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I crashed my math finals, f this shit I'm out man. I suck at math like crazy. Y'know what I wanna be a English literature anyway, not a mathematician.

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Sometimes you're just so desperate for a drop of water, so much that you're willing to drink poison. It slowly kills you on the inside yes, but you fulfil your desperation and waiting for another poison to drink to fulfil the next desperation ...
Sorry guys was thinking about the potential of Iliad butchering thanks to that one post from @most-sane-classicist, i can't stop thinking about it thanks. I guess we just have to wait and see how bad or good it is, I'm just excited to see Agamemnon and Diomedes got included in a media. I'll draw the line if MeneLen got butchered though
since the old version of this post was flagged for 'adult content'...
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along with that, reblog if your account is a trans non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the trans enby spectrum!
wake up haters new epic doompost just dropped
Just another midnight thought, but if EPIC The Musical can get people to love and sympathize for Odysseus ,that evil cunning man, there's a chance Ilium Musical can make Agamemnon kinda lovable... Just a thought of a desperate human, I need people to see the potential in his story. Outside of being the most annoying guy right after Achilles in the Trojan war

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Queen Clytemnestra of Mycenae as the “Death” tarot card
upright meaning: destruction, finality, transformation, sudden change
reversed meaning: resistance, repeating negative patterns, attachment to the past
line art under the cut
Twin just so you know, this is me right now. It ain't posting on AO3 cause I'm procrastinating like crazy
Torturing myself with different translations of Odyssey, the flora of Ogygia is so different… bro, no, please, do it right😡😭 It’s no wonder people don’t care about those plants, they’re all rubbish, they don’t reflect reality at all.
@ulises-aithon Estoy cansada, jefe, cansada de tanta bazofia.
Wilson, you ought to pay us therapy What do you mean citrus!? It's kedron which may have been juniperus or cedrus, but citrus no! AND BRITTLE PINE IS NOT EVEN EUROPEAN! THAT'S FROM NORTH AMERICA
κέδρου τ᾽ εὐκεάτοιο θύου τ᾽ ἀνὰ νῆσον ὀδώδει δαιομένων· ἡ δ᾽ ἔνδον ἀοιδιάουσ᾽ ὀπὶ καλῇ ἱστὸν ἐποιχομένη χρυσείῃ κερκίδ᾽ ὕφαινεν. ὕλη δὲ σπέος ἀμφὶ πεφύκει τηλεθόωσα, κλήθρη τ᾽ αἴγειρός τε καὶ εὐώδης κυπάρισσος
And the island would smell all over from the cedrus and tetraclinis and she was singing with her sweet voice coming to and fro as she weaved in her loom with a golden shuttle around the cave very rich forest was blooming alder and black populus and sweet-smelling cyparissus
(Translation by me)
And there are people who claim that Wilson is the peak of translations... they just CAN'T admit that it is inaccurate! Liking it or disliking it is up to you but for GOD'S SAKE just admit it is not freaking accurate!
well my bad because she does put that, i was just to emphasize the citrus shit (sounds like miller btw)
I got it I just mentioned the passage and yeah my god she just saw "θύον" and she thought it was a good idea to translate "citrus"
θύον is probably a genus of Tetraclinis articulata what sometimes in Greek we call καλλιτρίδα
an aromatic wood known for many uses and one was also to make luxury items from
The fuck did she come up with "citrus" is beyond me! I mean even as a tree it belongs to the cypresses family doesn't it? At this point just say "cypress" twice! Jeez!
Did Argynnus of Boetia and Agamemnon of Mycenae have a healthy relationship? Or am I making up that fact. Also where can I read anything about Argynnus?
Once again...it depends on the source! Hahaha there are only a handful of sources mentioning Argynnus (of much later years in fact) and even one or two of them barely mention the relationship as anything else but the typical erastes-eromenos which could even be seen from the social perspective however given that the generally accepted solution is to interpret the rites of passage with the sexual meaning too, is hard to tell if the relationship goes both ways or if it is a one-way thing
Anyways most of the mentions of Argynnus come from post-Augustean times which also has its cultural meaning plus of course the hint of the legend existing in Alexandrian times too.
