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“You will pay for your vile cleverness.”

“And you, for your ignorance and impiety to the god.”

I gave up on the hand in the initial sketch so ignore that, but i’ve been obsessed w the bacchae recently so here’s a doodle

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Remember when historian Diane Purkiss chose violence? 🤣

“In this essay, I will show that medieval and early modern witchcraft was for the most part not a pagan practice, but a dissident form of Christianity. I will also argue that modern pagans and modern witches are themselves products of the very globalized, commercial, urban and anywhere culture which they set out to resist.”

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Having a Christian wedding to feel connected with my family and ancestors but am going to incorporate some of the Greek traditions you mentioned on your post to honour my dieties 🧿💖 really helpful and interesting!

Congratulations on your wedding! I'm glad my post has provided some helps and ideas, and thank you 🖤

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Oui yogurt jars make great, inexpensive canisters that also look great!

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Feather River Bulletin, Quincy, California, March 20, 1924

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

JOHN AUSTEN

In the 1930s, the Limited Editions Club sent out a list of titles to selected artists and asked them to choose a book to illustrate and present their ideas for illustrations. The well-established English book illustrator and wood engraver John Austen replied that he wished to illustrate The Frogs by Aristophanes even though it did not appear on the list. His proposal and preliminary designs were so strong that the Club agreed. Austin provided 28 wood engravings and an edition of 1500 copies were printed at the venerable Haarlem, Netherlands, printing house of Joh. Enschedé en Zonen and signed by the artist.

View all 28 engravings at the Book Graphics blogspot.

View our other posts with illustrations by John Austen.

View more posts on works by the Limited Editions Club.

View other posts related to the Enschedé firm.

View more posts with wood engravings!

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Louise Glück, excerpt from “A Myth of Innocence,” in Averno

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“There is no cure for madness when the cure itself is mad” | Illustration for Euripides’ The Bacchae

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a greek chorus which just shouts “oh shit” at relevant intervals

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The winners of this year's City Dionysia are now revealed! Thank you everyone for your hard work and dedication!

✒ For the Poetry category:

Savage & Free by @khaire-traveler

✒ For the Art category:

Untitled by @vdoes

✒ For the Retellings category:

Sparagmos (or Euripides, Eat Your Heart Out) by @delirpa

✒ and, finally, for the Original Myth category:

"Apothnesko and the Psychopomp" by @hillbillyoracle

Congratulations to our winners!

Continue writing and sharing your work with the world and the gods. Thank you again for your participation, and we look forward to seeing next time!

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hey folks,,,,,... glad 2 b here on tubblr . here's a little self-portrait of me,, a human male

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He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”

Les Misérables, Volume I / Book V / Chapter III, trans. Hapgood

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Time to Vote!

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to submit their work for this 2024 edition of the City Dionysia! The link to vote is at the end of this post. You have until March 18th 11:59pm PST to submit your vote. The winners will be announced on March 19th.

Poetry

LARPing by @nyxshadowhawk

To Bacchos by @piristephes

I dance... by @scenecoreshrine

I know you with my blood and bones by @silkravensssssss (tw: violence)

Savage & Free by @khaire-traveler (tw: violence, cannibalism)

Art

Thrice-born by @khaire-traveler (tw: skull, blood, wine)

Untitled by @vdoes

Two-horned by @nyuiarantes

Untitled by @silkravensssssss

Retellings

Sparagmos (or Euripides, Eat Your Heart Out) by @delirpa (tw: blood, organs, bacchae, graphic death, violence) l🌿

Original Myth

Apothnesko and the Psychopomp by @hillbillyoracle (cw: death, death of sibling, death of parent, death of partner, death of child, illness) 🌿

Congratulations to @delirpa and @hillbillyoracle for winning the retelling and original myth categories, respectively.

Which leaves us with the poetry and art categories to vote for:

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

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Time to Vote!

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to submit their work for this 2024 edition of the City Dionysia! The link to vote is at the end of this post. You have until March 18th 11:59pm PST to submit your vote. The winners will be announced on March 19th.

Poetry

LARPing by @nyxshadowhawk

To Bacchos by @piristephes

I dance... by @scenecoreshrine

I know you with my blood and bones by @silkravensssssss (tw: violence)

Savage & Free by @khaire-traveler (tw: violence, cannibalism)

Art

Thrice-born by @khaire-traveler (tw: skull, blood, wine)

Untitled by @vdoes

Two-horned by @nyuiarantes

Untitled by @silkravensssssss

Retellings

Sparagmos (or Euripides, Eat Your Heart Out) by @delirpa (tw: blood, organs, bacchae, graphic death, violence) l🌿

Original Myth

Apothnesko and the Psychopomp by @hillbillyoracle (cw: death, death of sibling, death of parent, death of partner, death of child, illness) 🌿

Congratulations to @delirpa and @hillbillyoracle for winning the retelling and original myth categories, respectively.

Which leaves us with the poetry and art categories to vote for:

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

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Time to Vote!

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to submit their work for this 2024 edition of the City Dionysia! The link to vote is at the end of this post. You have until March 18th 11:59pm PST to submit your vote. The winners will be announced on March 19th.

Poetry

LARPing by @nyxshadowhawk

To Bacchos by @piristephes

I dance... by @scenecoreshrine

I know you with my blood and bones by @silkravensssssss (tw: violence)

Savage & Free by @khaire-traveler (tw: violence, cannibalism)

Art

Thrice-born by @khaire-traveler (tw: skull, blood, wine)

Untitled by @vdoes

Two-horned by @nyuiarantes

Untitled by @silkravensssssss

Retellings

Sparagmos (or Euripides, Eat Your Heart Out) by @delirpa (tw: blood, organs, bacchae, graphic death, violence) l🌿

Original Myth

Apothnesko and the Psychopomp by @hillbillyoracle (cw: death, death of sibling, death of parent, death of partner, death of child, illness) 🌿

Congratulations to @delirpa and @hillbillyoracle for winning the retelling and original myth categories, respectively.

Which leaves us with the poetry and art categories to vote for:

CLICK HERE TO VOTE