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So I have put my recent Hera and Eurymedon fixation into good use and wrote a fic about them. I trust this pedantic subculture to let me know if this is an accurate depiction of Hera or not 🙏🏻

https://archiveofourown.org/works/86252896

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NEW TELEGONUS RESEARCH

Purchase online the PDF of Telegonus and the Bow of Odysseus : Reconsidering a Red-Figure Vase Fragment in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts

Read it for free here

It’s about the one artwork that we have of him, which I’ve posted ages ago. The author analyzes why this vase depicted him with a bow and not with the stingray spear that is attested in the written sources. They conclude that it’s a visual connection to Odysseus and may have been part of the plot of Sophocles’ Odysseus Acanthoplex:

“Certainly the depiction of the bow on the Budapest fragment seems to refer to a version of the Telegonus myth which recalls and tragically inflects the scene of Odysseus and Telemachus’ testing of the bow in Odyssey 21 and presents us with tantalising new evidence that the ancient Greek Telegony tradition may have been even more complicated than previously thought.”

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Really fond of the art that we have of Cyrene humbling that lion

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Adeliia Petrosian’s best performance of her Yo Soy Maria program at the 2025 Russian Nationals (featuring a 3A, 4T+2T, and 4T)

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ʿAṯtart design!

sorry kinda forgot to post here. I'm drawing for ArtFight right now (I'll post a link here some time later), but I managed to finish this artwork. I really like how it turned out! she's pretty <3

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Already in 1987, scholars recognized that the proper emendation of “Phorbas” was Phorcys, as that’s what’s stated in the Argonautica itself. I have no idea why, almost 40 years later, there are still people claiming that Apollo and Hecate have a child together. Phorbas to Phoebus is, at best, an Olympic level stretch and it makes no sense in an annotation for the verse of the Argonautica talking about Hecate-Crataiis and Phorcys begetting Scylla

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this is how I imagine her tbh

original tweet for reference:

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“And that I might to mortals prophesy

Of mysteries divine. And men shalt say

In Hellas that I am of foreign Land,

Of Erythre born, shameless; others say

That I'm a Sibyl, born of mother Circe

And father Gnostos raving mad and false;

But at that time when all thing come to pass

Ye shall remember me, and no one more

Shall call me mad, the great God's prophetess,

For he showed me what happened formerly

To my ancestors; what things were the first

Those God made known to me; and in my mind

Did God put all things to be afterwards,

That I might prophesy of things to come,

And things that were, and tell them unto men.”

- Sibylline Oracles (2nd century BCE–7th century CE)

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Flower of appreciation for your posts

(づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ🌷

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An excerpt from Comus (1634) by John Milton

I’m always fascinated by how people in the past millennium perceived and interpreted Greek mythology. This play is about its titular character, Comus, a very minor figure in ancient Greek religion. Milton imagined him as the son of Bacchus and Circe, who inherited his mother’s witchiness

“Bacchus that first from out the purple Grape,

Crush't the sweet poyson of mis-used Wine

After the Tuscan Mariners transform'd

Coasting the Tyrrhene shore, as the winds listed,

On Circes Iland fell (who knows not Circe

The daughter of the Sun? Whose charmed Cup

Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape,

And downward fell into a groveling Swine)

This Nymph that gaz'd upon his clustring locks,

With Ivy berries wreath'd, and his blithe youth,

Had by him, ere he parted thence, a Son

Much like his Father, but his Mother more,

Whom therfore she brought up and Comus nam'd […]”

Reject modernity (shipping Hermes and Circe) and embrace tradition (shipping Dionysus and Circe)

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A tale of two Medusas

Left: 450-440 B.C, Greek Attic pottery | Right: ~19 A.D, Roman coin

But… I thought that the Romans saw Medusa as beautiful and the Greeks saw her as really scary? How could this be? 😨

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It’s a shame that Tonya crying over her skates mishap has become the most well-known moment of hers at the Olympics, because her free skate had some beautiful athleticism

Textbook 3Lz on a deep outside edge, 3F, and 3S! There are gold medalists in our era that can’t do that (and she did it while her abusive ex-husband was trying to ruin her life)

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Dismantling the idea that the humans were born out of the Titans’ ashes (and other Orphic misconceptions)

Tearing Apart the Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks on Orphism and Original Sin

Tearing Apart the Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks on Orphism and Original Sin

