I Like How Classical Artists Depicted Athena And Hermes As The Duo Even When They Two Arent Helping A

I like how classical artists depicted Athena and Hermes as the duo even when they two aren’t helping a hero.

For those who don't know (to be fair I haven't said this thing before...) I love redheads. Red hair in general is very beautiful to me, and the fact that is very rare makes it much more special. Back in Ancient Greece people considered it to be either a symbol of beauty or a sign that those people would become vampires after they die. In Ancient Egypt it was a symbol of luck. In the Medieval Ages redheads were believed to be witches. Later, red hair was associated with seductiveness and sex-appeal. Cleopatra, Vincent van Gogh and Queen Elizabeth I were all redheads.

So naturally, every time I see a painting featuring a redhead I like it. And after so much time I've finally found the woman behind many famous paintings: Elizabeth Siddal.

She was an english painter, art model and poet. She was the most renowned model at that time, and most of the artists' ideas of beauty and aesthetic were highly influenced by her looks. She was married with the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and she soon became his muse. Many paintings featuring famous female figures such as Lilith, Beatrix, Persephone, Joan of Arc, Aphrodite, Ophelia and Fiammetta had her as the main inspiration for their appearance.

And now you might be asking: "But didn’t she die in 1862 and most of these paintings were made by the time when she was already six feet under the dirt?" Well yes, but even years after her death when Rossetti used other models he still included features from his dead wife (especially her beautiful red hair) and used sketches of her for reference as well.

Try to find any difference challenge: Impossible

Painting by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussi Trioson

To be fair these pictures give me stronger Athena vibes than any picture of a big owl, so I can see why she chose them instead.

Shout-out to the great goddess of wisdom, master of war and crafts, oh clear-eyed badass queen

For choosing out of all the great majestic owls there are, this one:

Like... It's so scruffy. It looks like it got into the rain and didn't enjoy it one bit. I wanna put it into a blanket burrito. Like what compelled the goddess of I-am-the-best-actually to look at a snow owl or a barn owl or the freaking eagle owl and be like no I want the tiny one that looks like a wet cat, I like that one. Was it the attitude? Cos I think it was the attitude.

Nobody talks about Aphrodite and the Lemnian Women enough:

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 114 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Lemnos happened to have no males at the time [when the Argonauts visited the island], and was ruled by Hypsipyle, the daughter of Thoas. The reason for this was that the women of Lemnos had failed to give due honour to Aphrodite, in return for which she afflicted them with a foul odour. Whereupon their husbands took to bed women whom they captured from neighbouring Thrake. For this dishonourable treatment the Lemnian women slew their fathers and husbands."

The exact same person who tortured Psyche, tried to kill her, made people commit sexual crimes and cursed parents to lust after their children (and vice-versa) decided to punish a group of women by making them smell bad.

You know for a matter of fact that young Björn Andrésen would've been the perfect cast for Dorian Gray.