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Achilles bandaging Patroclus' wound (2022)
Happy days of Orpheus and Eurydice (2022)
Centaur Chiron with pupils, Achilles and Patroclus (2022)
Harpist by the Sea (2022)
Sun and Death. Icarus Falling (2022)
Achilles and Patroclus (2022)
Centaur Chiron with his pupils, Achilles and Patroclus (Watercolor Version 2022)
Achilles and Patroclus shadow. Iliad. (2022)
This is a redrawn version of the work done in 2015, where the characters still look very stereotypical: classical greek/ hellenistic (This old work is also in my gallery :D ).
"No sooner had sleep caught, dissolving all his grief, as mists if refreshing slumber poured around him there-- his powerful frame was bone-weary from charging Hector straight and hard to the walls of windswept Troy-- than the ghost of stricken Patroclus drifted up... He was like the man to the life, every feature, the same tall build and the fine eyes and voice ..." "Hovering at his head the phantom rose and spoke: 'Sleeping Achilles? You've forgotten me, my friend. You never neglected me in life, only now in death. Bury me quickly- let me pass the Gates of Hades. Oh give me your hand- I beg you with my tears! Never, never again shall I return from Hades once you have given me the shoothing rites of fire. Never again will you and I, alive and breathing, huddle side-by-side, apart from loyal comrades, making plans together- never ... Grim death, that death assigned from the day that I was born has spread its hateful jaws to take me down. A last request- grant it, please. Never bury my bones apart from yours, Achilles, let them lie together..." "So now let a single urn, the gold two-handled urn your noble mother gave you, hold our bones-- together!' And the swift runner Achilles rassured him warmly: 'Why have you returnde to me here, dear brother, friend? Why tell me o fall that I must do? I'll do it all. I will obey you, your demands. Oh come closer! Throw our arms around each other, just for a moment- take some joy in teras that numb the heart!' In the same bfreath he stretched his loving arms but could not seize him, the ghost slipped underground like a wisp of smoke... with a high thin cry."
Song 23. Homer's Illiad
Nereids lead the soul of Achilles into the sea (2022)
Thetis and her sisters mourned Achilles. They came to take his soul to the sea. Thetis created an Island Leuke or "White Island" (now it is a Snake Island/ Зміїний Oстрiв (Ukraine) in the Black Sea) for her son and took him there. For a long time in antiquity there was a cult of the hero and his sanctuary.
Achilles and Patroclus shadow (Gouashe version 2022)
— Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade. Iliad, Homer
Iphigenia in Tauris (2022)
Come back alive, Patroclus. (2022)
Gouashe version
Patroclus fights and dies (2023)
Inspired by Jordan Soles' (DOOMKIND) song “Patroclus fights and dies”...
Soon Soon Soon the wave of thrashing bronze By the will of deathless gods I lay my head on ancient stone Far from the shores of my own home Haggard specters swirling down I'll join them soon
Before the day lays to waste My body as it's torn away Before my sight begins to fade And the night closes in Did I lead us into ruin? Was I cursed beyond my mortal reach? Oh my desperate straits
https://doomking.bandcamp.com/album/may-weekend-visitor
A thousand ships (Iliad) 2023
The another version of this old work. I painted it with tempera.
Son of the Sea (Achilles and Thetis) 2023
Gouache version of my old pastel work with Nereid Thetis and her son Achilles.
Age of Heroes (Tempera version 2023)
Illustration for Homer's Iliad. War Cariot of Achilles and Patroclus.
Black Sun (watercolor version) 2023
Come back alive, Patroclus (Ink/watercolor version) 2023
The Odyssey (Wine Dark Sea) 2023
Another Illustration to the epics of Homer