Greek Mythology Meme // ᶠᶦᵛᵉ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ᵈᵉᶦᵗᶦᵉˢ ⁽⁴/⁵⁾ • HERMES
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One of the Twelve Olympians, Hermes was the son of Zeus and Maia, one of the Pleiades. He was the Gods of Heralds, Commerce, Travellers, Thieves and Orators, and was also the messenger of the gods. With his winged sandals, he could travel freely between the mortal and divine realms.
Greek Mythology Meme // ᵗʷᵒ ᵖᵉʳˢᵒⁿᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ᶜᵒⁿᶜᵉᵖᵗˢ ⁽²/²⁾ • NIKE
The Winged goddess who personifies victory, Nike was a daughter of Styx and Zeus’s charioteer, being closely identified with Athena..
ʙᴏᴏᴋ ᴍᴏᴏᴅʙᴏᴀʀᴅs — house of salt and sorrows by erin a. craig
“We are born of the Salt, we live by the Salt, and to the Salt we return.”
PERSEPHONE, QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD
“Tell them that you weren’t hungry, tell them you followed the pomegranates seeds because hey tasted like blood, like love.” [x]
Greek Mythology Meme // ᵗʰʳᵉᵉ ᵐᵒʳᵗᵃˡˢ/ʰᵉʳᵒᵉˢ ⁽³/³⁾ • ANTIGONE
The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone was her father’s guide during Oedipus at Colunus, and is the title character of the third and final of Sophocles’ theban plays. She defies her uncle Creon to give her brother Polynices a proper burial, showcasing the conflict between divine and human law. Ordering her buried alive in a tomb, Creon would later have a change of heart— but Antigone had already hung herself.
Greek Mythology Meme // ᵗʰʳᵉᵉ ᵐᵒʳᵗᵃˡˢ/ʰᵉʳᵒᵉˢ ⁽²/³⁾ • ACHILLES
The son of the nereid Thetis and of Peleus, the King of Phtia, Achilles was one of the heroes of the Trojan War and the greatest of all the greek warriors, a central figure of the Illiad. According to legend, his mother dipped him into the River Styx as an infanting, granting him invulnerability — except for his heel, which ultimately would lead to his death at the hands of Paris.
Greek Mythology Meme // ᵗʰʳᵉᵉ ᵐᵒʳᵗᵃˡˢ/ʰᵉʳᵒᵉˢ ⁽¹/³⁾ • HELEN OF TROY
Celebrated as the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Troy, also known as Helen of Sparta, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, who was abducted –or eloped – with Prince Paris of Troy, sparking the Trojan War.
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Greek Mythology Meme // ᶠᶦᵛᵉ ᵗᶦᵗᵃⁿˢ ⁽⁵/⁵⁾ • PROMETHEUS
Prometheus was the Titan god of forethought and crafty counsel who was given the task of moulding mankind out of clay. For defying the gods multiple times to help men, Zeus ordered the creation of Pandora, eventually arresting Prometheus and binding him to the top of Mount Kaukasus, where an eagle fed on his ever-regenerating liver.
Greek Mythology Meme // ᶠᶦᵛᵉ ᵗᶦᵗᵃⁿˢ ⁽⁴/⁵⁾ • MENOETIUS
Menoetius was the titan god of rash action and violent rage, a somn of Iapetus and Clymene and brother to Epimetheus, Prometheus and Atlas. Zeus blasted him into Tartarus during the Titanomachy for his hubris.
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❝ There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win. ❞