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lesbianarthistory

French School – Sappho on Lesbos (c. 1890)

clearbreathing

the ripple conch hair claw by yvmin

simena

Vasilii Kotarbinsky (detail)

greek-museums

I went to the Sanctuary of Aphrodite in Haidari today and there was a Bonsai exhibition focused on small, bonsai olive trees called Mories Elies (Sacred Olive Trees).

The exhibition refers to the ancient custom of guarding certain olive trees in Athens considered sacred because they were believed to originate from the first olive tree the goddess Athena planted.

coolthingoftheday

An agate stone that looks like a window to the ocean.

hadrian6

Cruel Love. 1889. Louis Maeterlinck Belgian 1846-1926. oil/canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

#eros

flaroh

Classicstober day 21: Psyche 🦋

#eros #psyche

mikeybooch

I've been reading Emily Wilson's translation of The Iliad and I'm about to make it everyone's problem.

Not enough people appreciate that Athena pulls Achilles hair to stop him from attacking Agamemnon. I'd like to think, had they been invented, she would have used a spray bottle.

Also, I know that my illustration of the Athena and Achilles scene is more generically classically inspired, and the Aphrodite and Helen illustration uses Bronze Age aesthetics. They're not meant to exist sequentially, I'm just vibin'.

virgin-martyr

“No longer, O honeytongued, holyvoiced maidens, can my limbs carry me. How I wish I were a kingfisher who flies above the blossoming foam with halcyons, fearless-hearted, a holy sea-purple bird.”

— Alkman, trans. by Diane Rayor from Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece

xec

ASSASSIN’S CREED ODYSSEY SCENERY ☾ City of Korinth, Korinthia

thegodwhocums

Hellenistic Egyptian bronze statuette (19 cm) from the Louvre, depicting a figure we might describe as intersex or transfeminine, posed looking back over her shoulder at her behind in a hand mirror.

I might editorialize to describe this as Hermaphroditos Kallipygos, though the Louvre listing contains no details as to who might be depicted.

kuutamosonaatti

Shira Barzilay, A Crazy Night in the Museum, 2022

finita--la--commedia

You want to crack him open and hold his heart in your hands, sink your fingers into the thin membrane of his lungs. You want to pull back his skin and curl up inside his ribcage. You want to know what he is inside. Find the symptom, the sickness, the anomaly that let him love you. You want to be warm again.

Shastra Deo, from “Arrhythmia“In: “The Agonist“ by Shastra Deo (via finita--la--commedia)