The Iliad - Blog Posts

first chapter of this odydio fic is done! 💪💪 read tags for warnings!!!

- https://archiveofourown.org/works/64489060/chapters/165600622

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64489060/chapters/165600622

more odydio art for the soul 🫡

I’m so sane about the ancient greek yaoi….. odydio save me.. save meeeee

the guys r done now too! :3

the young spartan princesses r done ! i love my girlies

the young spartan princesses r done ! i love my girlies

odydio 100% got freaky during the trojan war at least once come on guys .. 😭

diomedes…. just because you’re built like a tree doesn’t mean you have to carry menelaus around like he’s your child just because he asked you to. I promise you he can walk just fine

menelaus your fellow soldiers are fruity as FUCK ‼️

the aphmau brainrot has simmered and now i’m solely focused on EPIC & the iliad/odyssey (THERES A DIFFERENCE!!!!) so have some sketches i’ve done for fun <3

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

Hades just doing his job and watching the chaos happen instead of going after Hercules 24/7

Disney’s Hercules but the characters follow the source material

Bonus

ooh you wanna ship odysseus/diomedes….. you wanna ship odysseus/diomedes SO bad………….

two iliad-era sketches and one post-odyssey speculative reunion :’)

“Showing Athena around the Greek Camp”

Recorded by Odysseus Laertides (1700 b.C.)