Because Odysseus returned home on the day of an eclipse, and because many other astronomical events in the Odyssey were accurate, we can pinpoint today as the day Odysseus finally returned from the Trojan War in 1178 BCE.
May all of us have the returns to pieces of our life we thought were lost for so long.
details of a statue of a girl, perhaps artemis | c. 530 BCE | athenian, archaic period
“If only people would stop this soft talk of the Homeric world as a youthful one, the springtime of the Greeks, and so on. In the sense in which it is maintained, the idea is false. That a tremendous, wild conflict, emerging from dark crudity and cruelty, precedes the Homeric era, that Homer stands as victor at the end of this long comfortless period — this is one of my most certain convictions. The Greeks are much older than people think. One can speak of spring as long as one has a winter to precede it, but this world of purity and beauty did not drop from the sky.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
hildegardavon
Persephone
(Votive plaque) Representing Hades and Persephone enthroned. Hades holds a phiale, from Epizephyrian Locri, first half of the 5th century BCE, terracotta Pinax
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio, Calabria Inv. Z 8/31 (x)
Then Odysseus tore off his rags, and sprang on to the broad pavement with his bow and his quiver full of arrows. He shed the arrows on to the ground at his feet and said, “The mighty contest is at an end. I will now see whether Apollo will vouchsafe it to me to hit another mark which no man has yet hit.”
yararts
Moonlight poured through the woven structures of the Marui, but inside it was the blue steady glow of a datapad that illuminated the two figures resting close together. Liora laid on her stomach over the huge mat, her legs swayed gently in the air, her bare feet brushed one another in an unconscious rhythm. Her toes curled now and then, in unison with the shy excitement of her voice as she scrolled through her research.
“…the clusters of glimmer coral were pulsing together, responding to the school of glider fin passing nearby.” she murmured, her voice barely louder than the hush of the sea outside, “They react to movement! I ran a test earlier and… Oh! The current shifted during the second dive, so I’ll have to try again tomorrow…”
Assara was on her side, her body curved protectively around the tiny human woman nestled next to her, a powerful arm draped over her waist, a quiet claim. Her ear flickered at the sound of Liora’s voice and a smirk tugged at the corner of her lips, sharp and fond. Her unscarred seeing eye opened lazily, watching how the datapad’s glow reflected against the human’s sun-kissed skin.
“Still speaking so much after jumping over rocks and chasing fish all day, little light?” she teased, her voice a low husky tone. “You Sky People truly do hide endless energy in those tiny bodies.”
Pentheus:
“Bind his hands! This one is in our net, and now he is mine. But he is not so swift to escape me.”
Dionysus:
“You do not know what you are doing, nor what you are saying, nor who you are.”
Pentheus:
“I am Pentheus, son of Agave and Echion.”
Dionysus:
“You are well named for suffering.”
Finger licking good 👅👅
I love the actor for Clytemnestra he adds so much emotion to his lines its amazing honestly!
This is Sir Peter Halls direction of the Oresteia, I watched it on the Shakespeare Network’s channel on YouTube!
Bringing back old rubric that someone wonderfully called "greek forest", today's hero - Diomedes
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I didn't plan to make this, but i keep seeing that people still stumble upon my old post with a greek family tree, and i really needed to correct myself.
In my old post i included Ares as the father of Porthaon and I need to say that it is late and roman variant and since my post still did not gone into oblivion yet i made this and i apologize for bad source checking.
(This one contains the most popular and old versions to my knowledge. I make these just for fun, so if you want to use it for something, better check yourself)
if you want, you may check my previous versions (beware of diomedes linage)
Mycenaean Goddess (possibly Athena) in boar's tusk helmet with griffin 13th C. BCE Orchomenos
"The ancient image of Athena Alea, and with it the tusks of the Calydonian boar, were carried away by the Roman emperor Augustus after his defeat of Antonius and his allies, among whom were all the Arcadians except the Mantineans."
- Pausanias, Description of Greece: Arcadia, Chapter 46 (Paus. 8.46)
https://paganimagevault.blogspot.com/2020/02/mycenaean-goddess-in-boars-tusk-helmet.html
Because Odysseus returned home on the day of an eclipse, and because many other astronomical events in the Odyssey were accurate, we can pinpoint today as the day Odysseus finally returned from the Trojan War in 1178 BCE.
May all of us have the returns to pieces of our life we thought were lost for so long.
