Tagamemnon - 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.

Cleopatra was once smuggled to Caesar in a bed-sack

It’s a well known story recounted by Plutarch that Cleopatra, aided by her confidant Apollodorus the Sicilian, hid herself “full-length inside a bed-sack” to elude her brother Ptolemy’s guards and gain secret access to Julius Caesar at Alexandria in 48 BC. Allegedly, Cleopatra landed at the palace when it was already dark and Apollodorus tied up the bed-sack before carrying it indoors to Caesar. Cassius Dio notes simply that Cleopatra “sent for Caesar in secret” and that he was captivated by her beauty and wit, but he omits any smuggling device. This story may be victim to Plutarch’s signature dramatisation, but it is compelling nonetheless.

The other day I was telling someone about the Five Good Emperors of Rome. She looked at me like I was crazy and replied: “There were five of them?! I didn’t even think there was one!”

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.

Julius Caesar once received a graphic love letter in the Senate

According to Plutarch, when Caesar and Cato were standing and debating in the Senate chamber, a messenger showed up and gave Caesar a small note. Cato was suspicious about the note and wanted it to be read out to the assembled senators. Caesar handed the note to Cato, and when he opened the note, he discovered it contained a graphic love letter from Servilia (his maternal half-sister), detailing her passionate desires for Caesar. Embarrassed, Cato read the it aloud, then threw the letter back at Caesar, saying, "Take it, thou sot," before continuing his speech as if nothing had occurred.

i don't think that's her eyes Helen is looking at...

okay the whole vase is great but something about Helen sitting on Aphrodite's lap as she wraps one arm around her shoulder and brushes her leg with her hand, staring into her eyes like that... as she is persuading Helen to go with Paris (while Peitho aka persuasion stands behind them) is so incredibly iconic.

and gay. toxic yuri, if you will.

A parody I came up with the other day: Quantum Hamlet

To be *and* not to be

That is (or isn’t) the quandary

Wether it be nobler in the mind to suffer the particle and wave states of outrageous fortune

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by observing end them