♥ Requited/Unrequited ♡

Personifications of Requited and Unrequited Love || Anteros - Love Requited, Love Avenging || Himeros - Love Unrequited, Love Longing

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come away, come sweet love, the golden morning breaks                  all the earth, all the air of love and pleasure speaks

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i am so sorry I sort of abandoned this little project. there was specific interest and i dove in and i should have remembered that the best reason to do anything is because you love the idea. i do love this idea. i'm IN LOVE with this idea. and although it is a little cerebral i would be remiss if i didn't give it my full attention. so. during this weird birthday weekend of mine, which starts tomorrow, i will do my best to be present and available for plotting, etc.

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[lionofchaeronea]

Heracles and Cerberus.  Attic black-figure lekythos, artist unknown; ca. 500-470 BCE.  Now in the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.  Photo credit: Carole Raddato.

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Amber Heard photographed by Francesco Carrozzini for C Magazine (nov. 2015).

[olikearon]

Colton Haynes by Oli Kearon for L’Optimum

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Amber Heard photographed by Francesco Carrozzini for C Magazine.

[lionofchaeronea]

The Value of Leisure

Horace, Odes 2.16.1-12 It is leisure that a man asks From the gods, when he is caught On the open Aegean, at the moment That a black cloud has hidden The moon, and the sure stars No longer shine for sailors; It is leisure that Thrace, raging In war, prays for; and leisure Is what the Medes, comely With their quivers, desire – Leisure, Grosphus, a thing You cannot purchase with gems, Nor with purple or gold. For neither treasure nor a consul’s Lictor can remove wretched storms Of the mind and cares that flit Around rich paneled ceilings. Otium divos rogat in patenti prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes condidit lunam neque certa fulgent   sidera nautis; otium bello furiosa Thrace, otium Medi pharetra decori, Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura   venale neque auro. Non enim gazae neque consularis summovet lictor miseros tumultus mentis et curas laqueata circum   tecta volantis.

Leisure Hours, John William Godward, 1905

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Colton Haynes

[havfruen]

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

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[ladiessource]

“I seem to be stuck in the ‘60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women’s fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.”

[lionofchaeronea]

The Fateful Children of Leda

Ausonius, Epigrams 66 “De Castore, Polluce, et Helena”  Those children whom you see born From a threefold egg, assign them To doubtful fathers and doubtful Mothers, too.  For Nemesis Conceived them, but pregnant Leda Nurtured them in her womb; Tyndareus is their father And Jupiter, too: the former Thinks himself the father, The latter knows he is. Istos tergemino nasci quos cernis ab ovo, patribus ambiguis et matribus adsere natos. hos genuit Nemesis sed Leda puerpura fovit; Tyndareus pater his et Iuppiter: hic putat, hic scit.

Leda and the Swan, Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1557)

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“Well… These two won’t be staying much longer.”

[lionofchaeronea]

Achilles surrenders Briseis.  Fresco from Atrium 3 of the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

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NEW STILLS!

Amber Heard as Ulla Paulson in The Danish Girl.