Reject Modernity, Embrace Antiquity 🏺🏛️🧿

(this used to be a Naruto blog dedicated to the Mist village but recently it has become a Greek mythology blog. if you would like Naruto content from this user please follow @askthemist , although it's currently dead, there's still a lot of hidden Mist village content to enjoy and the account will not be deleted)

[tetra28]

Artemis and Apollo!

[bodhi-devotee]

FROM AESCHYLUS’ AGAMEMNON

“Zeus, great nameless all in all,

if that name will gain his favour,

I will call him Zeus.

I have no words to do him justice,

weighing all in the balance,

all I have is Zeus, Zeus —

lift this weight, this torment from my spirit,

cast it once for all!”

— Fagles (Penguin) translation

this prayer makes me teary. just this quote alone makes me want to buy a translation of the play. i’ll have to do more research!

[polypharmakoss]

One of the songs from "La Odisea de los Lunnis" (In Ithaca, love awaits me)

The harmonica’s spot on, nothing to say about the lyrics apart from the fact that I know every word by memory, jajajaj and the aesthetics of the scene are what I like best, honestly. Whoever designed this gets a 10 from me, I love the shields taken from Greek vases YUPPYYY

@ulises-aithon @venomspecs @ironspdr6700 peak

[greekbros]

(POV: you're Brazilian and you've lost the world cup to some Norwegian caveman)

[berrieees]

Me watching the FIFA World Cup rn

[sgadank]

Been musing recently on how much I detest AI “art”, aka amalgamations of stolen artwork, so here’s a still from a “me in every universe” kind of thing I’m making for insta (which has taken 10x longer than originally planned…)🏺

The gif killed the original colours ;(

[floating-space-jellyfish]

A discovery at the temple

[buggeeart]

Recent studies! Part 1?

Of things I desperately needed to study… Especially backgrounds…

[theantiquariansarchive]

a bone figure of a standing woman, with lapis lazuli inlays in her eyes.

originating in egypt, from the Amratian culture, in the Naqada I period - roughly between 3,900 and 3,700.

The figure is currently on display at the British Museum.

[barbucomedie]

Marble Dedication from Melos, Greece dated between 100 - 200 CE on display at the British Museum in London, England

This dedication was made to Asclepius and Hygieia by someone called Tyche for the cure of an affliction of the left leg. Asclepius and Hygieia were the Greek gods of medicine, health and cleanliness worshipped at the shrine of Asklepios in Melos. The island of Melos became part of the Roman Empire during this time after the defeat of Macedonian forces. The Roman empire would have incorporated the local beliefs into their empire and so practices like this would have continued.

Photographs taken by myself 2024

[nutellapeachfish]

Heh, my heroes/j

Click for better quality cus tumblr suckz </3

[galusandmalus]

Happy 4th of July, when a bunch of rich white dudes said they didn't want to pay taxes to a bunch of other rich white dudes and made a big post that they frankly didnt actually seem to care about all that much. actions speak louder than words and holy shit was it quiet

i miss you Deganawida great peacemaker

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

source

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

Happy Litha-Summer Solstice, when the sun is at his peak, a fiery day… ~The sun, Helios, is all seeing (pantepoptes), when asked he confesses to Demeter that he has witnessed the abduction of Persephone by Hades. The sun reveals the beauty of  the natural world as it really is, and self-awareness showing mercy to those who have faced the cold too long and have paralysed, the flowers bloom underneath the therapeutic sun, we enjoy the playfulness of the sun rays on our skin and something awakens inside of us, we long for the long summer days. The sun can be proven  ruthless at other times, showing also the decay and responsibilities, the gap or deprivation, it burns the uninitiated one…one cannot be forced to face the sun, but introduced to it slowly…provided material or spiritual sunglasses…the sun can open eyes, too much sun at once can blind…Jacques Derrida  in his “Memoirs of the blind” claims that “the sun resembles the eye, the most “helioform” of all sense organs to the intelligible sun, that is, to the Good.“~ Vera Bousiou Helios on his Chariot (detail) by Hans Adam Weissenkircher

[kyleesarthell]

The Sphinx & The Griffin

[apollomes-supremacy]

Some Apollo inspired by this post <3

[viktorello]

The Iliad, Book 1: Apollo sends a plague upon the Greeks.