#antiphates

[becdecorbin]

lmao came across this old doodle.

Antiphates, as a homunculus, grows organs and body parts in excess and donates or sells parts they don't need.

so yeah you can get a cool new body part grafted on by an otherworldly surgeon. yay

[dailybutterfly]

Butterfly 18: Fivebar Swordtail (Graphium antiphates)

Image credits: 1, 2, 3

Found in South and Southeast Asia, this butterfly is known to mud-puddle to obtain nutrients.

[shadamyheadcanons]

We have official Super Amy colors! She’s near-white—maybe just barely pink! Pretty cool to think of her going white with red eyes, since her modern clothing color scheme is red with white and gold accents. What do you think Shadow would think of Amy in Super form?

I can’t begin to tell you how amped I am for this. I’ve been advocating for Super Amy for more years than I can count! I’ve said before that I’d only be picking up Sonic Origins if Amy became playable, and this seals the deal even more for me.

I especially think red eyes work well with pink fur. For shadamy kids, I always think combining her fur color with his eye color works really well. Perhaps Sega agrees. ;) Adding in her red dress would make the coordination even better. I’d love to see what they would do for Modern Amy.

As for how Shadow would feel about Amy’s Super Form, I have a quick story about it here. The combination of power, cuteness, heroism, and passion have to be right up his alley, no doubt.

[herpsandbirds]

Butterflies puddling (family Papilionidae), Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand

Green Dragontail (Lamproptera meges)

Fivebar Swordtail (Graphium antiphates)

Veined Jay (Graphium chironides)

Blue Triangle (Graphium sarpedon)

photograph by Stéphane Bidouze

[specialagentartemis]

Classics friends!

I was browsing wikipedia topics (as one does) and came across this bit in the article on the Laestrygonians that gave me pause:

Odysseus kept his own ship outside the harbor, moored to a rock. He climbed a high rock to reconnoiter, but could see nothing but some smoke rising from the ground. He sent two of his company and an attendant to investigate the inhabitants [...] who upon arrival snatched up one of the men and killed him on the spot, presumably then eating him (as it states in the Odyssey that he only met with the men with the intention of eating them). The other two men, Eurylochus and Polites, ran away, but Antiphates raised an outcry, so that they were pursued by thousands of Laestrygonians...

Okay one in the Odyssey it does straight up say that that the Lestrygonian Antiphates did eat the guy. However. The Odyssey itself (checked two translations) does not name the two men Odysseus sent, just that they were two men of his party. The addition that they were specifically Eurylochus and Polites was added to the Wikipedia article in 2009, with no sources given.

Much as I would like to believe this is true... does anyone know of any tradition or written source that names these two men as Eurylochus and Polites, or was this just anonymous wikipedia user 67.173.178.176 in 2009 mis-remembering the Aeaea scouting party which was led by Eurlyochus and Polites?

Wanted to check in with others before I edited the article, in case there's something I'm missing.

[myth-lord]

ALl greek myth characters I love

Achelous (Triton) Achilles Achlys Acmon (Dactyl) Actaeon (Stag) Adephagia Aeacus (Daemon Judge) Aello (Harpy) Aeolus Aergia Aethon (Caucausian Eagle) Agamemnon Aglaope (Siren) Agrius (Bearman) Aigle (Hesperid) Akheilos Alastor Alecto (Erinyes) Amethyste (Oread) Amphisbaena Amphitrite Antaeus Anteros Antiphates (Laestrygonian) Apate Aphrodite Apollo Arachne Ares Argus Panoptes Aristaeus (God of insects) Artemis Asclepius (Medicine/Healing) Askalaphos (owl) Atalanta Athena Atlas Atropos Attis Autolycus (Master Thief)

Basilisk Bellerophon Boreas (Anemoi) Briareus (hekantoncheirus) Brontes (Cyclops)

