“”“professional Associates”” I Know What You Are

The West Wind looks for spring. 🍃

The thought that you exist is so divinely blissful in itself that it is ridiculous to talk about the everyday sadness of separation – a week’s, ten days’ – what does it matter? since my whole life belongs to you.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

Helen and Hyacinthus of Sparta

Hyacinth, the son of Amyclas, born with a beauty so grand it rivaled that of Endymion and Ganymede.

And Helen, who’s face was one that launched one thousand ships.

Patroclus: *complaining to Automedon* my boyfriend is so fucking corny he asked me if I knew how to whistle so ofc I pursed my lips to whistle and then he kissed me???? Him and his dumb flirt tactics I love him

It’s  weird for me that Ulysses was a trickster and a liar during the siege and that was ok. But Antilochus won a chariot racing by using simple physics tricks and that wasn’t fair play.

Those guys would be horrified by high performance athlete nowadays.

*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...

Some Iliads! 

1. Antilochus is the only person in the Iliad to ever make Achilles smile–it’s after Patroclus dies and Antilochus is a brat about a horse race

2. Menesthios is Achilles’ nephew and commander, his dad’s a river god and his mom’s Achilles’ much older sister, Polydora who is a cool lady in that she was crazy enough to bang a river

3. I AM NICE TO HEKTOR SOMETIMES I LET HIM SMOOCH HIS WIFE

4. Ajax! 

Ajax And Cassandra by Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1886.

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[O] - Oizys (Ὀϊζύς) is the goddess of misery, suffering, depression and anxiety.

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[A] - Asteria (Ἀστερία) was the goddess of nocturnal oracles and shooting stars