Limestone statue of a bearded man wearing a wreath and carrying votive offerings. Artist unknown; ca. 475-450 BCE. From Cyprus; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tetradrachm of the polisof Rhegion (present-day Reggio Calabria) in Bruttium, south Italy. On the obverse, a lion’s head; on the reverse, the head of Apollo, crowned with laurel. Artist unknown; minted between 410 and 387 BCE. Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com
Anthologia Palatina 9.24 = Leonidas of Tarentum (320-260 BCE)
The fiery sun, whirling its axis, Dulls the stars and the moon’s holy circles; Just so Homer has plunged into night All the songsmiths in a mass, Holding high the Muses’ brightest light.
Do not provoke me, wicked girl, lest I drop you in anger, and hate you as much as I now terribly love you. (Il. 3.13-14 trans. Caroline Alexander)
it’s TIME for the annual helen and aphrodite iliad book 3 repaint…im making it a tradition bc i get sick of my own art less than a month after i post it <3
I keep my entire life in a set of Moleskine notebooks. I browsed some old ones today and found this dark academia picture in my first notebook from a few years back.
I’m giving away this copy of some of Thomas Hardy’s poems from my personal collection. Thomas Hardy was the author that got me interested in literature so it seemed like a natural choice.
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The chariot of Aurora, goddess of the dawn, ascends into the sky to begin a new day. Sunflowers turn toward the light, while a bat flees with the darkness. A winged boy, or putto, awakens Aurora’s brother, the sun god Helios.
The broad brushstrokes and small scale of this canvas suggest that it was made as a sketch for a larger painting. Its subject matter would have been perfectly appropriate for the ceiling of a bedroom in an opulent eighteenth-century home.
For forty years at the beginning of the 20th century, the painting was hidden away in storage because its buyer deemed it too provicative for public display.
