what is there left to say at the end

Hector's death

a little Apollo and Artemis painting :D

So I uhhh... I finished the Iliad. I had a lot of fun but there were so MANY weird ass funny moments that I HAD to draw. Enjoy my personal retelling of these bits. (The designs for the characters are very undocumented and definitely not final though).

PART ONE:

Part two over there!

Long hair won out in the end rip all the short haired Menelaus truthers

The Menelaus stans are really being fed these days, it's me, I'm Menelaus stans

messy ugly full chop achilles, per this post

Odyssey

based on this poll

london callin' 🍂

lion man // agamemnon

Hector and Scamandrius sketch

Might eventually make a better/cleaner version at some point but for weeks I've been trying to get this out of my system.

“I go

I am the last one left in a line of kings

I was caught

in an act of perfect piety.”

-Antigonick (Sophocles, Trans. Anne Carson)

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writing a paper on antigone and had to draw her or i’d go insane. love the fascination different translators have with Antigone’s eulogy for herself and the role of fate in the play

Fashion Friday:  The Fringe Binge

Today, I continue my UWM Special Collections exploration of fashion through the ages with Assyrian costume. You may recall from last week’s post that I am conducting an independent study in Special Collections this semester on the history of costume and fashion to help inform my own practice. 

The ornamentation of this ninth-century BCE culture is dramatic with complex layering, repeating patterns, and textile borders, e.g., dual beltings, rosettes, and lots of tassels. Sensibilities include shawls and slings, scaling armor, and animal fur, all invoking a fringe motif.

A significant source of Assyrian wearables are from one particular excavation site known as Sam'al or Zincirli in southern Turkey, its rulers changing over its 2,500 yearlong existence as a trading hub and crossroads of multicultural peoples. The buried fortress and the kingdom itself ended in the Neo-Assyrian period of the late seventh century BCE.

Among the prizes of this modern-day dig are two depictions of the lion:  a formidable threat often shown in defeat in the King’s hunt, and the lion as a hybrid deity—the lamassu— protecting the venerated empire.  

My first fashion plate is inspired by an ancient fragment with rosette and fringe detail on both figures’ shawls and tunics, while the man’s tarbush also has rosette and tassel. Can you spot the decorative muses in the additional plates?

Lees verder

Eldest daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, Iphigenia Priestess of Artemis

do you guys even know what anne carson is like. you reblog her quotes all the time but are you aware that seeing her in person is a spiritual experience

she came to my college in the spring of 2019. she was wearing a flannel under a pinstripe suit, cuffed trousers and bright red sneakers, and she had her hair up in a messy bun. I didn’t take a picture but here’s my artist’s rendition

the whole room was full of Classics wlwTM and we Absolutely Could Not Handle This Like Even a Little Bit. I got so distracted thinking about her during my workout today that I accidentally did 15 more jumping jacks than I was supposed to, which I think is the gayest sentence I’ve ever written.

how do I describe the way she speaks? it’s this very floaty, dignified, vaguely curious, uncompelled, but very intentional style of diction, like if you met god at a garden party and she handed you a pitcher of cream and asked you why you think you should get into heaven. I wrote down the phrase “Your ridiculous little glasslike soul” and I don’t remember in what context she said it, but THAT’S the vibe.

she is screamingly funny but relentlessly deadpan. “You know Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for—” she pulls down her glasses and looks at us, like a librarian who moonlights writing erotica – “sodomy.” She had us do an “interactive portion” during one of her poems, instructing the right side of the audience: “Your part is simply the word Deciduous? With a question mark at the end.”

She has flawless comedic timing, and she does not use filler words. Remember this line from Elektra? it sums up her sense of humor PERFECTLY:

She spices up her wit by dropping in the occasional mind-blowing quote like “Tears are all about the weeper, aren’t they?” and “Roses and hurricanes are too much as they are to be anything else, to be damaged by metaphor.” and “Do I frighten people, saying there’s no back wall? Nothing between you and your heart of darkness?”

like. she is an incredible writer and I’m not about to denigrate her translations by saying she didn’t put work into them, but I honest to god think that is just How This Woman’s Mind Works. she is on “not to me, not if it’s you” and “someone will remember us I say even in another time” levels of galaxy brain wordcraft, but IN REAL LIFE.

I came up to her after the reading and asked her to sign my Bacchae copy. I did not say much to her besides that I was a fan, because I got the sense that if I formed a complete sentence in her presence she would see directly through me and reach into my body and swallow my entire ribcage like a snake.

she signed my book “regards, A.C.” I’ll never forget her.

[ID: Image 1 is a drawing of Carson, an older white woman, clothed as described. She is looking to the side, holding a stack of papers in one hand. Her other hand is holding the edge of her lapel.

Image 2 is a picture of a page of a play script. It reads as follows:

Slave: You won’t kill me?

Orestes: Go.

Slave: Fabulous.

Orestes: Unless I reconsider.

Slave: Not fabulous.

To the right of the line “Go” is a line number, 1160, in brackets. END ID]

the impossible return

CHARITY ADOPTABLES - GREEK MYTHOLOGY

Hello! Are you as angry about the recent Roe v Wade ruling as I am? Would you like to do something to protect abortion rights and get something in return? Do you like Greek mythology? Then here is a post for you :]

Goddesses available:

If this gains a lot of traction, I may draw more popular gods and/or more of the main Olympians :]

Rules: