Greek mythology from A to Z:
[A] - Apollo (Ἀπόλλων) was the god of poetry, art, archery, plague, sun, light, knowledge and music
Long time ago I doodled this cause I thought it was funny lol
“”“professional associates”” i know what you are
*as kids* Chiron: I just found out that my dad isn't really my dad. Chariclo: Your dad... Apollo the god who doesn't have a drop of horse or centaur blood in him? Chiron: [nods] Chariclo: Chariclo: That must have been quite a shock...
Greek mythology from A to Z:
[C] - Circe (Κίρκη) was a powerful enchantress versatile in the arts of herbs and potions and capable of turning human beings into animals.
Norse mythology from A to Z:
[B] - Bragi is the god of eloquence and poetry, and the patron of skalds in Norse mythology. Originally, Bragi did not belong the pantheon of gods. He was a poet from the 9th century, Bragi Boddason. Poets from later centuries made him a god.
Part 2 of this post
Apollo is probably crying somewhere in the background at this point
Hera: you’re just gonna leave me? Like this?
Zeus: like what? I’m just going to the meat market.
Hera, sulking: you may as well just rip my heart in two
Zeus: wha- what did I do??
Hera: it’s what you didn’t do
Zeus:
Hera:
Zeus: oh
Zeus: *kisses Hera’s head* better?
Hera: much :)
Odysseus: If you bite it and you die, it’s poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it’s venomous.
Diomedes: What if it bites me and it dies?
Odysseus: That means you're poisonous. For the love of Athena, learn how to read.
Menelaus: What if it bites itself and I die?
Odysseus: That's voodoo.
Helen: What if it bites me and someone else dies?
Odysseus: That's correlation, not causation.
Penelope: What if we bite eachother and neither of us dies?
Agamemnon: That's kinky.
Odysseus: I'm out.
Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl - The Souls of Acheron, 1898 (detail), oil on canvas
I won’t hide it: I’m so unused to being – well, understood, perhaps, – so unused to it, that in the very first minutes of our meeting I thought: this is a joke, a masquerade trick …
Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra