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The swift-footed huntress: Atalanta

Abandoned for being born female, Atalanta was raised to become one of the best huntresses in the wilderness by a bear. She vowed she would only marry a man if he could beat her at a foot race, beheading those that lost against her. Eventually, Atalanta was defeated by a man with the help of Aphrodite by distracting her during a race with golden apples. Her husband did not pay the goddess back for her help, and so Atalanta and her husband were turned into lionsaspunishment.

(The Mortals: Pandora|Arachne|Atalanta)

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@forzeaesthetique

Fri, 02 Oct 2020 23:05:32

The Weaver: Arachne

Arachne was a shepard’s daughter that claimed to be the best weaver among gods and men. Athena, the goddess of weaving, was angered by her claims and challenged Arachne. The girl’s work was better than the goddess’s. In her anger, Athena turned Arachne into a spider for her hubris, cursing her to weave for all eternity.

(the Mortals: Pandora|Arachne|Atalanta)

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@forzeaesthetique

Fri, 02 Oct 2020 01:03:43

didoofcarthage:

“The Calf-Bearer and the Kritios Boy Shortly After Exhumation on the Acropolis”
c. 1865
albumen silver print from glass negative
Gilman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The statue depicted here is known as the Moschophoros, or Calf-bearer. It dates to the high archaic period in Greek history, and more specifically has a date range of 570 - 560 BC.

– Really cool to see a picture from when it was first found!

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@The Art of Ancient History

Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:49:28

Achilles flourished. He went to battle giddily, grinning as he fought. It was not the killing that pleased him—he learned quickly that no single man was a match for him. Nor any two men, nor three. He took no joy in such easy butchery, and less than half as many fell to him as might have. What he lived for were the charges, a cohort of men thundering towards him. There, amidst twenty stabbing swords he could finally, truly fight. He gloried in his own strength, like a racehorse too long penned, allowed at last to run. With a fevered impossible grace he fought off ten, fifteen, twenty-five men. This, at last, is what I can really do.

~the song of achilles

Me, reading that scene:

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@multibookss

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 04:38:13

I felt in a trance. He had been trained, a little, by his father. The rest was—what? Divine? This was more of the gods than I had ever seen in my life. He made it look beautiful, this sweating, hacking art of ours. I understood why his father did not let him fight in front of the others. How could any ordinary man take pride in his own skill when there was this in the world?

~patroclus, the song of achilles