#iliad memes

[badliteraturememes]

Anyways happy pride month

[therealrichardpapen]

The Iliad is about hubris, pride, wrath, meanwhile the Odyssey is basically this dude who wants back home but, on his way, manages to piss off every living creature in the entire existence

[theoi-crow]

Okay but being the most attractive woman in the world and having every man fight for your hand in marriage because they want to have "my wife is hotter than yours cus she's the hottest woman in the world" bragging rights sucks. Because it makes you the desired OBJECT for someone else's assertion of dominance in their game of whose the Alpha?

So imagine you just got married and this guy is bragging to his buddies that he won and now married to the hottest woman in the world and everyone has an ugly wife by comparison and you're just sitting there feeling like an object, but one day a hot guy shows up (Paris is canonically very attractive according to Homer) and says:

"I have a prophecy attached to me saying 'if I choose you I will destroy my country, my family and myself,' and I know it would be best to not so the kingdom of Troy continues to flourish, but I am willing to risk it all if it means I get to be with you for even just a moment."

WOULD LITERALLY BE THE MOST ROMANTIC SHIT EVER!

because he knows this is temporary, he knows his whole world would crumble, he knows his bloodline would end and yet, for YOU he is willing to let his empire fall.

He would let his world burn for you.

So sure we could wonder if it was Aphrodite's madness that got to Helen, but in defense of Helen willingly choosing Paris of her own accord, the idea of someone being willing to risk it all just to be with you for even a moment is so ahhhhh! The more I think about it the more I fall apart.

[olympiangods]

tsoa characters as memes from my phone

patroclus

achilles

thetis

odysseus

briseis

chiron

deidameia

agamemnon

i keep finding this in my drafts n im just gonna send it out into the world it's y'all problem now

[greeknerdsstuff]

⚠️It does not justify their actions and in a culture and period full of war and suffering⚠️

[ditoob]

“Showing Athena around the Greek Camp”

Recorded by Odysseus Laertides (1700 b.C.)

[opheliaveu]

neoptolemus and telemachus dead dad vs absent dad lets go

original

[greekmythcomix]

To explain my chicken obsession:

* * *

Me: I’m enjoying drawing chickens for this commission.

Husband: ha ha Greek Myth Chickens!

Me: 🤔

I now present to you,

🏺Greek Myth Chickens 🐓

ILIAD EDITION

(drawn and originally posted in May 2021, coloured and reposted Jan 2023)

1) Egg-chilles and Patro-cluck (Achilles and Patroclus)

2) Mene-lay-us and Al-eggs-andros (Paris) (Menelaus and Alexandros [Paris])

3) Egg-amemnon (Agamemnon)

4) Aph-roost-ite and Helen of Spur-ta (Aphrodite and Helen of Sparta)

5) Nest-or (Nestor)

6) Androma-beak, Peck-tor, and Astyan-egg (Andromache, Hektor and Astyanax)

7) At-hen-a and Egg-dysseus (Athena and Odysseus)

8) Preen-am and Peck-uba (Priam and Hekuba [Hekabe])

9) Brood-seis (Briseis)

10) Diom-egg-es (Diomedes)

EDIT: Greek Myth and Roman History chicken MASTERPOST - https://www.tumblr.com/greekmythcomix/725538723329179648/greek-myth-roman-history-chickens-master-post Here Be More Chickens Cosplaying

(See next post for last 3 Iliad chickens- https://www.tumblr.com/greekmythcomix/722218945873051648/iliad-chickens-continued-11-lay-jax-tel-capon )

[roseblack12]

Diomedes:Do you ever wanna talk about your son Achilles ? Achilles: No Odysseus:I do Diomedes:I know, Odysseus Odysseus:I am the father of Telemachus Diomedes:I know Odysseus

[katkit-drops-alt]

aaaaaaaaaaaa the iliad/odyssey as cat memes aaaaaaaaaaaaa

[badliteraturememes]

Peak Dramatic Irony

[clairepatroclus]

[cvmcicle]

how the reunion in elysium looked like

[theoi-crow]

The Iliad was told by a possessed man.

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

Go off, Muse, of unhinged Achilles,

who cost the Greeks like so many Ls,

and yeeted countless souls of dank heroes

into Hades' big dark,

making their bodies into snack for doggos

and all kinds of birbs.*

Begin with the how Agamemnon--

CEO of men--

deadass canceled the main character.

*edit

[nobuuses]