Hey folks, this image of Apollo was done for a private commission. Xoxo

The following text is reposted from my previous Apollo Olympians image.

“Phoebus, of you even the swan sings with clear voice to the beating of his wings, as he alights upon the bank by the eddying river Peneus; and of you the sweet-tongued minstrel, holding his high-pitched lyre, always sings both first and last…And so hail to you, lord! I seek your favor with my song.”  (-Homeric Hymn, translated by H.G. Evelyn white)

APOLLO (uh-PAH-low), God of prophecy, oracles, music, art, protector of and disease of boys and men, and archery. Just as his twin sister Artemis is patron to women and girls, Apollo is both protector, and killer from disease of boys and men. In my Illustration the god holds his bow and arrows behind, while he strums the lyre gifted to him by trickster Hermes. Near the sun flies his ally and divine messenger, a white raven. The column on the right is capped with a cow, representing his sacred animal as a god of herds. The serpent Python sits dead at his feet, killed by Apollo’s arrow so that the god could take over the Delphi temple location. The temple complex sits beneath the god, while on the far right, the Pythia (Apollo’s oracle priestess) sits upon a tripod, breathing the hallucinatory gasses seeping up from the earth to get her prophecies which she bestows upon visitors.

The laurel tree has associations with Apollo because the god, chasing a Naiad (water nymph) named Daphne call out to Gaia (mother earth) for help, who transformed the nymph into a laurel tree, which the god adopted as his sacred tree. In book 1 of the Iliad, Apollo supports the Trojans by raining down a plague on the Greeks, and later helping Paris to kill Achilles. Apollo’s cruelty is shown in Ovid’s mythical lyre contest with the inventor of the flute; a satyr named Marsyas. When Apollo suggested they play their instruments upside down, the satyr lost, and was flayed (skinned) alive as punishment for his hubris. 

Really digging this Hermes design

Gonna clean it up cuz I also just like the look of the whole thing lol also his fingertips are supposed to be golden tipped and his lower lip too but it'll look clearer once I clean it up I think

Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron: "Artemis of the Wildland, Mistress of Animals."

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Artemis, lover of woods and the wild chase over the mountains. Artemis, Virgin Huntress, beloved of wild animals and restrained by no man, mortal or God. Artemis, Moon Goddess, bearer of light, bringer of the Crescent Moon. Artemis, leader of Nymphs and protector of young Maidens.

Bow down to our Mistress.

Inspired by the sacred Deity of Wild Things, meet our devotion to Artemis. All in beautiful antiqued sterling silver detail, the feminine face of our Goddess is crowned in the crescent moon, as delicate thorns wrap around her face. This is the statement gothic necklace for all worshippers at the Altar of the Huntress.

Prometheus is about to get at TON of bitches...just saying...

Dames In Distress - Chap-1 : Coffee Shop Chaos (on Wattpad) 

 Ganymede is tired. Of life, of the Greek Gods, and especially Zeus. He wants to kill the King of the Gods and then himself, but that would be difficult to do since they are both immortal. During one of his visits to the mortal world, he runs into Apollo. Radiating sunshine (literally), sprouting poetry, playing the lyre and occasionally shooting down monsters, the God Of Healing is instantly hated by the Cupbearer of the Gods - and the feeling is mutual. But as they spend time together and let down their guards, their hatred begins to transform into something completely different - but not without several obstacles along the way. Will they be able to face the storm - or will their story only end in pain?

titties so good my dogs had to rip me apart 😘

gyatt so good the dogs caught me lacking 😍

Warrior Women!

NO. 1

Many women were able to fight in battles, defend their kingdoms, and take up leadership roles, titled ‘warrior women,’ throughout the centuries. Their stories are inspiring and motivational for women everywhere to continue to be independent, strong, and courageous. The Dahomey Amazons were a real-life all-female warrior militia that existed from the 17th century to the 19th in the kingdom of Dahomey, today Benin of West Africa. They resulted from the male population facing high casualties from war and frequent violence from neighboring West African states, and the king at the time, King Houegbadja, implemented them. They called themselves the Mino, meaning ‘Our Mothers,’ in the Fon language, and were recruited as young as eight. Some voluntarily enrolled, while others involuntarily by their fathers or fathers. The Dahomey women warriors earned their reputation as fierce warriors, often earning the praise of enemies that they defeated in battle.

