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“Crystalline Light,” reduction linocut, 2025. By William Hays

#the experimentaloatmeal gallery #reduction linocut #gorgeous

Minoan Thera Wallpainting Exhibition: Saffron (Crocus) Gatherers 17th C. BCE

"Xeste 3, Room 3a, first floor East Wall H: 2.44 / W: 2.66 m The ‘Saffron-Gatherers’ and the ‘Mistress of Animals’ constitute a series of wall-paintings that decorated room 3a on the first floor of Xeste 3. On the east wall, two women, one younger than the other, are depicted in a field of crocuses. The older figure is gathering the stamens of flowers with her right hand, while holding a basket in her left. The younger figure, with the shaved blue head, is gathering the stamens with both hands. The difference in age and the manner in which the two figures engage each other visually implies a teacher-student relationship. Scholars believe that either the Crocus Sativus or the Crocus Catwrightianus, are depicted in the wall-painting. The Crocus Sativus grows even today on the Aegean islands and mainland Greece, flowering for a few days at the end of the summer. Cultivated since antiquity, saffron, which is derived from the stamen of the crocus, has been used as a dye, a pharmaceutical product and a perfume for centuries. Uses of saffron in Akrotiri are likely to have included, but were not limited to, the dyeing of robes. Saffron-coloured robes are found throughout the wall-paintings, mostly adorning women. In Classical Greece, crocus dye was a symbol of supremacy and wealth. Saffron-coloured clothing is often mentioned in ancient mythology, tragedies, and poetry."

-taken from therafoundation

https://paganimagevault.blogspot.com/2020/01/minoan-thera-wallpainting-exhibition_48.html

#saffron!#minoan art #the experimentaloatmeal gallery

vividciggy

That was definitely Pyrrha's last cigarette

Bonus:

#the locked tomb #pyrrha dve #nona my beloved #the experimentaloatmeal gallery #CUTE

have-you-been-here

Inside a cave, anywhere on earth

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Remaining time: 4 days 7 hours

#unfortunately yes #have you been here #poll

ivy-michaels

Cancer doctor who’s in it to make people worse. Call that oncologically evil.

#puns

tomb-of-madeline

Stories of Elf World

#comic #the experimentaloatmeal gallery #the experimentaloatmeal library

pmamtraveller

"Everything Appears as it is: Infinite" by Alex Dodge

#oh.#the experimentaloatmeal gallery #alex dodge

ltwilliammowett

Portrait of the 'Mordaunt', Fourth Rate, built 1681, 46 guns, by Willem van de Velde, the Elder, circa 1683

#ships and the sea #the experimentaloatmeal gallery

an-ruraiocht

which of these classical texts have you read?

the iliad, the odyssey, and the aeneid

the iliad and the odyssey, not the aeneid

the iliad only

the odyssey only

the aeneid only

the aeneid and the iliad, not the odyssey

the aeneid and the odyssey, not the iliad

I have read none of these

Voting ended onJul 22

"what if I've read part of it" if it's a large enough part that you would consider yourself to Have Read It in general contexts, then it counts. if it's not, then it doesn't. only you can be the judge of that, but I'm not giving you a nuance button.

any translations count, but abridged retellings don't

obviously, there are lots of other classical texts out there. you might have read none of these and be an expert on greek tragedy. I'm not judging your classical knowledge so you don't need to tell me all that. I'm just curious about combos of these specific texts and their popularity, bc a post i just saw got me thinking about it

#i have never actually read the iliad #i'm afraid i'm just not that interested in what Achilles gets up to

gothicprep

are you gonna pick those penne noodles out of the boiling water one by one like a man, or are you gonna use a strainer like some kind of democrat?

#this post is ten years old

jimbo-jester

op disabled reblogs but I found this from this post. you should check out the reblogs they’re funny ash

Hi so that’s not a pun, that’s the turning point of the story. Hope this helps!

#all the bigots hate this movie so i want to watch it #all the critics love it so i want to watch it #unfortunately everything i hear from people who know the Odyssey makes it sound like it's just kind of bad #i want to enjoy it but i fear i will be disappointed #movies #the odyssey

fairycosmos

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle