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Cosmetic vase, Greek, late 6th century BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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A moment to rest

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I was gonna say Achilles after book 16 but…he was kinda always like that 🥴😭

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imagine ur an achaean soldier and ur strongest fighter is a tantrum-prone deadbeat dad whos gender is the secret third thing

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i've noticed just how often achilles' dragging of hector's corpse is framed mostly as an act of extreme disrespect, or only some brutal show of triumph. personally i think that's underselling both achilles' intention and what the trojans must be thinking as they watch it happen.

hector's corpse is divinely protected so it can't be damaged by the greeks after death; all that effectively happens in the iliad is that his body gets dirty. but under normal circumstances (and i'm not gonna impose realism on mythology, but the iliad is famously detailed when it comes to bodily trauma), the physical reality of dragging a corpse along stony ground for miles would be severe disfigurement and dismemberment. first the skin would wear off, then soft tissues, then extremities would start to detach. i think the iliad's original audience would be aware of that as an intended outcome.

achilles (who doesn't yet know that hector's body has been granted divine stasis) doesn't just want to parade his enemy's corpse around, he wants to tear it apart ("i only wish that this fury inside my heart would drive me to carve you to pieces and eat your flesh raw..."), he wants it to not resemble a human anymore. he wants hector's blood and flesh to circle the city of troy. he wants to make it impossible for hector's family to gather the pieces of him to cremate and that way hector's spirit won't find passage into the underworld. that's what the gods are preventing from happening, they're not just keeping the corpse pretty for priam to pick up later.

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Herrero, Anne. Pro Life, 2024

oil on linen

42" x 48"

Herrero, Anne. States' Rights, 2022

oil on linen

42" x 48"

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Deeply relate to this as an Italian

things tourists do that annoy me:

come all the way to greece to eat plastic at mcdonals and shop plastic at fast fashion stores instead of visiting museums and trying the local food

have no spacial awarness whatsoever and block the entire street just to take a photo

have blue eyes and blonde hair

get embarassingly inntense sunburns

wear those gold olive branch headbands or those dresses that are supposed to look like ancient chitons (everyone thinks you look ridiculous)

absolutely trash the aformentioned fast fasion stores, not bothering to pick up stuff from the ground that fell bc of them and or stepping on it

take??? pictures??? in front??? of??? my???? univerity administration building???? for some reason????

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ولا بنساك يا بلادي، يا ارضي وارض اجدادي🍉🫒

You can get these as prints here

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every year my university selects about ten stories from an exam that they have the students of my course (and others) do. the stories will then be printed in a booklet that is given to people for free at my uni's open day in october.

social issues are usually addressed. last year the theme was human rights, this year's is climate change.

so i did this – i know it's not in line with what i usually post, but lately i've been feeling quite miserable and i could only focus on this.

exam will be on wednesday, wish me luck 🍀

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Minotaur c*mmission

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INHABITANTS OF THE CROSSROADS in HADES II

The Crossroads: that haven hidden 'twixt the surface and the Underworld conceals those still loyal to Lord Hardes, rightful ruler of the dead

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An illustration of Artemesia Gentileschi that I did for my work's social media during International Women's Day, back in 2021.

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C'è ancora domani (2023, dir. Paola Cortellesi) - trailer

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[covers him in blood] look at u go stinky man

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i hope my unwashed hair and deer in headlights type stare has captivated you