perse

sing to me the man, muse, the man of twists and turns

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mainly greek mythology, classic literature & poetry

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➴ i also enjoy iwtv & the vampire chronicles, the secret history, musicals, the arcana, the hades games, goth music & subculture, photography, and bugs (always tagged dw friends with phobias)

➴ my blog is sfw other than artistic nudity so minors should be fine to follow but be mindful and preferably no one younger than 16. and obviously since my account is mostly greek mythology heavy themes are sometimes discussed

➴ i do not have a degree nor am i an expert in mythology or classics (though i do hope to study it in school eventually) but i do enjoy them greatly and spend the majority of my time reading so feel free to ask me something and i will info dump for free if i know about it

➴ anti ai. dni ai artists, chatgpt users, etc

➴ i also have a side blog where i post sims 4 stuff if anyone's into that but it sadly remains inactive until i get a new computer. it's @theoraclesims

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venomspecs asked:

i'm in despair (this is about antinous)

WHAT?! Okay seriously I have had enough at this point with this bullshit and the misinformation out there just because some people twist away the Odyssey and become famous to the point of people not being able to tell reality from fanfiction and of people who just won't do research or read the most crappy "translations" in the world! So because I have had enough here's ALL the lines Antinous speaks in the Odyssey to clear this up once and for all!

(Be warned this will be long but please share this as much as you can guys! Forgive me in advance if some of my translations are a bit sloppy or not as accurate I am willing to redo some passages if you guys want in comments or reblogs in the future.)

Please spread this because honestly I have had enough and this EXACTLY why I cannot take anymore of these "retellings" and whatever the hell the names are and the changes they make for no reason to characters for "creative liberties" because honestly people cannot even read the sources properly and they just make claims taking advantage of popularity of media!

#like what #he did not say that 😭😭😭#antinous #odysseus #the odyssey

saw a twitter post about hating odysseus, and one of the reasons listed was because he had bed slaves. click profile. achilles #1 fan. good laugh

#like...#you do Know that achilles....#nevermind 😭😭#and hating odysseus is fine #im not the odysseus hater police #but you don't really have a leg to stand on #with that critique

bro turn on the scrying pool 😭😭 any fucking channel 😭😭😭 THEY'RE IN THE FUCKING HORSE 😭😭😭

#tagamemnon #greek mythology #greek mythos #greek mythology memes #trojan war #trojan horse

asking my future lover trick questions like "if you had to retrieve me from the underworld, would you turn around?"

it's a trick question because most would think the proper answer would be something like, "no, of course i would not fail you!" but see, it's a secret phrasing of a different question—if you understand Why he turned around. which is Love. i am thinking of another post about orpheus and eurydice that said something along the lines of "to love someone Is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them." and that's exactly it. no matter the variation, whether he hears her call his name, hears her stumble or doesn't hear her footsteps, whether he calls out and she does not respond, it's all for love that he looks back. in all tellings, it's how much he loves her that ultimately dooms them both. which makes the actual question this: do you love me so helplessly that you would have no choice But to turn around?

so if asked, "if you were orpheus, would you turn around?" the answer is, for true lovers, Yes.

#tagamemnon #greek mythology #greek mythos #orpheus #eurydice #orpheus and eurydice

ive been so inactive sorry guys life lowkey putting me through it brutally

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The Lament of a Life (Achilles and Antilochus short songfic)

If someone asks me how the lament of Achilles looks like my answer would be the amazing aria with music composed by Vivaldi:

The lyrics go on a repeat like this:

So today is a bit chilly and so I was inspired by this amazing song and made this! (Sorry itis a random inspiration I had this morning from this piece thus the title "song-fic")

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#greek mythology #greek myth fics #amazing work as always #and inspired by a vivaldi song... chefs kiss

NOLAN DIRECTING AN ODYSSEY ADAPTATION OHHHHHH BABY AN ODYSSEY ADAPTATION THATS ACTUALLY GOOD I DESERVE THIS FINALLY 😭🙏🙏🙏🙏

one more epic saga and then finally i will be free

#sorry #but i kind of hope #it fades into obscurity #when it stops actively releasing

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Me when I pine all my days to travel home and see the dawn of my return

#CLAWS AT THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE #RAHHHHGGHHHHH #RAAOOOWNEHNSNWIRHEKWN #RGGRAHH GRAAAA #amazing art #odysseus

sometimes i still think about this gorgeous statue i found at the thrift while i was in another state and couldn't buy it

#tagamemnon #statue replica

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Drawing inspired by a song fic from @katerinaaqu

Tbh I don’t know why I came up with this after reading your fic, I just know that I have to draw it.

#greek myth art

no what i need to do is an odysseus costume. and then when everyone says "who are you?" i'll say "nobody"

#tagamemnon #odysseus #greek mythology #greek mythos

i hate gay halloween what do you mean you're apollo and the frisbee that killed hyacinthus

#tagamemnon #apollo #hyacinthus #classical memes #greek mythos #greek mythology

gagged him

#tagamemnon #dionysus #dionysos #euripides #the bacchae #the bakkhai #anne carson

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oh, no, i have no concept of the size of a whale or of the galaxy. i am cosmically insignificant, which is fine. the other day i accidentally spilled a few grains of sugar on the counter. i watched a single ant heft it over his head and run with it - run! - like he was carrying a crown.

sometimes when i am watching the rain i think about how each particular drop is new and only exists for right-now and yet it is the same water as it has been for millennia. the atoms i am are only meeting in this form for this one life. later maybe they will be a mushroom. maybe in the infinite expanse of time, two of my molecules will meet each other again and they'll say i remember existing with you. which is maybe how a star feels, watching humans dance and laugh and sing in the bodies we are borrowing.

what am i in the cosmic sense? what of the stupid human exploits of my tiny human life?

the other day i found a wilting bumblebee and fed it a little water. after an hour, he made a lazy loop of flight. up and towards the stars.

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"if i was paris i'd have picked athena" "i would have picked hera"

you fool. you utter buffoon. it doesn't matter. it never mattered. you sound like the dumbasses who say they wouldn't have turned around if they were orpheus. you, like them, are completely missing the point. the war was always going to happen as a result of who he picked, just perhaps the catalyst would have been different. and does picking a different catalyst really make you any better? lets say you picked hera and her offer of kingdoms. so you doom your nation to ruin for wealth? power? and that, in your mind, is the morally superior choice to dooming it for love? shall we clap and cheer for you? oh wise one so above the fickleness and follies of love! you, unlike paris, would doom your nation for Practical reasons. well, forgive me, but thats incredibly dull and you sound incredibly boring

if one more person makes a joke about eating the apple im going to lose my fucking mind. it was funny the first 10 times. now you're beating a dead trojan horse

Why do you believe the war would have happened no matter who he picked?

because thats how fate works in ancient greek epic poetry 😭😭😭😭😭 like zeus was planning a war to end the age of heroes. it quite literally was not preventable, that is the plot.

#it is not my personal belief the war would have still happened #its a narrative fact

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