[lionofchaeronea]

Wall painting on black background from the Roman Imperial villa at Boscotrecase, depicting an aedicula and miniature landscape.  Artist unknown; last decade of the 1st cent. BCE.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[dickmaster]

Cunty little thing isnt it

[rosieandthemoon]

By Melanie Miller

[firagasoap]

Broccoli Knuckle Duster by David Delahunty

[kyrasaphira]

Statuette of Venus made from rock crystal quartz (Roman, 1st century BC)

[arinewman7]

Summer: Cat on a Balustrade

Théophile Steinlen

lithograph in colors, 1909

[ripteyed]

found a little path down to this secret pool

[fragrantblossoms]

Joseph Cornell. Series of Jeanne Eagels, 1963. Collage.

[filthburger]

[nobrashfestivity]

Marcel Marien, Star Dancer, 1991

[hamletofficial]

In The Odyssey, Odysseus is extraordinary for the flexibility with which he can inhabit many different names, or no name at all. It is this quality of being multinamed and nameless that enables him to survive. By contrast, almost all the warriors of The Iliad yearn to have a name and a story that lasts forever. Their many names and titles, as sons and brothers and comrades and fathers and rulers, are essential to their identities, their connections with one another, and their fame after death. They fear, above all, being humiliated (cursed with a negative name), or forgotten and nameless. The lists and catalogs of names are essential to the poem’s own work, of memorializing and mourning the dead. Once the bodies return to dust, these syllables are all that remain.

– Emily Wilson, Translator's note for The Iliad.

[vangoghcore]

bytiffanynewman

[pukicho]

They introduced a roaming minotaur to my local public library which really adds a lot of fear to the whole place

[anthropoetics]

faye wei wei, i've always been a weeper at the cinema, 2019

[petaltexturedskies]

Found a shy little friend (pic taken by soleatto)

[emmaklee]

a little glass man found on the beach

[metmuseum]

Glass Fragment. 12th–14th century. Credit line: Gift of Ella Brummer, in memory of her husband, Ernest Brummer, 1977 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466029