So i finally got my hands on translations of both the Odysee and Iliad!!!

And despite originally caring more about the story of the Odysee i decided to read the iliad first and I'm so incredibly glad i did!

About 20 pages in and two different women are separately kidnapped and taken hostage, Agamemnon and Achilles are at each others throats, the gods are getting involved, Zeus is being himself and Apollo is spreading the plaque. 🤬

Meanwhile Odysseus is somehow on a peaceful road trip and has a sleep over with the boys after a fun karaoke night. 🥰

#Can't wait to keep reading #Hope Odysseus gets a few more good moments before his life goes to shit in the next book #But also the iliad ist just so damn entertaining so far #Everyone is giving it their all arguing with each other #I'm both flabbergasted at their dramatic antics as well as drawn in #It's like watching a train wreck unfolding you can't look away #Also i was fully on Achilles' side until he begged his mommy to manipulate the war so he could play hero to heal his bruised ego #Like bro!!! What are you??? FOUR!???#Still the way he verbally dragged Agamemnon for being an egocentric bastard was iconic #He kept calling him dog face too #Surely Apollo would have cried at such poetry had he not been too busy killing their men.#the illiad #the odyssey #greek mythology #achilles #agamemnon #homer's iliad #iliad achilles #the trojan war #iliad odysseus #odysseus #zeus #apollo #greek gods #athena

nyssasatelier

I went through my gallery and found some of the pictures i took of the archeological site in Ephesus !

(Efes, izmir)

That's the Library of Celsus in the back you can find higher quality pictures of it online, I didn't include my own because most of them are either very shaky or in the form of selfies and you guys deserve to see better than that. I definitely recommend looking it up the marble statues under each arch were beautiful.

#ephesus #efes #archeology #greek archaeology #greek architecture #roman archaeology #roman architecture #From my understanding Ephesus was a greek settlement that later became a roman city #so the site actually had things from both eras. But I'm seriously blanking on wether the library was greek or roman #What i do remember was that Celsus' thomb was inside and that was his son's way of honouring him.#Library of celsus #celsus

nyssasatelier

please-be-nice-im-sensitive asked:

do you like Greek myth in general or just epic?

I'd say in general,

My grandmother's family traveled from greece to turkey when she was just a baby so i really dont have any ties to greece at all. Not the language nor the culture. And i won't stand here and claim to be greek in any way because I'm really not. But it is what got me interested in learning about the history which in turn lead me down the rabbit hole of learning about ancient greece. (And with it parts of the mythology)

A couple years ago i took a trip to Ephesus (Efes, izmir) and in the future if given the opportunity I'd love to go see the remains of Troy next. (Truva, Hissarlik)

(The obsession with -) Epic kind of came out of nowhere (cough Jay's tiktok) and now I'm scrambling to get my hands on a translation of the Odyssee and the iliad.

When posting about Epic i don't really bother with historical accuracy because i consider it it's own thing that's undeniably modern so i just have fun with it.

#Sorry for the super long answer #epic the musical #epic musical #epic odysseus #epic #greek mythology #ancient greece #ancient greek mythology #odysee #the iliad #Nyssa #jorge rivera herrans #Troy #ephesus #efes #Truva