#polydorus

[blue-lotus333]

I wanted to make a random ass list of children of priam that were killed by a certain achaean so..yeah.

If I miss someone, let me know!

Killed by Achilles

Hector

Troilus

Mestor

Lycaon

Hippodamas

Asteropaeus

Polydorus

Hipponous

Killed by Odysseus

Democoon

Aretus

Chersidamas

Killed by Diomedes

Echemmon

Chromius

Philaemon

Telestas

Thyestes

Killed by Patroclus

Kebriones

Killed by Agamemnon

Antiphus

isus

Killed by Menelaus

Deiphobus

Killed by greater Ajax

Agathon

Doryclus

agavus

Killed by lesser Ajax

Philenor

llioneus

Killed by Idomeneus

Chorithan

Bias

Killed by Teucer

Melanippus

Gorgythion

Killed by Neoptolemus

Polites

Pammon

Antiphonus 

Polyxena

Killed by Polymestor

Polydorus

Killed by Meges

Deiopites

Killed by Eurypylus

Axion

Killed by philoctetes

paris

[literallyjusttoa]

Life got busy and I can't post much rn :(, but here's a sketch I forgot to post of Fen and his spirit friend! Ofc this is from Binary Star System, so check it out if you want more of these dudes.

[skopsidopsi]

Trojan siblings and their age before the war started:

Hector: 23

Deiphobos: 22

Polites: 21

Ilione: 20

Agathon: 18

Kreusa: 17

Pammon: 16

Paris: 15

Helenus and Cassandra: 14

Troilus: 13

Hipponous: 11

Antiphos: 9

Polyxena: 7

Laodike: 5

Polydorus: 2

Btw this is indeed the right order

[mt-isnothere12]

i didnt add the more normalized names like helen, penelope, kassandra, or hektor

i didnt add most children of priam bc well…yk why

achean ver

[aliciavance4228]

I just found out the lore about Cadmus and Harmonia’s kids (The Bacchae + the Actaeon thing). This is crazy. Their lives were a telenovela

Except that telenovelas are supposed to have a happy ending.

[firinnie]

I'm currently designing children of Aphrodite and Ares and I have a question...

Did gods and Universe just hate Harmonia??? Or maybe because she represented harmony and peace bothered them because Olympus has no chill???

Literally on her wedding day she got a gift from her husband made by Hephaestus - a robe and a necklace. A CURSED NECKLACE that literally led to the destruction of this entire family for generations. Why? Because Heph is still angry that Aphrodite "betrayed" him when he forced her into the relationship. Boyyyyyyyyy!

I feel so sorry for Harmonia. Her grandmother (Hera) indirectly killed her daughter Seleme who was in a relationship with her grandfather (Zeus) and pregnant with Dionysus. Then her second daughter, Ino who took Dionysus under her care also experienced Hera's wrath for it, because why not. Goddness drove her granddaughter's husband (Athamas) mad and he killed their older son (Learchos) so Ino jumped into the sea from a cliff to save herself and her younger son (Melicertes). Poseidon turned them into sea gods, so profit. Agaue, another daughter, was stunned by Dionysus and led in killing the King of Thebes - Pentheus. Did I mention that he was her own son? Imagine waking up from a trance and seeing your son's torn body and blood on your hands. The fourth sister Autonoe helped Agaue kill her son, her nephew, and then Autonoe's son was torn apart by his own dogs. It happened when Artemis turned him into a deer when he UNWITTINGLY saw her naked in the forest. And finally Polydorus, the last child and only son of Harmonia and Cadmus… who actually nothing happened to. He was supposed to die on a hunt so… maybe that's it? But apart from their direct children, do I have to remind you of the whole story of King Oedipus and his family who are descendants of Harmonia? No one ends well there! And when the necklace was finally consecrated in Delphi, in the temple of Athena… the tyrant Phayllus decided to steal it for his beloved. And how did it end? Their son went mad and killed his entire family after burning down his house. Bravo!!

(It's a good thing she was turned into a snake along with her husband, maybe she'll manage to stay as far away from this madness as possible.)

[granstromjulius]

Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus

[hekioftroy]

do you have nicknames for your loved ones?

Oh of course I do. It depends on the relation I have with the person. In general I like to use: my dear, my love, dearest and my heart. Those are few mh what did you call it? nicknames that stayed with me over the years. They are well appreciated.

However if we talk about my siblings I enjoy to shorten their names. I shall give you a few examples:

Deiphobos: Dei

Polydorus: Dori

Kassandra: Kas or Kassi

Troilus: Tro or Trotro (I used that when he was still a baby)

Nicknames are something very helpful in expressing your love dont you agree?☺️

[conformi]

Pinkydoll photographed by Logan Jackson and styled by Dara for Interview Magazine Fall 2023 VS Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus, Laocoön and His Sons, 1st century AD

[kingbryancroidragon]

Never really stopped and thought about how the palace was late in the war, how ever if my math is right Polyxena is fourteen in this and Troilus died in the seventh year of the Trojan War, so that means he would have been what? Fourteen since this is in the tenth year?

