laura/antoine's e-shrines

laura/antoine (she/he), xxvi, from italy. this is my main HELLENIC POLYTHEISM blog. if you want to find my e-shrines, go on "shrines"!

[athenaeum-of-the-herald-deactiv]

Books are expensive, Hermes thinks learning about your religion should be free.

They're just the basics and only a few, but feel free to ask me to add anything and I'll try my best!

[artifacts-archive]

Pair of Earrings

Eastern Mediterranean, Greek, circa 500 B.C.

[memories-of-ancients]

Rhyton in the shape of a dog's head, Greece, circa 480 BC

from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

[medusaspeach]

Some Minoan princesses 🧶

bonus sad Ariadne

[justanotherass]

hercules sweet-talking atlas

[menelaiad]

THEBAID READALONG / #THEBAIDRAL STARTING IN JANUARY 2024.

the thebaid is a latin epic by statius that derives from the greek tradition and follows the story of an exiled polynices who gathers together seven greek princes to wage war on his brother, eteocles.

it's an incredible work and one i am really, really fond of! i've been wanting to re-read it for a while and so starting in january 2024 and crossing into february 2024, i'm hosting a chill, low-key readalong of the thebaid! i plan on opening a discord and using the hashtag above and stuff to talk about it and you're more than welcome to join in, but if you just wanna' use these dates to keep you on track for your own private reading of the text - that's cool too!

the discord will open late december/early january (just before we start reading) and if you want to be a part of that let me know and i'll be sure to invite you when it opens, but again, no obligation!

i have a copy of the text on pdf if anybody needs it, but any version/translation/language works! i just love this epic so much! 🧡

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

really interesting article about whales in the ancient greek world 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274417447_A_Ketos_in_Early_Athens_An_Archaeology_of_Whales_and_Sea_Monsters_in_the_Greek_World/link/5c4f97bca6fdccd6b5d16197/download

[thecollectibles]

Greek Gods series by RuiRiel

[catilinas]

im gonna eat this guy's phd thesis ouhgufdhg

[mikeybooch]

Thetis and Icarus, imagined in an Aegean Bronze Age aesthetic. Get into it.

[evilios]

I have a big collection of PDFs with books and articles on Ancient history, religion, and culture - and I'd like to share it with others.

This link leads to a table with sources on Greco-Roman myths, culture, history, and religion: 🏺

This link leads to a folder with PDFs on majorly Greek, Roman, and Greco-Roman culture & more. However, I also have some books on Slavic and Thracian religion and culture as well as sources on studying Latin and Ancient Greek languages: 🏺

[taniabaj]

Sketchbook - Minoan and Mycenaean Art serie

[starrywisdomsect]

Oedipus Rex  (1957)

This adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy (in a translation by William Butler Yeats) looks almost the way it would have when staged in the 5th century BC. Stentorian oration and carefully posed tableaux abound, giving the film an uncanny atmosphere somewhere between a black mass and puppet theater.

[iliosflower]

Shrine of the Nymphs, Athens, Greece

[moishe-pipick]

Terracotta relief plaque ('Melian relief'): Eos carries off Kephalos.

490 BC-470 BC

[dum-studeo]

Guess what? Folder link.

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Can’t get over this 1986 description of a vase in the J. Paul Getty Museum:

‘A bearded reveller with broad dotted fillet and wreath, naked but for a mantle slung over his left shoulder and his left and upper right arms, appears in his great excitement almost unaware of his boy-servants rescue operation. The small procession, on its way to the right, has come to a stop, and the boy must have turned around to answer his master’s call for a substitute receptacle: “ἀμίδα παῖ”. The reveller’s grand gesture, half-open mouth, and inspired upward gaze seem to reflect his devotion to the god whose gift he must have sampled to a great extent, as well as to express his pathetic urgency. Yet, because of his aroused state, nature’s call is forced to wait. The boy’s attitude, however, is calm and matter of fact. While shouldering his master’s knotty stick, together with the strings of a picnic basket, neatly covered by a fringed embroidery napkin, he proffers the large jug and steadies it to wait things out.’

Sir. Just say it’s a vase of a drunk man trying to piss in a jug a kid is holding for him.