#hector breaker of horses

[saint-sebastian-coded]

why did no one tell me that its not just hector's horse lampus being called sparkles, its one being called blondie and sparkles is also godlike

[mythology-void]

Achilles: oops my beloved husband/love of my life was murdered by Hector so I guess I have to chase him screaming around the battlefield and fight anything and anyone who gets in my way including this river god :D isn't going mad from grief so silly

Hector : WHERE IS YOUR IMPULSE CONTROL

Achilles: Bleeding to death on the ground

[emptycoffeemug]

The irony of the Iliad ending with the line: "And so they buried Hector, breaker of horses" only for the Trojans to immediately get wrecked by the trojan horse is so funny to me.

You just know that if Hector had been there, that horse would have been smashed to pieces. It's the real reason Hector had to die before Troy could fall, because he wouldn't have fallen for the horse.

[wolfythewitch]

I know astyanax was described as an infant, but I also know that ancient Greek's standards of infant can range from baby to like 5 years old, so now I'm thinking about toddler astyanax. A little boy raised in war. He braids flowers into the war horses manes and watches as they are cut down again and again and again

[thematicparallel]

Isn't it funny how hard it is to describe a good man?

[nikoisme]

To think horses were one of my favorite things to draw AND the only thing i drew,,

[rithmeres]

i get why the girlies are obsessed with the trojan war like im reading it in dumbed-down latin but even this idiot baby translation is so compelling im like oh i GET it now

[theratratatouille]

sometimes I think about hector and how if given the choice he would have chosen a forgotten life with his family and left his name in the dust

[ojirocardigansniper]

the benefit of perhaps the stars being extraordinarily dense is that you are often Forced to take terrible anguishing chapters in chunks. i read 'i do not know how to call friend one who does this' for most of a little league baseball game today and only got like halfway through, even on a reread. 47 page beast. long ass fucking god damn chapter in ANY book let alone my dear terra ignota of clause-vomiting fame

[twoticky]

nearly cried reading the iliad not once but twice. something has happened to my brain and emotions in the last few months but to be honest im fine with it

[deathgroupie]

thinking about how Hector was "man-killer" to the Greeks, but "horse-breaker" to the Trojans. how it takes tenderness and patience and devotion to get a wild horse to trust you, let alone let you ride it. how hector's life and relationships to others, even the gods, are defined by devotion, and how it wins him both honor and his own death. how hector thinks he can approach achilles like a spooked horse, but achilles is a dog and not only a dog, but a dog that has nothing left. how even the wildest horse has the desire for food and comfort, but hector has never met a horse that wants to die. anyways how's your day going

[ala-chrisgoods]

some sketch in June, Polydamas & Hector...

that's possible for Polydamas to stay alive and escape from Troy, he never( as far as I know ) be recorded except The Iliad. means he maybe is a fictional character created by Homer, like the embodiment of rational Hector. he didn't be recorded that been killed, maybe alive maybe not.

The Iliad's ending just telling us how the Trojans buried Hector breaker of horses, who born with Polydamas on the same night. :)

[quidam-sirenae]

I’m ok until here lies Hector breaker of horses

[wolfythewitch]

Hi! I'm in love with your Iliad cardigan design (all three of them to be honest) and I have a question: what is the meaning of all its elements?

(I guess there's Achilles' shield on the back, but what about the front?)

On the right chest I specifically based it on the line "The birds shall mangle, and the dogs devour"

Though it's also kind of a reference to a line from Emily Wilson's iliad wherein the plague dead are "a banquet for the birds". As well as when Hector is killed and Achilles wishes to leave his body for the dogs to feast on

The heart is sort of in vein with this, with the line "I wish the fury and the pain in me could drive me to carve and eat you raw for what you did" and the cannibalistic(at least in interpretation) imagery of the myrmidons, comparing them to wolves that tear at raw flesh, cheeks running with blood. You can see bite marks on the heart

The horses are referencing many things, hector the horse breaker, the Trojan horse, Achilles's horses, charioteers, etc

There are brick imprints on the background for the walls of troy

The very top is the thousand ships set sail for war

[greatest-greek-games]

Hector: The breaker of horses. The one who holds fast, the stalwart defender of Troy. The only decent man in the entire Iliad. Hector loves his family -- his wife, his son, his siblings, basically everyone except Paris, his fuckup little brother. Described by numerous sources as having a lisp, and also apparently 'blinking attractively,' whatever that means. Sorry I'm trying to find his negative traits by a quick Wikipedia search and I don't think he has any. Everybody loves this guy.

Diomedes: The coolest and chillest of the Achaean kings at Troy, and one of the Epigoni, the sons of the Seven Against Thebes. One of the most decorated and badass, especially within the text of the Iliad, where he wounds two gods and winds up to fight another before Apollo tells him to fuck off. He's also one of the youngest kings at Troy -- hard to figure out with a general lack of dates, but he was fourteen when he raided Thebes, and that wasn't too far before the Trojan War. Babyface king.

[nikoisme]

you ever think about the fact that those were the burial rites of hector, breaker of horses? not hector of the shining helm? In that moment, they didn't bury the terror of the achaeans, they buried a son, a brother, a husband, a father. Not only will those hands never spill blood and protect the walls again, but those hands will also never cradle his baby son or hold his wife again. That face will never send fear down the enemy's spine, nor will it ever smile or gleam with pride again. The helm will slowly be eaten away by rust and grow dull, and so will the horses without hector to rein their spirits or andromache to gently feed them wine and wheat. They didn't bury him for who he was to the achaeans, they buried him for who he was to the trojans. The laments over his body started with his ferocity in battle and ended with his gentleness. Yes, they grieved the future (death) he left them with when he fell, but maybe they also grieved the past (life) he took with him to the grave.