Unfit for Society Recs

The Epic of Gilgamesh
In the House of Dust by kindkit
Absolutely gorgeous. Beautifully written, haunting story of Gilgamesh in his old age, remembering. It's about love and writing and immortality and grief and stories. Wonderful.

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Mythology
Hyakinthos by Tami
Brilliant. I love the format - I can totally buy this as a fragment of a lost play - and the voices are beautiful - Artemis, sparing no pity for lovelorn Apollo upon the death of Hyakinthos. Beautiful

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The Iliad
Stardust by mistykasumi
They both want to say things that they know the other does not want to hear, and it lies between them like the sea separating Greece and Troy. Achilles does not want Patroclus to touch anyone else when it is all he has. Achy and gorgeous, and the ending, even when you know it's coming, hurts like a kick to the gut. Oh, my stupid, stubborn boys. *smishes them*

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Fire from Heaven
The Wind from the Heights by the anti_chris
Myrtale (who becomes Olympias) before her marriage to Philip. She never gets a fair shake in Alexander's story, but this story is a marvelous evocation of what she must have been like as a girl, strength and will and leashed power. Beautifully written.

Bright Glories Shall Unfold by daegaer
You think I lost, Hephaistion thought, smiling at those they passed. I won. I won. Alexander and Hephaistion paying homage to Achilles and Patroclus at Troy. Wonderfully vivid.

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