it's really difficult to express how much i do not care about ancient pantomime performance

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sorry no secret third thing

Finding love through sharing pain, sorrow, and loss. ❤️‍🩹🌹🍎

A study based on Adam and Eve after the Fall (Adam og Eva efter Syndefaldet) by Johan Vilhelm Gertner & inspired by the recent painting of @greypetrel. 💙 Had been quite a long time for me younger Aphrodite and Ares in their own Bronze Age Cypriot (Alashiyan) clothing (with jewelry ornaments came from all over Greece, Anatolia, Egypt, Levant, Mesopotamia) and Mycenaean Greek clothing.

Both of them met at a strange time and a strange place, outside the constraints of time and space. A spark between them would be created based on their sharing of grieving deceased mortal human lovers, bloomed into the flowers of close friendship bonds and ripened into the fruits of love. Aphrodite was still that brash, independent young woman during this time and until now, impulsive, ambitious and calculating, can be both kind or careless with other’s feelings, property, or even their lives. Ares, himself, was still hated and reviled by his family members, especially Zeus; and quite different from the later older, mature, and wiser bearded Ares that I usually drew him as.

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sorry no secret third thing

Dorothy Lake Gregory - Moonlight Gossip (1921)

Classicstober day 19: Sisyphus 🪨

Source: theoi.com

inflation is crazy. back in my day you could buy a goat for two coins. until the cat eats it, that is

mooncalves

Rebecca, why is your Iphigenia (and Polyxena) tag "It begins and ends with a girl"? Where is it from and why did you choose it? I was talking with a friend about my own story and a character's role in it and the tag popped into my head, so I wanted to ask some more about that sentiment :)

i don't think it's from anything, but i've been using it for so long that honestly i don't remember why i chose it. it does speak to how much in greek myth everything comes down to girls, who are so often metaphor or instrument or vessels. a girl and a pomegranate makes a winter. a girl and her laundry makes an epic. a girl and a god makes a city or a nation, usually with not more than a name, a place, and a hero for a son. of course it takes a girl to start a war and to end it. they're the raw material out of which myth builds civilization.

11: Apollon and young Hermes

And then the son of Maia with a nod of his head promised never to steal away whatever the Far-Shooter possessed, and never to approach his sturdy house. Then Apollon, the son of Leto, for the love of Hermes' friendship, vowed that no one else among the immortals to him would be dearer, neither god nor man descended from Zeus.

The Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes, translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis.

A Solitary Centaur by Ferdinand Keller (1842-1922)

WAIT "comments" in modern greek, as in the things people add to social media posts, is σχόλια/scholia???????

love to send an email asking about finding a time to talk about dead bodies and when a human being becomes an object and getting a response that starts with "how fun!"

Classicstober day 17: Atalanta🏹

Helen of Troy