Here's a cheerful Gorgon to ward evil from your dashboard!🧿👅< With my sincere apologies to the ancient Greek artist now often called the Berlin Painter.

(painting from a late Archaic Athenian vase depicting a Gorgon chasing Perseus. München, Staatliche Antikensammlungen.)

#TwoForTuesday:

The KX Painter Drinking cup (skyphos) with confronting lions Archaic Period, c. 585–570 BCE Greece, Attica, Athens Ceramic, Black Figure, H 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 97.366

"On the obverse, two lions stand confronted with their chests touching and their faces turned backwards towards the vessel’s handles. Each of the lions is rendered in black paint. Their manes, mouths, chests and bellies are all detailed with red paint, while the locks of hair along their necks alternate in color between red and black. Details of the lions’ anatomy are articulated with incisions. Their ferocity is implied especially by their open mouths, which display their large teeth and projecting tongues. On reverse, a complex interlocking lotus and palmette motif fills the entire pictorial field. The rim and handles of the vessel are decorated with thin linear bands. The lions and the lotus and palmette motif stand atop a red bounding line, below which is a pair of gridded lines and another red bounding line, which is in turn bordered by a ray pattern that emanates from the cup’s foot."

The Athenian Messenger Pheidippides Delivers News of the Victory at Marathon

by Frank Moss Bennett

Roman Marble Portrait Head of the Athenian Playwright Menander C. 1st century AD

Menander (c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown.

He was one of the most popular writers in antiquity, but his work was lost during the Middle Ages and is now known in highly fragmentary form, much of which was discovered in the 20th century. Only one play, Dyskolos, has survived almost complete.

Myron (Greek Athenian) Discobolus, ca. 460-450 BC

Athenian red figure on the tablet

i blorbofied the niche indie video game character anyways please play athenian rhapsody thunder goober's personality dungeon it's a spin off demo for the full game i love it

Psyrí, Athens, Greece.

For #WorldGoatDay 🐐:

Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

#AncientGreece, Attic, c. 400 BCE

Terracotta; red-figure, 4in. (10.2cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 21.88.80

Design featuring a boy driving goat-drawn chariot.

The Suicide of Themistocles by Lorenzo De Ferrari

Athenian Black-Figure Hydria (Greek Water Vessel) Greek, 560-550 BC

Attributed to the Painter of Louvre F6. Depicting four Greek hoplites wearing Corinthian helmets with shields flanked by a youth on the left and a bearded man on the right, both wearing ‘himations’ (cloaks). On the shoulder another youth stands between two sphinxes and two lions with a row of tongues above. H. 35 cm.

You know what? I'm a fucking say it

art Is in fact inherently political and if you don't understand that you don't understand art. Art has always been the passage way of Freedom And liberation

And if you're afraid of new art mediums and new ways of creating art, you're just scared of the future and said rebellion and liberation.

There's a reason why Leonardo da Vinci, a self-described engineer is most remembered as an artist

TOP: An ancient Greek kylix showing a baby sitting in his pottychair and calling to his mother.

ca. 480 BCE, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels

BOTTOM: A 6th-century BCE potty found in the Athenian Agora.

By Animous Lynx for The Cunningham Mag Issue 00