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Memnon has fallen, and while his death, now, is imminent, Achilles doesn't intend to fall so soon, or so easily. With his speed and his mother's gift of divinely forged armour, he will surely have Troy before he bleeds out.
Yet, Apollo has been waiting for this moment, and a god will have what is his, especially when what is his is retribution for sacrilege.
Not even Achilles can stand against that.
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- Part 8 of Sketches of the Trojan War
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After all is said and done, there are those left behind, whether they want or no.
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- Part 14 of Sketches of the Trojan War
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In a world where Menelaos is a number of years younger than he otherwise would be, the one who marries Helen is Alexander of Troy. Years later, Menelaos goes to Troy with Helen's brothers, to do what he can to aid the twins as they need to perform propitiatory sacrifices.
Steep Ilion is famous, and her hospitality will, at least to one of her guests, be just as famous before the stay is over.
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Talking Things Out by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
29 Jul 2022
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Paris decides to speak up, after realizing who, exactly, the most beautiful woman in the world is married to ( or rather, who Menelaus is married to). Sometimes, being truthful might lead to good things.
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It's his duty as an older brother to make sure Paris is all right, so when his little brother has been gone for the majority of the year, Hektor goes to Sparta to find out why.
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Zeus and Hera arguing is usually not a big deal. They bicker, they make up, life goes on. They're all used to it, it's part of the shape of life on Mount Olympos.
When Zeus does finally leave after an argument and doesn't come back, it has vastly different consequences to when Hera left, many, many years ago. It might take a surprising bit of cooperation to get Olympos back into shape and the King of the Gods back where he should be.
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- Part 6 of Modern Olympos
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Hearts Can Bear Rich Fruit (When Buried Underground) by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
24 Jun 2022
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Persephone is given a box.
Its contents will change both her and Hades, as well as their life, though not their relationship to and with each other.
Adonis is just trying to grow up.
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- Part 1 of Down Underground
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Stand too close, and a fire burns; too far away, and you're left cold. Either way you curse it, for all that it's a necessity of life.
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What fate gives, can't always be fulfilled in life.
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They're born with fire in their hands.
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Paris slowly gets used to Troy, while Hektor slowly gets used to his new little brother. Facilitated by and mediated through the royal family's many horses.
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- Part 7 of Children of the Rivers
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AKA Helen Goes Husband-Hunting Down Below
At the completion of things, Menelaos went to Elysium without death getting him there, as Proteus had predicted. Helen was taken to Olympos, frankly relieved to leave everything behind. But what might originally have brought relief can become something missed, and Helen is the daughter of a god.
Does she not have the right, after everything, to be a little greedy, to want more than she could have imagined while mortal?
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Demeter has lost Iasion twice; once to her brother, once to that which takes all mortals. She did not truly expect to see him again, no matter what she told Hades that one time he offered to give her Iasion back.
But the earth is rich ground, and sometimes a field long thought fallow gives a yield anew.
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- Part 4 of Coming Home
- Part 8 of Adventures in Antiquity
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It's relatively early, still, in the war, but Paris' lack of enthusiasm is already showing. An incensed Helen and a Paris only wishing to distract her from her anger stumble upon a familiar yet slightly new way of, if not excising the anger, then smooth it out. For the moment, anyway.
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Aphrodite gives birth to a mortal son, and mortals are ever so fragile.
Infants even more so, but there is nothing like war and the threat of injury that comes with it to remind those immortal and untouched by death how little difference there is, in the end, between an infant and a full-grown man.
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Menelaos and Paris' duel goes awry with the revelation of something that changes the parameters not just of the duel, but the potential relationship between them, entirely.
Paris now has to deal with his dynamic in a very visceral way as he hasn't before, while in the middle of the enemy camp, navigating what might be a relationship with a man he's terribly wronged. Despite all that, this is, also, perhaps a way for Troy to remain standing, which not just Paris but Hektor too is all too aware of.
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- Part 1 of Trojan Horse
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Words Said, Unheard by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
13 Apr 2022
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Hektor and Paris have a long overdue conversation. Pity Hektor's asleep for it.
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- Part 6 of Sketches of the Trojan War
- Part 10 of Children of the Rivers
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Ganymede has something he'd like to try out. Zeus is more than pleased to play along.
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Kindness and Ease by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
20 Mar 2022
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Iphis goes from Skyros to the shore of the Troad, even if she has no idea what the land is called or what city the army she's in the middle of is besieging, or why. It doesn't really matter to her, for the work she did at Skyros is the same as in the army camp, if with one, all-important, unpleasant, difference; Achilles has given her to his companion.
At least he's kind, whatever that counts for.
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- Part 4 of Sketches of the Trojan War
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Sacrifice At Troy by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
10 Mar 2022
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Aphrodite is angry.
Sacrifices promised and forgotten, Sparta and the whole of Lakedaimonia is suffering under disease and a lack of growth. Menelaos is charged to make up for the lack by sacrificing at the tombs of Lycus and Chimaereus, to be found on Mount Ida. He's helped on the way there and back by a young Trojan prince, who is, to Menelaos' consternation, quite interested in him.
Menelaos is sure Alexander will lose interest in him before the stay is over, but their feelings aren't the only complications the trip offers.
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- Part 2 of Tales of the Kyprian