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“Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.”

- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie.

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This lekythos was found in a tomb at Selinunte. Lekythoi (plural) were vases used to store oils for use in the gymnasium or bath or for funerary functions. Note the red-figure. This was an Athenian-style technique specific to the 5th century BCE. #palermo #selinunte #archaeology #archeologia #ancient #antico #ancientgreece #magnagrecia #ancientgreek #experiencesicily #sicily #sicilia #siciliabedda #italy #italia #sicilyvacation #sicilians_world #ig_sicily #igerssicilia #instasicilia #gf_italy #siculamenteDoc #sicily_tricolors #ig_visitsicily #Sicilia_PhotoGroup #smallgrouptours (at Museo archeologico regionale Antonio Salinas) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4_pMDfldjy/?igshid=1kmi0citbtmui

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Terracotta bust of the goddess Demeter from the 4th century B.C.E., from the eastern hill acropolis of Selinunte, now housed in Palermo’s Museo Salinas #demeter #goddess #dea #goddessworship #divinefeminine #goddessofthegrain #persephone #selinunte #palermo #museosalinas #archeologia #archeology #ancient #antico #ancientgreece #magnagrecia #ancientgreek #experiencesicily #sicily #sicilia #siciliabedda #sizilien #smallgrouptours #authenticsicily #italy #italia #sicilyvacation #sicilians_world #ig_sicily #siciliaph #siciliafoto #fotosicilia #sicilyphoto #instasicilia #gf_italy #siculamenteDoc #sicily_tricolors #ig_visitsicily (at Museo Salinas-Polo regionale di Palermo per i Parchi e Musei Archeologici)

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tragedy in art

the execution of lady jane grey by paul delaroche (1833)

the fall of babylon by john martin (1831)

ophelia by sir john everett millais (1852)

the destruction of pompeii and herculaneum by john martin (1822)

princess tarakanova by konstantin flavitsky (1864)

the episode of the yellow fever by juan manuel blanes (1871)

les saltimbanques by gustave dore (1874)

ivan the terrible and his son ivan by ilya repin (1885)

the course of empire, destruction by thomas cole (1836)

the plague of ashdod by nicolas poussin (1630)

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Archaeological Museum of Brauron:

Artemis Chrysselakatos (of the golden distaff)

Artemis was the protector of female handicraft and weaving. Loom weights, whorls and epinetra were dedicated to the sanctuary in honour of the goddess who holds the golden distaff (the stick used for turning wool into thread). Dedications of incomplete garments, wool and weft have also been interpreted as dedications to the goddess as a symbol of her status as protector of handicraft and weaving.

Weaving was a basic (and highly sophisticated) qualification for women in the antiquity. In every house there was a room isolated from the rest which was specially bound for weaving called histonas (the room of webs) or gynekonites (known in english as women’s quarters)

Raw materials for weaving came from animals (wool, goat’s hair), plants (linen, hemp), mineral (lime, asbestos), and metals (silver and gold threads)

The main clothing material was wool. There were three stages for turning wool into thread. Women washed the crude wool, spread it to dry and beat it with canes to remove useless materials. The clean wool was carded with combs and was placed in a work basket. Then it was laid on a special vessel, the epinetron, a clay implement in the shape of a roof tile, which was placed on the thigh for rubbing the wool. The final stage was spinning it with the distaff and the spindle so as to produce thread.

(pictured above: whorls and fragments from epinetra)

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the tendency for racists and white supremacists to go gaga over their idea of ancient Rome is so darkly hilarious because of how entirely wrong it is. It’s not a twisting of some kernels of truth, it’s not a misinterpretation, it’s just the exact opposite, and people in Western Europe has been doing it for so long. For centuries people in Britain and Germany would be like/have been like “ah yes, we are special and superior because we are the heirs of the superior Romans” while next to a giant pile of writings by respected Ancient Romans who went “god, Britain is a dump and Germany is full of idiot barbarians. I wish I lived somewhere cool and cultured like Syria or Tunisia.”

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Roman terracotta bust of the moon-goddess Selene, crowned with the crescent moon.

Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

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there really is an incredible intimacy in killing in greek tragedy. it’s so often the people who are closest to each other, the people who love each other most, who kill each other. of course agamemnon kills his daughter, his oldest child, and is killed by his wife and then his son kills his mother as she faces him and bares the breast that suckled him. megara and her children die at the hands of her husband heracles who then in turn is killed by his wife deianira. agave and medea kill their sons with their own hands. theseus condemns his son to die and creon his niece. and so many die at the most familiar hands of all, their own, antigone and haemon and eurydice and deianira and jocasta and phaedra and ajax.

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“Macaria, Polyxena, Iphigenia. They are freed from their fathers in a moment when their fathers condemn them to immolation; they turn to their own use the freedom of choice that characterized the kyrios, by taking over the sacrifice imposed on them and turning it into their death, a death that is fully their own.”

— Nicole Loraux, Tragic ways of killing a woman

#sighhhh