Stephanus of Byzantium for instance in 6th century AD in his "Ethica" barely calls Argynnus: ἐρώμενος Ἀγαμέμνονος (eromenos/lover of Agamemnon). It doesn't mention either side's feelings over such relationship but we can assume it was consensual or at least not dysfunctional
Clement of Alexandria in the late-2nd century AD, in his work "Exhortations" he quotes the older poet Phanocles (an elegian poet probably of the Alexandrian times) who mentions in a work Clemens calls "Loves or On Fair Youths" that Argynnus was the favorite of Agamemnon and that "Agamemnon loved him" or rather that again Agrynnus was his eromenos (Ἀργύννιω τω ἐρωμένω) or simply that "he desired him" and that he dedicated a temple to him or rather to Aphrodite and gave her Argynnus's name as an epithet (ironically the same source claims that there is a temple of Zeus Agememnon haha but I shall comment on that in a little)
Athenaeus and his Deipnosophists in 3rd century AD mentions the tragic story of Argynnus drowning in the river Cephesus. Athenaeus mentions that Agamemnon fell for Argynnus when he saw him bathing in that said river and that Argynnus died in an accident after one of his many times he bathed. That left Agamemnon devastated
The elegian poet Propertius mentions in his 3rd book 7th poem that the fleet could not sail from Aulis because Agamemnon was devastated by the death of Agrynnus leading to the sacrifice of Iphigenia as a delay (Agamemnonias testantia litova curas, qua notat Argynni poena Mimantis aquas. hoc iuvene amisso classem non solvit Atrides, pro qua mactata est Ipliigenia mora) Now that version is both bizarre but also interesting twist to the usual myth of Agamemnon's hubris with the deer. It seems that the elegy tries to symbolize this grief as so distracting that even a powerful leader like Agamemnon would leave his duty (like...is Propertius trying to present Agamemnon as Achilles or what?! Hahaha) once again the emotions of Agrynnus are rather kept aside
I will make the full on commentary later but these sources do not mention the union between Argynnus and Agamemnon as bad. Argynnus's feelings are not commented but the relationship is depicted through the lenses of the custom of pederasty of mature antiquity and sometimes it includes Agamemnon's apparent intense feelings for him. But overall the texts seem positive on the mutual relationship
Except for one...
Plutarch of course had to add a different thing to the streak hahaha in his work "Beasts are Rational" (Περὶ τοῦ τὰ ἄλογα λόγῳ χρῆσθαι) he added the story of Agrynnus and Agamemnon to a series of stories of men pursuing unwilling youths and one of them was of course this. According to Plutarch Agamemnon basically combed the entire area of Boetia but Agrynnus didn't want him at all. In fact the source goes as such
ὁ δ´ Ἀγαμέμνων τὴν Βοιωτίαν ἐπῆλθε κυνηγετῶν τὸν Ἄργυννον ὑποφεύγοντα καὶ καταψευδόμενος τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ τῶν πνευμάτων, εἶτα καλὸν καλῶς ἑαυτὸν βαπτίζων εἰς τὴν Κωπαΐδα λίμνην, ὡς αὐτόθι κατασβέσων τὸν ἔρωτα καὶ τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἀπαλλαξόμενος· However Agamemnon after searching all over Boetia for Argynnus who was fleeing from him. After wrongly accusing the sea and the winds, because he was moral of nature, he acted correctly when he decided to jump into the waters of lake Copais so that he would put himself out and get rid of his erotic desire
(Translation by me)
So Plutarch seems to give us a different story here. It doesn't show any relationship at all but rather that Agamemnon was taken over by strong desire to the point of searching Boetia to find Argynnus who was rejecting him. Eventually Agamemnon seems to....give himself a cold shower to come back to his senses hahaha
So Plutarch seems to give us a totally negative reaction by Argynnus (literally running away from Agamemnon - Ἄργυννον ὑποφεύγοντα) but also Agamemnon catching up with his behavior and eventually stopping his pursue and trying to heal himself (αὐτόθι κατασβέσων τὸν ἔρωτα)
