Nymph discovering a mermaid in the reeds
Georges-Marie-Julien Girardot
Mermaid Mondays
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The Letter (A Classical Maiden), 1899
John William Godward
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every day someone treats romans and greeks as interchangeable societies when not even greeks and other greeks are interchangeable and let’s not even begin on the fact there is a ~1000 years timespan that is also somehow getting ignored here
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~ Ariadne and Dionysus.
Period: Late Roman/Late Antiquity
Date: A.D. 3rd-5th century
Place of origin: Achmim, Egypt
Medium: Wool on linen, colored knitting
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i love when ancient historians write totally made up speeches for historical figures.be so fr livy he would not fucking say that .
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Minoan Ladys
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I saw the 15th century Byzantine codex that depicts most emperors and even Pulcheria of the Theodosian Dynasty, Zoe and Theodora of the Macedonian Dynasty being in there.
Yes, there are facial inaccuracies on the appearances of the earlier emperors.
@scribl1ta
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(modern aus your senators)
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Partial view of bathroom in House of Menander, Pompeii.
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House of the Vettii in Pompeii.
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Archways in the Forum Romanum, Rome.
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-The Favourite-
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-Summer Flowers-
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-Idleness-
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Egyptian
Sphinx of Amenhotep IlI, (possibly from a Model of a Temple)
New Kingdom, ca. 1390-1352 B.C.E.
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Statue of Princess Takushit, c.670 BC
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