#chryseis

[sarafangirlart]

The only reason we think that slavery was considered “okay” back then is bc stories back then were mostly written by wealthy upper class men, who were one of the few ppl who were literate at the time. If slaves were able to read and write back then we’d get a very different perspective.

Just look at how enslaved women are portrayed in the Iliad, mourning and loving their captors and abusers, when anyone in that situation would feel relieved, even celebrate if it didn’t mean being given to new owners.

[kittzuxp]

Oh In all the old stories by Habur on Ao3 how i love you..

How you have healed my soul after tsoa…

How you are longer than tsoa itself… how you were written 3 years ago …

How you do not bear any warnings or tags of spoil.. the emotion of which is double due to the unknowingness…

How you refer to Hellas by her true name.. Hellas, hellene, hellenic…

[thewinedarksea]

f/f myth: briseis & chryseis 

requested by @inneskeeper

[kingbryancroidragon]

I really have to question having Achilles be Agamemnon's lieutenant in this adaptation. I've read that Achilles was fifteen at the start of the war, why the sideways ass would you make someone that young that you didn't meet until the beginning of the war your lieutenant rather than someone who has served you for many years?

[gigidisi]

[athamad]

Can't believe people don't ship Chryseis and Agamemnon

[demigoddreamer]

Uhhhh so for some reason I made a bunch of Greek Mythology Memes

[koruga]

More art from the Big Wheel Of Characters! I speed-read Sophocles's Electra for that last pic, since I don't have a copy of the Oresteia.

[slicedblackolives]

Hiya! I just wanted to pop by, as I have just finished reading my demons, forgive me (for the second time), and I had to tell you how gorgeous it is. Your characterizations of Roy and Riza (I particularly love your Riza!) are perfect and your writing style is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it!

thenk you so much I'm v proud of it

[dandelionandkrindle]

Your Warcraft gifsets are always so gorgeous, thank you for sharing! I hope you're enjoying Dragonflight! ✨

thank you! it's so nice to hear that you like them. i'm enjoying dragonflight even more than i expected to. wow is really starting to feel like wow again.

[sarafangirlart]

what's your take on the "if it's not explicit, it didn't happen" or "well, the male character said he likes her" kind of interpretation when it comes to the rape of women taken as war prizes? lately i have seen the argument that agamemnon cannot have raped chryseis and cassandra because the text does not make this explicit and he praises both of them. i saw the same kind of argument with briseis and achilles using as an argument what he said in book ix about loving her the way menelaus and agamemnon love their wives

The thing is, slavery was viewed differently back in the day, ppl knew it sucked being a slave but they also viewed it as a normal natural part of life, ppl couldn’t comprehend a world without slavery even in Aristophanes’s The Birds the utopian Cloud cuckoo land still had slaves. The thing is you’ll see some instances of slaves being treated well by the “good guys” and treated badly by the “bad guys” (if you can even call them that but an example of a slave being treated badly by an antagonist is Dirce and Antiope).

Agamemnon and Achilles treating the women they keep as slaves “nicely” doesn’t mean that these women weren’t still very much slaves, or that they weren’t kidnapped or their families weren’t murdered, or even that they weren’t raped, sure you can water it down in a retelling (lord knows these women need a break and that times have changed and ppl nowadays won’t react positively to protagonists who own ppl) but these men still very much don’t really love these women especially with how Achilles nearly ditches Briseis.

That’s not even to mention how Agamemnon flat out refused to return Chryseis to her father even tho if he really cared about her he would, even Hades let Persephone go.

[mod-a-day]

Fabrice Gillet (Arpegiator) of Chryseis "world dance 2" World Dance (1992)

[cursed-hearts-and-love]

➳　　　♡ Open Starter

You dont know where you are.

The marble walls, the gold lining. Are you in a temple of some sort?

You hear footsteps approach. A knife flies past your face, grazing your cheek. You look up, seeing a person with choppy dark brown hair, and a white dress. She looks at you with a glare.

“Why are you here? Are you looking for my mother?”

The dress mentioned :

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[sealrock]

goodbye for now, rest well.

[meditando-en-paris]

Briseis: Life in the camp is not bad. Now I live with a dangerous murderer and Achilles.

Chryseis: Aren't those two the same person? Aren't you describing only Achilles?

Briseis: You obviously don't know Patroclus.

[kareenvorbarra]

i'm forever caught between scylla (agamemnon stans who think he's a better-than-average mythology guy who only has fully consensual sex with the women he's enslaved) and charybdis (agamemnon haters who think he's the worst person ever and that achilles is much better)