Cacus Cadmus Calliope (Muse, Poetry) Callisto Calydonian Boar Calypso (Nereid) Cassandra Cassiopeia Castor & Pollux Catoblepas Celedones (two) Cerambus (Beetle) Cerberus Cercopes (Passalus & Aclemon) Ceryneian Hind Ceto Cetus Chalcon (Telchine) Chaos Charon Charybdis Chimera Chione Chiron (Centaur) Chloris (Dryad) Chrysaor Chrysomallos Circe Clio (Muse, Art) Clotho Coronis (Maenad) Corvus (Raven) Cretan Bull Crocotta Cronus

Daedalus Deimos (Machai) Delphin Demeter Diomedes Dionysus

Echidna Echo (Oread) Empusa Epiales (Pet of PHobetor) Erato (Muse, Literature) Eris (Mania) Eros Erymanthian Boar Eurus (Anemoi) Euryale (Gorgon) Eurynomos Eurytion (Centaur) Euterpe (Muse, music) Evenor (Atlantis King)

Gaia Galatea Gegenees Geras Geryon Graeae (Deino, Enyo & Pemphredo) Griffon

Hades Harmonia Hecate Helen of Troy Helios Hephaestus Hera Heracles Hermes Hestia Hippocampus Hippolyta Hybris Hygieia Hypnos

Icarus Ichthyes (Aphros & Bythos) Indus Worm Iris Ismenian Drakon Ixion (Daemon)

Jason

Kampe Karkinos Keres Khalkotauroi (Colchis Bull) Kholkikos Drakon Kobaloi Kratos

Ladon Laelaps Lakhesis Lamia Leonidas Lernaean Hydra Limos Lotus (Lotus-Eaters) Lycaon

Manticore Marsyas (Satyr) Medea Medusa (Gorgon) Megaera (Erinyes) Melaina (Thriae) Meleager Melinoe Melpomene (Muse, Tragedy) Menoetes (Daemon) Midas Minos (Daemon Judge) Minotaur Mneme (Muse, Memory) Morbus (Nosoi) Mormo Moros (DooM) Morpheus (Oneiroi)

Narcissus Nemean Lion Nemesis Nephele (Aurai) Nerites Nessus (Centaur) Nike Notus (Anemoi) Nyx

Odontotyrannus Odysseus Oedipus Orion Orpheus Orphne Orthrus

Pan Pandora Panotti Paris of Troy Pegasus Peisinoe (Siren) Peitho (Persuasion) Peleus (Myrmidon) Peloros (Spartoi) Penthus (Mourning) Periphetes Persephone Perseus Phaea (Crommyonian Sow) Pharmacea (Nereid, Poison) Philyra (Odor, Parfum) Phobetor (Oneiroi) Phobos (Machai) Phoenix Phorcys Phthisis (Nosoi) Plutus (Wealth / Chrysus) Polyhymnia (Muse, Silence) Polyphemus (Cyclops) Poseidon Prometheus Proteus (Triton) Psyche Pygmalion Pyrausta Pyrois (Sun Horse) Pythia (oracle of Delphi) Python

Rhadamanthus (Daemon Judge)

Sciron (Cercyon) Scironian Turtle Scorpios Scylla Selene Sisyphus (Daemon) Skolopendra Sphinx Stheno (Gorgon) Stymphalian Birds Sybaris Symplegades (Planctae)

Talos (Automaton) Tantalus (Daemon) Tartarus Terpsichore (Muse, Dance) Teumessian Fox Thalia (Muse, Comedy) Thanatos Theia (Sight, gems) Thelxiepeia (Siren) Theseus Tiresias (Shade) Tisiphone (Erinyes) Typhon

Urania (Muse, Astronomy)

Xanthus (Mare of Diomedes)

Zelos Zephyrus (Anemoi) Zeus

Shades / Myrmekes / Gadfly /

[tropic-havens]

​Five-bar Swordtail (Graphium antiphates) in Nam Nao National Park, Phetchabun, Thailand.

[corpsecoded]

got a graphium antiphate today.. a bit faded but she’s still sooo pretty

[worldsandemanations]

Five-bar Swordtail (Graphium antiphates), family Papilionidae, Selangor, Malaysia

photograph by Chan Wah Choy

[lamilanomagazine]

Oristano: concerto di canti mariani in memoria di Eleonora d'Arborea.

