Its Always Neoptolemus Was Unhinged. Neoptololemus Took His Father's Rage And Pride And Doubled It. And

Its always neoptolemus was unhinged. Neoptololemus took his father's rage and pride and doubled it. And never odysseus taught him the art of war crimes

blue sargent (in lady macbeth’s robes) study of circe invidosa by john william waterhouse

Thinking about what went on at Olympus during the Trojan War is so interesting cause it must have been so tense in there at times 😭 but even before like. Who made the decision to choose *Paris* in particular and did they know who he was ?? (I assume they did because well they're gods) Because if they did. What was Hera's role in it ? Because if he picked her as the winner, she would have a Trojan as her protégé. You know who else is a Trojan ? Ganymede ! (Thinking of him during the war destroys me.) So... Did Zeus pick Paris hoping he'd choose her ? Did Hermes do it ? Was it just the first man they saw ? So many questions...

And speaking of Trojans, Apollo kinda contributed to the doom of his own side when you think about it

Ares has an *interesting* depiction during the Iliad but it's quite funny how he was just unbothered at first to the point of changing sides because Aphrodite asked him to 😭 over his own MOTHER and sister he's whipped fr

Hypnos' appearances are funny too like his whole thing with Hera 😭 "I'm not making Zeus asleep again did you forget what happened last time ?"

*What happened last time :*

Nyx @ Zeus :

Hypnos : Yeah so I'm not doing that again

Hera : Your girlfriend in marriage

Hypnos :

"...Swear it on the Styx"

Hera : "I swear you'll have her as your wife"

Hypnos : "DEAL !"

And then him and Thanatos have to carry Sarpedon's dead body off the field because that's what being a nepo baby gets you in Ancient Greece. (Did Zeus ever know about Hypnos usung his power on him again ? Guess we'll never know)

There's also a quote I found on Theoi.com about what happens supposedly he put Zeus to sleep which I find absolutely hilarious, go check Pasithea's to see it. Hypnos is as much of a horny one as any other god 😭😭😭 that was one of the funniest euphemisms I ever read.

Just noticed I got distracted. How did I go from Ganymede's no good decade to this

Poseidon's boyfriends be like

Anne Carson’s Kassandra speaks shitpost

Dark humour in Orestes

This whole scene is one of most hilarious stuff I have came across in classical literature. To completely grasp what's going on you need some context. It's almost the end of the whole play. Orestes avenged his father and now he runs around with naked sword, that still has blood on the edge. He meets a slave from Troy and boy oh boy... Orestes asks bunch of questions and slave (who is a war prisoner from Troian War btw) gives witty replays to all of them. My favourite one is when Orestes keeps the sword close to slave's throat. The question is: Is this sword as scary as a Gorgon? Because the slave is frozen like a stone statue. Slave replays: I have not seen a Gorgon, but I've seen some sword and i am sure, that this stuff kills. Orestes asks: Why is he so scared of death? In Hades there is no struggle. Witty comeback: Sir, everyone, even slaves, want to see the sun. Back to the meme above; In the original text slaves says literary 'You sing such beautiful song!' (καλὸν ἔπος λέγεις τόδε) . In translation we have: Not fabulous. And in Greek we have 'You don't sing beautiful now ('τοῦτο δ᾿ οὐ καλῶς λέγεις).

Which is even more funny when you recall the most famous ἔπος, which is the Iliad and it's opening: The wrath sing, goddess, of Peleus' son, Achilles, that destructive wrath which brought countless woes upon the Achaeans, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes, and made them themselves spoil for dogs and every bird Translation: A.T. Murray

Slave in this scene is one of the most unhomeric characters of all. If you ever want to read whole play it's Euripides Orestes Stay classy folks.