[lionofchaeronea]

Wall painting on black background from the Roman Imperial villa at Boscotrecase, depicting an aedicula and miniature landscape.  Artist unknown; last decade of the 1st cent. BCE.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[goodreadss]

Branches of an Almond Tree in Blossom, Vincent van Gogh

[valsez]

First edition of Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire.

[eirene]

Hamlet, 1899 Alphonse Mucha

[ancienthistoryart]

The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus (4th century BC), Argolis, Greece

[anthro-apology]

Anne Carson (2009)

Arthur S. Way (1898)

George Theodoridis (2010)

Ian C. Johnston (2010)

E.P. Coleridge (1910)

Theodore Alois Buckley (1892)

John Peck, Frank Nisetich (1995)

R. Potter (1906)

M. L. West (1987)

William Arrowsmith (1958)

Philip Vellacott (1972)

Michael Wodhull (1782)

Kenneth McLeish (1997)

David Kovacs (2002)

Andrew Wilson (1993)

Euripides - Original (408 BCE)

[heaveninawildflower]

Yellow tulip and two butterflies (18th century) by Barbara Regina Dietzch (Bavaria, 1706 – 1783).

Gouache on vellum.

Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie.

[heaveninawildflower]

Camellia taken from 'Iconographie du Genre Camellia' by Lorenzo Berlese. Hand-coloured engraving.

Published 1841 by H. Cousin.

Missouri Botanical Garden.

archive.org

[shisasan]

An outstanding Italian Renaissance dagger from the 1500s, gilded, with an agate and silver hilt, a gilded sheath, and exquisite engravings.

[nixscriptum]

less of a poem, more of a reminder. ( ఌ )

[dan-tad]

did you know public libraries are free and beautiful

[etherea1ity]

Monet's garden ( via )

[bobbole]

Vivienne Westwood

[heavy-serenade]

Jackets from Vivienne Westwood MAN Fall 1996 ‘Martyr to Love’ Menswear Collection

[gnossienne]

Sasha Waltz & Guests’ new choreography for Beethoven’s 7th symphony at the temple of Apollo at Delphi (2021) (x)

[papenathys]

Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

[ur-daily-inspiration]