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)

[medusaspeach]

When We Were Young (Birth of the Sky) Ouranos and Gaia

I love drawing the primordials because I feel like I can go more abstract and elemental in design with them, same thing goes for certain titans. Since Ouranos is the personification of the sky, I think it's fun to portray him as various sky phenomena.

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[irisharchaeology]

A Roman gold bracelet in the form of a coiled snake, it’s from Pompeii, circa 1st AD. 

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[greekbros]

(I'm canceling my trip to Greece)

(because why have fun planning everything when you're surrounded by people who seem to have a MASSIVE crank against you going)

(whatever I'm chronic loser to begin with, what's one more failed project to add to that)

[venomspecs]

Every ancient Greek material culture reference I could catch in La Odisea de los Lunnis (2006)! (Not all of them, just the ones I found worthy of mention lol)

Despite being a movie for kids made twenty years ago it has an inmense amount of love and care for the source material put into it (rosy-fingered dawn is mentioned several times, there's a joke about the Homeric question, it features characters rarely seen in most movie adaptations like Ino and Eupeithes...) and I recommend checking it out on youtube if you're interested (the automatic captions are far from perfect but they're not awful, though a lot of the very Spanish jokes can inevitably get lost in translation)

The references start with the intro, each character appears both in their puppet form and as a specific vase painting depicting them. I could not quite put my finger on what specific depiction of Penelope is shown here so if anyone has any idea do let me know!

Still in the intro, two rotating vases appear. On one of them we can spot the famous Achilles and Patroclus by the Sosias painter and Odysseus meeting Tiresias by the Dolon painter.

The city of Troy seems really accurate! It's clear the team behind the movie looked at reconstructions as inspiration. Menelaus' (the guy on the left in the two central images) shield is also a carbon copy of this hoplite's shield from a Corinthian vase! The general look of the soldiers seems to be inspired by this vase and similar ones too. (Top left recon. by Pablo Aparicio Resco) (Bottom left recon. by Archaeology Illustrated)

Armor that looks appropriately bronze-like! Yes! Like in the epics!

Odysseus' ship looks Greek! It even has eyes!!1 The shields feature designs such as the rooster and spiral from the vase on the previous section plus a gorgoneion and a bull head, as seen in vases such as the Chigi vase pictured on the right here. If you have any idea what specific piece of art the other shields could be referencing feel free to let me know.

The main area of the palace we see in the movie with an open ceiling could be inspired by Mycenaean megara like the megaron of Pylos, reconstructed here by Archaeology Illustrated. What is definitely a reference are the columns, which look basically identical to those built by Arthur Evans at the minoan site of Knossos, which are based on pictorical evidence (like the grandstand fresco shown here) despite being full reconstructions. The walls are also decorated with floral motifs which don't necessarily call back to any specific ancient Aegean fresco I could think of but still get the point that palace walls were decorated and not barren across!

In terms of costume I wanted to highlight these two. One of Penelope's servants wears a wrapped hairstyle commonly seen in Greek pottery. Circe's and Penelope's hairstyles also seem to be inspired by ancient iconography. Antinous wears a leopard's pelt around his shoulders, which could either be considered a luxury item or an indicator of the "wild", "uncivilized" nature of the suitors, both of which would be really appropriate for Antinous. Whatever the case, it's an artistic choice that has that homeric taste imo, calling back to people like Paris and Menelaus wearing leopard pelts in the Iliad.

There's definitely more stuff I could mention, but I think these are all the major details I noticed!

[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]

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