ancient memes in a modern land

ariadne, 32, genderqueer (they/them or mae/maer) aspiring classicist/experimental archaeologist with a special focus on fashion, textiles, jewelry, beauty, hair, etc. In general my interests gravitate around the ancient Mediterranean but my reblogs will be generously seasoned with such as star trek and shitposts! spiritual sideblog at xanthi-chrysos

[lionofchaeronea]

Head (porphyritic diorite) of an ancient Egyptian cow goddess, perhaps Hathor or Mehetweret. Artist unknown; ca. 1390-1352 BCE (reign of Amenhotep III, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[allsadnshit]

Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

[monsterlogic]

[allsadnshit]

Thank u for this contribution

[instant-oatmeal]

Souphelia

[degeneration-design-doctor]

OPhởlia

[hallowedlore]

this is targeted tumblr content

[tanyushenka]

Bricks with a palmette motif ca. 6th–4th century B.C. Iran, Susa

[bakwaaas]

Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

[urban-trek-thru-middle-earth]

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Louis Féraud - Fall 1997 Couture

[kore-siciliana]

Quick sketch. Dionysus in Attic red-figure. Guy has been on my mind lately.

[hildegardavon]

Penthesilea

Achilles supports the dying Amazon queen Penthesilea whom he has mortally wounded. Her double headed axe slips from her hands. The queen had come to fight against the Greeks in the Trojan war and Achilles fell in love with her. Roman relief sculpture, Aphrodisias, Turkey.

[illustratus]

Julius Caesar Arriving at the Rubicon by Gustave Boulanger

[unusualcow]

It was very fun to draw Dionysus cuz I love drawing wavy hair and it easy to work with purple color for me. I wanted to capture him being god of wine and madness at the same time, so I gave him cool neon make up💅💅💅

Also wanna thank you all for kind words about my art!!!! It makes my day brighter to know that y'all like it😭💜💜💜

[aisling2524]

“he covered his face with his toga”

[blueathn]

[didoofcarthage]

Denarius with head of Julius Caesar (obverse) and Venus holding Victory (reverse), minted under P. Sepullius Macer at Rome

Roman, Republican Period, 44 B.C.

silver

British Museum

[ariadnes-subthread]

Did Tumblr actually stop auto-refreshing so much finally???? I might be back then lol

[ariadnes-subthread]

I don't know if I'll ever post pics of him on Tumblr but I thought you all should know I have a 5 month old baby now and he's ABSURDLY cute

[didoofcarthage]

Julius Caesar by Andrea di Pietro di Marco Ferrucci 

Italian (from Florence), c. 1512-1514

marble

Metropolitan Museum of Art