The Cool Thing About The Iliad Is That Almost Everyone In It Is A Horrible Person And/or Literal War

the cool thing about the iliad is that almost everyone in it is a horrible person and/or literal war criminal, so you get to judge characters EXCLUSIVELY by vibes. anyway i don’t blame paris for the trojan war but he IS a little shitheel and i want him out of my city

Oedipus Rex  (1957)

This adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy (in a translation by William Butler Yeats) looks almost the way it would have when staged in the 5th century BC. Stentorian oration and carefully posed tableaux abound, giving the film an uncanny atmosphere somewhere between a black mass and puppet theater.

Cassandra of Troy - some clothing studies

The daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, Cassandra was the princess and prophetess of Troy.

The most common version of the myth states that she was admired by the god Apollo, who sought to win her over by means of the gift of seeing the future. But when Cassandra rejected him, he cursed Cassandra that her prophecies may never be believed. In another version (Aeschylus), she tricked Apollo into granting her the gift of prophecy but refused to lie with him and was cursed by the god.

I'm not like an Agamemnon stan or anything but I do kinda wish people stopped portraying his sacrifice of Iphigenia as being like, him being totally heartless and stuff. Because it's not -- that's the point, right? By forcing him to kill his own daughter, it's giving him a deeply personal stake in the war. It's 'you want to go across the sea to kill people who know nothing and have done nothing? fine. prove it.' It's about him having to commit to war in its entirety, the pain that most of the Achaean forces never will.

Obviously it's a bad thing. And yeah, Clytemnestra deserves to kill him for sacrificing their daughter. But if he didn't care about her, if it didn't tear him up inside to put his own daughter on the altar, why wouldn't he be asked to sacrifice anything else?

tfw you join the army and someone else has the same name as you, then the next day everyone starts calling you "Lesser Ajax"

Me, a year ago: oh, greek mythology, i used to love it when I was 10 or so, I think it would be fun to reread some of myths now uncensored, but i really don't think it will be as interesting as it was before, like, i know all the plots and characters, so there is nothing new for me.

Me, now: I'm rereading the illiad and the Odyssey for the third time in a third different translation. I've already downloaded tens of other Greek plays. For over three months by now, I'm lying awake in bad thinking about characters from these texts and coming up with headcanons and scenarios for them. I started to write drafts of the illiad and the odyssey inspired fics on English, which I've never done before. I'm this close to starting learning Greek, so i can read all of the materials in the original. I need to study biology, but now I can't, I'm-