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I love how Antiope is portrayed in the Farnese Bull statues. She’s holding a spear and coldly watching as her sons brutally murder her abuser.

#let’s brutally murder abusers with mama #with mama #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #Antiope #Antiope of Thebes #Amphion and Zethus #Amphion #Zethus #Greek heroes #Youtube

Carlos Raúl Villanueva, Plaza Cubierta (Covered Plaza), 1954 Fernand Léger's, Bimural (1954) and Henri Laurens's Amphion (1953), Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, Venezuela

#art #design #public art #modern architecture #modernist architecture #venezuela #Carlos Raúl Villanueva #Plaza Cubierta #Plaza #Covered Plaza #Fernand Léger #Henri Laurens #Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas #mural #sculpture #bimural #Amphion

Given the fact that Pelops and Amphion are implied to be best friends since Pelops' sister Niobe was married to him imagine if he was still alive when he learned that Laius - the snotty kid he sent to the Peloponnese to be raised there until he would eventually rule over Thebes as an adult - kidnapped and raped his best friend's son:

#greek mythology #amphion #pelops #laius #greek mythology memes #incorrect greek mythology #ramblings #Youtube

"A man of Egypt said that Pelops received something from Amphion the Theban and buried it where is what they call Taraxippus, adding that it was the buried thing which frightened the mares of Oenomaus, as well as those of every charioteer since. This Egyptian thought that Amphion and the Thracian Orpheus were clever magicians, and that it was through their enchantments that the beasts came to Orpheus, and the stones came to Amphion for the building of the wall." -Pausanias, Description of Greece

let this random Egyptian guy in ancient greece cook, amphion helping pelops kill Oenomaus via daemon minion is so based and weird.

#greek mythology #Taraxippus #pelops #amphion #orpheus #oenomaus

The Jason's Cloak in Apollonius Argonautica

(just a quick concept and based in very first impressions)

Based on the descriptions in Ap. Rhod. Argon. 1. 721-773, imo could be this two options:

And here is the page of the represented mythological figures:

And here an speculation based on the description of the cloak "on each margin" so I also imagined being heptagonal as well as rectangular:

What do you think about all this?

(Btw, Hermes' clothing is called a chlamys and the other guy's is called a himation. The first one is worn as a cape.

Ap. Rhod. Argon. 1. 721-773:

Now he had buckled round his shoulders a purple mantle of double fold, the work of the Tritonian goddess, which Pallas had given him when she first laid the keel-props of the ship Argo and taught him how to measure timbers with the rule. More easily wouldst thou cast thy eyes upon the sun at its rising than behold that blazing splendour. For indeed in the middle the fashion thereof was red, but at the ends it was all purple, and on each margin many separate devices had been skilfully inwoven. In it were the Cyclops seated at their imperishable work, forging a thunderbolt for King Zeus; by now it was almost finished in its brightness and still it wanted but one ray, which they were beating out with their iron hammers as it spurted forth a breath of raging flame. In it too were the twin sons of Antiope, daughter of Asopus, Amphion and Zethus, and Thebe still ungirt with towers was lying near, whose foundations they were just then laying in eager haste. Zethus on his shoulders was lifting the peak of a steep mountain, like a man toiling hard, and Amphion after him, singing loud and clear on his golden lyre, moved on, and a rock twice as large followed his footsteps. Next in order had been wrought Cytherea with drooping tresses, wielding the swift shield of Ares; and from her shoulder to her left arm the fastening of her tunic was loosed beneath her breast; and opposite in the shield of bronze her image appeared clear to view as she stood. And in it there was a well-wooded pasturage of oxen; and about the oxen the Teleboae and the sons of Eleetryon were fighting; the one party defending themselves, the others, the Taphian raiders, longing to rob them; and the dewy meadow was drenched with their blood, and the many were overmastering the few herdsmen. And therein were fashioned two chariots, racing, and the one in front Pelops was guiding, as he shook the reins, and with him was Hippodameia at his side, and in pursuit Myrtilus urged his steeds, and with him Oenomaus had grasped his couched spear, but fell as the axle swerved and broke in the nave, while he was eager to pierce the back of Pelops. And in it was wrought Phoebus Apollo, a stripling not yet grown up, in the act of shooting at mighty Tityos who was boldly dragging his mother [Leto] by her veil, Tityos whom glorious Elate bare, but Earth nursed him and gave him second birth. And in it was Phrixus the Minyan as though he were in very deed listening to the ram, while it was like one speaking. Beholding them thou wouldst be silent and wouldst cheat thy soul with the hope of hearing some wise speech from them, and long wouldst thou gaze with that hope. Such then were the gifts of the Tritonian goddess Athena. And in his right hand Jason held a fardarting spear, which Atalanta gave him once as a gift of hospitality in Maenalus as she met him gladly; for she eagerly desired to follow on that quest; but he himself of his own accord prevented the maid, for he feared bitter strife on account of her love.

