#medon

Daily life at Ithake (post-Odyssey)

Characters: Penelope, Odysseus, Telemakhos, Eurykleia, Medon, Laertes, Phemios, Philoitios, Eumaeos, Autonoë, Hippomedeia and three other servants

The structure is inspired by Mykene's wall structure and the lion gate while the palace is a mix of the basic palace plan. The murals are based on: Orkhomenus' boat mural and Minoan dolphins.

Meanwhile the patterns are all based on Mycenean textiles I was able to find while I was unable to find veils for Penelope so it's quite basic while Laertes' crown's based on sea people's headgear.

What's happening here is that Odysseus and his family where about to go down to the agora but one of Eumaeos' pigs just "escaped" and Odysseus's checking the animal, (some callback to Circe), Telemakhos' is tired and Penelope embarrased as she has weaved his tunic and is afraid of him . Meanwhile Eurykleia is just "like father like son, help me the gods". While Laertes' talking to Philoitios about something without caring about the commotion Odysseus' making hehehehe. He's such a farm boy I swear.

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- pylades (yes he’s descended from aeacus via his father strophius, a grandson of phocus. He’s pretty well known but most people overlook his descent from aeacus)

- medon, ajax the lesser’s illegitimate half brother who fought in the trojan war with him. Descended from aeacus via alcimache, his mother and aeacus’ daughter

- alcimache. WHY DONT I SEE ANYONE TALK ABOUT HER YES PELEUS TELAMON AND PHOCUS HAD A SECRET SISTER

- panopeus, member of the calydonian boar hunt and son of phocus and his wife asterodia. He also took part in this campaign against this other kingdom and swore by athena and ares to not lay his hands on any of the loot taken but broke his oath immediately. As a result, his son epeius was cursed to be unwarlike

- crisus, pylades’ grandfather and panopeus’ twin brother. For some reason theres this myth of them fighting in the womb as fetuses

- epeius, architect of the trojan horse. Descended from aeacus via his father panopeus, a son of phocus. I find this super interesting since there was this prophecy that troy would fall to the descendants of aeacus but nobody ever talks about how the guy who literally built the thing that allowed troy to fall was one of them

- aegle, sister of epeius and lover of theseus. Some sources state that theseus left ariadne for her

how have i never registered that just like greater ajax is at troy with his illegitimate half brother (teucer), lesser ajax is ALSO there with an illegitimate half brother (medon)!

of course i can't help but compare. teucer is not mentioned in the catalogue because he hasn't brought any ships himself (i imagine him more as a salamis package deal with big ajax). medon, interestingly, isn't there with the locrian faction, but has stepped up as leader to the coalition that philoctetes originally led

Medon who, when his father died with the Seven stil swore the oath of the Epigoni

Medon who became his fathers heir according to his wishes even when the others frowned

Who took all the riches his father never wanted, living lavishly and extravagantly and being devout to Dioynsos who takes a liking to him

Medon who didnt have the same good training as the other kids, who never got as good in fighting but who was too stubborn not to go

Medon who survived the war of the Epigoni because Dionysos protected him even tho he was marching against his city

Medon who grieved for his father first when they dragged down the walls of thebes

his situation isn't all that comparable to teucer's because while a bastard, his mother (rhene) is still either a nymph or generally a freeperson, depending on who you ask (i go with the nymph route. for fun). but ☝️ the other thing we know about medon is that he either was banished or fled (depending on the translation... haven't read the greek for that yet) to phylace because he killed a relative of his stepmother's / legitimate wife of oileus' (eriopis).

so it's like. i feel it would've been specified if it was an accident, but it's free game nonetheless! maybe the people saw it as murder borne from envy of not being legitimate (maybe it was) and either threw him out or made him feel like he should! regardless, murder (especially of kin, though not in blood) is still a heavy crime in times of peace so medon was probably ostracized to like. some extent 🤔

then there's the last thing we know about medon; that he was at least trusted enough to lead philoctetes' army... did he grow to be capable enough that they "might as well" look past his history? was the situation so dire that they just took whoever was available? did medon offer himself up? did he serve to atone for his crimes? what was his relationship with his legitimate brother, ajax? was ajax there when medon killed one of their family members?? how did he react??? how did it all go down????

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