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Greek Goddesses by Tyler Miles Lockett

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Sculpture of Apollo Citaredo in Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Originally, the sculpture from the 2th century depicted the city of Rome as a goddess. In the nineteenth century it was restored as Apollo Citaredo. The statue is part of the Farnese Collection.

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ares chain because we love ares :)

reblog with ares content <3

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W. K. C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy I The earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans

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i need you guys to know that there was a philosopher called sextus empiricus.

sexuts. epiricus.

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Eros the Bittersweet — Anne Carson

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how dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be

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προηγμένα, (acc. to the Stoics) things that aren't completely good but that aren't that bad either, Plut.

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studium mortis

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γνῶθι σαὐτὸν (know thyself)

(credit to my friend michelle for this banger of a meme)

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WIP of Penelope with her forever-unfinished shroud.

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The Birth of Venus by Paul Joseph Blanc (French, 1846–1904) 

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All you fellow citizens, we'll start to give the city good advice and rightly, since it raised us splendidly so we lived very well. At seven years old, I carried sacred vessels, and at ten I pounded barley for Athena's shrine. Later as bear, I shed my yellow dress for the rites of Brauronian Artemis. And once I was a lovely full-grown girl, I wore strings of figs around my neck and was one of those who carried baskets. So I am indebted to the city. Why not pay it back with good advice? I was born a woman, but don't hold that against me if I introduce a plan to make our present situation better. For I make contributions to the state--I give birth to men. You miserable old farts, you contribute nothing! That pile of cash which we collected from the Persian Wars you squandered. You don't pay any taxes. What's more, the way you act so stupidly endangers all of us. What do you say? Don't get me riled up. I'll take this filthy shoe and smack you one right on the jaw.

- Lysistrata | Aristophanes

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Chaotic comedy plays for chaotic academics *

• Asinaria – Plautus (unknown date)

• The Frogs - Aristophanes (405 BC)

• As You Like It – William Shakespeare (1602)

• Volpone – Ben  Jonson(1605)

• The Miser – Molière (1668)

• The Servant of Two Masters - Carlo Goldoni (1746)

• The Marriage of Figaro - Pierre Beaumarchais (1784)

• The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde (1895)

• The Seagull – Anton Chekhov (1896)

• Six Characters in Search of an Author – Luigi Pirandello (1925)

• The Threepenny Opera - Bertolt Brecht (1928)

*the years represent when the play was finished/published, not when it was performed for the first time

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Never underestimate the power of a woman.

from Lysistrata by Aristophanes  (via the-ephemeral-ethereal)