NO. 2

For the Greeks, they had the Amazonians; several tales from Greek mythology have been written about them. They were raised to fight from birth, where they would defeat and kidnap male warriors and keep them as enslaved peoples, mated with them, and kept their daughters raised as Amazons while having their sons be returned to their fathers. In one tale, the fight against the mythical Heracles, where one of his labors was to obtain the girdle from queen Hippolyte, the queen of the Amazons. They weren’t just mythical though; they were just real as well. Many burial sites revealed that ‘‘In the grasslands of inner Asia, from the Black Sea to western China, Scythian women had the same skills as their men: wielding bows, riding and herding animals, fighting – and dying from their injuries. Their remains have been found in tomb mounds from Crimea to western China.’’

NO. 3

The Valkyries were the Norse equivalent of female warriors, who, in mythology, guide the souls of the noblest of the dead to Valhall. Many famous poems and Eddas are centered around these famous warriors of Odin, king of the gods. Still, we’re not talking about mythology but actual female Viking warriors. In 2019, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a decorated female warrior from the 10th century, proving women held high-status positions in Viking culture. ‘‘Several weapons were buried alongside the body, including a sword, armor-piercing arrows, a battle knife, an axe, a spear, and two shields, indicating that the skeleton was likely that of a warrior. Accompanying the wide array of weapons were two horses, a full set of game pieces, and a gaming board. The gaming pieces suggest that the person buried was a high-ranking combatant who was knowledgeable of strategies and tactics.’’

In the new short story anthology "For The Gods: Greek Mythology Reimagined," writers Sarah Gailey, Valerie Valdes, Susan Purr and others put a gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive take on those ancient tales. I spoke to editors Jenn Northington and S. Zainab Williams to find out how this came to be. 📖🇬🇷

The fates are set to return. 

Comic Panel from Among Gods

"Homecoming,"

In this scene, of Aeschylus's Greek tragic play "Agamemnon",  King Agamemnon has finally arrived back to his palace in Argos (Mycenea) after conquering Troy. He arrives in a chariot with his spoil of war; CASSANDRA (a Trojan slave girl cursed by Apollo with the power of prophecy - but that none shall believe her visions).

Agamemnon's wife, CLYTEMNESTRA meets them at the palace doors, obstructing his entrance. (The chorus has previously related the tale of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter, Iphigenia, ten years prior on the way to Troy. So this confrontation is eagerly anticipated). She showers her husband with rhetoric of love and respect, then rolls out fine embroidered cloth (with fragile red dye) and then convinces him that only by walking barefoot on the  tapestry will he prove his high worth and placate her to enter.  

Professor Peter meineck, in his "Modern Scholar" audio lecture series: "Greek Drama", points to the symbolism when he says "...Agamemnon is wading through blood of his sacrificed daughter," and "...trampling the wealth of the house." Professor Meienck also thinks this tapestry is a menstrual image representing Clytemnestra's power (he even mentions that the ancient Greek word for door was also a slang word for vagina). So when Agamemnon relents, he unknowingly goes to his death. He now represents the sacrificial bull of the Greek new year "Buphonia" Festival.

Random Fun fact: this scene in this play is where we get the concept of "rolling out the red carpet" for honored guests.  

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Eurydice was a hungry young girl🥀

I'm so torn on the designs cuz on one hand this is how I imagine her while listening to hadestown, but on the other, hadestown generally has a more modern/industrial vibe so idk might be tweaking the designs a lot, especially of Hades and Persephone.

