wrayburns:

MAKE ME CHOOSE → @kostafilippas asked: the song of achilles or aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe?

❝ For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? It was enough to watch him win, to see the soles of his feet flashing as they kicked up sand, or the rise and fall of his shoulders as he pulled through the salt. It was enough. ❞

hubrivs:

You can’t

The Lament for Icarus - Herbert James Draper (1898)
Hercules on the Pyre - Guido Reni (1617)
Death of Achilles - Peter Paul Rubens (1635)
Theseus Victor of the Minotaur - Charles Edouard Chaise (1791)
Orpheus - Pierre Amedee Marcel-Beronneau (1897)
The slaughter of the suitors by Odysseus and Telemachus - Louis Vincent Palliere (1812)
Perseus Freeing Andromeda - Peter Paul Rubens (1607)
Bellerophon on Pegasus - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1746)

choutarous:

the song of achilles by madeline miller

happy valentine’s day my dear @minnyard

facinaoris:

for he is a star.

burning with the light of a thousand suns.

(and your world is dark without him.) [ x ]

seisynth:

@andreil asked: ari and dante or the song of achilles?

nehmesis:

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

achillespatrochlus:

↳achilles moodboard

pjpedream:

“There was silence then, and I did not care about the damp pallet or how sweaty I was. His eyes were unwavering, green flecked with gold. A certainty rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. it will be like this, always, for as long as he will let me.
    If I had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
    As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
    ‘Patroclus’, he said. He was always better with words than I.”

neiljoslen:

Favorite Books | The Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller)

katiemcgrath:

Above us, the constellations spun and the moon paced her weary course..
_{― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles}

hubrivs:

the song of achilles social media
     ↳ achillea and cleopatra on instagram

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fionnsykes:

TOP 20 CHARACTERS AS VOTED BY MY FOLLOWERS ➝ #18, patroclus

i will never leave him. it will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. if i had had words to speak such a thing, i would have. but there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth. as if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. i did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong. “patroclus,” he said. he was always better with words than i.

lxvioxa:

❝ I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.❞