Oristano: concerto di canti mariani in memoria di Eleonora d'Arborea. Il concerto in memoria di Eleonora d'Arborea che si terrà il 28 aprile alle 19 è idea dell’ISTAR Istituto Storico Arborense, dell’Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Oristano, dell’Arcidiocesi di Oristano e dell’Assessorato alla Pubblica istruzione, Beni Culturali, Informazione, Spettacolo e Sport della Regione Sarda. Il concerto è del Complesso Vocale di Nuoro Diretto dal Maestro Franca Floris, proposto a 620 anni dalla morte di Eleonora, e offrirà al pubblico una ricca selezione di canti mariani. Non si ha certezza sulla data della morte di Eleonora d’Arborea: “Di recente era in auge il 1402 – spiega Giampaolo Mele, Direttore scientifico dell’ISTAR -. Alcuni documenti barcellonesi parlano chiaro: fine maggio/23 giugno 1403. Le fonti citano, tra gli altri, Giorgio Curculeu abitante di Stampace che si recava ad Aristanis per consegnare alcune lettere del governatore «a la jutgessa d’Arborea e a son fill». Ma dal 23 giugno 1403 il nome della Juighissa non ricorre più nei documenti della Corona d’Aragona. Eleonora nella Carta de Logu invoca Dio e la Madonna: gloriosa Virgini Madonna santa Maria mama sua. E ordina che i bestemmiatori di Dio o Santa Maria pagassero 50 lire di multa, altrimenti: «sarà conficcato un uncino nella lingua e questa sarà tagliata in modo che la perda». A 620 anni dalla morte di Eleonora l’ISTAR offre un concerto di canti mariani. Tra i brani: Ave virgo sanctissima e Gaudeamus, da codici trecenteschi della Cattedrale. Di certo, Sa Juighissa nella festa dell’Assunta seguiva la messa solenne celebrata dall’arcivescovo, con l’introito Gaudeamus. Una chicca: Stella cæli, cantata dalle clarisse portoghesi contro la peste, nel Trecento. Oltre a fulgidi brani polifonici, anche due perle sarde: il Rosario di Ghilarza e di Orgosolo”. “L’ISTAR – ricorda il Direttore Mele - unisce ricerca scientifica e divulgazione. Sono in programmazione l’edizione critica dei Procesos contra los Arborea (gli ultimi due volumi su Eleonora e Brancaleone), un concorso internazionale di poesia Eleonora in sarda rima e l’inaugurazione dell’anno scolastico 2023-2024 presso la statua della Giudicessa”. Il programma è strutturato come di seguito: Saluti di Mons. Roberto Carboni - Arcivescovo Metropolita d’Arborea, Massimiliano Sanna - Sindaco di Oristano, Luca Faedda - Assessore alla Cultura del Comune di Oristano e Erika Vivian - Presidente ISTAR. Introduce e coordina Giampaolo Mele - Direttore Scientifico ISTAR AVE VIRGO SANCTISSIMA 1. Salve Regina antiph. B. Mariae Virginis 2. Gaudeamus antiph. ad introitum 3. Ave Maris stella inno 4. Ave Maris stella (Edward Hagerup Grieg · 1843-1907) mottetto 5. Salve Mater (Oswald Jaeggi · 1913-1963) mottetto 6. Stella coeli antiph. Francescana 7. Stella coeli (Mauro Zuccante · 1962) mottetto 8. Ave Virgo Sanctissima antiph. dal Salterio-Innario P. XIII di Aristanis secolo XIV 9. Deus ti salvet, Maria popolare (Antonio Sanna elab. · 1932-2016) 10. Rosario di Ghilarza popolare (Antonio Sanna elab. · 1932-2016) 11. Rosario di Orgosolo popolare (Antonio Sanna elab. · 1932-2016) 12. Ave Maria algherese popolare Nicola Manca elab. (1985) 13. Genuit puerpera coro spazializzato Giovanni Bonato (1961) 14. Salve Regina antiph. tono solemnis... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[pitch-and-moan]

Antiphates

A Madeline Miller-esque story about the life of Antiphates, king of the Laestrygonian cannibals, in the Odyssey.

