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Leo as Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse (1995).

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Bacchus by Sergey Solomko

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by Polykleitos, ancient Greek sculptor of the 5th century BCE. – considered one of the most important sculptors of classical antiquity. 

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Zack Huffman - “Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight, For the greatest tragedy of them all, Is never to feel the burning light.”

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‘Orpheus’, c.1891 by Franz von Stuck (1863-1928). German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. Villa Stuck Museum, Munich.

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Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector. 1930. Alexander Rothaug Austrian, 1870 - 1946. oil/canvas.     http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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霸王別姬 Farewell My Concubine 1993, dir. Chen Kaige

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Beauty

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Solar System Embroidery

Ophelie Trichereau on Etsy

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some greek pantheon in gold

available as a print

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Polytès, fils de Priam, observant les mouvements des Grecs vers Troie / Polytes, son of Priam, watching the movements of the Greeks against Troy, 1834

Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809–1864)

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Statue of a prince or dynast without crown. Bronze, Greek artwork of the Hellenistic era, 3rd-2nd centuries BC. (Look at the beard, subtly engraved using a burin). Museo nazionale romano di palazzo Massimo

Repost from @yamunaontheroad

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My memories are set to a concert of flutes, or clear voices singing; even now sometimes a chord or a descant can make me smell scented oil and bay-leaves, or grass and burning pitch, and torchlight flickers on the stillness of his listening eyes.

— Mary Renault, "The Last of the Wine"

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In this house we love and appreciate Madeline Miller’s writing style

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"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”