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Iliad mini comix, books 1-8! yes i am going to do all 24 books! pray for me!
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Excited to finally share my Perseus piece for the COSMOS show at @lightgreyartgallery, as well as a couple process shots for good measure! So flattered to be a part of this amazing show.
You can purchase prints (including the fiber-optic original) HERE, and you can purchase the actual Cosmos tarot/oracle deck HERE. The deck itself is gorgeous, so I wholly recommend checking it out if you have the chance.
-C
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Psyche awakened by her lover Cupid, Antonio Cavova
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Twins in Mythology (1/?): Apollon and Artemis, children of Zeus and Leto
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Mythology Meme -> Plays -> The Theban Plays
The Theban Plays by Sophocles tell the story of Oedipus who unknowingly fulfills the prophecy of murdering his father and marrying his mother. When the truth comes to light, Jocasta, Oedipus’ mother-wife, hangs herself while Oedipus stabs out his own eyes and later dies in exile. The end of Oedipus’ rule leads to a war between his two sons, Polynices and Eteocles, for control of Thebes. The two brothers kill each other in battle and Antigone’s quest to give Polynices a proper burial leads to her own death.
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it takes centuries, but the gods forget.
hades has distant memories of the dark: he takes his home with him, huddling in blankets under whatever roof will take him, and tries to get away from the light, closing his eyes and pretending he’s back there, wherever it is. he knows it wasn’t a nice place, or even a good place, but it was home. whenever he passes a fruit stall selling pomegranates, he pockets one of them, keeps it in his jacket until it rots, remembers watching a girl eat it, flashing a smile at him as she chews.
aphrodite sits in cafes and bars, watching couples, because every time she looks at them she knows how they’re going to end as sure as she can look up and see the sky. she still interferes, sometimes- little things, nothing big enough to disrupt the order of things. she holds her head high whenever she does, an old habit that she can’t remember picking up.
ares is a solider a hundred times over, joining any war he can and sometimes switching sides in the middle just to fuck with people. he doesn’t remember much, and the gun in his hand always feels more than a little alien, but fighting is fighting, and war is war. when they make the atomic bomb, ares laughs until he cries.
persephone travels, and runs into old friends more often than she thinks she should. they never recognize her, and she only realizes it’s them when they’re gone: eurydice, fair-haired, an eight year old boy in this lifetime, blinks at her through a crowd in venice in 1895 and then is gone. in 1943, persephone is ducking bombs and she meets the eyes of a scar-ridden, light-limbed odysseus, seconds before the landmine under his feet detonates. she thinks, sometimes, that she’s only still here so she can see them, born and dying over and over while she keeps walking, a pomegranate in her pocket whenever she can steal one.
hermes catches snatches of conversations and his feet itch. he’s been feeling like he needs to be somewhere else for as long as he can remember, but wherever he goes, the itch it still there, burning his feet. he forges passports, buys plane tickets so he can look out the window as he’s up in the air. looking down on the world as it blurs past a thousand miles below is familiar, but he doesn’t know why. he has a message to deliver, but he doesn’t know what it is, or who he’s supposed to tell. what he does know is that it’s important, burning at the back of his mind in a language that hermes knows he spoke, once.
‘the side effects of immortality,’ theappleppielifestyle. (via chartyourowncourse)
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Robert Burns, “Diana and her Nymphs”
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I was your hallucination, listening and floral, and you were singing me: already new skin was forming. → AN ORPHEUS & EURYDICE MIX.
I. Fantasy; MS MR II. Sugar; Cristobal Tapia de VeerIII. Together (Maxx Baer Edit); The XX IV. Mother & Father; Broods V. Woke Up Dead; Kyla La Grange VI. Hearts Like Ours; The Naked & Famous VII. My Tears Are Becoming A Sea; M83 VIII. Heavy Feet; Local Natives IX. To Be Torn; Kyla La GrangeX. It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus); Arcade Fire.
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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Niels Schneider as Achilles, and Aneurin Barnard as Patroclus
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THE ILL-IAD: because it’s fucking SICK AS, yo?
for the iliad u wish u could have studied, feat. swagamemnon, brodysseus, patbroclus, dihomiedes and aristos brochean
Book 1: The Rage of Achilles — Remember The Name
Book 2: The Great Gathering of Armies — Clique
Book 3: Helen Reviews the Champions — Homewrecker
Book 4: The Truce Erupts in War —Tough To Be A God
Book 5: Diomedes Fights the Gods — All I Do Is Win
Book 6: Hector Returns to Troy — I’m Coming Home
Book 7: Ajax Duels in Hector — The Confrontation
Book 8: The Tide of Battle Turns — This Aint A Scene
Book 9: The Embassy to Achilles — Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High
Book 10: Marauding Through the Night — Mission Impossible Theme
Book 11: Agamemnon’s Day of Glory — Teenage Dirtbag
Book 12: The Trojans Storm the Rampart — Bop To The Top
Book 13: Battling for the Ships — Harder Better Faster Stronger
Book 14: Hera Outflanks Zeus — Business Time
Book 15: The Achaean Armies at Bay — Don’t Stop Me Now
Book 16: Patroclus Fights and Dies — Welcome To The Black Parade
Book 17: Menalaus’ Finest Hour — I’ll Stand By You
Book 18: The Shield of Achilles — Build A Bear Workshop theme
Book 19: The Champion Arms for Battle — Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit Book
20: Olympian Gods in Arms — I Knew You Were Trouble
Book 21: Achilles Fights the River — Just Around the Riverbend
Book 22: The Death of Hector — If I Die Young
Book 23: Funeral Games for Patroclus — La Vie Boheme
Book 24: Achilles and Priam — I Got Hurt Feelings
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Who You Should Fight: Greek Gods Edition
Zeus: Don't fight Zeus. You'll only end up sleeping with him. On second thought, do fight Zeus.
