Athena To Penelope When Odysseus And Her Reunite:

mycenaean miku

she was there singing on the beaches of llion. homer copied the catalogue of ships from her.

another three 🌲

based on a book about Czech forests (Naše pralesy) first part here

i WISH more people knew about age of bronze, it's literally the 'historically accurate' comprehensive and GAY adaptation of the trojan war all the accuracy warriors are clamoring for

it's a comic series written and drawn entirely by Eric Shanower, started in 1998 with those exact parameters

historically situated in the Mycenaean/Hittite cultures

drawing from nearly every text on the war from Homer to Shakespeare

explicit about the possibility that achilles+patroclus may have been meant as lovers. Shanower is gay himself, and found it important to depict them as such all the way back in 1998.

it can be read here in part or here completely (🏴‍☠️), but i also highly recommend supporting the artist, since this is a multi-decade passion project.

everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one

Bronze statue of Apollo from Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy.

Debated posting this for a while because. yknow. but i figured it was all artistic enough that it couldn't hurt to share. Odysseus and Penelope truly are the only couple ever tbh, i love how much they love each other <3 Referenced from "Paulo e Virginia" by Puttinati

🌿🏺 Classicstober '23 Week 2: Icarus, Achilles, Asclepius, Pandora, Theseus, Arachne, Helen.

We lay here for years or for hours Your hand in my hand, so still and discreet So long, we'd become the flowers We'd feed well the land and worry the sheep

“Lend it to us and wipe away our tears.”

I don't care if I've shared this painting five million times already, I am doing it again.

I'm smiling kicking my feet twirling my hair at this painting, alright. Pheidias is me when I give a presentation in art school. okay I will now go lie down and think about this depiction of Socrates and Alcibiades for 25 minutes because they make me insane.