#mythology tag

[tylermileslockett]

Hey folks, this image of Apollo was done for a private commission. Xoxo

The following text is reposted from my previous Apollo Olympians image.

“Phoebus, of you even the swan sings with clear voice to the beating of his wings, as he alights upon the bank by the eddying river Peneus; and of you the sweet-tongued minstrel, holding his high-pitched lyre, always sings both first and last…And so hail to you, lord! I seek your favor with my song.”  (-Homeric Hymn, translated by H.G. Evelyn white)

APOLLO (uh-PAH-low), God of prophecy, oracles, music, art, protector of and disease of boys and men, and archery. Just as his twin sister Artemis is patron to women and girls, Apollo is both protector, and killer from disease of boys and men. In my Illustration the god holds his bow and arrows behind, while he strums the lyre gifted to him by trickster Hermes. Near the sun flies his ally and divine messenger, a white raven. The column on the right is capped with a cow, representing his sacred animal as a god of herds. The serpent Python sits dead at his feet, killed by Apollo’s arrow so that the god could take over the Delphi temple location. The temple complex sits beneath the god, while on the far right, the Pythia (Apollo’s oracle priestess) sits upon a tripod, breathing the hallucinatory gasses seeping up from the earth to get her prophecies which she bestows upon visitors.

The laurel tree has associations with Apollo because the god, chasing a Naiad (water nymph) named Daphne call out to Gaia (mother earth) for help, who transformed the nymph into a laurel tree, which the god adopted as his sacred tree. In book 1 of the Iliad, Apollo supports the Trojans by raining down a plague on the Greeks, and later helping Paris to kill Achilles. Apollo’s cruelty is shown in Ovid’s mythical lyre contest with the inventor of the flute; a satyr named Marsyas. When Apollo suggested they play their instruments upside down, the satyr lost, and was flayed (skinned) alive as punishment for his hubris. 

[transsexualjoanofarc]

john cazale as agamemnon in agamemnon (1977 broadway production & rehearsals) photographed by friedman-abeles

[greekgodsexymanbracket]

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[withlovefromolympus]

Athena: I have a joke for you!

Artemis: okay

Athena, giggling: the government has the people’s best interests at heart

[good--merits-accumulated]

John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights has had no effect on me (guy who is newly fucking obsessed with Sir Kay)

[eldritchboop]

The Ancient Greece Collection - 36 Rare Books

The Lost Book Project charges $10 for this collection. If you found this roundup useful, please consider donating to the Internet Archive instead.

Other roundups here

The Iliad by Homer (1598)

The Age of Fable, or, Beauties of Mythology by T. Bullfinch (1894)

The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato (2001)

The Republic by Plato (375 BC)

The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy - P. Colum (1918)

India in Greece, or, Truth in Mythology - E. Pococke (1852)

The Persian Expedition by Xenophon (401 BC)

Hellenic History - G. Botsford (1921)

History of Alexander the Great - J. Abbott (1848)

Stories of Old Greece and Rome - E. K. Baker (1913)

Medea by Euripides (431 BC)

Old Greek Stories - J. Baldwin (1895)

Crete, the Forerunner of Greece - C. Hawes (1921)

The Ancient City - A Study on the Religion, Laws and Institutions of Greece and Rome - F. de Coulanges (1877)

Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion - A Study in Survivals - J. C. Lawson (1910)

Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals - T. Davidson (1892)

Stories of Greek Gods, Heroes and Men - a primer of the mythology and history of the Greeks - C. H. Harding (1897)

Greek Pictures - J. Mahaffy (1890)

The Heroes or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children - C. Kingsley (1901)

Greek Religious Thought from Homer to The Age of Alexander - F. Cornford (1921)

A History of Ancient Greek Literature - G. Murray (1897)

A Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography by W. Smith (1899)

A General History of Greece from the Earliest Period to the Death of Alexander the Great - G. Cox (1890)

Greek and Roman Mythology - J. M. Tatlock (1917)

Beeton's classical dictionary. A cyclopaedia of Greek and Roman biography, geography, mythology, and antiquities by S. O. Beeton (1871)

Minoan Mycenaean Religion and its survival in Greek religion - M. Nilsson (1921)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology Vol. 1 - W. Smith (1850)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology Vol. 2 - W. Smith (1850)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology Vol. 3 - W. Smith (1850)

Rhodes in Ancient times - C. Torr (1885)

The legend of Perseus a study of tradition in story custom and belief Vol. 1 - E. S. Hartland (1894)

