Jun 16
Imagine if Hippodamia’s suitors tried to pull a Protesilaus just to be with her one last time only for Hades and Persephone to tell them no bc their nephew Pelops is destined to marry her instead lol
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Imagine if Hippodamia’s suitors tried to pull a Protesilaus just to be with her one last time only for Hades and Persephone to tell them no bc their nephew Pelops is destined to marry her instead lol
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On a tumblr post circling around a few months ago, there was a myth that said that there was a prophecy that the first Greek to touch Trojan soil would die first. So no one wanted to get out of the ships when they all arrived, and Odysseus circumvented this by discreetly throwing a shield on the beach, making a big deal about how prophecies can mean a lot of things and dont always come true, and jumps off onto the beach to prove it (but lands on his shield). Then someone else follows his lead and gets out, and they die first in the war.
It sounds like a cool story, but I haven't heard about it anywhere else other than that one post. Is it a real myth, or did someone make it up?
Hahaha I admit that I am one of the posters around hahaha I even posted a silly meme like some time ago! Hahaha
💬 12 🔁 17 ❤️ 100 · The Greeks: Do not descent from their ships afraid that they would trigger the prophecy Odysseus: Throws his shield on
So yeah I do like this story and how silly and such it is plus it shows how cunning bastard Odysseus can be but so far at least it seems more like an anecdotal legend than an actual source. I am not sure there even is some sort of piece of artwork depicting it. Most sources speak on Protesilaus (or Iolaus as his birth name is in some sources) jumping bravely despite the upcoming danger and he heroically falls first (according to some versions by the hands of Hector)
There seems to be some vague connection to that legend to the other versions that mention the curse that the first one to step onto the beach of Troy would die but is not supported by any of the ancient sources I know that Odysseus was involved. In fact if I am not mistaken sources like Dictys Cretensis even seem to "debunk" that curse because he claims Odysseus and Menelaus were already in Troy before so obviously that curse was not a thing (according to Dictys) So yeah as a source it seems to be more anecdotal than anything else and more indeed to show the cunning of Odysseus. It doesn't seem to be one of the written down sources. But I could be wrong. I have heard that story for a long time for as long as I can remember but I do not recall it being referenced to some specific ancient text or fragment.
protesilaus is gone 0.002 seconds and laodameia sticks a dildo to the wall and tapes his picture above it. go off queen it's still your honeymoon anyway
ohhh my godddd what if you died at troy and your wife had an effigy of you made to [REDACTED] but hades (the sicko) let you come back for ONE DAY to see your wife but she doesn't believe you're real and has formed an excessive attachment to the effigy so now you have to fight your own sexbot
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I'm sorry but your boyfriend went to Troy and is gonna be the first to die there. Yeah no there’s this prophecy that the first to put his foot on the Trojan shore is gonna die and he was overeager. Yeah gods are using him as a tool to bring about the fall of his city. he's probably not coming home again unless it’s as a ghost or whatever. yeah i’m sorry
I finished Gideon the Ninth and holy shit was it amazing. I think of all the twists in the book, my favourite was the fact that Protesilaus was literally just fucking dead the whole time. It's a bit less silly and more grim with the additional twist at the ending, but when I first got to the reveal, I had a great time going back to earlier descriptions of Protesilaus and laughing at how incredibly obviously this man is just a corpse standing around doing nothing but the most basic brainless zombie actions.
There are just so many moments of him awkwardly staring into space, presumably with his tongue just about to loll out. I get the impression that if his necromancer didn't manage him as closely as she does, he would just end up in a random corridor gently bumping into a blank wall repeatedly.
Why did I just now get that his name is Protesilaus because Protesilaus was the first Greek to die at Troy