aethersea:

inkchantments:

baeronism:

this quiz tells you what your homeric epithet would be and well, isn’t this the question that keeps us all up at night? feel free to reblog and put your epithet in the tags, mine is bright-eyed

#earth-moving

DELIGHTING IN THUNDER

(Source: baeronism)

Tags: i got 'swift footed' and i'm crying with laughter You are swift-footed [your name]. This is the same epithet Homer used to describe Achilles roughly eight thousand times over the course of the Iliad and even a few times in the Odyssey. (You’ll remember “swift-footed” Achilles as that guy who took an arrow to the ankle during the Trojan War and died. Good luck with that.) FIRST OF ALL: I PHYSICALLY CANNOT RUN BECAUSE LUNG ISSUES SECOND OF ALL: THE RUNNING JOKE WITH LAURENS IS THAT PROBABLY I WAS ACHILLES IN A PAST LIFE AND SWAPPED SUPERSPEED FOR NOT BEING A HOMICIDAL WAR PRINCE I'M SCREAMING TSOA CLASSICS