#Drawing this for me was so hilarious all the drawings were satisfying.#JASON you're so lucky: it's not every day you receive a cloak made by the goddess of textile crafts herself.#Also you used to impress a queen what a good strategy. You look shinny in that dressing🤩#I will talk more about this item of clothing I have to analyse the reason why there are this figures represented I'll read a paper on this.#What a great excuse to wear purple and the other shade that the dye gives. I love you cannibal snails.#In laboratory journals it is forbidden to erase mistakes. They must be crossed out so that the mistake is clearly visible. Sorry Apollonius #greek mythology literature #Apollonius argonautica #Argonautica #Jason #Lemnian woman #Athena #Jason's cloack #Cyclops #Thunderbolt #Amphion #Zethus #Aphrodite #Teleboae #sons of Eleetryion #Pelops #Hippodamia #Pelodamia #Myrtilus #Oenomaus #Apollo #Tityos #Leto #Phrixus #tagamemnon

Happy pride month! Here’s a compilation of all of Hermes’ gay affairs

1. Amphion

“The clever device of the lyre, it is said, was invented by Hermes, who constructed it of two horns and a crossbar and a tortoise-shell; and he presented it first to Apollo and the Muses, then to Amphion of Thebes. And Amphion, inasmuch as the Thebes of his day was not yet a walled city, has directed his music to the stones, and the stones run together when they hear him. This is the subject of the painting. […] My own opinion is that Hermes gave Amphion both these gifts, both the lyre and the headband, because he was overcome by love for him.”- Philostratus the Elder, Imagines (Greek rhetorician, C3rd A.D.)

Sidenote: Amphion was a child of Zeus and Antiope who later married Niobe and had a bunch of kids with her. How do you think that Hermes felt when his favorite brother murdered his lover’s kids?

2. Pollux (Brother of Castor)

“Hermes, beloved of Polydeuces, one of the Dioscuri, made him a gift of Dotor, the Thessalian horse.”- Photius’ Bibliotheca (Byzantine mythographer, C9th)

3. Perseus

“When sent by Polydectes, son of Magnes, to the Gorgons, he received from Mercury, who is thought to have loved him, talaria and petasus, and, in addition, a helmet which kept its wearer from being seen by an enemy.”- Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica (Roman mythographer, C2nd A.D.)

4. Crocus

"When a youth called Crocus, while playing discus with Hermes, then unexpectedly stood up, when the discus fell on his head, the result was that he died on the spot, and when his blood dripped on the ground, the crocus grew from it"- On the Constitution of the Art of Medicine, Galen (Greek-Roman physician, C2nd A.D)

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Edit: Found new info! Though take this with several grains of salt since it’s a Christian author trying to slander ancient Greek religion

5-7. “For instance, Jupiter himself was in love with Ganymede: Poseidon with Pelops; […] Hermes with Perseus, Chrysas, Theseus, Odrysus; […]”- The Clementine Homilies (C4th A.D, Roman)

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Edit 2: I found this gem

8. “Some say the herdsman Daphnis was the favourite boy [erômenos] of Hermes, others that he was his son. He acquired his name from something that happened to him: he was the child of a Nymphe, exposed after birth beside a laurel tree. The cattle he looked after were said to be sisters of Helios the Sun, recorded by Homer in the Odyssey [12.127].” [Then the author tells a story about how Daphnis cheated on his girlfriend and got blinded for it] - Aelian, Historical Miscellany (C2nd to 3rd A.D, Greek)