[becdecorbin]

more dopey harpy nonsense asfdsg. this time with Paramirum/Antiphates, being based on a white dove to contrast with Laistrygon's crow/raven.

referenced baby pigeons for Paramirum, too. they're so gormless, I love them.

[mythology-facts]

antiphates

“unspeakable”

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- gigante king of the laestrygones

- antiphates is known as five different figures in greek mythology. most commonly, he’s known as the king of the laestrygones. they were a tribe of gigantic cannibals, that odysseus and his scouting party ran into.

- the second figure (antíphates) was a trojan warrior who was slain by leonteus

- third (antiphatês), was the son of melampus and iphianeira. he married zeuxippe, the daughter of hippocoon. their children were oecles and amphalces

- another antiphates was one of the greek warriors who hid in the trojan horse

- the last but not least antiphates, was the son of sarpedon. who accompanied aeneas to italy where he was killed by turnus.

[shadamyheadcanons]

Submission #84

Ok, so hear me out.  We’ve all heard of Amy being jealous of Sally because Sally’s with Sonic—a tired take tbh.  But, we’ve got plenty of evidence in the older Archie comics of Amy supporting and defending their relationship from the public, so I’d like to think she’s actually pretty graceful about it (even it was always under the naïve and presumptuous impression that she’ll still be the one to marry him one day, but what can you do about Archie’s penchant for weird characterizations).  

Still, imagine if the primary reason Amy was so envious of Sally was because unlike for Amy herself, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles don’t ever leave Sally behind.  They’ll always slow down for her, and always listen to her (like how it so often used to be in the Archie comics).

I’m sure Team Sonic’s reasoning is founded in something supposedly harmless, along the lines of, “Amy’s more capable, so we don’t need to worry about her.”—which I imagine is a double standard that would hurt Sally as well, were she to become aware of it, but that’s another thing altogether.  

The point is, Amy would no doubt interpret this incredibly personally, the issue compounding over the years.  She’s always struggled with the notion that she doesn’t bring anything special to the table of Team Sonic.  She’s faster than Tails and Knuckles, but not Sonic.  She’s smarter than Knuckles and Sonic, but not Tails.  She’s stronger than Sonic and Tails, but not Knuckles.  She’s got plenty of special abilities on her own, but so do the other three, so as someone who struggles with self worth and has trouble seeing beyond her ability to be useful to others, she dismisses almost the entirety of her unique skill set—not even taking into account her proclivity towards proactivism and compassion.  She doesn’t bolster any archetype for the team, so she may as well not be apart of it.  And more often than she’d like to acknowledge, she isn’t.  

And the worst part is that she had convinced herself that she was fine with this.  She understood why she got left behind, and was never vocally upset about it, content to always play “catch-up”.  She always gets stronger, and always gets faster, and works tirelessly to expand her well of knowledge and skill sets—all to no real avail.  But it’s okay, because she doesn’t take it personally.  Team Sonic have always had a bad habit of leaving everyone behind in the dust, including her.  

But then Amy notices the one exception to the rule, and it’s Sally (for whatever list of plausible reasons there may be or that you may speculate in addition).  It’s honestly kinda heart-breaking for her.  

She’ll speculate endlessly about why this is.  Sally’s capable, so Amy never questions her abilities, and instead tries to figure out just why Sally isn’t ever excluded.  Is it because she’s older than Amy?  But Tails is younger than almost everyone, and even if his sheer intellect makes up for it, Amy has to reason that her own academic prowess relative to Sonic and Knuckles can fill the less aggressive gap in age.  Is it because she’s so level-headed and equanimous?  But Knuckles is known to have a temper that surpasses Amy’s fairly often.  Is it because she’s more mature?  But—and and as much as Amy tries to ignore the fact—Sonic is fairly immature and short-sighted himself, with others, Amy included, having to constantly check him and reign in his impatience.  

  So she erroneously concludes that everyone just likes Sally more.  Something about her personality, her character.  And why wouldn’t they all like Sally?  She’s logical and strong-willed, tactical and a born leader, stern but kind, sweet and pretty—and the list could go on.  Amy wouldn’t even realize that so many great things about Sally are things they have in common.    

