#robert graves

[madnessofmen]

me and the mutuals

[nardialrose]

A lot of people don't know that Robert Graves already wrote popular Greek myth perceptions before PJ - with some has everlasting damages for the worst.

the idea of a Triple Goddesses being universal in every myth? Nope, not a thing; he invented it.

Greece was originally matriarchal before it turned to patriarchy? He didn't invented it, but he popularized it (just look up his White Goddess thesis).

Medusa was actually a goddess and her being raped by Poseidon is a symbol of patriarchy? Also popularized it.

the gods attempt to overthrow Zeus, and Hera, Apollo, Poseidon were punished afterward? Well Graves mixed up a lot of confusing sources into one.

Hestia giving up her Olympian seat to Dionysus? He invented it.

Ares the jock to Hephaestus the nerd? He did that earlier.

Hestia the most kindest and peaceful goddess? He beat you all already.

Hera was forced to marry Zeus and hated the marriage?

Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades drawing lots on who get to rule which domain?

Amphitrite being a jealous wife like Hera?

His ideas baby.

And that's not even getting into the other whacky stuff he conjured up.

Edited: some corrections brought on by few people that the casting lots is founded in the Iliad and Apollodorus. I stand corrected!

[lokavisi]

Not to mention that the Triple Goddess "archetype" reinforces gender roles/stereotypes and sometimes bioessentialism when placed in the "right" hands.

[weirdlookindog]

Daniel Maclise (1806–1870) - The Origin of the Harp, 1862

after the painting by Robert Graves (1798–1873)

[vintagehomecollection]

Architect Robert Graves juxtaposes straight and curved geometric forms in unexpected ways in a townhouse library.

Inside Today’s Home, 1986

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Cartoonists making faces through time.

[thepettymachine]

Agnes has learned she is expecting a baby boy again

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

British gay/bi male writers and their social circles

As a great admirer of gay literature, the social circles of gay and bisexual male writers is something that piques my interest. Due to the dangerousness of the matter in the past and also because it revolves around a relatively small niche, it seems that there was high level familiarity between these figures. The United Kingdom, a country whose literary input has abundant homoerotic tones, is a very adequate setting to analyze such a configuration.

I've been building a graph on this subject for some time, and now it seems mature enough for me to post it. It's a diagram based on friendship connections — deep or superficial —, although romantic and family-related connections are also included. Just a mutual recognition of existence isn't enough to justify a connection (otherwise most of them would be linked to Wilde!), and rivalries were not considered too. All the writers included were born during the Victorian and Edwardian eras (1837-1910), where this interconnectivity seemed particularly strong.

This is just an early version, as I imagine there is still a considerable amount of information that I missed. Therefore, I'm very open to suggestions and comments on it!

(Three Irishmen were also included in the diagram: Stoker, Wilde and Reid)

[book-of-forbidden-knowledge]

Sorry, not sorry.

[jurakan]

I’ll take a fun fact, and in return give you a Happy Friday!

I found this out because I recently read The Fellowship about the Inklings, and so! Today You Learned which famous actress Tolkien met by accident one time.

Tolkien recounts this in Letter 267, in reference to how he knows that not a lot of people really know who he is. He was at a lecture by Robert Graves (yes, that Robert Graves; he had this to say about him: "A remarkable creature, entertaining, likeable, odd, bonnet full of wild bees, half-German, half-Irish, very tall, must have looked like Siegfried/Sigurd in his youth, but an Ass."). After the lecture--which Tolkien said was horrible--he was introduced to a young woman (Graves assumed they'd recognize each other) who he found easy to talk to, and they apparently got along quite well. Partway through this conversation, Graves was very amused and said, "It is obvious neither of you has ever heard of the other before," and made formal introductions.

Tolkien, of course, you know. The woman here was Ava Gardner. Y'know, the famous actress.

[From the Turner Classic Movies website.]

Tolkien, for the record, still had to be told she was a famous movie star, as apparently he still didn't recognize the name.

J.R.R. Tolkien met movie star Ava Gardner, at a lecture by Robert Graves, and apparently they got along pretty well, even if they didn't know who the other was.

I just thought that was wild.

[rainbowpopeworld]

Michael Sheen reading poetry, along with other poets chosen by him, from bbc radio today

[ashintheairlikesnow]

I got a new Dead Gay Poets With Complicated Feelings About Nationalism book! As far as I can tell this book was written explicitly for my specific special interest and I am just emotionally rolling around on the floor right now like a happy dog in the backyard

[glowing-starlight]

Tiberius and Vipsania Scene for Anonymous

[thequietabsolute]

Robert Graves, She Tells Her Love While Half Alseep

[a1exkra1ie]

rn I'm just thinking about the graves sassoon letters. they're so funny. there's a bit where graves is like "I heard you had a grand old time playing with explosives to avenge me after they accidentally pronounced me dead; thank you but please stop doing that"

[domitiaa]

Frances White as Julia The Elder in some postcards of I, CLAUDIUS (1976)