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ponawkaiesygelas · 3 months

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#quotes #deep quotes #poetry #greek quotes #quotes greek #greek poems #greek posts #γρεεκ ποστς #writing #poetic #poems and poetry #original poem #poets on tumblr #moviesfrance #best movies #movie review #movies

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ola-pane-ki-erxontai · 1 year

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Έφταιξα, χτύπησε το μου.

Παράτα με τώρα.

Κέρδισες, γάμησε το.

Που να ήξερες τώρα

Που βρίσκομαι και τι κάνω,

Αν πίνω απ’ όσο αντέχω παραπάνω.

Αν εχω δύναμη να ξαναγράψω

Τι έκανα για να σε ξεπεράσω.

Φύγε μακριά μου οσο θες, μωρό μου

Όσο αντέχεις,

Υποσχέσου να προσεχείς,

Να θυμάσαι τις φορές που εγώ πέθαινα για ’σενα

Και μην έχεις ενοχές

Σε κάθε σ’ αγαπώ που λες αν θες εμένα ξανά.

Σα το πρώτο μας βράδυ, ξανά και ξανά.

Στα παλιά μας τα λάθη, ξανά και ξανά.

Θα με ψάχνεις για πάντα, ξανά και ξανά.

#solmeister #marseaux #ksana #ξανα #love #pain #song #ερωτας #ξανά #quotes #quotes greek #greek

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xri-sti-na · 2 years

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"δε μου ταιριαζεις εισαι αβλαβής,

Σε κίνδυνο θα σε μεταμορφώσω

με τον πιο ταχυ και αλάνθαστο τρόπο:

αγαπώντας σε."

-Κική Δημουλα

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whompthatsucker1981 · 7 months

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i think that gay sex cats is the new duchamp's fountain

#if youre getting mad at it now you would have been mad about modern art in the 1920s too #this is what people mean when they say that some people are no different than greek statue pfps getting all RETVRN abt art #also pack it up there's better posts on the automation of art and art philosophizing #too much people reblogged this for the quote unquote ethical painting. scram

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percabethownsmybutt · 2 months

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annabeth: why are you following me?

percy: because we’re dating now

annabeth: okay… what about grover?

percy: we’re a package deal

grover: buy one idiot, get one free

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incorrecthomer · 2 months

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[at Achilles's funeral] Agamemnon: *places his hand on the pyre and sobs* Agamemnon: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

#greek mythology #incorrect greek mythology #greek heroes #incorrect greek heroes #incorrect greek quotes #incorrect quotes #iliad #incorrect iliad #agamemnon #achilles #achilles&agamemnon

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rise-deepseamonster · 25 days

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Love how Percy just casually drops lore all throughout the Son of Neptune. Frank and Hazel are getting the encyclopedia knowledge on every monster they encounter plus some extra side stories from how he fought them in gym classes and "oh yea, I had a fist fight with Kronos in Manhatten."

And then they meet Annabeth and realize that behind every goofy looking powerful guy, there's an incredibly smart, capable and even more powerful woman who makes sure he doesn't die on a daily basis and are like, "oh. thats why he's still alive."

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy and annabeth #grover underwood #percabeth #pjo #annabeth chase #son of neptune #hazel levesque #frank zhang #greek tumblr #ancient greece #greek blog #greek poetry #greek posts #greek quotes #greek gods #greek mythology #rick riordan

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jamsandsuch · 4 months

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this quote from ovid’s telling of orpheus turning back to look at eurydice makes me crumble

#studyblr #studyspo #college life #academia #university student #aesthetic #college student #university #college #study #quote #quotes #greek mythology

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meditando-en-paris · 1 year

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Odysseus: Do it or you're straight.

Achilles: *Loud gasp*

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soracities · 8 months

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—Maria Michela Sassi, "Can we hope to understand how the Greeks saw their world?" (pub. Aeon) [ID in ALT]

#q #lit #quotes #maria michela sassi #how the greeks saw colour #aeon #oh shiny archives #m #x

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edeluarts · 6 months

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Get ready with me to build a giant wooden horse

Did I just spend 3 days drawing that eyeliner meme? Yes. Yes, I did.

I'm very late to this year's inktober but nevertheless I'm here))) I decided to combine the official prompt list with the classicstober here, specifically prompt 15 - dagger and prompt 20 - Odysseus. I don't know, if I will draw any other prompts, but this one was fun and I hope you like it :)

The dagger was based on Mycenaean daggers in the national archeological museum in Athens and some Mycenaean dagger reproductions I saw, the scene depicted is Odysseus hunting Athena' boar. I hc this dagger was either a gift from Athena herself or from Autolycus, I haven't decided yet.

#I'm not sure how historically accurate is that background. but it is what it is ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯#odysseus #“my man's not letting this war keep him from feeling gorgeous” (quote by @dannymotta)#“felt cute. might burn a city later”#“grwm for a stealth mission with my best buddy - the king of Argos”#tagamemnon #the iliad #epic the musical #epic the musical fanart #greek mythology #inktober #classicstober #inktober 2023 #classicstober23 #my art tag

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drunk-werewolf · 1 month

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I've heard of many lies. But your "I love you" will always be my favorite

#angst #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #spilled poetry #poems and quotes #quote #quotes #love #heartache #heartbreak #lies #father #family #text #text post #greek quotes

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ola-pane-ki-erxontai · 2 years

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Δε ξέρω τι με πιάνει τα βράδια.

