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Various Ocean scenes by Lionel Walden (1861-1933).
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today's randomly chosen doodle subject: giant manta ray
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From Forests by Michael Chinery, illustrated by Bernard Long and Eric Robson. 1992.
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From Endangered Animals: 140 Species in Full Color, written by George S. Fichter and illustrated by Kristin Kest. 1995.
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About Marsupials: A Guide for Children, written by Cathryn Sill and illustrated by John Sill, 2006.
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The Wild Beasts of the World. Written by Frank Finn. Illustration by Cuthbert Edmund Swan. 1909.
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you would not believe the amount of spiders i saw today :3
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lets be awesome. together✌️😁
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because act 5 part 2 was the best
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John Leigh-Pemberton (1911-1997). Australian Mammals, 1972.
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https://twitter.com/eden_thought_/status/1490278851309543425?s=21
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jellyfishe miku. le fishe
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mikus once again :P
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Want some female-fronted/women-centric metal? I made a sampler version of my Women In Metal playlist! This one only includes a single song for each group/artist. (Although, some vocalists/musicians may be included more than once if they’re part of more than one project!) I hope that this version makes it easier to find bands that you’d like to see more of!
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mentally im friends with a lot of u guys even if we dont talk or never have talked and probably will never talk directly. its ok. the warriors bond transcends words
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I’m a classical archaeology grad student, and in class we talked about ancient views of death/handling of the body, which of course made me think about the Iliad and Achilles’ treatment of the dead.
Firstly, funerals were a secular event, and religion was not involved in any funerary rites. But that’s not the main point I want to bring up, it’s this: that touching a dead body was a sort of taboo, and anyone who had handled a dead body needed to be cleansed before they could return to society. Also, burials happened quickly, they needed to get the body in the ground as soon as possible (most likely of for practical reasons of course).
We’re all familiar with how Achilles treats Patroclus’ body after he dies, and while that in and of itself is a good enough point to show what they meant to each other, it takes on another dimension when you take into account the traditions and practices of the time period.
Achilles refusing to bathe himself after touching Patroclus’ body, and the multiple instances of him holding, caressing, and general touching of the body are extreme measures, one of a man that has lost himself in his grief. It could also hint at other things, like Achilles’ own death, because in a sense he had become it. He would not bathe after battle, would not bathe, eat, or drink after touching and holding Patroclus, and prolonged his burial for so long that divine measures that to be taken so his body would not spoil. Achilles disregards tradition, disregards the norms of the Greeks, and as we see once he finally confronts Hector, disregards his own life now that Patroclus is gone.
I think it’s so interesting when you can analyze the actions of the characters in the Iliad against the cultural background of Ancient Greece, because there’s so many subtle things that you’d miss if you weren’t aware, but the audience of the time would’ve caught that added nuance. Anyway! That’s my two cents :)
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