it’s briseis, bitch

Artemide efesia (II sec.), Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli.

Horace (ending a poem): you're gonna die really fucking soon you know that? any day now. in the grand scheme of things. so drink up that wine while you can bc when you're in HELL you won't BE ABLE TO.

loving that polyphemus had pretty much accepted his fate as long as someone sexy and badass blinded him and seems more pissed off that odysseus is just some bitch than anything else

Fragment of an ancient Greek Attic white ground kylix showing a Thracian woman with tattooed arms. Pistoxenos Painter, 470-460 BC.

my copy of hamlet is probably very different to yours. i might’ve related more to hamlet’s musings on death and morality. you might be more interested in shakespeare’s questioning of power or revenge. same story, different notes, different eyes, different lives.

Map showing the homeland of every character in Homer’s Iliad.

Achilles is taking care of Patroclus’ wounded arm, during the Trojan War.

Eon

take your racism elsewhere, pls stay the fuck away from the classics

In Greek mythology, Memnon was an Ethiopian king and the son of Tithonus and Eos. As a warrior he was considered to be almost Achilles’ equal in skill. During the Trojan War, he brought an army to Troy’s defense. Memnon’s army is described as being too big to be counted and his arrival starts a huge banquet in his honour. As per usual the two leaders (Memnon and Priam) end the dinner by exchanging glorious war stories, and Memnon’s tales lead Priam to declare that the Ethiopian King will be Troy’s savior. Despite this, Memnon is very humble and warns that his strength will, he hopes, be seen in battle, although he believes it is unwise to boast at dinner. Before the next day’s battle, so great is the divine love towards Memnon that Zeus makes all the other Olympians promise not to interfere in the fighting. In battle, Memnon kills Nestor’s son, Antilochus. Despite his age, Nestor tries to fight Memnon but the Aethiopian warrior insists it would not be just to fight such an old man, and respects Nestor so much that he refuses to fight. Eventually, Achilles stabs Memnon to death, causing his entire army to flee in terror. The death of Memnon echoes that of Hector, another defender of Troy whom Achilles also killed out of revenge for a fallen comrade, Patroclus. After Memnon’s death, Zeus was moved by Eos’ tears and granted him immortality.

“He is dead,” she says, in her flat voice. “Hector is dead,” he says. “Tomorrow.” “You have no armor.” “I do not need any.” His teeth show; it is an effort to speak.