Had enjoyed #MadelineMiller's #Circe, but halfway through "The Song of Achilles", I think I like it even better. Not a joke to adapt "The Iliad" and retell it in this way.
There are dozens more to go in English alone! I'm hoping to hear back from a couple of university special collections to prove whether the 1882 Hailstone edition is both real and complete.
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is healing. The God of Healing is #Apollon but there are other gods who share in a subset of his power. Apollon's son #Asklepios famously brought dead people back to life. Deified after his untimely death by Zeus' thunderbolt, he received a cult of his own, the Temples of Asklepios serving as hospitals. Asklepios had children of his own, among them Panacea (Cure-all), and Hygieia (Health).
But he is not the only healing god associated with Apollon.
An older god of healing who appears in the #Iliad as the Healer of the Gods is #Paian. In the Iliad, Paian heals #Ares after the latter is injured by #Diomedes and #Athena through medicine that produces instant relief. #Hades is healed in a similar fashion after #Herakles' arrow (thankfully without hydra blood) pierces him.
Paian is later reduced to an epithet of both #Apollon and his son #Asklepios.
A god that is not usually associated with medicine but has a healing aspect is #Dionysos.
Scaleway, filiale cloud d’Iliad, s’enfonce dans le rouge
👉 L’activité cloud du groupe Iliad a multiplié par dix ses pertes en un an malgré une hausse de son chiffre d’affaires, pour la première fois au-dessus de 100 millions d’euros. En cause, sa politique d’investissement.
I liked these ancient statues, posed in front of the Stoa of Attalos in #Athens. They are meant to be The #Odyssey and the #Iliad, respectively, anthropomorphized as armored women. The first of them has decoration on her armor meant to represent scenes from the epic.