Κάτι με ξυπνάει,

Και μου θυμίζει όσα τριγύρω μου δεν έχω πια.

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y2kaee · 2 months

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"You become what you give your attention to."

Epictetus

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eelhound · 5 months

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"I think Homer outwits most writers who have written on the War [fantasy archetype], by not taking sides.

The Trojan war is not and you cannot make it be the War of Good vs. Evil. It’s just a war, a wasteful, useless, needless, stupid, protracted, cruel mess full of individual acts of courage, cowardice, nobility, betrayal, limb-hacking-off, and disembowelment. Homer was a Greek and might have been partial to the Greek side, but he had a sense of justice or balance that seems characteristically Greek — maybe his people learned a good deal of it from him? His impartiality is far from dispassionate; the story is a torrent of passionate actions, generous, despicable, magnificent, trivial. But it is unprejudiced. It isn’t Satan vs. Angels. It isn’t Holy Warriors vs. Infidels. It isn’t hobbits vs. orcs. It’s just people vs. people.

Of course you can take sides, and almost everybody does. I try not to, but it’s no use; I just like the Trojans better than the Greeks. But Homer truly doesn’t take sides, and so he permits the story to be tragic. By tragedy, mind and soul are grieved, enlarged, and exalted.

Whether war itself can rise to tragedy, can enlarge and exalt the soul, I leave to those who have been more immediately part of a war than I have. I think some believe that it can, and might say that the opportunity for heroism and tragedy justifies war. I don’t know; all I know is what a poem about a war can do. In any case, war is something human beings do and show no signs of stopping doing, and so it may be less important to condemn it or to justify it than to be able to perceive it as tragic.

But once you take sides, you have lost that ability.

Is it our dominant religion that makes us want war to be between the good guys and the bad guys?

In the War of Good vs. Evil there can be divine or supernal justice but not human tragedy. It is by definition, technically, comic (as in The Divine Comedy): the good guys win. It has a happy ending. If the bad guys beat the good guys, unhappy ending, that’s mere reversal, flip side of the same coin. The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.

Milton, a Christian, had to take sides, and couldn’t avoid comedy. He could approach tragedy only by making Evil, in the person of Lucifer, grand, heroic, and even sympathetic — which is faking it. He faked it very well.

Maybe it’s not only Christian habits of thought but the difficulty we all have in growing up that makes us insist justice must favor the good.

After all, 'Let the best man win' doesn’t mean the good man will win. It means, 'This will be a fair fight, no prejudice, no interference — so the best fighter will win it.' If the treacherous bully fairly defeats the nice guy, the treacherous bully is declared champion. This is justice. But it’s the kind of justice that children can’t bear. They rage against it. It’s not fair!

But if children never learn to bear it, they can’t go on to learn that a victory or a defeat in battle, or in any competition other than a purely moral one (whatever that might be), has nothing to do with who is morally better.

Might does not make right — right?

Therefore right does not make might. Right?

But we want it to. 'My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.'

If we insist that in the real world the ultimate victor must be the good guy, we’ve sacrificed right to might. (That’s what History does after most wars, when it applauds the victors for their superior virtue as well as their superior firepower.) If we falsify the terms of the competition, handicapping it, so that the good guys may lose the battle but always win the war, we’ve left the real world, we’re in fantasy land — wishful thinking country.

Homer didn’t do wishful thinking.

Homer’s Achilles is a disobedient officer, a sulky, self-pitying teenager who gets his nose out of joint and won’t fight for his own side. A sign that Achilles might grow up someday, if given time, is his love for his friend Patroclus. But his big snit is over a girl he was given to rape but has to give back to his superior officer, which to me rather dims the love story. To me Achilles is not a good guy. But he is a good warrior, a great fighter — even better than the Trojan prime warrior, Hector. Hector is a good guy on any terms — kind husband, kind father, responsible on all counts — a mensch. But right does not make might. Achilles kills him.

The famous Helen plays a quite small part in The Iliad. Because I know that she’ll come through the whole war with not a hair in her blond blow-dry out of place, I see her as opportunistic, immoral, emotionally about as deep as a cookie sheet. But if I believed that the good guys win, that the reward goes to the virtuous, I’d have to see her as an innocent beauty wronged by Fate and saved by the Greeks.

And people do see her that way. Homer lets us each make our own Helen; and so she is immortal.

I don’t know if such nobility of mind (in the sense of the impartial 'noble' gases) is possible to a modern writer of fantasy. Since we have worked so hard to separate History from Fiction, our fantasies are dire warnings, or mere nightmares, or else they are wish fulfillments."

- Ursula K. Le Guin, from No Time to Spare, 2013.

#ursula k. le guin #homer #quote #quotations #the iliad #trojan war #storytelling #fantasy #fiction writing #war #conflict #tragedy #john milton #paradise lost #greek mythology

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percabethownsmybutt · 2 months

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percy, on the phone: hi, it’s percy

sally: what did he do this time?

percy: no, mom, it’s me percy

sally: oh… what did you do this time?

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