So to conclude this; The whole Argynnus business seems to be a later invention or addition to the myths, if anything some of the earliest examples we have so far from indirect sources being of Alexandrian times on and the story seems to be heavily inspired by Zeus and Ganymedes or stories involving Heracles. Knowing that already in Homer there is the tendency of people comparing Agamemnon side by side with the king of Gods (one who made that comparison was Thetis for example to persuade Zeus to honor her son) I find it normal that some thematic from Zeus's overall lore would find itself within the stories involving Agamemnon In fact Clement seems to even hint that Agamemnon was worshiped alongside with Zeus at some essence or something of the sort (I will need to look it up deeper on Agamemnon's heroic cult) which does seem to confirm this hypothesis Now for most part Agamemnon is not abusive. On the contrary either we speak on a relationship in essence of rite of passage between a youth and an older man or a relationship of erotic nature. Usually Agamemnon's feelings are the ones to be seen but the text doesn't imply that Argynnus was being forced or unhappy and many times over we see that his death was an accident and that it was devastating for Agamemnon Plutarch seems to mention Argynnus being unwilling and that Agamemnon was very persistent to continue his pursue but eventually Agamemnon realizes that he was acting no different than a beast so he stopped immediately and dips himself in the lake Copais so that he will come back to his senses with its cold water after having a small streak of...blaming the elements for his unfulfilled desire XD
Overall no I wouldn't say you make it up. In fact I think we shouldn't immediately assume that the average relationship in Greek myth in general and in regards to Agamemnon in particular is necessarily a monstrous man that forces others do stuff. Now do you call that "healthy"? For modern standards that is hard to define but yes I would say that if you take it that they are in a relationship that it was not a forced one. Even in Plutarch it is assumed that Agamemnon didn't force Argynnus after all.
Anyways do I think of Argynnus and Agamemnon relationship as a potential? Sometimes yes I admit it has plenty of potential to explore (like imagine a younger Agamemnon and all hahaha) not always but sometimes I do hehe now the rest is up to you.
I'm gonna be real with you, tumblr I dislike the trend I have seen for a while of a minority of people that do claim to do their research with stories regarding Greek mythology or ancient Greek stories and absolutely, without shame disregard the environmental aspects of it. Not just erasing some stuff like the importance of legumes, but also genuinely erasing normal flowers with exotic ones or making crap up with no reason that would be fixed with a normal googling. It makes me sad but, I prefer helping instead. This is not a post meant for people that write for writing which is A OK. No, this is for the people that claim to do their extensive research and end up painting the flat image they were trying to avoid or end up making more mistakes. Example peaches or lemons on Mykenaean Greece. I'm no authority whatsoever but a fellow research so If y'all need help here are some my tips: - iNaturalist is a really good tool for a general idea. Type location you want and a huge array of species will appear. Choose Native and it will clean your feed from exotic or invasive species. - Flora ionica is a German web in English that has the flora of the Ionian islands - My library (Ulises' library/la biblioteca de Ulises) will have stuff updated and if you really, really have a question do this. "topic you want to research" pdf. Most sources I use: Wikipedia, iNaturalist, Flora Ionica, Greek Forest Map, Köppen climate classification, It will send you to ResearchGate or any other paper you may need. Reiterating. This is not mandatory to anyone. but, if you are a writer that wants to understand a better image of our beloved stories, this aids so much in your path plus it makes a more lived on worldbuilding to: whoever says they did research without sources and passes rosemary as a strange plant or says oak is the same. (this also applies to any type of story btw, even outside Greek myth)

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I made a quiz about ryan gosling characters!
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been seeing a lot of “markiplier found the yaoi” recently.
but the situation is worse. The markers found the yaoi
happy pride month everyone
Okay greek mythology artist and writers can stop now /jk don't. Y'all just got me smiling and giggling and quite literally FLUSTERED. Holy shit I'm as red as a tomato man
but what if i read one of your fanfics and then went to your ao3 accounts and read all of your fanfics and left a comment on every single chapter of every single one and you got spam emails from all of my kudos and comments and it made you smile, what then? what if i brighten your day with my words like you did mine, what then???
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