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Trying to make a list of all lovers of Apollo and their fates.

My process?

-Absoloute failure trying to find a complete list

-Reading random Hymns/Myths/Articles/Poems that have nothing to do with Apollo and then stumbeling over the author casually mentioning: "Oh by the way, they fucked apollo that one time"

-Researching that person and finding 20 different versions of the myth, one of them being the seemingly inevitable "they got that power/fate cause they fucked apollo AU myth version"

-Increasingly growing concerned about the ammount of people turned into plants

-what in the name of hades is the deal with apollo and hermes????? I cant find any actual basis exept the homeric hymn to hermes in which hermes is, well, a baby, and shippers from the renaissance making weird paintings of the two

-when will the poets stop clarifying whos the top and whos the bottom??? I really REALLY dont need to know. pls help

-I cant find anything useful about hyacintus on the first 10 pages of google cause some 11 year old wrote an opera named hyacinthus and Apollo

- to be fair Mozart was kind of a big deal but the opera wasnt even that good you guys :(

-why is the Apollo glasses shop telling me its LGBT friendly ??? Like, firstly, why would that even be relevant? Its glasses? Thanks for not spitting at me for not seeing straight I guess ._. Secondly... Lemme do my damn research U WERENT EVEN WHAT I WAS LOOKING FO-

I was mildly upset 😌

Mabey ill make a post with the complete list if I dont lose my mind before that ;-;

I just found out the spartans celebrated Hyacinthia each year to honor the death of Hyacithus and it was a very important festival and all.

And I get it, I stan this guy too, but why Hyacinthus of all people? He didnt do anything exept screw a god. Considering Apollo had something going on with roughly half the population of greece I wouldnt even consider that an accomplishment....

Welp. I guess I found a new holiday to eat cake at \(°-°)/

3 days into my Apollo research: Seriosly starting to feel bad for Zephyros;

-> get a bf

-> lose your bf to some shiny god

-> shiny god gets him killed and turned into a hyacith flower

-> seek out new bf

-> loose your bf to some shiny god

-> ex bf kills his pet deer & gets turned into cypress tree

-> shiny god sleeps with your brother

(Seriosly tho, he had something going with boreas, also in some versions its not even zephyros fault hyacinthus dies, Apollo just throws too

hard. After his death Zephyros seeks comfort in cypressus who...well)

Apollo: Sing, o muse, of the anger of Achilles, the so-

*blood splatters*

*child screaming*

*building collapses*

Calliope: Yeah Im not sure if I want to sing about that...

*city catches on fire*

Calliope: Yep!No! Definatly not! That's it! Im out! I quit!

Apollo: Wait, you cant just quit being a mus-

Calliope: Oh really? Watch me!

*proceeds to throw lyra*

Curse the ancient poets for making my hearth crack every time I see a hyacithus flower.

Currently writing a bedtime story for my little sis to get her into greek mythology. She wont read percy jackson, cause shes a sociopath or something smh

gonna sprinkle in some subtle Gay Agenda too just for flavor

I will get a life on Monday, thanks :)

Pov: You considered flirting with Hera

Pov: You flirted with the hunters of Artemis

Pov: You considered flirting with Hera

Pov: You simped for a guy because he was pretty even though he clearly wasn't worth it

Psyche Doodle because I feel bad for her

There should be a Greek Mythology dating simulator where when you pick the wrong character interaction you get turned into a plant.

Part 2 of Echo‘s biased god portraits

In Greek mythology, the Keres, singular Ker,were female death-spirits. They personified violent death and were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. Although they were present during death and dying, they did not have the power to kill. The Keres were daughters of Nyx, and as such the sisters of Thanatos, the god of peaceful death. Some later authorities, such as Cicero, called them by a Latin name, Tenebrae ("the Darknesses"). 

Part 3 of Echo‘s biased god portraits

Divine Selene watched him from on high,

and slid from heaven to earth; for passionate love

drew down the immortal stainless Queen of Night.

–Quintus Smyrnaeus

Part 4 of Echo‘s biased god portraits

The Lethe flowed through the Underworld where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. Lethe was also the name of the Greek spirit of forgetfulness and oblivion, with whom the river was often identified.

The souls that throng the flood Are those to whom, by fate, are other bodies ow'd: In Lethe's lake they long oblivion taste, Of future life secure, forgetful of the past.

-Virgil

I think she’d rule the underworld out of spite.

Its supposed to look like greek vase art idk idk if that worked.

The hair is inspired by ancient minoan wall art since the myth of persephone is commonly traced back to pre hellenistic civilizations.

something akin to this

The dress is a standart tunic cuz the references all had their boobs out :/

Nice river lady here to take the memories of the dead ^^

The river of forgetfulness

little did u all know the lethe art was just FORESHADOWING!!!!

so i did reditions my persephone interpretation in her grade school temper tantrum and teenage rebel phase

*announcer voice* persephone doodles now in wet cat edition!