Hera: Look, I'm not saying anyone is really going to try to stop you, but I am saying she is petty as shit and will dedicate the rest of your life to destroying you in other ways. Your call.
Poseidon: You could probably fight Poseidon. Dude is built like a brick shithouse but he'd think it was a good time and buy you a beer afterwards.
Demeter: Are you fucking kidding? She created a new season the last time someone really pissed her off. Do not fucking fight Demeter.
Hades: Fight Hades, but only in spring, and then ask to see pictures of his dog.
Hestia: Are you Satan
Aphrodite: Arguably the lowest reward to risk ratio on this list. What is even the point here. Might as well save us all some time and punch yourself in the groin.
Athena: If you must, a sneak attack is required, and even then you’re still probably boned. Alternately, distract her first with statements such as "Mozart is an overrated hack" and "Garfield is not funny."
Hephaestus: You could beat Hephaestus. You could not beat Hephaestus' robot army. Do not fight Hephaestus.
Ares: Absolutely fight Ares. This is a no-brainer. Literally everyone wants you to kick Ares' ass including Ares. You might feel bad when he starts crying but only if you are weak.
Artemis: Do not fight Artemis. Do not talk to Artemis. Do not look at Artemis. Do not think about Artemis.
Apollo: What did I just fucking say
Hermes: You could beat him if you could catch him, but you can't, and even if you did, he would convince you to talk it out instead, buy you a drink, and be gone before you noticed your wallet was missing. Avoid.
Dionysus: Dionysus is an easy fight until he decides not to be. You could fight Dionysus but under no circumstances force him to give a shit.
Persephone: Don't fight Persephone. She will beat you up. Her mom will beat you up. Her husband will probably also be unpleasant and disapproving in some way. Listen to trash pop with Persephone instead.
Hebe: Idk man, she bites.
Iris: Yo have you ever tried to punch a rainbow?
Heracles: Dude has seen some shit. You may think you're bad enough but you really aren't. There is literally no way this could end well for you. Do not fight Heracles.
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Hit him where it hurts, Cassandra! (Apollo is the WORST.)
THIS IS THE BEST MYTHOLOGY COMIC I’VE EVER SEEN HOLY SHIT
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Persephone was the illicit daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and grew into such a beauty, men would look at her open-mouthed and exclaim ‘Cor!’ or in Greek ‘Kore!’ — which is what she came to be called. Although she always insisted her proper name was Persephone.
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Athena picks fights on the playground from age seven
Soon all the boys worship her
At thirteen she learns to fire a gun
And calls her sister’s longbow “ineffective”
She destroys the competition in debates and wrestling matches alike,
Learns to march but finds she’d much rather command,
Climbs to the top of the military tree,
Stepping on anyone who gets in her way
Artemis is all scraped knees and bruised shins
A fierce little girl who does what she wants
A teenager with grass stains on her dresses and rage in her heart
She dislikes the company of men
At age fifteen she kisses a girl and decides she likes it almost as much as shooting
At eighteen she knows that one girl will never be enough
Aphrodite has always been pretty and she knows it
She grew up fast but chocolate and flowers and favours were her rewards
She keeps a notebook by her bed
Hot pink like the marks she leaves on boys necks
Filled with phone numbers, her own personal directory
They’d do anything for her and that’s just how she likes it
Modern Goddesses (via lilbookofkell)
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Here’s a preview of my piece in Ladies of Literature, vol. 2! I chose to do a modern interpretation of Medusa. The Kickstarter for the printed book is planned to be up mid-March, so keep an eye out!
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Don't Go Talking Classics Out of School: Medusa
by now, most of you have probably seen this post about how “Athena gifted Medusa with ugliness and the power to turn men to stone as a way of protecting her from further violations of her person…As the original myth tells it, she lived in solitude because she did not wish to be around men after what Poseidon had done. And Athena gave her the power to never be at the mercy of a male again”
In addition, it makes some claims about how the image of Medusa’s head was found on the lintel of women’s shelters, and it was patriarchal Rome that subverted this myth into the one of rape and victim-blaming and turned her ugliness into something shameful.
….EXCEPT REALLY NOT
first let me say, I am all for reinterpreting and retelling Greek myths! People have been doing it down the ages, and I love the Romantic fixation on Prometheus and Freud’s fetish for Oedipus and tumblr’s fascination with Persephone/Hades. And I am definitely all for reclaiming stories that have been used to shame and silence women.
But I am also allergic to those retellings being retroactively fitted back into their sexist framework. On top of this being just plain old revisionist history, it does a disservice to why we needed to retell it in the first place.
Medusa was (probably) not natively a feminist heroine and her head was not hung above doorways of women’s shelters (not sure if Classical Greece had anything recognizable women’s shelters, my research hasn’t turned up anything.) Ancient Rome is not automatically more patriarchal than Ancient Greece, because Greece was pretty damn gross in a lot of ways and their myths are not exempt from that.
Let’s unpack the history of Medusa, shall we?
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