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Aphrodite's Roses by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
02 Aug 2024
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Aphrodite's Roses bloom once a month, flowers bursting across their skin in a visual spectacle, and anyone who has the privilege of sharing their bloom with them will experience pleasure unlike anything outside of blooming. Their maturing and blooming for the very first time, when they will first show their flowers and their hair colour will change, is a very precious moment.
Most will never get to experience it. Kings build alliances based around the access to it.
Menelaos, come to Troy for propitiatory sacrifices, realizes the Trojan royal family have put one of their Roses, about to bloom for the first time, in a very odd place. It doesn't matter, of course; he is only here to assuage Aphrodite's anger. But when the Rose is irresistible and Aphrodite not so implacable, it will be hard to stand firm.
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Voice of Dissent by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας - Αἰσχύλος | Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus
26 Jul 2024
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Amphiaraos attempts to resist the forces of the Underworld whipped up by an angry Oidipous every step of the way, but as the ill omens surrounding their attack on Thebes grows, he's left with little option but to be swept along.
And in the end he will be joining the very same forces of the Underworld, in a slightly unorthodox manner.
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All relationships are tested in time, and perhaps both Apollo and Hyacinthus had believed the trial of death, the loss and grief and separation, and then Hyacinthus adjusting to being alive again and both of them having to maneuver around Apollo's other relationships, both new and old over the decades since Hyacinthus' resurrection, had been their many tests.
But their greatest might be coming yet, for split loyalties can draw lines deep enough to sunder even the closest of relationships. It's about accepting the loss, or being willing to step over that line and meet partway.
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- Part 4 of A Flower and the Sun
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While Paris helps Menelaos with his hair one morning, they have a little conversation about why Menelaos keeps it as long as he does.
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- Part 4 of The Best of All Possible Worlds
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Thetis, ordered by Zeus to marry a mortal, learns the quality of Peleus; even so, she's not happy. But while Eurynome has a potential solution, it's a scorched-earth option and Thetis has to decide if she does want to go that route.
Sometimes, we trap ourselves before anyone else does so.
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After the war and the devastating sack of Troy, Ganymede fell into depression. He is still not well, over two hundred years later, but Zeus has something he hopes will aid Ganymede's recovery, if just in the distraction it might offer, a chance to discover a new zest for life.
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- Part 3 of Adventures in Antiquity
- Part 12 of Courting Ganymede
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On their vacation, Menelaos and Helen find something very unusual washed up on the beach outside their vacation home. Something downright impossible, in fact, but the merman refuses to just disappear or change into something more reasonable, and Helen and Menelaos can't just leave him there.
It leads to two very strange weeks and more.
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Ἑλένης Ἀπαίτησις by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
10 May 2024
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Apaitesis : "If on the one hand you are willing, I request; while if you are not willing, I demand back." Andokides, second oration.
It’s been five years since Helen and Paris stepped off their ship in Troy, and now – finally, yet far too soon – there are black ships uncounted on the horizon.
Yet it is Tenedos that has been made to suffer first, for no obvious reason. All of Troy and beyond watch the smoke staining the sky and now have to reckon with what the fleet on their shores mean. Kassandra’s attempt to gain insight she’s been hungry for years to have access to, in a wish to know and to be able to help, has disastrous effects. Helen and Paris, meanwhile, have to face what their decisions and actions have led to, and what they will lead to from hereon.
What happens here will lead to the end.
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- Part 4 of A Trojan War
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Kainis watches the snakes growing up, wanting impossible things.
Kaineus takes life by the jaws, and ends up breaking them.
Poseidon, there at both the beginning and the end, takes care of his lover.
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Self-indulgent dips into the possibilities of this ship; these are stand alone ficlets and snippets, some of them basically canon compliant, others more or less wildly AU.
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Aphrodite has her lovers, and she has her children, both mortal and not. Those born of her, and those not; they all reflect some piece of her, however small.
And then there is Paris.
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- Part 5 of Tales of the Kyprian
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The Sea to Carry Us (Forward) by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
14 Mar 2024
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Paris and Helen have left Sparta and are now turning towards the journey back to Troy. After some initial trouble, they take a longer route than originally intended. Beginning to learn the shape of each other, each, too, have to face what they have done, and how that affects the one left behind.
Menelaos, meanwhile, has to pick up the pieces and deal with the fallout – and where to go from there.
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- Part 3 of A Trojan War
- Part 4 of Tales of the Kyprian
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Silencing Criticism by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
03 Mar 2024
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Helen, Menelaos and Paris have worked things out, and are doing quite well.
When the ruling couple of Mycenae comes for a celebration, Helen's brother-in-law makes it very clear he doesn't approve for his brother's sake. Helen decides to make a point and hopefully silence all annoying commentary.
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If there was a game to be played in Sparta, and that game involved kissing the royal couple, Paris would only be breaking the rules by kissing Helen.
That's how it is, after all, whether it's fair or not.
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Paris and Menelaos meet during one of the Trojans' rare presses out onto the field. Paris' tactics to get out of the confrontation are... unorthodox.
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A hot summer day, Zeus goes to Crete to visit a very, very old friend.
Once, her tree stood in the wilderness, now it stands in the middle of a village. Once her tree bore fruit, and only does again thanks to human hands. Once, Elaiwa had been taller than he; now she fragile, but that doesn't mean her life is over just yet.
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Polydeukes knows he's different from the rest of his siblings. It doesn't matter much, in the end, but as close as he is especially to Kastor, there are things his twin simply won't be able to understand.
That will change in the years after their mother gives birth, but before that, Polydeukes has to introduce everyone to his new sister.
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Consequences of Paths (Not) Taken by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
24 Dec 2023
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Hektor meets three ghosts, because it's Christmas.After a fight with Paris and wondering why he is so aggravating and if something might not have been different if another goddess had been chosen, Hektor has two very strange conversations with two very strange versions of his little brother.
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The story of the Trojan War has developed over a very long time. Characters have changed, been added, maybe taken away. What do you define as you in such a case?
Half a fic, half a meditation over academic thought of how Hektor might be a relatively late addition to the story of the Trojan war (some suggest he was added for what became/is the Iliad specifically, even), and, more to the point, that Paris before Hektor was a more traditionally "heroic" character as defined by culture and the epic conventions of story. A more straightforward character that was changed in how he was written to make place for Hektor to take up some of his parts in the story.
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In an alternate version of the myths, Achilles is ambushed at Thymbra by Paris and Deiphobus and killed. This is that version... with a twist.
Predator and prey - but are you sure you know who the hunter is? Some are persistence predators, after all, and might even trap themselves, wounded, to lure their prey close enough to kill. Against a furious Apollo, Thetis manages to rescue her son from his ordained death. But neither Apollo nor fate is to be denied, and Paris, left standing between them, goes along with what is asked of him.
For Hektor's sake, for Troilus' sake, he'll do whatever he has to to take Achilles down. Even this.