[hanarden]

oh hey 👋🏽 it’s been about three years (??) since I posted, but here’s my debut novel ‘of wisdom,’ an athena origin story, first in a trilogy, and it comes out september twenty-third 👍🏽✨🏛️🦉🇬🇷

[filthyprotozoan]

one thing about orpheus and eurydice is you guys are all like “i’m different i wouldnt turn to look at her” because you are all familiar with the story of orpheus and eurydice. but orpheus wasnt familiar with the story because he was in it lol.

[marthajefferson]

The Birth of Aphrodite - 1887, by Ivan Aivazovsky

The [painting] depicts the birth of Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty. According to Greek mythology, she was born from the churning sea-foam -‘aphros’ in Greek- and became the lover of Poseidon, the subject of Aivazovsky’s 1894 masterpiece Poseidon’s Travel over the Sea. The drama unfolding in the present work is heightened by a very limited colour palette and a dramatic use of moonlight on the water. Different shades and intensities of blue contrast sharply with the bright moonlight, illuminating the figure of Aphrodite as she is drawn up by winged cupids.

[chotomy]

Classics-tober Day 19: Hero

Odysseus THINKS he’s winning but Achilles has been stealth eating the pieces when he and Ajax aren’t looking

[catladyofficial]

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[sartorialadventure]

Gold, garnet, and glass earrings with a dove standing on an altar, Hellenistic Greek, 150-100 BCE

[halargian-deactivated20221216]

Millennial men whose understanding of the Trojan War comes exclusively from Troy (2004) and teenage girls whose understanding of the Trojan War comes exclusively from The Song of Achilles: fight

[yocalio]

THE MUMMY (1999) Dir. Stephen Sommers

[chotomy]

ok but helen and odysseus have SO much potential as a brotp. his lying/disguise skills + her vocal impression abilities? the chaos would be UNSTOPPABLE

[chotomy]

concept: the scene in little iliad where odysseus sneaks into troy to find the palladium and helen recognizes him, but it’s shot exactly like the window reunion scene from doctor who

[chotomy]

the little iliad is a lost epic so i’m just going to assume this is what happened :)

[hanarden]

I was of Okeanos, a strange hybrid of Olympian and Oceanid that bore no name, which none knew what to do with. Metis had given me their hair, their height, and long limbs, but pater had given me gold. He had given me precision with a sword, thunder, and thick ichor which the very world obeyed. But that was lost now, lost in a labyrinth, and I had not left a thread to find my way through.

- the gods were greek, wip

[quaristices]

[grumble-grumble]

Hildegard von Bingen’s 23 litterae ignotae, letters for her constructed mystical language Lingua Ignota. ca. 1200

[euridicae-deactivated20210823]

“i’ve always preferred mythology to history. history is truth that becomes an illusion. mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.” ― jean cocteau

[karolpilberg]

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

[intrinsictragicbeauty]

Antinous 12 Henrietta Street Dublin

[hanarden]

"Gaia. Artemis had always spoken of it so freely, but that was understandable; she and Apollo had been born there. Air was different down there. Thicker. And the mortals were heavy. They could not move quickly, could not climb a tower twice the size of a mountain and jump without perishing. They were slower in mind too, unaware of the reality of their world. Nothing bent to their will, their frames unchanging but ageing. Agonising. I did not envy them."

- the gods were greek, (wip)

[hanarden]

first year of classics done