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Some Iliad boys in the woods! My thought behind this is that all of them went out on a trip and realized that Antilochus was not trained for this, because unlike Achilles and Patroclus, he was just a prince and was not set loose on a mountain with a centaur grandpa for several years. 

(left to right: Automedon, Patroclus, Achilles, Antilochus)

Agamemnon: What is that?

Patroclus: My to-do list.

Agamemnon: That's a piece of paper with Achilles' name on it.

Achilles blushes wild

Patroclus winks

Agamemnon: Oh dear lord!

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[B] - Britomartis (Βριτόμαρτις) was a goddess of mountains and hunting, who was primarily worshipped on the island of Crete.

foggy morning aes

Ajax And Cassandra by Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1886.

“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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Norse mythology from A to Z:

[F] - Frigg wears many hats in Norse mythology. She is often described as “foremost among the goddesses”, and was the wife of Odin. She was the Queen of the Aesir and the goddess of the sky. She was also known as the goddess of fertility, household, motherhood, love, marriage, and domestic arts.

Nike's mother is Styx.

The mother of victory is the boundary between life and death.

And she flows like a river.

─James Jebusa Shannon (Auburn,New York, 1862 - London,1923) 

The Iliad - The Flight of Anchises | L´Iliade - La fuga di Anchise

by Fabio Fabbi