in love with impossibility

classicist in training - philology nerd - would rather be on a mountain somewhere

[peashooter85]

Mycenaean bronze daggers, Greece, 2nd millennium BC

[pariswasawoman]

Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein, 13 August 1895 – 10 January 1978) was a British painter.

In the 1920s and 30s Gluck became known for portraits and floral paintings; the latter were favoured by the interior decorator Syrie Maugham. Gluck insisted on being known only as Gluck, “no prefix, suffix, or quotes”, and when an art society of which Gluck was vice president identified Gluck as “Miss Gluck” on its letterhead, Gluck resigned. Gluck identified with no artistic school or movement and showed Gluck’s work only in solo exhibitions, where they were displayed in a special frame Gluck invented and patented. This Gluck-frame rose from the wall in three tiers; painted or papered to match the wall on which it hung, it made the artist’s paintings look like part of the architecture of the room.

One of Gluck’s best-known paintings, Medallion, is a dual portrait of Gluck and Gluck’s lover Nesta Obermer, inspired by a night in 1936 when they attended a production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. According to Gluck’s biographer Diana Souhami, “They sat in the third row and she felt the intensity of the music fused them into one person and matched their love.” Gluck referred to it as the “YouWe” picture. It was later used as the cover of a Virago Press edition of The Well of Loneliness. Gluck also had a romantic relationship with the British floral designer Constance Spry, whose work informed the artist’s paintings.

In 1944 Gluck moved to Chantry House in Steyning, Sussex, living with lover Edith Shackleton Heald until her death.

In the 1950s Gluck became dissatisfied with the artist’s paints available and began a “paint war” to increase their quality. Ultimately, Gluck persuaded the British Standards Institution to create a new standard for oil paints; however, the campaign consumed Gluck’s time and energy to the exclusion of painting for more than a decade.

In Gluck’s seventies, using special handmade paints supplied free by a manufacturer who had taken Gluck’s exacting standards as a challenge, Gluck returned to painting and had another well-received solo show. It was Gluck’s first since 1937, and Gluck’s last: Gluck died in 1978.

[aenigmaepoche]

Acropolis Athens,Greece Barbara Blue© 2009-2017

visit: http://aenigmaepoche.tumblr.com/

[thoodleoo]

a list of very good greek mice names from the battle of the frogs and the mice

Ψιχάρπαξ- crumbsnatcher

Τρωξάρτης- breadnibbler

Πτερνοτρώκτος- hamnibbler

Λειχοπίναξ- platelicker

᾿Εμβασίχυτρος- bowl-visitor

Τυρογλύφος- cheesecarver

Τρωγλοδύτης- hider-in-the-hole

Τυροφάγος- cheese-eater

Μεριδάρπαξ- sliversnatch

[humanoidhistory]

The Temple of Apollo in old Corinth, Greece, circa 1955, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

[winedarkarchive-deactivated2023]

the parthenon at the acropolis of athens

photo by me

[winedarkarchive-deactivated2023]

really missing athens right now.

[nunc-iam-illa-non-vult]

“Greek scholars use these books so much that a short memorable rhyme has been written to describe the seminal work: Liddell and Scott, Liddell and Scott: Some of it’s riddle, and some of it’s rot. That which is riddle was written by Liddell, That which is rot was written by Scott.”

— the LSJ wiki page (via ouketi)

[lawagetas]

i've written two essays on mycenae in the last week and i still can't fucking type mycenaeaean mycenaen mycenaean right first time

[flaroh]

Caryatids at dusk✨

☆Merch Here☆

[lvnnsi]

04/06/20 // god knows we like archaic kinds of fun // ig

[winedarkarchive-deactivated2023]

At the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.

[historyfilia-deactivated2025061]

Roman ruins of Hierapolis, Turkey

[classicalmonuments]

Parian Sphinx of Delos

Delos, Greece

6th century BCE

Ionic order

Sister sphinx with the Naxian sphinx of Delphi and the Cyrene Sphinx.

Notice the floral element breaking the volute member - super unique element of early Ionic capitals.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Paestan Fish-Plate.

Date: ca. 340-330 B.C.

Place of origin: South Italy, Paestum

Medium: Red-figure terracotta

[hynpos]

Greek tragedies be like: the female characters can have a little vengeance. as a treat.

[trulyvincent]

Kadiya Qasem is a British born Yemeni Greek photographer whose work explores themes of otherness, memory, identity and desire.