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I did not think this was how this piece was gonna go but the God of Art doesn't need to be predictable i guess lol

Greek god Apollo(n)

Aphrodite, Goddess Of Love and War

TW: Bodyhorror

some Scylla concept sketches

I had this idea of making the actual Scylla a creepy eel monster, and this woman face is how Scylla used to look like before the transformation. This will most definitely not be the design I'll be using for animatics because it's really hard to draw lmao. Just some scary doodles

playing around with my Aphrodite design

Hermes with his male lover Crocus?

Odysseus' choice is going to have an impact when he finally comes back.

All those men were from Ithaca. They surely had parents, wives, siblings, people who is waiting for them just as Odysseus' family waits for him. Eurylochus was Odysseus' brother in law.

And he willingly chose his own life over theirs. His only options will be lying for the rest of his life or telling the truth, including, to his sister, that he made her a widow.

Will never get over the way IrenHorrors draws Greek Mythology Characters

Athena, Aphrodite and Artemis

Nyx and Semele

Eros×Psyche and Orpheus×Eurydice

Charon, Melinoe and Thanatos

Hades and Persephone

Medusa, Hecate and Eris

Pandora and Lamia

I wish she wouldn't have followed some common modern perpeceptions, such as the shipification of Hades and Persephone or depicting Medusa as a beautiful woman (there's a difference between being terrifying and being unattractive). Otherwise I love her art.

As previously mentioned, I am kinda going through a Greek Mythology Phase™ right now, which led me to creating this painting depicting Klytaimnestra after the murder of her husband, Agamemnon. The snake is in reference to a dream she had, in which she gave birth to and nursed a venomous snake/dragon instead of a child, which is seen as a prophecy of her death at the hands of her own son, Orestes.

I decided to do a bit of research into historical Mycenaean Greek dress, seeing as the Epic Cycle and the events directly thereafter are most likely set in the mid to late Bronze Age and as such the style of clothing and architecture would differ considerably from that of the later Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Periods that is often associated with Greco-Roman mythology.

Then again, I'm not a Historian, Classicist, or anything of the sort, I'm just some random sixteen year old with too much free time on their hands, so I make no promises of accuracy. There are also certain elements that I deliberately left inaccurate, either because it didn't fit the colour scheme, such as the fresco on the wall, which should have had several yellow elements that just looked a bit muddy when I tried to add them, or because I was too lazy to paint them in intricate detail, such as the skirt, which should consist of several layers of different fabric atop each other, but I didn't want to paint all that.

Said skirt is inspired by John Colliers painting also depicting Klytaimnestra after the murder.

Anyway, sorry for the long, nerdy ramble of text, I hope you like the painting and have a nice day :)

(a couple of close ups in case Tumblr fries the quality)

Another painting! (Am I actually starting to develop a consistent artstyle??)

I felt in the mood to create some Greek mythology related stuff again, so I painted this portrait of Selene, goddess/personification of the moon.

Both the colour scheme and the motive are somewhat inspired by Jules Louis Machards artwork depicting Selene.

I aimed for a somewhat 'soft', 'warm' look, so I avoided stark contrasts, especially in the face and kept the clothing relatively plain, as not to distract with any complicated pattern.

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I found the time to paint again. As said before, posts may be quite infrequent in the coming months, as school takes precedent over my hobbies and I might not be able to draw/paint as much. Still, I bring you this watercolour/ acrylic painting based on Hypnos, the Greek god/ personification of sleep.

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Achilles is quite annoying until that big character development in book 24 of the Iliad, but that kinda makes him interesting to paint.

This originally started out as a lighting study, hence the composition and colour scheme being a bit sparse. Also couldn't find that many depictions of male Mycenaean clothing, so most of what he's wearing is just guesswork.

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🌾 Demeter and Persephone 🌾

I guess springtime got me thinking about the two of them, which is kind of ironic since this painting is set just before Persephone's departure into the underworld.

I also thought the mother-daughter relationship and Demeter's grief at her daughter's marriage/ metaphorical "death" (as described in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter) would be interesting to explore artistically.

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☀️Far-Shooting Apollo☀️

The idea for this arose a while (and by while I mean about 4 months) ago, when we were reading the Exposition of the Iliad in class.

I wanted to depict the scene in Book one where Apollo sends a plague to afflict the Acheans by shooting first the mules and dogs, then the men, after Agamemnon denied the release of the priest-daughter Chryseis to her father.

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„Oedipus coming upon the dead body of his mother Iocaste” After first watching the 1957 production by Tyrone Guthrie and subsequently reading a translation of the play as written by Sophocles, I felt like painting something related to this story and the scene of Oedipus seeing his mothers corpse (although not outright shown in the actual play, but relayed by a messenger) struck me as particularly affecting.

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Thetis with the arms of Achilles

I saw several mosaics depicting this motive and decided to try my hand at it as well.

Also, I just find Thetis to be quite interesting as a character. There’s gotta be something fundamentally Tragic about raising a child, knowing that he will most likely die very young.

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“And Hypnos, rejoicing in the rays of his eyes, would lull the boy to rest with eyes wide open.”

- Licymnius, Fragment 771

Part 4 of Echo‘s biased god portraits

The Lethe flowed through the Underworld where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. Lethe was also the name of the Greek spirit of forgetfulness and oblivion, with whom the river was often identified.

The souls that throng the flood Are those to whom, by fate, are other bodies ow'd: In Lethe's lake they long oblivion taste, Of future life secure, forgetful of the past.

-Virgil

I think she’d rule the underworld out of spite.

Its supposed to look like greek vase art idk idk if that worked.

The hair is inspired by ancient minoan wall art since the myth of persephone is commonly traced back to pre hellenistic civilizations.

something akin to this

The dress is a standart tunic cuz the references all had their boobs out :/

Nice river lady here to take the memories of the dead ^^