#priamos

Roman sarcophagus depicting scenes from the Iliad

* 175-200 CE

* Tyre, Lebanon

* Beirut National Museum

Attribution:

Well, my childhood was perhaps not as people imagine it. By the time I had scarcely completed my first year, my brother Deiphobos was born, and soon after him Polites. From an early age, I learned to share my parents' attention and as I grew older, much of it became my duty to look after my younger siblings.

Yet, I always cherished the moments I was granted with my parents. My mother would always find time for me. When I could not sleep, she would read to me, tell me stories, and hold me until I found rest. She often warmed milk and sweetened it with honey; that was my favorite comfort as a child.

art by @tooboredforthis (of course), @cryptidlark, and myself (@thecrenellations)

I really want to see how Priamos will appear in this, he has like 70 children and he's a king so I'm curious about how you'll modernise him

A Coalition of Lions begins with Goewin comparing herself to a prey animal fleeing her aunt. She arrives in Aksum and soon fears the ways she may be similar to Morgause, especially in relation to Telemakos (her future sunbird). And he sees what she’s doing, too - “You can keep a thing without tying it up. You know.”

and there’s Priamos’s traumatic history of being chained with his brother as punishment, his current effective imprisonment, THE MONKEY SCENE, there’s all the roles and agreements and situations that confine Goewin, there’s the way Medraut sees Debra Damo as a place to escape and there’s the grief that binds him, there’s Turunesh’s doves and parrots, there’s Wazeb’s promise not to chain his lions…