Tales of Troy and Greece - A. Lang (1907)

Greece in the times of Homer, an account of the life, customs, and habits of the Greeks during the Homeric period - T. Timayenis (1885)

The Story of Troy - M. Clarke (1897)

Manual of Mythology - Greek and Roman, Norse, and Old German, Hindoo and Egyptian mythology - A. S. Murray (1874)

[sidneypoindexter]

So King Hades agreed that for half of each year

She would stay with him there in his world down below

But the other half, she could walk in the sun

And the sun, in turn, burned twice as bright

Hadestown Moodboard #5- Epic I

[tohrules]

sooooo

I was thinking abouts mattholomule's original name and

Now me being a mythology nerd knows a bit about the myths involving fenrir. Most of them include that when he is released the world will end.....do you know how AWSOME it would have been to be able to make this connection

(And would have made younger me who wanted matt to have a wolf palisman happy lol)

Now I do love his name but fenrir is still so cool 😎

[belle-epochalypse]

Who wanna be the unsuspecting Grecian mortal to my wine-frenzied Maenad

[asha-mage]

Microdosing on the feeling of being an angry Greek deity by smiting (smashing) various mortals (ants) who have committed a terrible act of hubris (climbing all over my counter) and attempting to steal my divine ambrosia (get inside my box of cinnamon toast crunch).

[franki-lew-yo]

Do "Spirit Animals" exist in any mythology??

By exist, I mean roughly the way totems are portrayed in Brother Bear, where one of that animal or the entirety of that species guides you and represents you, an individual, not a group. Maybe also your spirit+soul's true form is that animal on top of having a bestie animal motif follow you everywhere?

Do any actual world mythologies have animal guides that help out a specific person, almost like guardian angels?

I'm not saying they can't exist, but to me it sounds way more colonists putting the concepts of witches familiars onto indigenous cultures and calling it a day. Just a bit.

I would like to be challenged or encourage open chat and conversation abt this??? Whattya think?

[tylermileslockett]

"Homecoming,"

In this scene, of Aeschylus's Greek tragic play "Agamemnon",  King Agamemnon has finally arrived back to his palace in Argos (Mycenea) after conquering Troy. He arrives in a chariot with his spoil of war; CASSANDRA (a Trojan slave girl cursed by Apollo with the power of prophecy - but that none shall believe her visions).

Agamemnon's wife, CLYTEMNESTRA meets them at the palace doors, obstructing his entrance. (The chorus has previously related the tale of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter, Iphigenia, ten years prior on the way to Troy. So this confrontation is eagerly anticipated). She showers her husband with rhetoric of love and respect, then rolls out fine embroidered cloth (with fragile red dye) and then convinces him that only by walking barefoot on the  tapestry will he prove his high worth and placate her to enter.  

Professor Peter meineck, in his "Modern Scholar" audio lecture series: "Greek Drama", points to the symbolism when he says "...Agamemnon is wading through blood of his sacrificed daughter," and "...trampling the wealth of the house." Professor Meienck also thinks this tapestry is a menstrual image representing Clytemnestra's power (he even mentions that the ancient Greek word for door was also a slang word for vagina). So when Agamemnon relents, he unknowingly goes to his death. He now represents the sacrificial bull of the Greek new year "Buphonia" Festival.

Random Fun fact: this scene in this play is where we get the concept of "rolling out the red carpet" for honored guests.  

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[transsexualjoanofarc]

wish i was prometheus. getting eaten out every day

[khloemaddyson]

The eternal torture of Ixion

So basically in Greek mythology, there was the this king who decided to kill his father-in-law after a dispute over payment for a bride and stole Ixion’s horses. This pisses him off and he shoved the man into a burning coal pit where he perished. Shunned and disgraced, he wandered around until Zeus took pity upon him and brought him to the Olympus table feast for a party.

Honestly this might have been the kindest thing Zeus has ever done.

Then Ixion, being the Moron that he was, found himself lusting for Hera, so Zeus created a living cloud version of his wife so that he could “have fun I guess”. This creates some form of mares called centars. Now for some reason this anger the “Great and Mighty Zeus” so he cast Ixion out of Olympus and bound him eternally to a spinning wheel that rested over hellflames for an eternal torture.

Just thought it was a cool story so enjoy!

[mars1013]

does anyone have any good percabeth fics to give mee?

i like high-school au

uhh coffee shop ig??

idk just anyone scrolling by if.u could just drop like a bunch that'd be great

i read predominantly on ao3

[good--merits-accumulated]

Chrétien PLEASE.