Ἄρχων Μέγας

29, Paris

[perriaeyjeve]

[unusual-suspects]

Dance of Salomé by Leopold Schmutzler

[romegreeceart]

Ara Pacis Augustae, slab of the sacrificial table

1st century BCE

Rome, July 2015

[chaosophia218]

Joseph Bonomi - Gallery of Antiquities (book cover), 1842.

[vor-leser]

redrew that one pottery painting with my own designs >:)

[liusia-piu]

Archangel Raphael with the bowl of Hygieia

[talonabraxas]

Full moon at the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio, Greece

[nixscriptum]

[enchantedbook]

'A Centaur playing with his Son' by Otto Bache, (1839 - 1927).

[jay-kell-art]

Bacchus 8x10

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Fresco of the myth of Perseus and Andromeda, 1st century BC The imperial villa at Boscotrecase, near Pompeii Met Museum, NY (20.192.16)

[celestialkiri]

Guess who's been into Greek mythology in these two months? Yeah, that's me, and I had to draw Hermes.

[antonio-m]

"Nude in a Landscape", by August Achtenhagen (1865-1938). German artist. oil on panel

[vicomaco]

Calypso & Odysseus :’)

[bullofthestarrysky]

“In piety towards the gods, I would have you know, the chief element is this, to have right opinions about them—as existing and as administering the universe well and justly—and to have set yourself to obey them and to submit to everything that happens, and to follow it voluntarily, in the belief that it is being fulfilled by the highest intelligence. For if you act in this way, you will never blame the gods, nor find fault with them for neglecting you. But this result cannot be secured in any other way than by withdrawing your idea of the good and the evil from the things which are not under our control, and placing it in those which are under our control, and in those alone […] For where a man’s interest lies, there is also his piety. Wherefore, whoever is careful to exercise desire and aversion as he should, is at the same time careful also about piety. But it is always appropriate to make libations, and sacrifices, and to give of the first fruits after the manner of our fathers, and to do all this with purity, and not in a slovenly or careless fashion, nor, indeed, in a niggardly way, nor yet beyond our means.”

— Epictetus, Encheiridion 31

[isabellaanzanello]

Fresco in the Orchard House, so named for the frescoes depicting fruit tree in two cubicle In the archaeological area of Pompeii.

[the-evil-clergyman]

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses by John William Waterhouse (1891)