Tag: ancient

mythos-theos:

30 Days of Mythical Tricksters

→ Day 8: Eris

“In the beginning there was Eris, for that is what they named her in the West. She was pure and absolute Chaos as it is understood in the divine symbol of the Tai Chi. She was the substrate from which the universe sprang and upon which it grows.” (x) 

rmeisel:

Icarus: so there’s a boy, I know – you probably know the story, told a million times but this one’s different, this one is real. so there’s a boy, with the most beautiful eyes – really bright, really really blue, like the sky on the hottest day of the summer, a day so hot you can’t even wear your shirt because it feels like molten wax on your back – so you get the idea yeah? so there’s a boy, brilliant and shining, with brown skin – no wait, bronze skin, yeah bronze, like the soft color of autumn leaves that glisten in the last stray sunlight and his hair, oh god, he wears it short and it’s the softest hair I ever touched – there’s no color to describe it, blond would be too flat, brown too hard – I’d dare to say it’s golden, yeah, golden like the sun when it sets on the horizon just before dawn finally breaks the night. and so, this boy – you’re still with me? this boy, god, he’s like everything, like, I look at him and suddenly I can’t speak, I can’t breath and he’s like an interplanetary magnetic field and I feel myself drawn towards him, like I have no control over my own body as soon as he’s around. I look at him and suddenly my throat dries out and I – I feel lost inside my skin, totally and utterly useless because my bones shift inside of me and my lungs keep collapsing but every time I try to talk to him or try to get close to him my legs are failing, my voice betrays me. my body paralyzed as if I’m falling and my wings are already on bright fire, flapping shreds around me and he smiles and smiles and smiles –

(Icarus: I wish I could just go and ask him if he loves me, but I’m already falling and I fear the impact that will crash my bones)

– Icarus’ Fall | r.m

some greek mythology pickup lines for y’all on this valentine’s day

thoodleoo:

  • you can call me zeus, because i’m an animal in bed
  • are you feeling tired? because it’s a long way from mt. olympus, and you look absolutely divine
  • if i were achilles, then you’d be my heel, because i’m weak for you
  • it’s a good thing you’re not my dead wife that i’m trying to lead back from the underworld, because i can’t stop looking at you
  • you remind me a lot of my mother…anyway, let’s make out
  • did you fall from heaven? because if so that is actually a tragic tale of youthful folly, and your melted wax wings are making any sort of amatory encounter difficult as they only serve as a reminder of foolish childhood and of the danger that innovation brings

thoodleoo:

thoodleoo:

what if i just keep my working title for my sappho paper and turn it in like this

other titles i might use:

  • Let Sappho Be Lesbian You Cowards: Like Seriously This Is Not The 19th Century
  • Compulsory Heterosexuality And You: A Pamphlet On Why You Should Just Not
  • Reasons Why Straight People Should Not Be Allowed To Translate Sappho

myfairylily:

A sleeping hermaphrodite marble statue from the 2nd century AD that was found in the Baths of Diocletian in Rome. The mattress underneath was carved by Bernini in 1619. It was purchased in 1807 from the Borghese collection which was a year before Napoleon’s troops re-captured Rome (he invaded in 1799 and 1808) and is ob the display in the Louvre (Paris, France). | @decimusclaudius 

hellenicdreams:

1. Deification of Herakles

2 Battle between a hoplite and cavalrymen

3. Detail of repair, where a broken handle was reattached and a new mouth added, both with staples (now removed). The mouth is about twenty years later than the rest of the vase.

Attributed to Bareiss Painter, Medea Group (Greek (Attic), active late 6th century B.C.)
Attic Black-Figure Neck-Amphora, 530–520 B.C., Terracotta
32.9 × 21.9 cm (12 15/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles