Achilles - Blog Posts
No one survives reading The Song Of Achilles, even if it's their 99th read.
I'm reading Song of Achilles for the first time and I'm not even a 100 pages in, but I already shed tears for these 2, I'm not going to survive this book am I?
The hands wanted to take him,
He did not want to go.
They wanted to take him down under,
He did not want to go.
Thanatos had come for him,
He did not want to go.
There was one he would leave,
He did not want to go.
The hands over his mouth, no air in his lungs,
He did not want to go.
A future never to be seen,
He did not want to go.
A life of joy in the sorrow,
He did not want to go.
But they pulled and pulled,
He did not want to go.
He was sorry, Achilles,
He did not want to go.
Just something I thought of while listening to 'Achilles Come Down' by Gang of Youth. Hope you like it.
I'm Greek and I'm fed up
What I think Iliad's caracherts favourite curse word is
Achilles: he doesn't actually curse, he uses mostly words like "freak" "shoot" etc
Patroclus: f*ck (and everything that has f*ck inside like f*cking sh*t etc)
Agamemnon: c*nt (really ugly as he is)
Odysseus: doesn't usually curse, but when he's mad he uses sh*t
Diomedes: any curse word will do
Ajax: anything not too offensive, like he would definitely use b*tch but not wh*re
Thesis: motherf*cker or bast*rd
Ok very much like when Patroclus died, I very much like Achilles will have a mental breakdown thank you very much(also the analysis is really great)
Hamilton was Achilles or Patroclus for you?
Achilles, I suppose. Because Patroclus already has many parallels to Laurens; like the issues with his father, and he acts as Achilles emotional support in the Iliad. But also the matching aspect of Patroclus dying in battle and Achilles' mental breakdown afterwards.
Also the pipeline of Achilles being compared to Alexander the great, and Hamilton being compared to Alexander the great.
Reading about Patroclus and Achilles like “*gasp* and they were urn mates”
one of my favorite things about tsoa is how patroclus and achilles kissed on the beach that day, pretended it didnt happen for three years, found out that his mom couldnt see them and then went “yeS HOMO” and jumped straight to the do
im on page 32 of the song of achilles (first time reading it) and if these two fuckers dont kiss soon-
Achilles
I
To them I am the brute not the lover
The raging king’s hound, his gold spear – death’s kiss
Was this the way, was there no other?
II
History, prayèrs did try to cover –
Those violent delights, and that violent bliss
- To them I am the brute not the lover.
III
Yet, if time would but only uncover
Those extra curves of your smiles that they miss – I miss.
Was this the way – was there no other?
IV
If the Prince of Troy did not hover over
My mind and your ghost – in debt to the Styx –
To them I am the brute not the lover!
V
They forget romeo, the pre-mover;
Was it for this you died, was it for this?
Alas, I am the brute. Not your lover.
Was this the way? Was there no other?
"Achilles" by Sadbh Kellett. First published in The Attic XX, 2017.
lily rejected james for the 700th time, and he ran out of tissues to cry into.
james: *tears out a page from ‘the song of achilles’ and wipes his tears*
remus, only noticing the book cover and james’ crying: yeah…i get why you’re crying, that book is pretty fucking sad.
james: my love life is pretty fucking sad too, moony.
i could make thousands of these
People who have read "the song of Achilles" need to read "the silence of the girls" and Homer's Iliad, as in song of Achilles the story is told from Patroclus' perspective, someone who loved Achilles so he's incredibly biased and mainly focuses on how amazing Achilles was,
when actually he's the reason so many died during the trojan was because of his massive tantrum over Briseis (who would not have been like a close friend to them she would have just been a slave for Achilles to use)
Then again after Patroclus dies he commits horrific acts "in the name of love" but in Homer's Iliad the entire plot is off Achilles anger, it starts with his annoyance of being dishonoured and ends with his rage as his lover is killed because of his original anger.
Reblogging my art with folk songs I feel are fitting part 2
after “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller (warning: violence)
Heliotropic soul who smells of spring.
Sunshine hair with gold-leafed summer irises,
Bright, shining from alabaster flesh.
Chiseled hands over carved wood,
Sinew-plucked strings.
They would never draw blood.
Winter is a minimalist,
Warmed by our roseate love,
Thawed anew.
"these flowers suit your hair so well"
achilles to distract myself from life's miseries
Aristos Achaion and his Philatos 🌌
i feel like sometimes ppl forget Helen is a spartan woman, spartan women exercised and did sports, unlike most women in greece. So i made her a bit buff🙏
my greek mythology phase is coming back courtesy of EPIC the musical so here are some of my (old&new) greek hero/god designs :)
Achilles- this one is OLDDDD i designed them mid way into the Illiad, before i got into EPIC
Athena- these were drawn when like I just got into EPIC. they're very unfinished and are kinda goofy
Zeus- i don't like him.
Hermes- hell yeah
Artemis and Apollo- very rough but yeah
Aeolus!! - i struggled w the winions...
I'm gonna redesign them properly digitally if i have the time ^^
two in the morning and my brain is like: hey, guess what time it is.
and im like: no, i know what ur doing
brain: mmmmhmm
me: stop thT
brain: what if i jus…say its patrochillies hour-
me: STOP I CANT CRY OUT OF NOWHERE AGAIN
Achilles: Hey Briseis, I heard u wanted to marry my boyfriend
Briseis: Yes, do you have a problem with that?
Achilles: I believe the way i should describe it is, finders keepers.
You know how musicals have reoccuring riffs for different moods and themes within a show that form connections between characters within a story?
I want someone to write a song where Deidamia sings about being Achilles’s wife and what it really means to be a woman in Ancient Greece. She’s used as a pawn, a tool for Thetis to tear her son away from Patroclus. And the driving point is that she’ll love her son even if her husband is loving someone else. He is her husband only by title and it somehow, even with the promise of fame, makes her feel small because she knows shes just a footnote in his history. Patroclus is wonderful and thats why she hates him, because she understands why Achilles could run to the ends of the earth for him.
These are common themes within the book and I want someone to take the music from Deidamia’s song and adapt it for Briseis. Now here we have two women confusingly in love with men who have forced them to practically marry them despite already having a exclusive relationship together. Briseis sings about having a family with the two of them, Achilles included, and having that calm family dream she has had as a child except she knows she’ll never get what she wants.
There would be a reprise for Briseis after Achilles dies where she mourns the two men, she was a stepping stone to them and nothing more, and yet still she mourns and is obligated to love them. Almost like a slave.
Her song melts into the finale when she and Deidamia sing together the part of the chorus they share and the song melts further into a full ensemble.
The end.
guys don’t let your boyfriend borrow your clothes
no seriously trust me
the gentle intimacy of this is something so dear to me
"A last request—grant it, please.
Never bury my bones apart from yours, Achilles,
Let them lie together . . .
Just as we grew up together in your house"
Patroclus to Achilles
The Iliad - Homer
Idk abt y’all but one of my favorite things about Homers literature is thinking less about morality, since the culture and context the text was written in was wildly different from our own
This concludes my thesis on why Odysseus and Achilles are my favorite
I love Hector and Achilles so much why’d daddy Zeus have to make them fight :(