Amy and Sally are actually pretty good friends in light of all the things they have in common too, so it’s less that Amy dislikes Sally for what she perceives as favoritism in their friend group, so much as Amy dislikes HERSELF for just not being up to snuff.  

And Amy feels like she can’t tell anyone without the guilt of it all eating her alive.  Cream is obviously Amy’s closest friend/sibling-figure, and would therefore be the most comfortable option for venting, but Amy acknowledges that Cream is far too young for her to dump her insecurities onto, and therefore just plain refuses to delve into the topic altogether.  

That is, until she and Shadow start to grow closer a handful of years into the future. 

She’s probably be the type to laugh off her pain and envy, thinking herself immature for being jealous over something that’s probably just petty—but I think Shadow would be genuinely shocked and upset on her behalf.  Because yeah, okay, people can have preferential friends, but combined with the fact that Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles have an apparent history of being exclusionary towards Amy specifically, it all just leaves a bad taste in Shadow’s mouth.  He knows that with Cream being so young and having to devote a fair portion of her life to school and just plain being a kid, Big living his best life relaxing and fishing as someone who’s probably a pacifist outside of absolute necessity, and on-again off-again Team Rose member Blaze being a high responsibility princess from a whole different dimension—Amy doesn’t often have access to a dedicated assembly of Heroes that make up her own, independent team.  So she makes an effort to help people in any way she can on her own, often merging into other teams—or tagging along behind, in the case of Team Sonic apparently. 

No matter how big a miscommunication the situation may turn out to be in the end (if it even is one at all), and no matter the fact that Amy would always and inevitably forgive her friends for leaving her out of the crew at times, Shadow would probably endeavor to include Amy in SO many more of Team Dark’s missions—and not just because he has the softest spot in his heart for her.  She’s an incomparably versatile asset to any group she’s apart of, but also so much more, and he desperately wants her to see that and believe in herself just as much as she believes in him (I know and love how many times you’ve pointed this out in headcanons).

Ngl tho, I just kinda love the idea of the entirety of Team Dark being Amy’s hype man.  It’s what she deserves.  I like to think that there’ll be a period in the future where Cream goes through her formative years unburdened by continuous fighting, Big gets to retire from warfare at the ripe old age of mid-20-something, and Blaze can actually make more time to rule her Kingdom—which does sadly leave Amy without a proper team most of the time.  But she’s an optimist!  She’s a hero through and through, so she’d always find a way to help others.  If Team Sonic doesn’t step up their game, then Team Dark will just have to adopt her and absolutely dominate the hero scene!

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((Can I confess something? I actually really like the way Archie handled it. Wanting Sonic to be happy above all else while still never doubting that she’s his endgame is great for her character IMO. Very fitting, and it averts the constant-jealousy alternative. Let her be hopeful, compassionate, and friendly with her “competition!” I think it’s a very clever way around the issue, and it gives us great scenes like this one:

That aside, I really like your analysis of the underlying problem. I hadn’t thought about it too much before because I love Sonally so much, but yeah, they really don’t leave Sally behind. And Amy sees it, too.

Literally.

Even if they left Amy behind because she’s more “capable,” I don’t think they’d tell her that unprompted, and even if she pressed them on it, the “capable” explanation wouldn’t jive with their constant devaluation of her potential input. This bothered me whenever I played SA2 as a kid, and it only got worse once I found out she held her own and had her own role to play in SA1. She already proved herself as a vital part of the team. Why did they drag her backwards like that? I think the writers intentionally wrote her as kind of annoying in SA2 so it’d be more “understandable” that they’d leave her behind, but as someone who was frequently ghosted and ignored for being “annoying” growing up, it just didn’t work for me.

Thing is, she’s not even faster than Tails in most iterations. He keeps pace with Sonic, but she has to catch up with him. Hedgehogs are naturally fast; her description in Sonic Chronicles: the Dark Brotherhood states that members of her species have “innate hedgehog speed,” but she doesn’t stack up to Sonic or Shadow in that regard–or even Blaze or Tails–so if you extrapolate too far, that could even make her feel worse, especially because she isn’t spiky like other hedgehogs are, either. I sometimes wonder if she feels insecure about that.

