potnia theron.

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

[artimul]

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[microraptorhours]

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

[wandering-jana]

The Ancient Roman House of the Birds, named for its mosaic with 33 different bird species.

Italica, Spain

Dec. 2019

[emiemi345]

Things that would make sick Mario Kart tracks: the citadel of Mycenae in Ancient Greece

[sixofclovers]

been thinking about my baby bro

[hellenicgoddess]

Detail of the “Saffron Gatherers” 3,675-year-old fresco from Akrotiri, the Bronze Age city of Santorini entombed by volcanic ash.

© Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Santorini, Greece

[i-----------------------i------i]

i see that i've carefully put that important document away in a completely unknown location

[didoofcarthage]

Fragment of a red-figure volute-krater with the departure of Amphiaraos, king of Argos, by the Darius Painter 

Greek (from South Italy), c. 330 B.C.

terracotta

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[latinotiktok]

[annabelle--cane]

developed a real fondness lately for characters who experience a horrific act of violence and come out the other side saying "ah. I don't think I get to be me anymore. they took out the part that was me, killed it, and put something else back in its place, and now I'm whoever the hell that is." love it when someone becomes a corpse and replaces themself <3

[artimul]

why do magazines make it impossible to send them things

[heavensenthousepet]

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

[most-sane-classicist]

i sing of arms and the... the... man I don't think i'm cut out for this 'bard' business after all...

[losthavenmine]

Troy (2004)

[buggeeart]

Part 1? Of some random Greek goddesses! Still trying to work through my Artemis design and I lowk just wanted to draw Hebe’s hair. I thought it’d be cute.

[twirld]

Augustus of Prima Porta (Augustus -Octavian- was the founder of the Roman Empire and the first Roman emperor from 27 BC until his death in AD 14)