I Just Think They’re Neat

“Lend it to us and wipe away our tears.”

thank you troy 2004 for helping me objectify the trojan princes

Suppliant my children's murderer to implore, And kiss those hands yet reeking with their gore

(2/2)

Modern iliad retelling where everything is the exact same but Hector is constantly breaking the 4th wall.

the way that storytelling in the odyssey loops in on itself… everyone in the odyssey wants to know the odyssey. telemachus leaves for sparta in order to hear it. odysseus sits with the phaeacians deep into the night telling it. and he withholds it from people he doesn’t trust, only to reveal himself and tell it again. the sirens and demodocus sing to him about the iliad. penelope tells ithaca's bard phemius to stop singing because he has no songs about odysseus returning; if he can’t sing the odyssey, he shouldn't sing at all

thinking of King Priam's grief, watching Teucer, the child of the sister who was stolen from him and Troy all those years ago, the sister who he has longed for all these years, stand against him and his children during the trojan war

“τέτλαθι δή, κραδίη: καὶ κύντερον ἄλλο ποτ᾽ ἔτλης.”

— Homer, Odyssey 20:18 “Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this.” “Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this” (via antiquedroman)

on shame and yearning (pt.2)

man of progress

Electra ‼️‼️

ref : courage anxiety and despair: watching the battle (James Sant 1850)