lararium 💌

the future has an ancient heart. reconstructionist graeco-roman polytheism. maenad. nympholet. 𓆸 𓆸 𓆸

[oineroi]

"the vineyard", dialogues with leucò, cesare pavese

[oineroi]

hi i am starting as a roman polytheist and was wondering if you had any recommendations for blogs (by roman polytheists or about roman polytheism) so i can talk to more polytheists..! ❣️

welcome to the practice!

i follow more hellenic polytheists than roman polytheists to be honest, but i love @ditipatri's blog, they have very informative posts full of resources for roman deities and festivals.

unfortunately i myself don't really talk to any roman polytheists here on tumblr but i would love to get to know more people now that i have more free time (uni is destroying me)

so if you are a roman polytheist and want to make friends feel free to reblog this!!

[vetyr]

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

Meant to upload this much earlier! I’ve been working on commissions recently, and it’s always lovely to take time for a personal piece.

If you want to stay up to date on my art, definitely keep an eye on my instagram (@vetyyr) and twitter (@vetyyr)—I’m less scatterbrained about posting there!

[oineroi]

The Lokrian goddess: an interpretation of the abduction of Persephone in Magna Graecia

The myth of Persephone is well known to a lot of polytheists through the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, but in 1889 archaeologists unearthed some pinakes (votive tablets) from the shrine to Persephone (the famous Persephoneion) in the greek colony of Epizephyrian Locri (modern day Calabria, Italy), that contain a different version of the myth.

In these plaques, her mother Demeter is absent and Persephone is depicted as "willing bride and powerful underworld queen". Persephone does not return.

This is because local women turned to Persephone for assistance in biological and social transitions. The pinakes draw the goddess into a set of experiences that map a mortal woman's life: for example, one of the most popular motifs is the abduction of a maiden by a man on his chariot. The maiden's emotional reactions to her own abduction range from terror to active affection: these depictions represent the complex reactions that the worshippers brought to the cult.

[cultof-aphrodite]

Moodboard: Everyday life in Ancient Crete; Minoan Civilization. 🌿

Minoan, Any member of a non-Indo-European people who flourished (c. 3000–c. 1100 BC) on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age. The sea was the basis of their economy and power. Their sophisticated culture, based at Knossos, was named for the legendary King Minos. It represented the first high civilization in the Aegean area.

[ancienthistoryart]

Temple of Aphaia in the island of Aigina

Around 500 BCE, Greece

[artegreca]

Il tempio si innalza su un ampio krepìdoma di tre gradini, ha una peristasi di 6 × 12 colonne doriche, e consta di cella divisa in tre navate da due file di cinque colonne, preceduta da un pronao e seguita da un opistodomo con due colonne fra ante. Il materiale impiegato nella costruzione è un calcare locale giallastro, ricoperto da un sottile strato di finissimo stucco. …

Un problema assai dibattuto è quello relativo al nome della divinità onorata nel santuario. Infatti, se il soggetto dei frontoni fa chiaro riferimento ad Atena, la grande iscrizione, trovata presso il santuario dal Furtwängler, ricorda la erezione di un òikos di Aphaia. Altre iscrizioni, incise sulla roccia, fanno pure menzione di Aphaia. È molto probabile che il tempio sia stato eretto ad Atena, ma che la popolazione abbia continuato a dare alla dea il nome dell'antica divinità indigena. Voce Egina nell’Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica

[mysterium-solis]

The Souls on the Banks of the Acheron by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1898)

[en-theos]

What if we went to rome and descended in the catacombs of the san clemente to see the ancient mithraeum and picknicked in the villa borghese park and sat on the cool marble floors to draw the apollo e dafne and what if we went searching for the spolia of the temple of asclepius on tiber island and watch the sun set over the city from the aventine

[secifosseluce]

this is definitely not a p*f for an English translation of Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò…not one of the most brilliant, inventive, heartfelt works about myth coming out of xx century Italy.

not a set of 27 dialogues between lesser figures of greek myth being intertwined in discussions on topics that transcend myth & reality, time, and identity; 

not a work of dialogic reflections on what we share, culturally & as humans - the blood, the hope, the desire, the fear, the longing that tie us together, penned by one of the most respected authors in recent Italian history

[lionofchaeronea]

Terracotta statuette, depicting Aphrodite crowning a herm of Dionysus.  Artist unknown; ca. 150-100 BCE.  Found at Myrina; now in the British Museum.  Photo credit:  © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.

[slavicafire]

Why would someone actually believe in gods from old mythologies

it's funny

[simena]

Hera and her attendants - Herbert Olivier (detail)

[learnelle]

The way Albert Joseph Moore paints people just vibing together ♡

[korunak]

pompei freskleri, m.s. 1. yüzyıl.

[jardindefruits]

Gold hoop earring with Erotes riding doves, 3rd century BC / Marble pilaster with lancet-shaped leaves, fruits and roses, Roman, 5-15 AD / Glass pomegranate, Egypt or Cyprus, 1400-1295 BC / Myrtle spray, gold sheet over bronze, Greek, 400-350 BC / Rose quartz & serpentine flower, China / Woman’s parure, Taiz, Yemen / Dancing Maenad, Pompeii, 1st century BC-79 AD / The Apparition by James Tissot, 1885 / Marble sculpture with grape vines, likely Roman

[jardindefruits]

‘The Tambourine Girl’ by Gaetano de Martini / Statue of Ariadne, Etruscan, 3rd Centry BCE, Fresco of a bird from Pompeii, Roman / ‘Lucretia’ by Rembrandt van Rijn / ‘True Beauty’ by Serge Marshennikov / Three hundred gold coins recently found in Como, Roman, 4th Century AD / Terracotta statue of Nike, Greek, Late 5th Century BCE / Terracotta relief plaque, Roman, Early 1st Century AD / ‘Still Life’ by Giuseppe Vicenzino

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

Circe by Edmund Dulac