Over the glowing hill

Sophia, 🇬🇷, 32, she/her. Aesthetics, Greek myth, games? Who knows.

[persephoneism]

I have a cute "about" page now :)

[bcowlick]

It's starting to piss me off that people are saying that critiquing Nolan's Odyssey for lack of accuracy is wrong or annoying, and that everybody is allowed to interpret mythology however they want.

But you're only saying that because you don't think Greek Mythology deserves to be treated with any type of respect for it's cultural background.

Nolan rejected the expert in re-constructing Greek Armour, then procedeed to cast not a single Greek for the production, then he littered the places of Greece where he filmed, and had a scene where Odysseus talks to an stranger. The stranger speaks greek and Odysseus, the greek, does not understand him.

Sorry but if Nolan did a movie on Aztec mythology and didn't inquiry with a single Mexican expert on Aztecs, or an Indigenous person from there, avoided casting a single Latino at the very least, littered a Mexican beach just because, and then had an scene where an Aztec cannot understand his own mother language, would you then see the issue or not?

[in-love-with-movies]

Nosferatu (2024)

[sigmaleph]

every day i am thankful to ancient humans for the domestication of the cat. fucking genius idea. agriculture was a good one too btw but you really outdid yourselves with the cat thing

[bnunybusiness]

Unicorn

[imaveryevilgirl]

[mistress-light]

Dark Souls III • (dev. From Software 2016)

[dilutedh2so4]

Helen and Paris, illustrated by Hal Frenck for I. M. Richardson's The Wooden Horse.

[kairosandkaos]

Lady Persephone

⋆˚꩜｡ Goddess of spring, Queen of the Underworld, the cycle between life and death

[ofchaosgoddess]

help I’m having ideas beyond my available free time

[nannaesthetic]

Monemvasia, Greece

[berlogauwu]

WITCH

[neaththeheavens]

Still, if it must be said...

[katiajewelbox]

This view reminds me of Anini Beach on Kauai...

Gustav Klimt, On Lake Attersee, 1901

[smsomah]

Oman. Yves Gellie

[utopians]

I consider myself a real hater but sometimes you really do go too far with haterism. once I had to break mutuals with someone bc they hated the entire art form of poetry and the final straw was when they started hateposting about soup. The food

[lagunapoint]

CRESTWOOD Dragon Age: Inquisition

[finelythreadedsky]

Just curious but where does the star on cheek motif come from in Ancient Greece? It’s beautiful but I don’t know what it’s called so I can’t google it effectively and ‘star on cheek ancient Greece’ did not net me much. If you have any resources on this I would love to read them!

I'm not sure if there's an actual term for it, but the main (and perhaps only) point of reference that everyone seems to use is this painted plaster head of a woman from Mycenae c. 12th century BCE (National Archaeological Museum Athens inv. 4575). it's a unique and pretty unusual object for the period, but apparently there are a couple of other (less well-preserved or less impressive) examples of women's faces depicted with these red suns/stars/rosettes on their cheeks and chins in Mycenaean art. there's some thought that it might be a representation of some sort of makeup worn by real women in late Bronze Age Mycenae, potentially royalty and/or priestesses in official ritual contexts. alternatively it could be an artistic marker of divinity or non-human status with absolutely no relation to women's appearances in real life, since this head may have belonged to a statue of a goddess or a sphinx. we do have a decent number of Mycenaean wall painting fragments depicting female figures, and I don't believe any of them have these markings on their faces-- the trend of depicting mythic or historical Bronze Age Greek women like this really does seem to all come back to this one object.