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classics & lit sideblog

[thoodleoo]

girls don’t want boys, girls want to dance in the woods with the god dionysus and tear any man who dares to interrupt their bacchic revelry limb from limb

[hadrian6]

The Dance of Eros. 2013-14.

Giorgio Dante. Italian b.1982. oil/canvas.

http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[hephaistionisawesome]

The Onion Headlines:  Alexander the Great Edition

[thoodleoo]

concept: house md but pliny the elder plays the part of house, so you have this doctor who's a huge asshole and when you come in for a diagnosis he tells you that your humors are imbalanced and stuffs a mixture of unwatered wine and pureed mouse testicles in your iv

[marenzell]

Medusa fragment ring. 14KY. By Sofia Ajram (source)

[grendelmenz-deactivated20200929]

- sing, o goddess, the rage of helen | by prithvi. p

[thoodleoo]

do u ever just wish u could be an ancient oracle and your whole job was to do weed and tell stupid riddles to rich conquerors only for them to misinterpret your words and die

[2seeitall]

Ionic columns of the Academy of Athens, Greece

[somerabbitholes]

"The light of long ago is different from the light of today."

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

[detailedart]

Details : The Last Day of Pompeii, 1830-33, by Karl Bryullov.

[vfollia]

Some stunning classical pieces that highlight the violin:

Camille Saint-Saëns, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28

Dmitri Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77

Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Chaconne in G minor

Maurice Ravel, Tzigane

Giuseppe Tartini, Violin Sonata in G minor (Devil’s Trill Sonata)

Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

William Walton, Violin Concerto

Pablo de Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20

Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Max Bruch, Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita No. 2

Clara Schumann, Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22

Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Aram Khachaturian, Violin Concerto in D minor

Fritz Kreisler, Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani

Jules Massenet, Méditation

Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19

Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending

[deadpoet02-deactivated20201018]

dress like you could pull off Hamlet in modern times any second

[princesofphithia]

you’re in his DMs but i could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world. we are not the same

[alexandriad]

woman yelling at cat meme but make it ancient greek red figure pottery

[vintagepales]

Red Angel- Zale Central Cemetery. Ljubljana. Slovenia

[woozapooza]

decoding your child’s texts

lol = lots of labryses smh = so many horns (of consecration) btw = bull-leaping takes work ttyl = tryna teach you Linear A idk = I designed Knossos idc = it’s delightful: Crete stfu = saffron trade feeds us af = Akrotiri frescoes  lmao = lotsa Mycenaeans arriving, oh bae = behold! Arthur Evans!

[sarakipin]

Seven of Swords