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instant loss 2koma

The really funny part is that many modern sources that want to gas up Sparta will bring up this specific anecdote, but stop at the "if" and just not mention what happened immediately afterwards.

elucubrare

similarly, "μολὼν λαβέ" (come and take them) is a really cool thing to say, made significantly less cool by having them taken

what-even-is-thiss

Spartan propaganda usually only works if you stop right before the end of the story tbh

dduane

Cf. also the Wikipedia entry for Laconophilia. This particular line of wishful-thinking/cherry-picking BS has been going on for a long time. 😏

erinbowbooks

I am one of the lucky ten thousand who just learned that the root of “laconic” (meaning using few words (in a cool way)) is Lakon, an ancient name for the region around Sparta.

Ancient Sparta may not actually be cool but etymology is.

#laconia #sparta #laconophilia #lakon #etymology #laconic

thewindowofthesummerhouse

Yan Lucas Migóne

#yan lucan migóne

caedeis

Sometimes, faces return to me as blurry shapes. We remember a smile, a shadow, a ray of light… but never truly their features. Just the impression of someone, which lingers. When the outlines fade, the landscape becomes memory; In my dreams, everything is blurry. I never retain the details, only the feeling, the breath of the places and faces that pass through me.

#soft pastel #drawing #contemporarydrawing #traditional art

caedeis

I wanted to create an image where several states coexist without ever fully settling. Two very close presences, almost absorbed into one another, crossed by something coming both from outside and within. I didn’t think of this image as a narrative scene. More as an apparition in progress, a fragile form trying to hold itself together. The fire behind them is not really a background. It is more like an unstable light, an energy contaminating the image and transforming the bodies. I like the idea of the image remaining open, never completely fixed.

theme song 1

#soft pastel #traditional art #drawing #ethereal

caedeis

In these two drawings, I tried to depict suspended moments. Air, light, and water occupy an important place. I do not want to create merely decorative settings, but settings charged with something, like a shifting substance, as if they too were entitled to a presence. At the same time, I do not want to represent them fully; I would like them to remain in the realm of apparition.

theme song 1 2

#pasteldrawing #mixedmediaart #dreamlike #graphite #alteredimage #memory #ethereal

caedeis

For a long time, I wondered what I should draw, and why. It is still a question that deeply concerns me. I draw from simple images, often connected to childhood or familiar landscapes. I transform them in order to make something emerge. I am not trying to narrate a scene, but to create a displacement. The figures remain recognizable, yet they are crossed through, altered, as if something else were acting through them. There is often an additional presence: a light, a form, an energy. Not as a symbol, but as something that appears suddenly. I am interested in that moment when the image shifts, when it becomes unstable, when it begins to produce a sensation rather than a narrative. What I do exists somewhere between apparition and transformation, images that are never completely fixed. theme song 1 2

#drawing #magical art #softpastel #colored pencil #collage #artists on tumblr