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classicstober · 3 months

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If you’re into #ClassicsTober you’ll be into #SingOMuseZine , featuring many artists drawn together by the October Classics tradition!

Hey everyone! I'm really excited to announce that I will be participating in a Greek Mythology art zine called Sing, O Muse!

We're illustrating a selection of the Homeric Hymns, of which I will be illustrating Hymn V, to Aphrodite. There are a ton of amazing artists on board and it's going to be a great collection of myth-related artwork. The other artists who have tumblr accounts are:

@alibonbonn @coloricioso @danpoharyskyiillustration @davidluongart @flaroh @greekmythcomix @kleioscanvas @mikeybooch @sarafangirlart @tylermileslockett @wolfythewitch

I'll probably post some updates on my contribution here when I'm allowed, but if you're on twitter or instagram I encourage you to follow the zine account singomusezine for more frequent updates.

Any zine related content from me and the other artists on here participating will be tagged using #SingOMuseZine.

#singomusezine #mythology #myths #greek mythology #greek myths #hellenic polytheism #tagamemnon #classics #classical literature #illustration #classicstober #zine #fandom zine #zine promo

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classicstober · 5 months

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#ClassicsTober23 is now over!

Thank you so much to everyone who took part, from me ( @greekmythcomix ) and Dr Cora Beth Fraser. It was the most successful ClassicsTober yet, with the most daily submissions.

The most popular platforms were Twitter (despite everything!) and Instagram, followed by BlueSky and Tumblr (the first time running it on these platforms) and the hashtags on all these streams are awash with beautiful art and references and inspiration!

Hopefully we’ll run the prompts again in 2024 - follow this account here to get a reminder and to see the daily reposts.

Thank you again!

Jenks, GreekMythComix

Ps: please don’t use the hashtag now until next year!

2023s prompts: https://www.tumblr.com/classicstober/729739482703806464/its-three-days-til-classicstober23

#classicstober23 #greek mythology #classicstober #greek myth #ancient greek myth #ancient greek mythology #classical civilisation #greek myth retellings #drawing prompts

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classicstober · 5 months

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ClassicsTober23, day 27: ⚒️Pygmalion❤️ The Cyprian sculptor who carved such a beautiful statue of Aphrodite that he fell in love with it and the goddess gave it life: it became Galatea (‘milky-white’, presumably because of the marble from which it was carved).

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classicstober · 5 months

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ClassicsTober23, day 28: 🌌Nyx🌟 The personification of Night, Nyx, draws the veil of dark mists over the world. A primordial god, she gave birth to many other divine representations, including Hespera, Day, who is often conflated with Eos, the Dawn. Here are both of them as winged goddesses.

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classicstober · 5 months

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ClassicsTober23, day 29: 🗡️Nemesis

The goddess of divine retribution. She’s tough and looks like she’s be good in a fight.

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classicstober · 5 months

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ClassicsTober23, day 30: 👀Tiresias🦯

The blind prophet, foremost seer, allowed to keep giving prophecies even when in Hades, appears in many Ancient Greek tragedies and in the Odyssey, where he is the subject of Odysseus’ nekiya: talking with the dead.

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classicstober · 5 months

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These were such a cool and original idea!

My Latin and Greek Paradigms for ClassicsTober 2023 / Paradigmata Mea Latina Graecaque ad ClassicsTober 2023 Data

This is a list of links of all my Latin and Greek name paradigms which I made for ClassicsTober 2023.

Cassandra (Cassandra / Κασσάνδρα)

Medusa (Medūsa / Μέδουσα)

Asterion (Asteriōn / Ἀστερίων)

Lycaon (Lycāōn / Λυκάων)

Chiron (Chīrōn / Χείρων)

Medea (Mēdēa / Μήδεια)

Persephone (Persephonē / Περσεφόνη)

Icarus (Īcarus / Ἴκαρος)

Achilles (Achillēs / Ἀχιλλεύς)

Asklepius (Aesculāpius / Ἀσκληπιός)

Pandora (Pandōra / Πανδώρα)

Theseus (Thēseus / Θησεύς)

Arachne (Arachnē / Ἀράχνη)

Helen (Helena / Ἑλένη)

Prometheus (Promētheus / Προμηθεύς)

Circe (Circē / Κίρκη)

Atalanta (Atalanta / Ἀταλάντη)

Phaedra (Phaedra / Φαίδρα)

Sisyphus (Sīsyphus / Σίσυφος)

Odysseus (Ulixēs / Ὀδυσσεύς)

Psyche (Psȳchē / Ψυχή)

Midas (Midās / Μίδας)

Orpheus (Orpheus / Ὀρφεύς)

Hephaestus (Hēphaestus / Ἥφαιστος)

Talos (Talōs / Τάλως)

Thetis (Thetis / Θέτις)

Pygmalion (Pygmaliōn / Πυγμαλίων)

Nyx (Nyx / Νύξ)

Nemesis (Nemesis / Νέμεσις)

Tiresias (Tīresiās / Τειρεσίας)

Hecate (Hecatē / Ἑκάτη)

#classicstober #classicstober23

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classicstober · 5 months

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ClassicsTober23, day 31: ✨Hecate👻

Hecate is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, or snakes, or accompanied by dogs, and in later periods depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied.

She is variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, night, light, magic, protection from witchcraft, the Moon, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, graves, ghosts, necromancy, and sorcery.[

Her earliest appearance in literature was in Hesiod's Theogony in the 8th century BCE as a goddess of great honour with domains in sky, earth, and sea. Her place of origin is debated by scholars, but she had popular followings amongst the witches of Thessaly and an important sanctuary among the Carian Greeks of Asia Minor in Lagina

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classicstober · 6 months

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