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[nikoisme]

Some more doodles of owl Athena protecting her warrior of the mind from weather conditions :D

[alibonbonn]

I’ve been thinking about the amount of emphasis of “long haired Achaeans” in the Iliad like does that mean Trojan men wore short hair, in contrast? Please let me know what’s out there guys, there’s less to go on about this than the whole Xanthos translation with Menelaus’s hair

A sketch I made of Paris, Hector and Andromache based on that idea.

[ochiody]

in the city of troy straight up "sacking it". and by "it" let's jsut say... troy.

outside the city of troy straight up "returning to it". and by "it" let's jsut say... home.

[tiramare]

Kinda crazy how I’ve never drawn Eva’s Eurydice before!

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Byzantine and Medieval folks: are there resources such as encyclopaedia for all art/iconography for mythological figures, databases of texts where it would be easy to search for all instances of names/words? Or even just encyclopaedia as thorough as the Pauly-Wissowa used to be (RIP)

I’m thinking of things like Topos, Perseus Project, the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae?

[thegodcyclecomic]

Athena and Athena

[thoodleoo]

absolutely obsessed w this greek vase which i can only describe as this

[imperium-romanum]

Pompeii yields new secrets and treasures in biggest dig since the 1950s

The archaeologists fell silent as they looked at a woman’s skull, crushed when the roof keeping her safe from the volcano caved in. Her jaw had dislocated under the weight of tiles and the frescoed...

The archaeologists fell silent as they looked at a woman’s skull, crushed when the roof keeping her safe from the volcano caved in.

Her jaw had dislocated under the weight of tiles and the frescoed ceiling, scattering her teeth, which one of the experts had placed in a plastic bag.

“This room is pretty shocking, she was like a mouse in a trap. We will find out more about her when we get her out and start DNA testing,” said Massimo Osanna, who is leading the biggest excavation at Pompeii since the 1950s.

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