#metope

[sarafangirlart]

This sequence is so sad and it also reminds me of Metope and Melanippe, princesses from Greek mythology who were blinded by their abusive fathers.

[allmythologies]

greek mythology: metope

metope, was an epirotian princess, the daughter of king echetus. she had an intrigue with a lover and as a punishment her father mutilated the lover and blinded metope by piercing her eyes with bronze needles. he then incarcerated her in a tower and gave her grains of bronze, promising that she would regain her sight when she had ground grains into flour.

[ukdamo]

Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits shows a marble bas-relief that comprised part of the decorative motif of the Sebasteion, Aphrodisias, in present day Turkey. 

It shows Heracles hanging his cloak and bow-case on a herm of Pan, before his wrestling match with Antaios (one of his 12 Labours). Antaios is putting on his ear protectors. 

[spinach-soup]

Harry Potter from The Train to Nowhere by MayMarlow in Ao3.

[archaeologs]

Metope 10 from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, c. 470–457 bce. 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m). Athena, Herakles, and Atlas with apples of the Hesperides. Olympia, Archaeological Museum. Photo: Marie Mauzy/Art Resource, NY. Learn more/Daha fazlası Metope: http://www.archaeologs.com/w/metope/

[i12bent]

Olaf Bull (Nov. 10, 1883 - 1933) was a Norwegian modernist poet who became fast friends with James Joyce whom he taught Norwegian so that Joyce could read Scandinavian myths and legends and invent authentic sounding word-play for Finnegans Wake...

Bull himself was a tad on the traditionalist side for a modernist poet. Here is John Irons’ translation of part of Bull’s poem Metope:

METOPE You I would in rhythms fondly rivet tight! You I would hold deep and lasting in the eternal young alabaster of the poem’s flight! You day-dreamer, moved by the sun! With your gaze chastely turned toward evening’s pale gold, meekly you turn a heaven towards another, as bathed in light and tenderness and secrecy! I would gladly forfeit verse’s every trope were one thing in my power: to hew firm-lined in memory’s stubborn stone a smooth metope that could depict your shy, frail-contoured mind!

Photo: Anders Beer Wilse, 1919

[drrestlesshate]

Metope

[didoofcarthage]

Fragments of marble metopes depicting women in chitons from the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassai in Arcadia

Greek, Classical Period, 420-400 B.C.

British Museum x x