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The greeks inventing flamethrowers is an absolute mood.
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpch-tOIxT8)
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Dark Epithets of Aphrodite?!
How am I only just finding out now that Aphrodite has an epithet that literally means gravedigger?!
Oh man, it gets even more interesting as we look into her other epithets too. Just take a look at some of the darker ones our goddess of love and beauty has acquired:
Tumborukhos: Gravedigger
Androphonos: Killer of men
Epitumbidia: She upon graves
Anosia: The unholy
Skotia: dark one
i would know you in darkness
someone dare me to read the illiad and song of achilles again
A paper cut I made based on an ancient Greek coin reading Ασκληπιος Σωτηρος (Asklepios the Deliverer/Healer), depicting Asklepios' snake wrapped around the Omphalos (the stone Rhea gave to Kronos in place of Zeus).
Le nom de la fille est Yllas fille d'Hades, à côté d'elle se trouve un dieu. Devinez qui il est.
The girl's name is Yllas daughter of Hades, beside her is a god. Guess witch one.
Petite Yllas, première fois aux enfer grecque. :D
Baby Yllas, first time in the underworld. :D
Moodboard: fem! Hades x Persephone
god i love reading about stupid drama in ancient greece. like there was an athlete named theagenes who was so good at every kind of athletic contest that when he died, one of his opponents would go to beat the shit out of a statue of him out of spite, but then one day the statue fell on the guy and killed him so the greeks took the statue to court for murder, convicted it, and threw it into the sea
Apollon and Dionysos.
(+ shitpost art)
lmao a medicine / disease god and a cannibalistic (demi-)god
Omg, he's like staring right at you. Having the paint preserved like that is so rare!
Statuette (copper alloy) of the composite Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis Amun Agathodaimon. Artist unknown; 1st cent. BCE/CE (late Hellenistic or early Imperial). From Egypt; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. Photo credit: George E. Koronaios.
A girl I don't like just posted that she found a perfectly preserved vintage copy of crime and punishment in a second hand book shop.
I am livid and about to commit petty theft.
I LOVE EMILY WILSON!!!!
Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson
reading about Alcibiades again and the way this man SINGLE-HANDEDLY restarted the Peloponnesian War simply by being a shit starter is actually so iconic