Apollo My Beloved

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Yes, I love RRverse Apollo. As well as TOA for its excellent theming and writing

Yes, I hate almost all Greek mythology adaptations, including Percy Jackson!! for their inaccuracy and lack of nuance when it comes to the source material and inaccuracies when it comes to the gods Apollo specifically

Yes these things can coexist

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This art piece is more of a love note to Apollo himself as I've been healing for 6 days now and I do reach out to him in practices at times

But I also deeply missed drawing him so even though this isnt super clean, me drawing him first after a medical leave felt important :)

And now I can get back to work...

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apollo in the summer while everyone else is getting air fried

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Peaceful 🌾

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Little Apollo from class

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The head of Apollo, recovered during excavation in the ancient Greek city of Philippi in 2023 by archaeologists the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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A slightly smaller than lifesize statue of Apollo, striding forward with his left leg.

The position of the legs and the figure's frontal presentation give the statuette an Archaic look, similar to the Greek kouroi or the early classical successors of the Kritias Boy. Other features are later than the Archaic period, particularly the subtle torsion of the shoulders, chest and hips which give the statue animation. The arms deviate from each other in breach of the archaic kouros tradition. The left arm hangs close to the torso and is bent at the elbow in the standard kouros mode while the right opens out more widely to the side and rests on the strut.

The left hand probably grasped something that is now missing. The typical attributes of the Apollo (the bow, arrow, and laurel) are all rendered in relief on the strut.

The statue has lost much of its original surface and the front has been repaired with plaster filling. Nevertheless, the treatment of the muscles is ancient; the body has the physique of a youthful Apollo with a slender waist and elongated legs. The torso is solid and evokes early classical iconography. The head however is in a different style. It sits on a long neck and has a square-oval face with thick regular curls that sweep off the face to tuck under a fillet. Behind the ears the locks are longer and hang as a single mass onto the nape of the neck, loop up and tuck under the fillet and fold over to descend once again, the overall movement being a zig-zag one. The forehead is broad and offset by the elongated jaw, the eyes are long and almond shaped under a low brow, their expression is one of concentration and dominates the face with the lightly chiselled iris and pupil. The nose is strong and the mouth is slightly open. Ashmole proposed that the iris and pupil were modern but Bartman viewed them both as ancient features. The geometry, regularity and naturalism of the face suggest Greek high classical period or - again according to Bartman - of the severising early classical period.

See

Ashmole, B. 1986 Classical Antiquities from Private Collections in Great Britain: a Loan Exhibition in Aid of the Ashmole Archive. Sotheby's

Bartman, E. 2016-17 The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture Vols 1-3. Liverpool University Press

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The Piraeus Apollo, discovered in a votive pit during building works in the ancient harbor of Piraeus in July 1959, along with the Piraeus Athena and Piraeus Artemis, two Hermaic stelae, a mask, a shield, and other objects, by archaeologist John Papadimitriou. It is almost perfectly preserved, with minor damages and cracks, lacking only whatever would have been in the hands.

Traces of the missing objects are still visible: the left hand held a bow and the right a bowl, which may have been made of gold, confirming - along with the treatment of the hair - the identification of the figure as Apollo.

Once thought to date to the late Archaic period (530–480 BC) and to have come from a workshop of north-east Peloponnese, the figure shows an increased plasticity atypical of that tradition. He strides forward with his right leg, instead of the usual left, and his head is slightly bent to the front and right, abandoning the strictly frontal viewing position of the kouroi. His hair is rendered in a more naturalistic way than had previously been the case: it is tied with a band and forms spiraling curls over the forehead. It is now thought to belong to the Hellenistic period.

See

Dafas, K. A. 2019. Greek Large-Scale Bronze Statuary: The Late Archaic and Classical Periods, Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Monograph, BICS Supplement 138

Mattusch, C. 2019 Classical Bronzes: the Art and Craft of Greek and Roman Statuary

Palagia, O. 1997 “Reflections on the Piraeus Bronzes,” in Greek Offerings: Essays on Greek Art in Honour of John Boardman

Palagia, O. 2016 Towards a publication of the Piraeus bronzes: the Apollo

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Apollo drawing :)

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Apollo! God of the silver bow 🌟

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Divine couples of Greek mythology

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A lost-wax bronze sculpture of Apollo in the pose of an archer; one of the first large-scale bronzes to be excavated at Pompeii. Most of it was found in three large fragments in 1817 just north of the forum. The right foot, right hand and the left arm were found over 300 metres away in 1818. Markings on a pedestal in the colonnaded courtyard of the Temple of Apollo match the position of the statue's feet exactly, demonstrating that it had originally stood there, a pair to the bronze figure of Diana discovered in 1817.

The location of the statue at the time of its discovery may be explained by the fact that the temple was undergoing repairs at the time of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, with the statue moved for safekeeping for the duration.

The statue was reconstructed in 1825, again in 1860, and conserved in 2009. The original is in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, with a replica on site at Pompeii.

See

Carroll, M. and Godden, D. 2000 'The Sanctuary of Apollo at Pompeii: Reconsidering chronologies and excavation history'. American Journal of Archaeology 104/4, 743-54

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(The celestial twins of Zeus, Artemis and Apollo)

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Phoebus Apollo ☀️

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If you (like me) are white and indulge in my content read this entire post I beg.

So im a greek mythology blog and that frankly comes with a lot of racial baggage! For years and years non greek Europeans and greeks have used ancient greece as a symbol of white superiority. I want to make it very clear DAMN them all the HELL. This blog is NOT an safe space for people who parrot shit about greece being a “beacon of civilization we need to return to“

You may not even recognize consciously falling into thought traps like that due to being raised in white supremacy so please take time to unlearn them. In application this can look like:

“ancient greece was the most advanced civilization of its time“

“ancient greece had the best art“

“ancient greek was uniquely gay or smth“

it was an major civilization yes but like every civilization ever it had it's pros and cons. You since a child have probably heard people hyping it up while simultaneously diminishing BIPOC advancements and art. Art is subjective you can prefer greek art but that does not make it superior in any way!

Not to mention the lack of knowledge of BIPOC advancements and art due to this systemic erasure and destruction of them!

Also while queer people have always existed and my fav (Apollon) has several male lovers countless BIPOC civilizations were WAY more queer!

Also ancient greece was closest culturally and great partners with ancient Egypt having developed several syncrotinisms among the pantheons. Ancient Egypt contrary to what main stream media might have you believe was BLACK! Ancient greece was much closer to Africa than it was Britain or Spain!! The social concept of race as we know now did not exist back then. (although the greeks were xenophobic as hell((there's a reason I don't say I like ancient greek societal standards)))

All this to say while I may be a bit obsessed with ancient greek art and mythology Ancient greece was in no way more special than any other civilization (Esp the other prominent ones!) and beiliving otherwise is white supremacy/ white exceptionalism.