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Tag yourself as insults from Aristophanes' plays

~ "Open arsed Ionians", The Achanians

~ "How long did he take to close up his arse", The Acharnians

~ "Supple rogue", The Knights

~ "Sausage Seller" , The Knights

~ "Villanous and loathsome screamer", The Knights

~ "Arse of a camel", Peace

~ "Vilest bathman", Frogs

~ "Pint sized", Frogs

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Statue of Apollo from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 🏺

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Bust of Livia <3

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RIP Daphne Du Maurier, you would of loved Wattpad x

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"I will sing of stately Aphrodite, gold crowned and beautiful, whose dominion is the walled cities"

~Hymn 6, Homer

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"You demanded what it was now,

and why I called you now,

and what my maddened heart most wanted...

Please come to me: release me from driving care and all my heart longs

To accomplish, accomplish

Be my ally."

~Sappho, Ode To Aphrodite

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"You alone are the guiding power of the universe

And without you nothing emerges into the shining

Sunlit world to grow in joy and happiness"

~Lucretius, On The Nature Of Everything

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"Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair

He will paint her, and go mad."

~Leopold van Sacher-Masoch, Venus In Furs

As with a lot of myths, looking at divinity causes madness, blindess and desperation, this is depicted here as a painter attempts to paint Venus, a trap she laid out for him.

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"Lady of blazing domain

Clad in dread

Riding on fire-red power...

Flood storm hurricane adorned

Battle planner

Foe smasher"

~Inanna and Ebih by Enhedunna, c2350bc. Enhedunna was the first name author in history, here she is talking about an early ancestor of Aphrodite

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"You can turn man into women

Women into man"

~Lady of the Largest Heart, a hymn to Inanna by Enheduanna c2300bc