This is the face you make when they call you /daɪˈæn.ə/ instead of /ˈdja.na/ A quick cosplay and a bit of Photoshop. I've seen someone still performing this challenge on the web. Crescent Moon by Eithnne   Swamp and far background by Drake-Stock  Trees and vegetation by zememz   Cloud and sky by beckas   Model and edit: me Diana is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside, hunters, crossroads, and the Moon. She is equated with the Greek goddess Artemis, and absorbed much of Artemis' mythology early in Roman history, including a birth on the island of Delos to parents Jupiter and Latona, and a twin brother, Apollo, though she had an independent origin in Italy. Here she is Diana Nemorensis ("Diana of Nemi"), also known as "Diana of the Wood", and she was an Italic form of the goddess who became Hellenised during the fourth century BC and conflated with Artemis. Her sanctuary was to be found on the northern shore of Lake Nemi beneath the cliffs of the modern city Nemi (in Latin "nemus Aricinum"). This lake is referred to by poets as "speculum Dianae" – "Diana's Mirror"; by the town of Aricia which was situated about three miles off, at the foot of the Albanus Mons, the Alban Mount, and separated by a steep descent from the lake, which lies in a small crater-like hollow on the mountainside. Diana was often considered an aspect of a triple goddess, known as Diana triformis: Diana, Luna, and Hecate. According to historian C.M. Green, "these were neither different goddesses nor an amalgamation of different goddesses. They were Diana…Diana as huntress, Diana as the moon, Diana of the underworld." At her sacred grove on the shores of Lake Nemi, Diana was venerated as a triple goddess beginning in the late 6th century BCE. Andreas Alföldi interpreted an image on a late Republican coin as the Latin Diana "conceived as a threefold unity of the divine huntress, the Moon goddess and the goddess of the nether world, Hekate". This coin, minted by P. Accoleius Lariscolus in 43 BCE, has been acknowledged as representing an archaic statue of Diana Nemorensis. It represents Artemis with the bow at one extremity, Luna-Selene with flowers at the other and a central deity not immediately identifiable, all united by a horizontal bar. The iconographical analysis allows the dating of this image to the 6th century at which time there are Etruscan models. The coin shows that the triple goddess cult image still stood in the lucus of Nemi in 43 BCE. Lake Nemi was called Triviae lacus by Virgil (Aeneid 7.516), while Horace called Diana montium custos nemoremque virgo ("keeper of the mountains and virgin of Nemi") and diva triformis ("three-form goddess"). Two heads found in the sanctuary and the Roman theatre at Nemi, which have a hollow on their back, lend support to this interpretation of an archaic triple Diana.

: • AMAZONS, ATHENA on a Chariot [with Heracles]: Side A of Attic Krater said by [workshop of] the Lysippides Painter [ Side B : Dionysus & Hermes between dancing Satyrs ] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysippides_Painter 530-520 BC. . Wonderful Amazons & Horses, Athena/Heracles figures not very well preserved, unfortunately. . Antikensammlung Tübingen Archaeological Museum of Tuebingen University | AMUT, Germany @antikensammlung_tuebingen . AMUT | Phs©MSP | 08|22 5600X4100 600 [i.-iii., pic v. - phonecam] The photographed object is the property of AMUT and subject to the Museum copyright. https://www.unimuseum.uni-tuebingen.de/en/museum-at-hohentuebingen-castle/museum-ancient-cultures [no commercial use | sorry for the watermarks] . . #tübingen #tuebingen #antikensammlung #archaeologicalmuseum #archäologischesmuseum #historymuseum #ancientart #vasepainting #blackfigure #ancientpottery #ancientceramics #attica #krater #archaeology #antiquity #ancient #arthistory #museology #mythology #greekmyths #amazons #athena #amazzoni #amazones #amazonomachy #oiorpata #archaeologyart #museumphotography #archaeologyphotography #michaelsvetbird @michael_sverbird ©msp tuebingen 08|22. (at Museum der Universität Tübingen) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckxnzuwo8N6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Fanfic update *part 2 out

Storytime with Fenris

The latest fiction book we were reading together was an unlikely romance, between a god of the underworld and a mortal. Fenris pointed at the name and asked "How to pronounce this name? It looks beautiful." 

"Oh that's Persephone. She is bringing sunshine and nature into the underworld." 

Fenris' emerald eyes were glinting with wonder. He repeated the name and smiled. "I would say it cannot be possible, but you may look at me with your puppy eyes, Kit. Or is it kitty eyes." 

I chuckled. "Combined effect of both kitty and puppy eyes! Yea it defies the natural odds of life and death. Too bad the cover doesn't show how handsome Hades is. Most stories make him out to be cruel, ruthless and evil."  Elf listened intently. And he continued reading the next page. Today we were lying together on a thick mattress.