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Greek Myth Comix @greekmythcomix.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I think BlueSky is already in the proverbial choir, but this is the kind of educational content I made for my classes (and anyone else who wants it) over on GreekMythComix.com ✨What is Supplication?✨

~WHAT IS SUPPLICATION?~
OR 'WHY DO THEY PUT THEIR HANDS ON EACHOTHER WHEN THEY WANT SOMETHING? By Greek Myth Comix

SUPPLICATION IS RITUAL BEGGING - DESPERATELY REQUESTING SOMETHING
USING A FORMULA.

UNLIKE XENIA, IT IS NOT APPARENTLY PROTECTED BY ZEUS - THE RESULT DEPENDS ON THE PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE PERSON BEING BEGGED FROM.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO SAY YES UNLESS THEY WANT TO.

TO SUPPLICATE SOMEONE / BE SUPPLIANT/ BE A SUPPLICANT, YOU MUST USE:
- BESEECHING WORDS
- RITUAL GESTURES
- MAKE A PLEADING
SPEECH (BETTER THAN THIS!)
“PLEASE!”
- SOMETIMES OTHER GESTURES:

1) KNEEL BEFORE THE HOST
- DEGRADING SELF BY
BEING LOWER
2) GRAB KNEES
- SUGGESTS YOUR DESPERATION / STOPS THEM GETTING AWAY!

EXAMPLES IN
HOMER'S EPICS:
“I HAVE
KISSED THE HANDS
OF THE MAN WHO KILLED MY SONS!”
ILIAD, BK 24
MORE
PATHETIC!

MORE
DEGRADING AND DESPERATE!
"HAVING SPOKEN, ODYSSEUS SAT DOWN IN THE HEARTH'S ASHES, CLOSE TO THE FIRE.."
ODYSSEY, BK 7

MORE FORCEFUL (AND INTIMATE!)
"THETIS SANK IN FRONT OF ZEUS, CLASPED HIS KNEES WITH HER LEFT HAND, RAISED HER RIGHT HAND TO HIS CHIN, AND SO MADE HER PETITION..."
"..ZEUS MADE NO
STEL CLASPING HIS KNEES, PLEADED WITH HIM AGAIN..."
ILIAD, BK 1

LESS THREATENING!
“I AM AT YOUR KNEES!
(METAPHORICALLY!)”
ODYSSEY, BK 6

GREEK MYTH COMIX

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Michalis Kaloumenos @mkaloumenos.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Although Homer is very specific about which hand goes where, Ingres' famous painting gets the hands wrong.

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