your father sent me to teach you

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Laocoon and His Sons / Gruppo del Laocoonte (detail)

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Theseus Defeats the Centaur - Antonio Canova

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Απλα πανεμορφο blog!

αχ! ευχαριστώ πολύ, χαίρομαι να το απολαύσετε!!

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"Perseus with the Head of Medusa", 1806, Antonio Canova.

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Mercury, Augustin Pajou, 1780 Musée du Louvre, Paris

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The Blinding of Polyphemus.  Tiberius’ villa at Sperlonga.

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i LOVE this account sooo much :)

thank you very much! it’s a pleasure to be running it for folks like you. 

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lechner13:

Wien - Vienna  2014

by   http://lechner13.tumblr.com

Neptune Fountain next to Albertina Museum; Vienna, Austria

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Statue of Zeus at Versaille

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Hercules

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Heracles and Nessus - Giambologna

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Bacchus a Ariadna.

Eustache Le Sueur.

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Apollo and Daphne - Bernini

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Super Moon Rises over The Temple of Poseidon

“Yesterday’s view from Sounion, Greece. The visitors of the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon watch the perigee full moon rising, but i was photographing the scene from 2km (1,2 miles) at their back.” — Elias Chasiotis

The temple of Poseidon was constructed in 444-440 BC, over the ruins of a temple dating from the Archaic Period. It is perched above the sea at a height of almost 60 m. The design of the temple is a typical hexastyle i.e. it had a front portico with 6 columns. Only some columns of the Sounion temple stand today, but intact it would have closely resembled the contemporary and well-preserved Temple of Hephaestus beneath the Acropolis, which may have been designed by the same architect. [**]

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Thank you for a wonderful blow of ancient world myths. I am going to celebrate my 50th prep school reunion this spring and remember how those courses on ancient history stirring a life-time of reading and exploring. Love Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series, which I read and re-read about every other year. Again thank you!

Ancient myth and history are a couple of my passions so I'm happy you can also enjoy them through my blog! Thanks for the kind words!! 

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Achilles (head detail) by Innocenzo Fraccaroli 

Villa Reale di Milano, Italy.

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Daedalus and Icarus - Charles Le Brun

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François Boucher: Mercury Giving Lessons to Cupid, 1738.