Artemis + Athena

Athena || Faith // 16 Artemis ||Katie // 17

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Thesis Project Part 2 including: Hades, Demeter, Zeus, Athena, Apollo, and Hermes.

PRINTS / PART 1

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maenad; female follower of dionysus, the greek god of winemaking and ritual madness. the word maenad comes from the greek maenades, meaning “mad” or “demented.” during the orgiastic rites of dionysus, maenads roam the mountains and forests, performing frenzied, ecstatic dances, possessed by dionysus himself. while under his influence, they possess unusual strength, including the ability to tear animals or people to pieces.

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Name Aesthetics | Greek Gods & Goddesses

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greek mythology → tragedies

and did they not have everything? these beautiful, tragic beings. did they not have strength to move mountains, gold enough to buy the heavens, beauty to rival aphrodite and freedom to soar amongst the clouds? and yet not one could claim happiness. not one could show a true smile.

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Temple of Hephaestus, Athens

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Thesis Project Part 1 including: Hera, Ares, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Artemis, and Poseidon.

PRINTS / PART 2

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Modern Gods | Hephaestus

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Modern Mythology: Callisto

“I do not know who I am, where I am going — and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.”

A modern Callisto who still resembles the constellations that used to be her bones and she can’t remember how it is to be human. Something raw crawls beneath her skin and she is just as far away from this earth as the stars as her feet learn again how to walk upon the forests she once knew. Only her eyes are human these days, everything else is still trying to remember, though her limbs resist, knowing that on this earth, she lost all she has ever known, and all she can do is roam, only welcoming the wild into her arms. However, there are times she makes her way outside of the darkness, but only in search of ghosts, for the one that has brought her death twice, and she would still find a way to give him the world if he asked. She peers into all of the eyes of men, hoping they match her own, hoping they hold starlight. Some days, she finds them in everyone, her son is everywhere, his voice in the winds that chill her to the bone. And she prays for the stars again, for it was in the heavens that she wasn’t alone.

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GREEK MYTHOLOGY MEME | [4/7] MORTAL MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES: HYACINTHUS

Hyacinthus was a handsome Spartan prince that was fiercely loved by the gods Apollo and Zephyros. Zephyros, known as The West Wind, grew jealous of his rival Apollo and one day as the pair were playing discus, blew the discus off course causing it to strike Hyacinthus in the head and kill him. The grieving Apollon then transformed the dying youth into a larkspur flower (hyakinthos in Greek) which he inscribed with the wail of mourning “AI, AI.”

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GREEK MYTHOLOGY MEME | [5/7] MORTAL MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES: DANAE

Danae was the daughter of Acrisius, King of Argos and Eurydice from Sparta. When the delphic oracle of Apollo revealed that the king of Argos would die at the hands of his grandson the king confined Danae, together with her nursemaid, into a bronze tower to ensure she would not lose her virginity. However, Zeus, once he gazed upon her beauty, fell in love with her. Zeus then transformed himself into a bright shower of gold to be able to visit her inside the tower. There they made love and Danae would later give birth to her son, Greek Hero Perseus. When Danae’s father Acrisius discovered the baby, he furiously cast them both out to sea in a wooden chest, but they floated ashore to the Isle of Seriphos where they were rescued by a brave fisherman named Dictys. She would later come to rule over her father’s people, alongside her son Perseus.

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icarus never had a mother, or so the myths say. we know of his father, of his melting wings, his broken body floating in the salt sea. but when he was a boy, his mother tugged her fingers through his wild curls, held him close to her and told him, “one day you will reach the stars.” icarus lost his mother in winter, to fever and delirium. before she died, she told him “don’t listen to your father, for his dreams are bigger than you.” daedelus told his son, “your mother had a small mind. she never could have flown.”

the boy thinks of his mother as he falls (via reneeswlker)

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John William Godward, In the Days of Sappho, 1904

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Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Consummation, 1835-6

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Greek Mythology: Hades x Persephone w/Oscar Isaac as Hades and Sophie Turner as Persephone

“I asked him for it. For the blood, for the rust, for the sin. I didn’t want the pearls other girls talked about, or the fine marble of palaces, or even the roses in the mouth of servants. I wanted pomegranates— I wanted darkness, I wanted him. So I grabbed my king and ran away to a land of death, where I reigned and people whispered that I’d been dragged. I’ll tell you I’ve changed. I’ll tell you, the red on my lips isn’t wine. I hope you’ve heard of horns, but that isn’t half of it. Out of an entire kingdom he kneels only to me, calls me Queen, calls me Mercy. Mama, Mama, I hope you get this. Know the bed is warm and our hearts are cold, know never have I been better than when I am here. Do not send flowers, we’ll throw them in the river. ‘Flowers are for the dead’, ‘least that’s what the mortals say. I’ll come back when he bores me, but Mama, not today.”    ―    Daniella Michalleni