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I was watching a bit of this last night as I was coming down from a trip, and it was a great experience. The whole thing has a really entrancing quality, and there are these significant moments where the actors look directly into the camera, and it makes you feel as if the characters might be speaking, secretly, to you. Telling you how to smite evil, and to be ready for it. These screencaps were a little tricky, because the actor playing Krishna displays a million different little emotions and expressions in the span of a second. Also, I don’t know how much of the dialogue is taken directly from the epic, however, I’ve got mad respect for all the feminism Krishna is spouting in this. (“A wife is not chattel; she is life’s partner!”)

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Gold ring with representation of the temple of Aphrodite at Paphos

1st-2nd Century AD

Early-Mid Imperial Roman

(Source: The Metropolitan Museum)

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I feel lucky when my talisman images come out anywhere near this nice.

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For the late Platonic tradition, the “fighters” - those belonging to the “sacred race” (hiera genea) - defend according to Syrianus, “the best and most beautiful of philosophies,” namely the Kronian way of Life (In Metaph. 91.8ff). These intellectual defenders of tradition recognized themselves as forming a link in a golden Platonic chain, claiming that inwardly all human beings were divine and, therefore, must become conscious of this inherent divinity. This anagogic tradition of a journey within consists of an unbroken chain of divinely inspired teachers, who both taught and practised the revealed Platonic Mysteries.

Algis Uzdavinys, Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism. (P. 11.)

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Apollonia Pontika, Thrace. AR drachm. 2.79 gr. 13.78 mm. ca 450 BC. Head of Gorgoneion facing, tongue protruding, head surrounded by serpents / Anchor, crayfish to left, A to right. Traité 1626; BMC (Mysia) 5. (Source.)

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Thrace, Black Sea Area, Apollonia Pontika AR Drachm. ca 450 BC. Facing gorgoneion with protruding tongue / Anchor, A to left, crayfish to right. (Source.)