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Everything has a beginning, and so does Aphrodite's connections to and relationships with Helen and Paris. One begins with a little girl, growing into a young woman, the other with a teenaged boy, bright-eyed and wanting.
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- Part 1 of Tales of the Kyprian
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In Sparta, Paris finds more than Helen.
But it is only Helen Aphrodite has promised him.
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Father and son are both restless during the anniversaries of Adonis' death, even long after the fact. Shortly after one of them, Hades finds his son buried in stories - from another sphere, about two gods involved in a set of circumstances that seem very familiar when compared to Adonis' life.
Hades takes Adonis on a walk, to find out if there's any connection there, and have a talk about the metaphysical reality of the world at the same time.
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- Part 4 of Down Underground
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My Mother Has Grown Roots (she can't leave) by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
04 Mar 2023
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Having died and been resurrected, Adonis has been adjusting to the changes. None of them overbearing, none of them awful - except, he can't stop thinking about his parents.
His mortal parents, that is.
The human man and woman who conceived him, the woman who gave birth to him. Who are - or were - they? Does he ask his mother, or not? And if finding out the truth isn't actually a relief - what then? How do you live with such knowledge?
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- Part 3 of Down Underground
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Night Is For Lovers by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
14 Feb 2023
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Paris dreams.
And so does Menelaos.
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The First Night In the Rest of Your Life by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
11 Feb 2023
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Prince Alexander of Troy, son of the first rank and royal submissive, is being married off to Queen Helen of Themiscyra, daughter of Zeus and Nemesis. There is undoubtedly politics behind these proceedings, but those aren't what Paris cares about. Neither does Helen, really; they're both more interested in what comes now, when the politics are over and done with.
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On the Argo's voyage, Hylas disappears.
Not by his own desire, not by his own will, but it doesn't matter how much he fights; he is only a mortal youth. Herakles searches and finds nothing, a hole left behind. Hylas simply endures, the nymphs, the changes, the circumstances.
All things have an end, though.
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As a submissive, Paris is not supposed to offer himself up for marriage without permission. Knowing there's differences in marriages between his own culture and that of the Achaean royal couple they're hosting, Paris takes his chance anyway.
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He is a torch, but all fires need kindled before they can burn;
Hecuba is plagued through months of her otherwise painless and pleasant pregnancy with a warning;
It's a decision that no parent should have to face.
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- Part 5 of Children of the Rivers
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High-Walled Ilion Yet Stands Unconquered by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
07 Jan 2023
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There's an army camping on Troy's shores, a war turned against the city (perhaps there must always be a war at Troy). It does, however, have nothing at all to do with stolen wives, broken xenia, and blood oaths to defend a marriage.
The King of Sparta and one of the many princes of Troy still fall into each other's orbits, common history and wanting hearts (and loins) drawing them in.
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Ganymede, learning to live - with immortality, on Olympos, with the changes in his life.
He's had to leave many things behind, but maybe not all need to be discarded, and something of the old can be brought into the new, becoming a part of his own forever.
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In the early morning hours after Troy's fall, Akamas and Demophon bring Menelaos something he'd not expected. Things... get out of hand.
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Crimes and Punishment by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
01 Dec 2022
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Zeus wanders the corpse-strewn streets of Troy, seeing what the Achaeans have wrought. Already only unhappily having allowed Troy to fall, he doesn't need to look far to find reasons to punish the crimes committed.
Athena supplies both a method for revenge and a cause for pause.
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- Part 13 of Sketches of the Trojan War
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There is no apple, no judgement. Achilles, however, is still born with his fate, and chooses it - if he has to make a war at Troy to get what he deserves, he will.
The only thing the Trojans know is that they have a huge army on their shores and that, eventually, allies trickle in. The leader of one of those allies, surprising as she is, in particular has Paris' attention. But then, who would not be caught staring at Queen Helen of Themiscyra, foster daughter of Otrera?
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... will be infamy.
It's 1872 and Ganymede has noticed what is going on at Troy. Upset, he goes to Zeus.
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- Part 5 of Modern Olympos
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Apollo contemplates the brief lives of flowers after the end of the war, and goes to Mycenae himself after the bloody welcome Agamemnon's homecoming is over. For those who die without proper funeral rites cannot pass immediately into the Underworld; they will be left to wait on the shores, and he won't stand for it.
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- Part 15 of Sketches of the Trojan War
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A Wedding and What Comes After by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
31 Oct 2022
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As a male omega whose father refuses to marry him off in any way other than what Priam considers suitable, Paris doesn't exactly expect to find himself married any time soon. If at all. Expectations are there to be shattered, however, which goes for Helen and Menelaos as well when they, unable to let go of Alexander of Troy, 'settle' for a male omega despite the supposed disadvantages.
All that aside, though, weddings are to be enjoyed, and everyone involved will certainly do that.
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Decades after the Trojan war, things have been changing for a while on Olympos. What hasn't changed since Ares grew old enough to show his father many sides of himself Zeus little liked, is his relationship to Zeus.
But as Ares makes himself ask for something he is sure will be denied, perhaps even that, too, can change.
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Kindness of a Different Sort by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
12 Oct 2022
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The hydra gall on Herakles' arrows do not kill. Not immediately, anyway.
That is undoubtedly the greatest cruelty of them, and whether or not Paris deserves to suffer from such an injury, Menelaos puts a stop to it.
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Olympos Asleep by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Canaanite Religion, Christian Tradition Lore & Folklore
05 Oct 2022
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The gods are asleep.
Ganymede wakes up starving and lonely, faced with an Olympos seemingly abandoned for how quiet it is. There's nothing that should be able to keep a god asleep through prayers and their names being called, but no one will wake up when he tries to stir them. Ganymede doesn't, at least, have to attempt to fix this situation by himself, but it is a vast task, to retake stolen things and wake sleeping gods, when all of you are only human.
Perhaps that will be their strength, however, and the element of surprise they'll need to wake up sleeping lovers and family.
(There are more than just these characters given solid appearances in the fic, but I'm not going to tag them all, as it's mostly going by who has at least one POV chapter. The focus of the fic overall is the various immortalized humans on Olympos.)