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Bull’s head rhyton from Knossos

1550-1450 B.C.

Made from limestone, serpentine, and crystal

Used as drinking vessel - liquid poured into the head and out of the mouth.

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Archaeological Museum of Heraklion:

Goddesses with upraised hands and the “Poppy Goddess”

The large figurines crowned with birds on their diadem were found in Karphi along with three more figurines, and are the largest found to date in Crete. The objects were derived from various parts of the settlement, indicating that cult activities took place throughout the site. 1200-1100 B.C

The poppy goddess is the largest figure found in Gazi. It also is the only figure crowned with models of the opium poppy fruit (papaver somniferum). The symbol of opium, a hallucinogen known for its sedative and healing properties conveys the message that the goddess relieves pain and heals worshippers. (1300-1200 BC)

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Suppliant my children's murderer to implore, And kiss those hands yet reeking with their gore

(2/2)

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Classicstober Day 18: Phaedra 🥀

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Teenage war criminal #2 Pyrrhus

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Some Minoan princesses 🧶

bonus sad Ariadne

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I accidentally dropped my Alcibiades in the stylization machine uh oh. I'll go give him a rinse and he should be fine.

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Not that the Minotaur ever pranced around with Icarus and Ariadne on his back, but you know. He could have.

(This is a very poorly worded art request)

they're going on an adventure

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and what have i ever done. to anyone.

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Long hair won out in the end rip all the short haired Menelaus truthers

Art used as reference from littleulvar on twitter: https://twitter.com/littleulvar https://twitter.com/littleulvar/status/1210636583713591296

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it's time for

Asconius on Cicero's Pro Milone (trans. R.G. Lewis)

and also the deeply unserious rough sketch from when this was a comic (this is actually the final page of a three page sequence, I just didn't like the other two, so I scrapped them and turned it into a standalone illustration)

as always, I have no vision of milo in my mind because I see his name and I start thinking about the chocolate malt drink instead, so if I ever draw him again (I Will) he will probably look. different.

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A Bireme and two Phalanxes clashing, two frontpieces commissioned by Martin Heldson

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Day XII: Theseus

In which a kid with too big a sense of responsibility wrestles a creature he wasn’t prepared for and escapes with his life and all 13 lives of his kin. He deserves a nap on the ship.

I have this idea of the Theseus story where sixteen year old Theseus is determined to save lives, is in over his head, and manages to overcome. The real villain in this story is Minos, the victims are Asterion, countless Athenian teens, almost Theseus and his crew, and Ariadne. The whole experience, and the discovery of what they’re being fed to, facing it, and nearly losing to it, is deeply traumatic to Theseus. It breaks his character a little bit, and Ariadne… Well, he doesn’t know how kind she is. All he sees is his people’s oppressor, who put him and all the other victims through hell. He agrees to take her back with him for survival, but he maroons her because he is unwilling to bring a daughter of Minos to be princess and someday queen of Athena. He thinks it would be spitting in the face of his people.

But the mean, unpredictable, memory-loss ridden, bad decision making Theseus begins after he boards the ship at Crete, completely spent.

Source: I made it up, this is all headcanon :3

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THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS

this part in ovid's heroides intrigues me ngl

Ovid, Heroides 16 (trans. Harold Isbell)

the. the inescapability of it. oof.

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Wall painting on red ground: candelabrum with frieze, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase. Roman last decade of the 1st century BCE. x

From the villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase, the Mythological Room (19).

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Classicstober Day 14: Helen 🌹