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Ancient Greece - Blog Posts
I was looking up something today and two of my recent searches popped up. I think that they may perhaps be equivalent.
Inside all of us are three Greeks: one from Sparta, one from Athens, and one from Athos. Two of them are gay and one is a virgin.
“Your name isn’t Hermes, it’s Bore-mes. Because you bore me.”
- Apollo to Hermes (at one point, probably)
"Telephones didn't exist in Ancient Greece." What do you mean?? Odysseus literally had one.
How do I explain that my fandom is approximately 3000 years old, my favourite characters are war criminals and Alexander the Great liked the same gay ship as me
Achilles and Patroclus are asteroids
There are two trojan asteroids named after Achilles and Patroclus. Discovered 22 February 1906 by Max Wolf at Heidelberg, 588 Achilles was the first-ever Jupiter trojan found. Only eight months later (17 October 1906), August Kopff discovered the Binary Trojan 617 Patroclus at Heidelberg.
They are reunited in the stars.
There’s a butterfly called Morpho achilles patroclus
So, the other day, I just found out that the butterfly Morpho achilles has a subspecies called Morpho achilles patroclus. There’s also a butterfly called Morpho deidamia.
thinking about how in the odyssey, love comes in the form of recognition. to be loved is to be known and to be known is to be loved.
Why limit yourself between choosing a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? If Persephone can be the Goddess of Spring and the Queen of the Underworld at the same time so can you.
(i couldn't find which one is crito in that painting, so I assumed it was him, idk)