[littlesparklight]

Some thoughts and comparisons about Achilles, Troilus - and Polydoros.

Some basics first: In the Iliad, Polydoros - here still Priam's youngest son, but of Laothoe, making him Lykaon's full brother - dies during Achilles' rampage after he's gotten his new armour. Troilus, always the son of Hecuba but either the son of Priam or Apollo otherwise, insofar as we have any indication of when he dies, probably dies early/ier in the way. He's not at all attached to the death of Patroklos or Achilles' reaction to that event.

So, potentially you have one of the youngest sons of the Trojan royal family dying one in the beginning, and one at the end.

Again, in the Iliad, Troilus is described as "hippocharmes" - that is a chariot fighter, basically. The implication is that he is old enough to participate in battle. Polydoros, however, isn't just Priam's youngest son, but young enough his parents didn't want him on the battlefield and he sneaks out onto it that one day when it's the most dangerous to have done so.

However, basically all of our surviving material until very late portrays Troilus not as a warrior, but as a child. Pre-teen at best, murdered, and not on the battlefield, potentially armed, but as fleeing, unarmed, into Apollo's/his father's temple. Troilus' murder is the murder of a child, and a gruesomely violent one at that, with additional mutilation of the corpse. The only potential reason given is that some few fragments of surviving sources imply Achilles was sexually interested in Troilus and was rejected.

Polydoros' death in the Iliad is the opposite of the passionate fury that hacking apart an unarmed, at most pre-teen child is. He's killed in passing, with no particular emotion or even note of the killing from Achilles himself. (Instead, the killing of Polydoros, who was basically playing, merely running between the warriors and showing off his speed, incites Hektor to his and Achilles' first and aborted confrontation.)

Considering Polydoros' age, and the pathos given to his parents wishing to keep him from the battlefield, one could think there would be more focus on his death in the text. But there isn't. Much like the human sacrifice of the twelve Trojan youths on Patroklos' funeral pyre is passed on exceedingly lightly, as if those twelve humans were nothing but a few more animals that Achilles have already sacrificed on the pyre, Polydoros' death is passed over extremely quickly.

The Iliad works hard to soften some of Achilles' most gruesome actions in his grief-fuelled rage. It's too much for this text, for its "hero", even when the Iliad lets him do these things. That stands in sharp contrast to the violent death this other young son of Priam gets by the hands of Achilles. A death some scholars think is implied behind Priam calling Achilles' hands "child-killing", despite the earlier attempt in the text at smoothing out Troilus' death into a battle-field one of a warrior old enough to be there.

Polydoros might as well be Troilus' shadow/double in a way, their deaths diametrically opposed in nature and point of time in the war but connected by the killer and their similar ages.

[twoshotsofhappy]

The queen is wild with grief. She clambers onto the bed and paces in circles. Luba looks on, helpless.

Only a moment before, Hecuba saw him. From a high up tenement, still clutching a rose for her boy, the child who still lived, she saw Polymestor. She saw him dump her son's body without ceremony on a length of white plastic sheeting. She saw him prostrate himself before the figure silhouetted in blue-white light of the open door, the caretaker, ready to drag away his offering.

And now, in this rented room, Hecuba has given herself up to her loss. She leans and almost falls, her body dragged in circle after circle, pain etched into her face. Pain and terror: she can see the crowd of ghosts looking on.

When she clambers up the shell shaped headboard, Luba comes to Hecuba's aid.

Luba sits Hecuba on the bed, her face shadowed in the pink neon light, and cradles her queen like a child. Luba's arm is around her, but her fingertips graze Hecuba's shoulder hesitantly, before plucking back, uncertain.

The moment breaks at the sound of approaching footsteps. Luba urgently gestures Hecuba behind the bed, her eyes pleading, her voice a hoarse whisper:

"Do you trust me?"

She gestures again, more urgently. Her eyes are wide, desperate.

"Please?"

The queen nods, and does as her old friend asks.

In the city, it's only a matter of time before everything is lost.

[aliciavance4228]

Harmonia is the type of mom that would ask for her kids to wear matching clothing. Basically something like this:

[myburntwritings]

In order: Lou Ditaranto as Iphigenia/Hekate Jordan Ajadi as Polydorus Kathryn McGarr as Hecuba Georges Hann as Apollo

[gardenofadonis]

Currently thinking about Tim Polydorus offering to shake hands with Kronos in Klub office not knowing Kronos was there to claim his life, and Theo Polydorus asking Hecuba 'where are my sisters' when the queen takes him to Polymestor not realising being the only son to a kingdom is different from being a daughter.

I love Ferghas and Jordan but I wish I could have had more time to see the swing Polydori.