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pía (they/she) ✹ classical philology graduate ✹ a blog to make an aesthetic out of my degree

[artimul]

[centuriespast]

the Temple of Apollo✨ Delphi, Greece

photo by Hilary Harley

[kebriones]

the more you research ancient greek mythology the more you get a massive headache. Nobody sites sources properly. Information gets tossed around and mixed up into salads and everyone's theories and hallucinations have become this massive mess held together haphazardly by scraps of ancient findings spanning hundreds of years and a bunch of different cultures. I want to know the truth and the facts. nevermind how fragmented and incomplete.

[asnowyplover]

bro it sounds like maybe you need a reminder of the glorious interconnectedness of all things?

[lucjan]

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[escuerzoresucitado]

[7pleiades7]

Venus' Baths, (Detail), in English Gardens of Caserta

By: Architect Andrea Graefer (1782) and by: sculptor Tommaso Solari (1762)

[kyleesarthell]

I had to redraw this

[kyleesarthell]

Siren!

[7pleiades7]

Diana, Chasseresse (Diana the Huntress) (1879) by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (French, 1836 – 1911), Sgn. Lower right, Jules LeFebvre. O/C. Diana, goddess of the hunt, with bow and crescent moon on her head, oil on canvas, 33 in (83.8 cm) x 22 in (55.8 cm), Private Collection

[snowspot]

hecate 🔪

[riverlarking]

ancient peoples loooved a flood narrative it was kinda like their beatles

[pmamtraveller]

Green frescoes from Pompeii, Italy

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[beleester]

>#I love how this gag would be funny at any point since the third century BCE

[artimul]

i think this woman in my group project used ai to write some of the parts and it's made me so mad i don't want to do anything else on this paper lmao. like excuse me i said i would write the introduction and the historical context and turns out you just... kinda did it already?? hello??

[cosmonautroger]

Jordi Garriga Mora, Minotauro, 2007

[vibraph0ny]

Everyone's all "ohhh 2026 bring back physical media" until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we're not on the same page anymore

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

Actually we are on the same page. We've been on the same page for a week because these things take forever to make