#helenistic

United in Battle Through the Crisis

Orestes and Pylades are renowned figures in Greek mythology and literature, often depicted as the epitome of deep friendship and loyalty. They appear in various ancient works, notably in the tragedies of Euripides, and their story is intricately linked to the complex and tragic narrative of the House of Atreus.

Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, central figures in the saga of the Trojan War and its aftermath. Pylades, the son of King Strophius of Phocis and nephew to Clytemnestra, was Orestes' cousin. Their friendship commenced in their youth when Orestes was sent to Strophius for protection following the murder of his father Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

Their relationship is often portrayed as the ideal of ancient Greek friendship and loyalty. They support each other in times of difficulty and danger, prominently displayed in the story of Orestes' vengeance for his father's murder. Pylades accompanied Orestes on his return to Mycenae to kill his mother Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, an act seen as righteous vengeance but one that plunged Orestes into deep despair and madness.

In Euripides' tragedy "Orestes," Pylades' unwavering support and compassion for Orestes are highlighted, especially as Orestes is tormented by the Furies. Pylades speaks little in this play, but his constant presence by Orestes' side during his tribulations exhibits his profound connection and loyalty.

The relationship between Orestes and Pylades has been idealized in later literary and artistic works, often symbolizing true friendship and devotion. In some interpretations, their relationship is also seen as romantic or erotic, though this is not explicitly stated in ancient sources. Their story exemplifies how friendship and loyalty were highly valued in Greek mythology and culture, considered essential elements of human relationships.

moments when i feel my deitys:

(i saw this post in @caduceussky so i want to try it. credit to them)🖤

🥀Persephone’s pressence🥀

•When I'm at work (I work with children).

•When I use the color red.

•When I feel sensual

•when I set boundaries.

•When I do my skincare.

•The day

💀Hade’s pressence💀

•When I see a dogs.

•When I buy something that i really wanted.

•When I watch ghost or mystery movies.

•Death stuff.

•When I smoke and listen to music.

•The night

🦁Circe’s pressence🦁

•When I go to the beach.

•When I think about being a mother.

•When I'm working with my plants.

•When I make spells without looking at my books.

•When the sun shines on my face.

(Dionysus and Zeus)

i was crying over schoolwork so i decided to light some frankincense and play some abba so that maybe apollo would help my anxiety go down and i got the urge to do some tarot pulls

i lit apollo’s candle and started pulling cards. the cards that flew out of the deck called me out on my anxiety, trauma, stubbornness, etc. so i started tearing up again and

CHIQUITITA BY ABBA STARTED PLAYING AND APOLLOS FLAME STARTED DANCING

Laocoön and His Sons

Ptolemy ~ Of the Power of the Planets

Sun/ Moon ~The active power fo the sun’s essential nature is found to be heating and, to a certain degree, drying. This is made more easily perceptible in the case of the sun than any other heavenly body by its size and by the obviousness of its seasonal changes, for the closer it approaches to the zenith the more it affects us in this way. Most of the moon’s power consists of humidifying, clearly because it is close to the earths nd because of the moist exhalations therefrom. It’s action therefor is precisely this,t is often and cause putrefaction in bodies for the most part, it shares moderately also in heating power because of the light which it receives from the sun.

Saturn ~ It is saturn’s quality chiefly to cool and, moderately, to dry, probably because he is furthest removed both from the sun’s heat and the moist exhalations about the earth. Both in Saturn’s case and in that of the other planets there are powers, too, which arise through the observation of their aspects to eh sun and the moon, for some of them appear to modify conditions in the ambient in one way, some in another, by increase or by decrease.

Mars ~ The nature of Mars is chiefly to dry and to burn, in conformity with his fiery color and by reason of his nearness to the sun, for the sun’s shore lies just below him.

Jupiter ~ has a temperate active force because his movement takes place between the cooling influence of Saturn and the burning power of Mars. He both heats and humidifies; and because his heating power is the greater by reason of the underlying spheres, he produces fertilizing winds.

Venus ~ has the same powers and tempered nature as Jupiter, but acts in the opposite way; for she warms moderately because of her nearness to the sun, but chiefly humidifies, like the moon, because of the amount of her own light and because she appropriates the exhalations from the moist atmosphere surrounding the earth.

Mercury ~ in general is found at certain times alike to be drying and absorptive of moisture, because he is never far removed in longitude from th heat of the sun; and again humidifying; because he is next above the sphere of the moon, which is closest to the earth; and to change quickly from one to the other, inspired as it were by the. Speed of his motions in the neighborhood of the sun itself.