#classic mythology

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I don't see why people feel the need to demonize Demeter into a smothering matriarch who didn't want Persephone to be happy to make Hades seem more sympathetic when there's a villain right there: Zeus, the fuck ass who plotted to sell Persephone to his brother without even informing Demeter about it because "silly women and their feelings, she doesn't belong to you anyway" and demanded she just give in. Especially since the Hymn to Demeter is full of women and ripe for feminist retelling: Gaia, who betrays Persephone for her favor to Hades, Hekate, who hears Persephone cry out and joins Demeter in the search, the four mortal girls who comfort her in her distress and their mother Metaneira who takes her in, wise Iambe who lifts her heart with jokes and poems, Iris and Rhea, Zeus' messengers.

More Hymn to Demeter retellings where Demeter is a woman desperate to find her daughter after her abusive husband steals her and the women who help her, where Demeter breaks Zeus' patriarchal power with her own, where she's willing to break the whole world rather than let it be one where daughters are property of fathers to be traded and sold as they see fit. Demeter is not the villain here. Zeus is.

[fiannalover]

[magnuspng]

Medea’s Wrath + ALT colors

[stone-cold-groove]

Without any sense of forethought, Epimetheus spins a tale. Myths Every Child Should Know - 1922.

[cjbolan]

OK hear me out — John Stamos as Hades in Disney’s live action Hercules!! He’s the right age, can scary and funny and charming, and he has Greek heritage. Honestly it’s weird how most movies set in Greece don’t cast Greek actors. And the few times they do, it’s only for very small roles (300, Mamma Mia!, Alexander, The Odyssey, etc.)

Feel free to share other ideas 🙂

[whatthecrowtold]

"The mother, with all her robes and with her body, protected her, and cried out, "Leave me just one, the youngest! I only ask for one, the youngest of all!" While she prayed, she, for whom she prayed, was dead. Childless, she sat among the bodies of her sons, her daughters, and her husband, frozen in grief.

The breeze stirs not a hair, the colour of her cheeks is bloodless, and her eyes are fixed motionless in her sad face: nothing in that likeness is alive. Inwardly her tongue is frozen to the solid roof of her mouth, and her veins cease their power to throb. Her neck cannot bend, nor her arms recall their movement, nor her feet lead her anywhere. Inside, her body is stone. Yet she weeps, and, enclosed in a powerful whirlwind, she is snatched away to her own country: there, set on a mountain top, she wears away, and even now tears flow from the marble." (Ovid)

Art by Artuš Scheiner "Niobe transformed into the Weeping Rock" (c 1920)

[drinkingdownthepoison]

Giulio Romano, La Caduta dei Giganti at Palazzo Te (Mantua, Lombardia), 1525-35

[kustavglimt]

Sandro Botticelli (Florence 1445 -1510)

Spring (detail)

Tempera grassa on wood

[artsimulation]

The Sirens, 1892

- John Longstaff

[meltedjasmine]

building my mood board at the harvard art museum

[demonicdeviation]

Orphic Dionysus🍇

A redraw of a piece I did for Inktober 2019, I plan on turning it into and selling it as prints 

[golyadkin]

Sons Of The Labyrinth or The Things Our Fathers Do To Us

[stone-cold-groove]

King Midas receives a strange visitor. Myths Every Child Should Know - 1922.

[willow-lark]

cast your votes!!

[cjbolan]

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Sketches inspired by Epic: The Musical ! Or by The Odyssey if you wanna get technical. Guess which scene this is 🌸 ✨