beliefs and myths from ancient times

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[arjuna-vallabha]

[hildegardavon]

arjuna-vallabha

Louis Hector Leroux, 1829-1900

Temple Sacerdotesses / Temple Priestesses, n/d, oil on canvas, 91,4x50,8 cm 

Private Collection

[xshayarsha]

MEGARA: You love the light so much? AMPHITRYION: I do, I love its hopes.

Euripides [trans. Anne Carson] from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides; Herakles. (via kehrouac)

[centuriespast]

Earrings with Nike, Greek, about 225-175 BC, gold and glass. The J. Paul Getty Museum.

[gemma-antiqua]

Ancient Roman gold ring with a glass intaglio engraved with an image of Venus Victrix leaning on a column, dated to the 2nd to 3rd centuries CE. Source: Medusa Ancient Art. 

[ancientjewels]

Pair of Hellenistic Greek gold, glass, and stone earrings featuring an Egyptian Atef crown motif, c. 3rd-2nd centuries BCE. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[aleyma]

Silver locket with Cupid and the inscription ‘Noe Heart More True Than Mine To You’. Made in England, 1690-1700. (source).

[2seeitall]

Ancient roman amphoras, Pompeii, Italy

[firsttimeuser]

Diana hunting..

sculpture by Haig Patigian

[medusa-must-live]

To me, Hermes is the sensation of the wind against me as I run; The happiness of sharing a good conversation with my friends; The laugh that comes from my mouth whenever I hear or share a joke. This is magical and precious, so thank you, Hermes.

[falanx]

Dionysos Maenoles, raging wine-dark God, all I can ask is your love and your fury. When I am broken, I do not have to be remade; remind me each crack in my being has a reason to be; remind me my anger is righteous in its own way. Teach me moderation even as you teach me release.  Like Ariadne love me, take me for your own; like Pentheus tear me apart.

Dionysos prayer, for winedarkrage // r.s.b. (via falanx)

[trans-pagans]

Trans and nonbinary laurel wreaths

[arjuna-vallabha]

Athena and Poseidon contesting the position of patron god of Athens

[sigourapote]

Fred Boissonnas (1858-1946)

/ on the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis, Athens-(?)1903 /

[terpsikeraunos]

“ὃ δ᾽ ὄλβιος, ὅν τινα Μοῦσαι φίλωνται: γλυκερή οἱ ἀπὸ στόματος ῥέει αὐδή. - But he is blessed, whomever the Muses love: Sweet speech flows from his mouth.”

— Hesiod, Theogony 96-7. (via terpsikeraunos)

[gemma-antiqua]

Ancient Greek wreath of golden oak leaves, dated to the 2nd to 1st centuries BCE. Source: civilization.ca.

[gemma-antiqua]

Ancient Greek roundel with the god Apollon, dated to the Hellenistic period, and more specifically to 150-100 BCE. Currently located in the MFA Boston, the museum stated that this roundel would have been an ornament on a horse’s bridle.

[karinelsonphotography]

Temple of Athena Nike | Kari L. Nelson