Fair Enough

“fair enough”

by the way, i’m doing the math and they are like in their mid 20s when odysseus framed palamedes, lmao. and you think your workplace hostility is bad?

anyway, love ody but he can be such a dick

#cute <3 Odysseus

tiny powerful creature

A beauty pageant went so badly that everyone died

"describe ur favorite Greek Tragedy in the worst way possible"... I'll start:

Seven dudes die trying to conquer their own city.

:3

fact

wild how both homer and virgil manage to portray helen with more depth and empathy than most contemporary retellings.

If we actually look what the myth/city-founder versions where Astyanax survives says, it certainly isn't "and he and Askanios, or he and his brother (sometimes he has a brother... or two!) then turned on Greece and murdered them all."

Like.

Look at me. Look me in the Tumblr.

Odysseus' argument in several versions of myth or tragedy, whether he does the killing himself or not, that allowing Astyanax in specific to survive will turn into him turning on the sacking soldiers and their families when he grows up is. not. true.

It doesn't happen!

All that happens, at the very most, is Astyanax/Skamandrios and Oxynios (as the other son is called) displacing Aeneas and/or Askanios, who in these versions haven't left the Troad yet. (Because these are city-founder myths, but nonetheless.)

The Achaeans are so fucking afraid of something that doesn't even happen in the versions where Astyanax has been hidden elsewhere/survives the sack (and no thanks to Odysseus for any such survival, guys).