[vor-leser]

someone save paris, his gay ass does NOT know how to fight

close-up + live helen reaction:

[valtsv]

i'm like a fujoshi but for dead people

[valtsv]

fu(neral)joshi... tombjoshi... we'll workshop it

[justvea18]

Look at my generals brah ladies the war

[matar-kubileya]

i refuse 2 believe that the romans werent aware of the existence of the galli b4 they introduced the worship of cybele 2 rome. & yet they were still so pissed off. like well Tough Luck. u want the goddess, u get the eunuchs 2 Okay its like a 2-for-1 deal.

[necrophilologist]

this is a love story

[artimpasa]

my favourite tragedy...

[thoodleoo]

pliny voice it's very simple. a porpoise is like a dolphin but sadder and with a sort of hateful aura to it

[capacity2]

Help

[122deca--art]

little deidamia/pyrrha sketch for @kyleesarthell!

[bulljumpingfresco]

The Acropolis, Athens

[matar-kubileya]

i need 2 find the bit of the dionysiaca where nonnus says that attis has a woman's voice . bc i'm sure the idea is that attis was castrated b4 his voice dropped, but this doesn't rlly make sense chronologically when taken w the other depictions of this myth (not of course that nonnus strictly adheres 2 earlier iterations of these stories). so i'm choosing 2 believe in attis voice training #mytruth

[starweaverblog]

My contribution to make people buy Euripides "The Bacchae" because it's one the finest works of his showcasing Dionysus power to its fullest

[greekmythcomix]

Suddenly remembered this stupid thing I made and can’t remember if I ever posted it here

(Hey Odyssey fans please also enjoy my interactive book and audiobook podcast YOU ARE ODYSSEUS 👍)

[the-puffinry]

Engraved Scaraboid with Aphrodite Riding a Goose, about 400 B.C.E.

Aphrodite riding on a goose. Terracotta from Locri, Calabria, Italy. Made in Boeotia c. 470 – 460 BC. [this actually looks like a swan to me; look at the upper beak?].

Aphrodite on a goose, 2nd-1st Century B.C.E.

Aphrodite riding on a goose, 380 BCE, Taranto.

Relief of Aphrodite on a goose, 50 BCE-100 CE, Italy.

Terracotta figurine of Aphrodite seated on a goose, 3rd to 2nd century BCE, Cyprus.

[pentheus-of-thebes]

do i look like my mother?

yes :)

no :(

Voting ended onJun 27

[tridentandtales]

Greek belt buckle embossed with a winged siren's head

500 - 475 BCE

British Museum 1855,1122.2

[theodysseyofhomer]

[butchaeneas]

i have nothing particularly new to say right now, but i'm thinking about how ages ago i read this article on jstor which discussed the similarities between agave in the bacchae and attis in cat63 through the lens of maenadism - theyre both women who are driven mad and do something they later regret. and of course catullus chooses to mention maenads in the poem, drawing those connections between attis and these female followers of dionysus, perhaps to the bacchae itself, but i also think there are a lot of differences between the two women - background, motivation, relationship with the deity in question etc. agave is a queen, who has chosen to shun dionysus and semele and is punished for her impiety, whereas attis is fleeing her privileged life in greece to devote herself to cybele, so i wonder whether, out of all the characters in bacchae, attis is perhaps more similar to the asian maenads who accompany dionysus to greece, or perhaps like pentheus, in the sense that at the end she is completely alone and vulnerable, shunned by the community she wishes to join/rejoin.

[matar-kubileya]

i actually think that attis in catullus 63 is the least comparable 2 pentheus out of all the versions of their myth. i mean, for example, in the tradition version of the attis myth, u have the parallels of the destruction of the city (pessinos or thebes), the pine tree (either produced or destroyed) & the symbolic & separation from the men of the city too. & ofc both r being punished 4 their lack of devotion 2 the god. idk tho