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“NOT WHAT I’M CALLED” has been in my head for the past few days so have this

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Artemis as undersea huntress.

In doing research for my siren piece and delving into depictions of merpeople in Ancient Greek art, I found an article that briefly mentioned a cult image in Arcadia that depicted Artemis with the lower half of a fish. Needless to say, curiosity took hold. I’m always interested in the different ways in which the Greek gods were represented in various regions, but there was no accompanying image or source for such a bold and unusual claim.

The cult image in question belonged to an ancient sanctuary of the Oceanid Eurynome. The ancient geographer Pausanias wrote about the image (though he had never seen it himself). He said that the people of Phigalia believed Eurynome was an epithet of Artemis, but he states in his writings that there is no probable connection between a fish-tailed goddess and Artemis. 

 Nevertheless the image of Artemis as an underwater huntress took hold! She wears a fish scale alopekis and has seals as her companions, as they are the dogs of the sea. 

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the souls of acheron

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Pentheus and the Maenads

Scene from Euripides’ The Bacchae

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"I say the god [Dionysus] does not discriminate young dancers from old, that he craves honor from one and all alike, that no one - no one - is excluded from his worship."

- Euripides, "The Bacchae", translated by Herbert Golder

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Lord Dionysus of androgyny, I pray to you to protect my trans siblings and give them hope in these trying times. Dionysus Maenoles, enraged by how his people are treated, I ask you to liberate those who feel trapped and lost. Unloved in their own homes by their own kin. Dionysus Saotes, I praise you, and thank you for all you've done. Almighty liberator of the grape vine, wonderful protector, please guide us.

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"Oh... You love Zeus?... But didn't he-"

An ear piercing screech is the last thing you hear as I tear the skin from my body, revealing that I'm the eagle come to eat your liver.

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“There is no cure for madness when the cure itself is mad” | Illustration for Euripides’ The Bacchae

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It’s him…

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Your body is a temple, drink wine and get tattoos

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official elon musk hate post reblog to hate like to hate reply to hate

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Staying the night in a vineyard, how not to feel close to lord Dionysus, god of wine, pleasure and liberation of inhibitions?🍇🍷

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—The Bacchae—

An older art piece I did for the play The Bacchae! 💕🍇🍷

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The god Dionysos, holding a kantharos (two-handled drinking cup) in his right hand and a grapevine in his left. Side A of an Attic red-figure amphora attributed to the Berlin Painter and dated between 490 and 480 BCE. Found at Vulci; now in the Louvre.

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some of the god designs i did over on instagram

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now this is an ancient greek word i can really get behind

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…lest i drop you in anger, and hate you as much as i now terribly love you.