#cimon

[quail-of-alcibiades]

Because no one has done it and I need to distract myself from the misery of exams. I think I might have mischaracterised half of these peopl

i did a thing...but i can't promise it's accurate. it's just for funsies please don't hate me. i just realised some of these guys aren't Athenian. oops.

[whitecat2049]

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[whimsimarion]

Obsessed with the fact that Cimon named one of his sons Lacedaemonius, given how much of a spartanophile he was. It's like if a modern weaboo named their child Japan or Tokyo, or if a koreaboo named their child (South) Korea.

[sunripeneddragonfruit]

How are we feeling about art today (ft. My SBG oc (who has a RP account go follow @cimonofficial ), SBG MLB au Taylor and Ashlyn, and random side profiles

[artemlegere]

Cimon and Iphegenia

Artist: Cornelis van Poelenburch (Netherlandish, c. 1586-1667)

Date: ca. 1630-1650)

Medium: Oil on copper

Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Description

This painting presents a story from Boccaccio’s Decameron. Cimon, a handsome but coarse and uneducated son of a nobleman, came across the maiden Iphegenia and fell instantly in love. The effects of love transformed him into a polished and accomplished gentleman, who eventually courted and married the beautiful Iphegenia. This scene shows the moment of their encounter – Cimon appears as a hunter at right, while Iphegenia dozes in the open air with a companion to the left. This painting is unusual in Poelenburch’s oeuvre for the large size of the figures.

[itsfullofstars]

SOURCE: NASA Johnson https://flic.kr/p/2rjftm5

[mostcuriousmythicist]

The Sanctuary of Theseus

When the Athenians were consulting the oracle at Delphi, they were told by the Pythian priestess to take up the bones of Theseus, give them honourable burial at Athens, and guard them there. But it was difficult to find the grave and take up the bones, because of the inhospitable and savage nature of the Dolopians, who then inhabited the island (Scyros). However, Cimon took the island, as I have related in his Life,⁠ and being ambitious to discover the grave of Theseus, saw an eagle in a place where there was the semblance of a mound, pecking, as he says, and tearing up the ground with his talons. By some divine ordering he comprehended the meaning of this and dug there, and there was found a coffin of a man of extraordinary size, a bronze spear lying by its side, and a sword. When these relics were brought home on his trireme by Cimon, the Athenians were delighted, and received them with splendid processions and sacrifices, as though Theseus himself were returning to his city. And now he lies buried in the heart of the city, near the present gymnasium,⁠ and his tomb is a sanctuary and place of refuge for runaway slaves and all men of low estate who are afraid of men in power, since Theseus was a champion and helper of such during his life, and graciously received the supplications of the poor and needy.

Plutarch, Life of Theseus. 36.1-2

[artbymesa]

One of my older original characters I've had for quite a long time, Cimon (Cimone? I might add an e, it always felt like it read odd).

She was long overdue for a refresh on her design. She hunts gods. I've missed her.