Seems like someone was disappointed that the school trip was to Italy and not to Greece. Because coming up, Howell Arboretum, the three acres on campus filled with rows of trees, vines, and blooming flowers, will be transformed with Doric columns and students in fancy dress chasing after rolling bottles of champagne through the grass. Calloway has decided to throw the first ever Greek gods theme masquerade. It’s expected to be an all-night, candlelit affair with free booze flowing out from bar tables staffed by miserable freshmen. There’s even been a band booked to provide the soundtrack for the evening, wearily taking requests from inebriated students. And of course, the dress code is Greek god costumes only and masks required. You’ll be turned away and shunned if you bring anything less than your best.
WHERE? Howell Arboretum, on the edges of campus.
WHEN? Friday, October 30th, to Wednesday, November 4th.
PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR COSTUME/GODS IDEAS! This list is of course not exhaustive, you’re welcome to select anyone not on here!
APOLLO - God of music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sun, light and knowledge
APHRODITE - Goddess of love and desire
ARTEMIS - Goddess of wildlife and hunting
AMPHITRITE - wife of Poseidon and a Queen of the seas. She was a personification of the sea itself and was a mother of dolphins, seals and fish
ARES - God of war. Represented the physical, violent and untamed aspect of war.
ATHENA - Goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare
CHAOS - The nothingness that all else sprung from. A god who filled the gap between Heaven and Earth and created the first beings
CETO - goddess of the dangers of the sea
DEMETER - Goddess of fertility, grain and harvest
DIONYSUS -An Olympian god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, religious ecstasy and theatre
EREBUS - Primordial god of darkness
EOS - Goddess of dawn
EROS - God of sexual desire, attraction, love and procreation.
HADES - God of the Dead and Riches and King of the Underworld
HEPHAESTUS - God of fire and the forge
HESTIA - Goddess of family, home and hearth
HELIOS - God of the Sun
HERMES - God of trade, thieves, travelers, sports, athletes, and border crossings, guide to the Underworld and messenger of the gods
IRIS - Goddess of the rainbow
POSEIDON - God of the sea
PAN - God of nature, the wild, shepherds, flocks, goats, mountain wilds, and is often associated with sexuality
PSYCHE - Goddess of compassion
MELINOE - Goddess of ghosts
ZEUS - God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, justice, King of the Gods and the “Father of Gods and men”.
HECATE - Goddess of witchcraft, the moon, the night and necromancy
JANUS - God of doors, gates and choices
HYPNOS - God of sleep
TYCHE - Goddess of fortune
ERIS - Goddess of jealousy divisions, squabbles and quarrels
THEMIS - Goddess of divine order, natural law and fairness
SELENE - Goddess of the moon
NYX - Goddess Nyx is the personification of the night. Nyx was a sovereign, primordial and cosmogenic entity that even god Zeus himself respected and feared.
PERSEPHONE - Goddess of spring and flowers and wife of Hades
NEMESIS - Goddess of balance, consequences and revenge
“wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you’ll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased.”
dressed as the god of wine, fertility, ritual madness, theatre, intoxication and pleasure, val strolls around, the personification of a nice merlot and with the swagger of a leader of a cult of revelers. her hand is never without a glass–her lips are stained from the wine, though that can’t explain why they’re swollen–and her body slinks around with the languid movements of one who’s both intoxicated and intoxicating. tonight is for hedonism and the kind of reckless insanity that she’ll regret tomorrow when she’ll cringe through the fog and pick up another bottle.
“I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”
plain but sharply cut, as if made of metal scrap and painted black - the darkest you've seen, depth that forgoes reality. like it'd been carved out of him - like you could reach inside of him.
(LANA JAMESON AS) IRIS, PERSONIFICATION OF THE RAINBOW: modern gods.
butterfly stickers fluttering up her exposed thigh, holographic and winking, each a different colour to the last. glitter so fine that her skin looks glossed from morning dew, shining like a disco ball kissed by the sun. metallic smudges of the rainbow over a bicep, an ankle, a collarbone. an intricate, laser cut mask that reflects the light almost as much as it attracts it: both the sun and the mirror angled to start a desert fire, all at once. iris flirts the drab from the grey sky. it takes a lot, sometimes, to be that bright in spite of everything -- all the time, if we’re being honest, every minute of every day -- but nobody’s thinking about that. all they’re thinking about is that mouth. red. bioluminescent edges. glowing. that smile. all the colours at once, almost blinding. your retinas hurt, but you can’t look away. it’s easy to ignore the truth when the lie’s so pretty.
“She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: / Where have you been all my life? they ask. / Where have I been all my life? she replies.”
the distinct head of a deer carved from leather and wrapped in silver, moss and bone; eyes clear with an animal’s curiosity - velvet antlers chipped to reveal what’s sharp and smooth.
“The word “eclipse” comes from ancient Greek ekleipsis, “a forsaking, quitting, abandonment.” The sun quits us, we are forsaken by light.”
adorned in gold - the color of the sun; the rays are cut sharply, features carved out carefully. cracked in places as if something delicate, something ancient.
“Psyche did not think the feeling running through her could exist, it was too powerful, too profound and pierced her soul in a way that was a beautiful agony.”
“The stars are a mnemonic without object. / Let the forgetting begin.”
velvet dark as night and a thousand stars that bleed past the phantom-esque mask’s edge; they cascade, they fall - it’s uncertain where they’ve landed.