"“All of the reconstructions of Orphism have as their base a very small number of secure pieces of evidence and a much greater number of texts whose interpretation seems to me to be quite arbitrary.” Of no part of Orphism is Festugiere’s comment more true than of the supposed heart of the religion, the myth of the creation of mankind from the dismembered Zagreus. All of the reconstructions of this myth depend upon only six pieces of evidence, fragments whose interpretation is indeed disputable. A number of sources mention the sparagmos of Dionysos and the chastisement of the Titans, ranging from mere allusions as early as the third century BCE to fairly detailed narratives in the first several centuries of the Christian era. These stories, often attributed to Orpheus, include various details, with some versions focusing on the death or rebirth of Dionysos and others on the punishment of the Titans. The most detailed version (and one of the few sources that actually refers to Dionysos as Zagreus) appears in the fifth-century CE Dionysiaca of Nonnos, an antiquarian work that combines as many stories as possible about Dionysos into a lengthy epic. Even this source, however, does not add the creation of mankind to the tale of the dismemberment. The anthropogony, the supposedly crucial element in the myth of Zagreus, is, in fact, only found combined with the tales of the sparagmos and the punishment of the Titans in a single Neoplatonic commentary that dates to the sixth century of the Christian era."

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Finding Nicaea and Aura’s roots before the Dionysiaca

“The city of Nicaea took its name from a Naiad called Nicaea, and it was established by the men of Nicaea who fought in Alexander's army. After Alexander's death they founded and settled this city in memory of their homeland. The nymph Nicaea is said to have been the daughter of Cybele and Sangarius, who was the ruler of the country. Preferring virginity to cohabitation with a man, she spent her life hunting in the mountains. Dionysius fell in love with her, but she rejected his advances. After his rejection Dionysius tried to achieve his desire by a trick. He filled the spring, from which Nicaea used to drink when she was worn out from hunting, with wine instead of water. She suspected nothing and, acting as normal, took her fill of the deceptive liquid. Then drunkenness and sleep took hold of her, and she submitted to the wishes of her lover, even against her will. Dionysius had intercourse with her, and fathered Satyrus and other sons by her.”

- Memnon of Heraclea, History of Heraclea (1st-2nd c. A.D), as recounted by Photius in his Myriobiblon

“Aura, a maiden huntress and lover of the chase, dwelling by the Pontus [Black Sea], was desired by Dionysus. Since he was inflamed with passion for her, he pursued her. When Artemis saw this, she drove her away in wrath. Aura, terrified by the anger of Artemis, came from the Pontus to Cyzicus. While passing by this mountain, she gave birth to twins. Therefore the mountain was called Didymon ["Twin Mountain"].”

- Etymologicum Magnum, s.v. 'Δίνδυμον' (12th c., Byzantine)

It seems to me that the compiler of the E.M had another text that told the story of Aura that wasn’t Nonnus’, since the version given here is quite different from the Dionysiaca’s.

Original text:

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“Why did Alina win over Evgenia? She was robbed!”

Alina’s lutz vs Evgenia’s lutz:

(see the knee pointed outwards which indicates an outside edge vs. very clear inside edge)

Alina’s 3-3 (3Lz-3Lo; the hardest 3-3 combo) vs. Evgenia’s 3-3 (3F-3T)

Alina’s 3 jumps combo was a 3F+2T+2Lo. Evgenia’s 3 jumps combo was a 2A+2T+2T.

They both had 7 triples in their programs, but Alina’s included 2 lutzes (highest scoring non-axel jump) while Evgenia’s included 2 toeloops (lowest scoring jump).

Alina had more variations in her spins, correct jumps, and the better short program.

If anything, the robbery is that the gap in scores wasn’t bigger.

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Iris, Zephyros and Eros: A genealogy of winged beings and winds

Abstract In a lesser known mythological tradition Eros is the son of Iris and Zephyros. His mother, Iris, belongs to a lineage of winged bei

Such a good article about Eros’ other parents. It’s available for free here

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What articles, books, etc., do you recommend for learning more about Persephone and Aphrodite in Locri—both together and separately?

Is Lokrian Persephone having a renaissance? Why am I seeing multiple posts about this all of a sudden?

I’ll link the posts containing the articles that I’ve already shared: post1, post2, post3 — all of those are about Persephone, though the first one also includes Aphrodite. That’s 4 monographs on this topic that I, someone who’s not an expert at all, enjoyed a lot.

For Aphrodite, I admit I hadn’t done a lot of research about her in this area, but Stephanie Lynn Budin’s The Origins of Aphrodite has become my manual when it comes to her, so I think this bit is a good introduction:

happy reading 🙂‍↕️