#ancient greek
“Ο κόσμος αλλοίωσις, ο βίος υπόληψις.”
“World is decay, life is perception.”
“Όντας δε θνητούς θνητά και φρονείν χρεών.”
“As mortals we should behave as mortals.”
Does she, y’know, yawn at another women?
A los Sátiros de Dionisio
Levántense, vamos, arriba, machos cabríos somnolientos, es hora de la caza, levanten los cuernos y preparen la buena bebida. Respondan a nuestro llamado con una voz lujuriosa y seductora, y corran, corran con el vino en sus venas, corran con nosotros en los extensos Campos de Nisa. Tiemblen por la locura orgiástica de su Señor Dionisio. Ustedes, que se unen a las benditas almas liminales renacidas por haber aceptado la salvación de Zagreo, denle rienda suelta al frenesí de su cuerpo. Sus risas pregonan el desenfreno báquico; su baile, la adoración nocturna por las praderas y los cerros. Mírenme, amigos, estoy desatado en la desnudez y lleno de alegría más allá de toda razón y locura. Grandes y terribles son las bendiciones de la deliciosa verga de un sátiro, bestias sin gracia pero que están más allá de cualquier belleza. Insaciables buscadores de los mayores placeres, que sean honrados en la absurda búsqueda de nuestros más profundos deseos. Compartan el gozo, compartan la grandeza. Con la complicidad de los hermanos sátiros, ¡busquemos lo que queramos, busquemos a quien queramos! Así que ahora, déjennos perseguirlos como ustedes nos persiguen, déjennos tomarlos como ustedes nos toman, déjennos disfrutarlos como ustedes nos disfrutan, déjennos entrar en ustedes como ustedes entran en nosotros. Viertan su espeso vino caliente y embriagador en nuestras gargantas y corazones. Endurezcan sus tirsos, sátiros salvajes, embaucadores de Tracia, y empúñenlos con firmeza. Saquen la lengua para lamer hasta la última gota de vino, y arranquen la última uva de la sagrada Vid, ¡siempre pidiendo más! ¡Porque nunca nada es suficiente o demasiado en cuanto al Señor Dionisio!
On the Greatness of Homer
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.
ἄστρα μὲν ἠμαύρωσε καὶ ἱερὰ κύκλα σελήνης
ἄξονα δινήσας ἔμπυρος ἠέλιος:
ὑμνοπόλους δ᾽ ἀγεληδὸν ἀπημάλδυνεν Ὅμηρος,
λαμπρότατον Μουσῶν φέγγος ἀνασχόμενος.
Homer, Girolamo Troppa, between 1665 and 1668
~ Ptolemaic Cameo.
Culture: Greek
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 278-269 B.C.
Medium: Ten-layered Arabic Onyx, dark brown and bluish white. Setting: gold ring, enamel, 4th quarter of the 16th century.
Hades: you can’t look back
Orpheus: I won’t
Orpheus:
Greek gods as B99 gifs part 2
Hera:
Zeus:
Poseidon:
Hestia:
Hades:
Bonus (I know some of these aren’t B99 quotes but still):
Iris:
Hypnos:
Or
The Greek gods as B99 quotes part 1
Athena:
Ares:
Apollo:
Hermes:
Or
Demeter:
Hephaestus:
Aphrodite:
Dionysus:
Artemis:
ancient greek word of the day: μελίγλωσσος(meliglōssos), honey-tongued
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO
ITALIAN, 1696–1770
THE CHARIOT OF AURORA
c. 1734
Oil on canvas
19 7/16 x 19 1/8 in. (49.3 x 48.6 cm)
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.
From the Clark Institute Website.
Nymphs and Satyr
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1873, oil on canvas.
Inspired by a passage of Statius’ Silvae.
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.
THE WEDDING OF PELEUS AND THETIS
This month we’re going to take a look at Classical mythology and history and it’s reception in later art !!!
A scene super popular in Archiac Greek pottery, the subject of Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael’s painting The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis in 1612.
Check out the Clark art gallery for more info
Dark academia moodboard challenge:
Classics
If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?
look all i’m saying is that if i found a guy with a stable job, a nice house, and a big dog, i, too, would eat the pomegranate seeds
“I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of 9 days upon the sea, but on the tenth day we reached the land of the Lotus-eaters, who live on a food that comes from a kind of flower.
Here we landed to take in fresh water, and our crews got their mid-day meal on the shore near the ships.
When they had eaten and drunk I sent two of my company to see what manner of men the people of the place might be, and they had a third man under them.
They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their return; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches.
Then I told the rest to go on board at once, lest any of them should taste of the lotus and leave off wanting to get home, so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars.”
From the Odyssey
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Camilla in bk 11 of the Aeneid is just every woman ever who has had to take orders from a man with the iq of a salmon and it is actually excellent
