#classical world

[uncleclaudius]

In the Ancient Greek world aryballos (pl. aryballoi) was a small round flask containing oil or perfume. They were usually spherical or conical, but sometimes they were in animal shapes like these here: a hare, a swan, an owl, and a hedgehog, respectively.

[neoclassicalblobphilosopher]

Diana et Callisto; Federico Cervelli 17th AD

[thisish20]

Strawberry Moon rises behind the Temple of Poseidon

[lightdancer1]

Finally, as is obligatory to provoke a bunch of whiny little bitches:

To conclude for today there should be a simple statement of a simple reality that is, of course, not quite so simple at all. Namely that there were Black Africans who would have been seen as fully civilized in the Legions of Emperor Hadrian, the same man whose expulsion of the Judeans would create the longer history that would see some of the Judeans' very distant descendants decide there's no statue of limitation on decolonization and reclaim the old lands after 1,700 years. The same Legions in the broader armed forces were also involved in a retooling of Roman power in the province of Britain, which leads to the reality that Black people are more British than the English.

And that in the eyes of the Romans these Black soldiers on the Limes between civilization and the unlovely barbarian hinterland were civilized where the blond blue-eyed trouser-clad Saxons and Angles and Jutes were not.

Africans at Hadrian's Wall •

Hadrian’s Wall, named after Roman Emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD), was built between 122 and 128 AD as the frontier fortification for the north

[semperardens-juli]

" 'Humanism' at this time had a different meaning from the modern-day term, being concerned with a resurgence of interest in the wisdom of the classical world."

on Renaissance from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, James Canton

leave a little kindness

[citruzzz]

I played around with some colours and styles that I don't normally go for with one of my sketchbook doodles! I do really like the minimalism take thooooo

[f0restpunk]