Mare Nostrum

Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea

[cpahlow]

[pmamtraveller]

Odysseus slays the suitors

[bloke-101]

[postcard-from-the-past]

"The chabrot" - French folklore custom of diluting the end of a soup with red wine and bringing it to the lips to drink in big gulps

French vintage postcard

[ddestroyangels]

In the Roman Palace by Eduardo Ettore Forti, before 1897, detail

[mythsatnoon]

[caffeinegalore]

[useless-catalanfacts]

Monells, Comarques Gironines, Catalonia.

Photos by Francisco López on Flickr.

[7pleiades7]

The Night with the Genii of Study and Love (A Noite acompanhada dos Gênios do Estudo e do Amor) (1883) by Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo (Brazilian, 1843 – 1905), Signature and date bottom right: ‘P. Américo Figueiredo 1883’, oil on canvas, 260 cm (102.3 in) x 195 cm (76.7 in), Museu Nacional de Belas Artes

[arjuna-vallabha]

Ancient Greek gold earring, dated to between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE. found in taranto, Italy

[fanfanlemoko]

[2seeitall]

Parthenon | Athens

[voguedolce]

[7pleiades7]

Isabella and the Pot of Basil (1919) by George Henry Grenville Manton (English, 1855 – 1932), oil on canvas, 107 × 82.2 cm, Wycombe Museum, England

[tyger-land]

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘁𝘇𝗮𝗹. Sacred to ancient Maya and Aztec cultures, the "flying dragons" are still found from southern Mexico to Panama, living in humid, high-altitude cloud forests.

Top: Hand-colored lithograph plate, 1858, by John Gould.

[ofruinsandmyth]

Raven Dancer of the Tlingit Indigenous Peoples

[allthingseurope]

Avila Castle, Spain