Halbrand + Text Posts

Speaking of how Troy 2004 has personally offended me:

They took sandpaper and went to town on Hector. Smoothed out all his imperfections because how can good man also be bad man sometimes oh no my brain can't deal with that.

Also they didn't make him nearly as scary as he should be. Hector in the iliad is the. Scariest. The achaeans are terrified of him. Like he's the guy that walks on the battlefield and people run for their lives. He can lift boulders. He gets his ribcage smashed and gets back up like ten minutes later (granted, that's apollo, but in the god-less universe of troy they could've used it to make him even scarier) He doesn't go home all clean, he goes home and talks to his wife and holds his son while covered in gore. It's stressed that nobody but Achilles can beat him. He nearly burns the ships. He boasts and commits hybris after killing Patroclus.

Hector is the unbeatable war machine that makes mistakes sometimes, that morphs into a loving, smiling dad when he sees his son. The unbeatable war machine that's keeping an entire city safe, that gets scared and runs for his life when he knows he's in actual danger. That in the second-to-final moment has to be tricked into bravery, to stand and fight, so he has the chance at the final moment to recover from that and be supremely brave again and run straight to death, with his mind set on glory. Because he's extremely human right to the end. And his pride is as huge as his feeling of duty and love.

Also they took away that great scene where he's like "fuck your bird signs" he was such a legend for that in the iliad.

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the girls!!!! and toxic old man yaoi.

telemachus redesign? in this economy?

Πέμπτη Μεσοῦντος/ Πέμπτη ἐπὶ δέκα / Πεντεκαιδεκάτη, XV day From today’s sunset: fifteenth day of Maimakterion. The fifteenth of the month is always sacred to Athena. “Shun the fifth days: i.e. the lunar days. Shun all the fifth days.” (A woman- Cassandra?- embraces the statue of Athena; from Tanagra, 400 BC–323 BC, Besques-Mollard, Simone 1950 Tanagra. Braun & Co., Paris, France. (5-9)

almost a week of school left i am doing it for him.

Finally GIFs from my project! I made a simple animation for a story about the death of Ajax. I combined the first dialogue of Athena and Odysseus from the tragedy of Sophocles with the episode of Odysseus in Hades from the Odyssey. And Ajax in this project had no words :( dying in silence.

everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one

We lay here for years or for hours Your hand in my hand, so still and discreet So long, we'd become the flowers We'd feed well the land and worry the sheep

minos was such a pussy. if my wife gave birth to an epic minotaur baby i wouldn't have locked him in a labyrinth. i would have taken him to the mcdonalds play place (athens) every day and let him eat as many stray mcnuggets (athenians) off the floor as he wanted. i love you hungry son