#retelling myths

[rustic-space-fiddle]

WIP of Penelope with her forever-unfinished shroud.

#epic the musical #epic penelope #greek mythology #greek myth retellings #epic the musical fanart #art #fan art #sketch #digital art #procreate art #rustic space doodles #artists of tumblr

[greekmythcomix]

To explain my chicken obsession:

* * *

Me: I’m enjoying drawing chickens for this commission.

Husband: ha ha Greek Myth Chickens!

Me: 🤔

I now present to you,

🏺Greek Myth Chickens 🐓

ILIAD EDITION

(drawn and originally posted in May 2021, coloured and reposted Jan 2023)

1) Egg-chilles and Patro-cluck (Achilles and Patroclus)

2) Mene-lay-us and Al-eggs-andros (Paris) (Menelaus and Alexandros [Paris])

3) Egg-amemnon (Agamemnon)

4) Aph-roost-ite and Helen of Spur-ta (Aphrodite and Helen of Sparta)

5) Nest-or (Nestor)

6) Androma-beak, Peck-tor, and Astyan-egg (Andromache, Hektor and Astyanax)

7) At-hen-a and Egg-dysseus (Athena and Odysseus)

8) Preen-am and Peck-uba (Priam and Hekuba [Hekabe])

9) Brood-seis (Briseis)

10) Diom-egg-es (Diomedes)

EDIT: Greek Myth and Roman History chicken MASTERPOST - https://www.tumblr.com/greekmythcomix/725538723329179648/greek-myth-roman-history-chickens-master-post Here Be More Chickens Cosplaying

(See next post for last 3 Iliad chickens- https://www.tumblr.com/greekmythcomix/722218945873051648/iliad-chickens-continued-11-lay-jax-tel-capon )

#Achilles #Patroclus #patroklos #akhilles #greek mythology #greek myth retellings #greek myth #comix #greek myth memes #Iliad #Homer #artwork #my artwork #Greek myth chickens #illustration #pun #fanart #chickens #tagamemnon #the Iliad #classics #classical civilisation

[medusaspeach]

bby god sketches

#greek mythology #greek myth retellings #sketch #art #greek gods #medusa's peach #*tries to be normal*

[unbizzarre]

The Odyssey, but if Odysseus just got to stay home and chill with his son and goddess bestie.

been obsessing over this musical project lately.

Can't stop imagining the moments Odysseus missed. Little mischievous joys, teaching moments etc. In this scene, Odysseus teaches Telemachus how to braid hair and Athena shares profound wisdom with two of her favorite mortals.

#Epic the musical #Athena #Telemachus #the Odyssey but happy #odysseus #the odyssey #odyssey #ithaca #greek mythology #greek myth retellings #greek myth art #odyssey fanart #fanart #my art #trojan war #tagamemnon #the iliad #Iliad #homers odyssey #homers iliad

[hades-bat]

just imagine a boy flirting with a girl in ancient greece and he tells her "you're prettier than aphrodite" and instead of blushing and saying "thank you" she goes BRO ARE YOU KIDDING ME ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND WHY THE F*CK DID YOU SAY THAT DO YOU WANT ME F*CKING DEAD OR WHAT

#greek mythology #greek gods #greek mythology memes #aphrodite #apollo #dionysus #hades #hermes #ares #artemis #athena #demeter #hephaestus #hera #hestia #poseidon #zeus #mt olympus #greek myth memes #greek myth retellings

[septemberkisses]

— The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

#the song of achilles #song of achilles #madeline miller #greek gods #greek myth retellings #greek mythology #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #chaotic academia #classic academia #classic academia aesthetic #light academia #dark academia quotes #light academia quotes #literaure #english literature #quotes #booksbooksbooks #achilles and patroclus #patroclus #achilles #trojan war #greek retelling #book excerpt #book quotes #books and novels

[meatworms-against-cobblestone]

Odysseus's story is so funny, cause 60% of the bad things that happen to him happen because he just can't shut up. Like, he didn't have to tell the Cyclops his name. He could've just stayed quiet. He could have avoided so much pain by not yapping, but unfortunately, the man's a yapper.

#epic the musical #odysseus #the odyssey #greek myth retellings #cyclops #epic the cyclops saga

[sothisisablog]

People that hate Hades in the adaptation have never read actual Greek myths and it shows. Him just wanting his hat back and not caring that his siblings are fighting is very accurate. Hades immediately being terrified by the mention of Kronos. Also accurate. Kronos ate most of his kids. Which included Hades. He wouldn’t have forgotten that easily.

#tumblr #made with tumblr #percy jackson #pjo tv show #pjo series #pjo spoilers #pjo #pjo adaptation #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson spoilers #percy jackson series #percy series #hades #pjo hades #greek gods #greek mythology #greek myth retellings #greek myths

[tuurverheydepoetryandprose]

I don’t know if it’s cultural/latent Christianity or just standard media illiteracy, but people need to seriously read up on the nature of mythology in ancient cultures. Like seriously.

So many people treat myths as factual accounts of events. I have never seen any literary scholar, anthropologist or historian make the claim that this was the way the ancients viewed their myths. It’s metaphor. It’s allegory. It’s symbolism. It’s a narrativised ritual. It’s artistic social, political, cultural commentary, instruction or expression. The claim that a myth should be interpreted literally is never made by serious researchers, because it

1) is inherently unprovable and unarguable, which renders it scientifically irrelevant.

2) it blocks off many more salient interpretations that can co-exist with other contradictory non-literal interpretations.

3) it does not seem consistent with the way myth was treated by storytellers and scholars of the time.

Myth is an inherently flexible medium. It’s beautiful and elegant in its manifold meanings. Stop trying to make it a literal account. It isn’t. Never has been. Do your research about the culture, the medium and the traditions you discuss, before making wild statements, before writing ahistorical retellings, or trying to cancel gods or the people who follow them, based on texts that were written (and before that orally handed down) thousands of years ago in a cultural tradition entirely different than ours.

STOP PROJECTING YOUR OWN LITERALISM AND REJECTION OF COMPLEXITY ON OTHER CULTURES.

It’s ignorant, it’s incurious, it’s incorrect and frankly disrespectful, racist and colonialist to insert your misunderstood notion of mythology in a culture that you have barely researched.

Some people need to be a bit less concerned with being seen as perfect paragons of moral righteousness, and a bit more with not spreading misinformation, cultural ignorance and media illiteracy.

#mythology #polytheism #myth #myths #media literacy #reading comprehension #problematic gods #culture #history #hellenism #religion #spirituality #Zeus #Apollo #Hades #retelling #myth retelling

[tampire]

Cronus being self aware

#Daddy #Cronus #cronusedit #Teletoon #class of the titans #teletoonedit #classofthetitansedit #cotedit #David Kaye #He fathered so hard #Villain Pride #My Gif #animationsource #animationedit #tvedit #greek mythology #greek myth retellings #I want to cosplay him someday #Kiss #Get Kraken #He reminds me of Izzy Hands too #dailymenedit #dailymengifs #dilfgifs #dilfsource #if villain bad why hot

[notacluedo]

Happy new year everyone read Lavinia by Ursula k le guin

#It’s so good genuinely like such an interesting exploration of Lavinia as a character without like #Falling into the traps of more modern ‘feminist’ myth retellings #Imo at least #and the inclusion of Virgil as a storytelling device??? So swag #Also achates is gay for Aeneas so #Win win #the Aeneid #lavinia #virgil #my art #roman mythology #ursula k. le guin

[greekmythcomix]

Me: dislikes Theseus, likes minotaur, likes papercraft

Me: makes entire Labyrinth and Knossos Palace paper Playset so can kill Theseus at hands of minotaur

They also interlock to make one big Playset:

And by the way the Labyrinth walls move 👀 (and you can use it as a game board - game instructions included)

And also it’s also available in colour:

You can get your own here (https://greekmythcomixshop.Wordpress.com) if you fancy it. (These things are how I keep the rest of my main educational site free and free from ads)

#Theseus #Minotaur #asterion #greek mythology #tagamemnon #greek myth #illustration #greek myth retellings #greek myth comix #classicstober #papercraft #download and print #teaching resources

[aoiveaeart]

… Look at me … |🌿✨| Medusa and the blind woman she loved

Lot’s of people loved Catradora as my Medusa AU so I decided to share this piece here today. Happy holidays!

#catradora #my art #fanart #illustration #shera #adora #catra #shera adora #shera and the princesses of power #spop #medusa au #medusa #greek myth retellings #greek posts #ancient greek #greek mythology #gorgon #queer #anyway enjoy the lesbians

[whitevesper]

[achilles teaching patroclus to drive]

achilles: you’re driving and suddenly you see clytemnestra and agamemnon walk into the road. what do you hit?

patroclus: the brakes obviously

achilles: wrong. agamemnon. you should always hit agamemnon.

#ancient greek mythology #ancient greek memes #greek myth retellings #greek myth memes #greek mythology #ancient greek #incorrect tsoa quotes #tsoa patrochilles #tsoa memes #incorrect patrochilles quotes #achilles and patroclus #patrochilles #achilles #clytemnestra #agamemnon #patroclus #you should always hit agamemnon 😎

[nachtdereulen]

#she’s watching the city #artemis #greek mythology #greek myth art #greek myth retellings #moon #greek gods

[pimsri]

I’ve been playing the Hades game lately

#everyone keep encouraging me to play it so i finally did! #I enjoy it i think #not my usual genre of game but it's a nice change! #I love greek myth retell :) #this one is nicely done and an interesting way to adapt it! #I love that for once #the main character is a very obscure god #i thought i was quite familiar with greek myth #yet I know very little about Zagreus except that his thing involve rebirth and stuff #hades #hades game #pimsridoodle