each generation of the dynasty is meant to be in unbroken continuity with the generation before. The crown she is presumed to wear weighs down any hopes for her own life. If Cassiopeia tells her to die, it is her duty and honor as the child to obey. Secretly, she prays that her death will mean something for her mother — that the next child she has will be granted the freedom of choice Andromeda herself never knew.

But Perseus, raised by a mother worthy of her role, knows that is bullshit. He knows Andromeda deserves better than this, and he breaks the cycle by destroying the monster and breaking her chains, will of Poseidon be damned. And when Cassiopeia reunites with her child, it’s clear she has learned nothing. She immediately tries to force Andromeda into an unhappy marriage - just like what Polydectes means to do to Danaë.

Now Andromeda and Perseus are both angry. She is ready to let her so-called family crumble. She shields her eyes, and lets her suitor and her mother meet the Gorgon’s eyes. She walks away from the stone to which she was chained, into a new life of her making.

The young couple returns to Seriphos. Perseus saves Danaë from the dread altar. A worthy king claims the throne, and in a remarkable stroke of luck for Greek mythology, Perseus kills his evil grandfather without technically violating Ancient Greece’s taboos on kin-slaying. Andromeda and Perseus ascend to the throne of Mycenae, and have that rarest thing in any myth: a happily ever after.

Andromeda gets a husband and a crown, sure, but she also gets Danaë. Danaë is everything Cassiopeia wasn’t: humble, resilient, and loving. She raised Perseus well, and she teaches Andromeda how to stand tall against monsters: not the sea beast, but the creatures that would rather offer up their own children than admit that they were in the wrong.

[restlesskeychains]

Nahh I actually get so sad when I see people depict Perseus and Andromeda as an abusive relationship bc I know that they were prob so inlove with each-other that Perseus wouldn’t go 3 sentences without bringing her up