Achilles: Sleeping So Many Hours Is An Indication Of Depression.

Norse mythology from A to Z:

[E] - Eir (Old Norse “help, mercy”) is a goddess and/or valkyrie associated with medical skill.

“Death of Hyacinthus”

Out of jealousy, the west wind Zephyrus causes Apollo’s discus to strike Hyacinthus and kill him. Apollo creates hyacinths from the prince’s blood so that his soul lives on through the flowers.

For composition & characters, I took inspiration from Tiepolo’s “Death of Hyacinthus” and Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus.”

Follow-up piece from the Apollo/Hyacinthus I painted last year. Notes, process & closeups can be found below the cut

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Deimos:(gleefully) A hit, eh? You want us to make em suffer? Or just end it, quick and quiet-like?

Zeus:Nah, nothin' permanent... just, like, give him a little taste of fear. I guess you can break something small... like a toe...

Deimos: We can take out his tongue..

Phobos:(with relish) With a knife!

Deimos:Or remove his heart...

Phobos:(with great relish) Yeah, with a knife!

Deimos:A bigger knife!

Phobos:(with greater relish) Fucking knife!

Zeus:(a touch uneasy) Yeeeeahhhhhhh.... you guys....are....kinda creepy. I think this may be a stupid idea. Hey, Ares, do you want to call the spooky twins home before I throw them there?

Ares: Come boys....

Phobos and Deimos: (Slinks away creepily)

Menelaus: Fine, but if we die, I'm going to get Odysseus' ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute, so I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.

Agamemnon: I'll just hire Achilles' ghost to kick your ghost's ass.

Achilles: My ghost won't associate with your ghost.

*talking about Achilles*

Patroclus: *dreamily* I always saw him as like a kind of funny little man

Automedon: he’s a fucking criminal Patroclus.

Youthful Dionysus, god of wine and theatre, among other things. 🎭 🌿 twitter | print available 🌿

Norse mythology from A to Z:

[E] - Eostre, according to the stories, is a goddess associated with flowers and springtime.

Eostre first makes her appearance in literature about thirteen hundred years ago in the Venerable Bede’s Temporum Ratione. Bede tells us that April is known as Eostremonath, and is named for a goddess that the Anglo-Saxons honored in the spring.

Interestingly, Eostre doesn’t appear anywhere in Germanic mythology, and despite assertions that she might be a Norse deity, she doesn’t show up in the poetic or prose Eddas either. However, she could certainly have belonged to some tribal group in the Germanic areas, and her stories may have just been passed along through oral tradition.

Pallas Athena

Commissions of Boreas the North wind, Zephyrus the West wind, Notus the South wind, and Euros the East wind for @tartarusgames on IG

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Norse mythology from A to Z:

[A] - the Alfes (Nordic elves)

The Ljósálfar (Light Elves) live in Álfheimr, and the Dökkálfar (Dark Elves) live in Svartalfheim.