But that’s all just angsty overanalysis.

It’s easy to feel insecure when it feels like you don’t have a specialty. One of my best headcanons (in my opinion) discusses that very dilemma, and Shadow has to reassure her. Her abilities, while powerful, are mostly very subtle and easy to miss. Vague psychic powers? She barely uses them. Invisibility? It showed up exactly once in an erased timeline. Hammerspace? It’s only pointed out in canon one time. Reforming villains? I don’t think she sees herself as special for being able to do that. She’s never been arrogant or even mentioned it. At first glance, she just seems like an ordinary girl next to her friends, just like Sally–but they wait for her. Not for Amy.

What a lot of people fail to see is that appearing ordinary is a superpower in and of itself. It makes for a great leader. Someone like Sonic is larger than life, but the average citizen will see Amy Rose, just a girl with a hammer and a positive attitude, and think, “If she can do it, why can’t I?” Sonic will never have that. Sally and Amy are similar, and despite what many in the fandom think, that’s not a bad thing. It’s just that leadership probably wouldn’t feel like a big deal to her. She wasn’t full of herself when she led Team Rose, she just saw herself as a girl on an adventure with her friends who gave a couple pep talks. Someone had to do it. I doubt it would even occur to her that that was impressive. The youngest team leader with the least experienced partners got them to their destination faster than anyone else? Do you think she cared about that at the time? I don’t.

Amy is remarkably resilient and optimistic, but chasing constantly is exhausting. Chasing and never catching up will burn anyone out, and I don’t think she’ll be immune to that forever. I mean that in multiple ways. She deserves people (especially one person) who won’t do that to her.

I agree with your assertion that Amy would turn her negative feelings inward rather than being bitter toward Sally. She’s not the type to blame others, particularly these days. And Sonic’s romantic history with Sally really would lend credence to her theory that he likes Sally better, and while Sonic is a very fair guy, there may still be some truth to it.

I love the idea of Shadow’s temper flaring up in the wake of Amy being mistreated. In fact, I wonder if this submission was at least partly inspired by my recent headcanon about her weighted bracelets, as that was a prominent theme there. I like seeing Shadow’s temper used for good. He’d validate her feelings, letting her know that yes, it is fucked up that she’s treated that way. There’s nothing like having someone who’s as passionate as you are stepping up to your level, letting you know you really aren’t crazy and it truly isn’t fair. Amy needs someone like Shadow by her side. She just does. If not now, then later for sure.

I can imagine Shadow taking her under his wing for missions at first because he thinks she deserves a place on a team so she can do good like she always wants to, but then he’s introduced to her ridiculous skillset, and he’s like, “Oh, shit, she’s got better mobility than I do...and she double-jumps...and summons objects out of thin air...and stops time...she turns invisible...she’s strong as hell–how the fuck do they ever lose her in the first place?!” And then once he actually helps her train and sees her rapid self-improvement, he’s somehow both smitten and threatened at how quickly her speed and chaos powers approach his level. It starts with something like this:

And before long, he winds up like this:

Amy being a part of Team Dark isn’t just popular for the sake of shadamy. It’s a legitimately good idea that I think would be great to explore if they ever aged up these characters, though I know Sega won’t go there.

Thanks for the submission!))

[herpsandbirds]

Five-bar Swordtail (Graphium antiphates), family Papilionidae, Selangor, Malaysia

photograph by Chan Wah Choy

[darkskek]

Oof. SkekLi should just kidnap SkekSam lmao. You emotionally manipulate and kidnap his new baby(s) in a way that makes it so that he can’t get them back, then fine—he’ll just take your kid that neither of the parents want anything to do with anymore anyway.

After Skeksil went the Emporer and Skekung did only harsh training with Sam (to get his anger and frustation out, poor sam) Skeksam saw Skekli watching skeksil all the time. He went to him and they both talked, and found in other a parent and a child.