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Black panther poster. Just as relevant today

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for uhm personal reasons I need to know all about feminine apollo so please tell me more

Aha, that's something I love to talk about. I was about to make a post about this anyway so: There's a lot of ancient greek vase paintings that show Apollo wearing feminine robes and accessories that were usually worn by women. For example,

a veil

(Heracles ascending to Olympus)

Multi pinned sleeve

(Apollo helping Hector in the Trojan war)

Cross sash

(The musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas)

Periskelis (the thigh band)

(Orestes seeking shelter at Delphi)

Here, he is wearing the chiton in a way that girls wore

And these lithographs of ancient art have him wear such pretty dresses

Since he is an eternal youth, 99% of the times he has long hair and youthful face - those are the very important physical traits of Apollo. There are many paintings where you will confuse Apollo for a girl.

Apart from these, I have found quite a few statues and marble reliefs too. Many of these are from Hellenistic Greece and Roman era:

As you can notice, most of these present Apollo as a musician, so maybe music played a part in Apollo being effeminte? Did the Muses have a lot of influence on him?Idk, food for thought I guess. Oh and there are a number of headless statues identified as Apollo Patroos (fatherly), where again Apollo is wearing long robes.

Lastly, some quotes from literary sources (FYI I have not included the hundreds of quotes describing Apollo's long hair and smooth chin):

"And ever beautiful is he and ever young: never on the girl cheeks of Apollo hath come so much as the down of manhood."

- Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.)

"Apollo puts his hair in order by shaping his flowing locks with soft foliage and braiding it with a golden diadem."

- Virgil, Aeneid 4.147 (trans. Ingo Gildenhard) (Latin poet C1st B.C.)

"These children Niobe placed above those of Latona [Leto], and spoke rather contemptuously against Apollo and Diana [Artemis] because Diana was girt in man's attire, and Apollo wore long hair and a woman's gown."

- Hyginus, Fabulae 9 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.)

[describing an effeminate man]: giving himself excessive airs of daintiness and indulging in all sorts of effeminacy; sometimes darting his eyes about; sometimes throwing his hands hither and thither...sometimes personating Aphrodite, sometimes Apollo"

- Tatian, Address to the Greeks 22 (trans. Pratten) (Assyrian Theologist C2nd A.D)

"[in the fragments of Lucilius' satires (C2nd B.C)]: Taking issue with Apollo, whom Romulus mocks as a pretty boy (pulcher) with a fondness for effete dance, Romulus rants against foreign luxuries"

- The Cambridge Companion to Seneca (ed. Shadi Bartsch, Alessandro Schiesaro)

fair number of Renaissance paintings continued this tradition by making Apollo look feminine and beautiful. But for some reason most of the modern adaptations make him macho, the typical Manly Man 🙄 Come on people, you're throwing away the potential here! I wanna see an Apollo who can rock a suit and a pretty dress. Give me more of Apollo and Dionysus hanging out together at drag parties.

#i wonder if this is similar to Dionysus femininity being tied to puberty rituals and initiation motifs

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i was gifted perhaps the best shirt in the world probably

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Take me back (Castro Street Fair, San Francisco)

Photographs by Crawford Wayne Barton, courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society

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[B0T0XBRAT] Girls Night Out

Part 2 of last month’s collection, I wanted this to be inspired by the 2000’s clubbing/party scene, reminiscent of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and all of the glitterati of the time.

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This Collection Includes:

Carmen Dress

Carmen Choker

Internet Dress

Juicy Bling Dress

Motorola Set

Les Deux Dress

Paparazzi Dress

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❀ Coconut Gals ❀

This collection features the gyaru and coconut girl essentials! Whether you’re strolling down the streets of Harajuku or soaking up the sun on the beaches of Honolulu, this collection’s gotcha covered!

This Collection Includes:

Aloha Top

Dashing Tank Top

Hibiscus Dress

Passionfruit Shorts

Star Skirt

Sunkissed Set

Sunkissed Top

Warm Skirt

Y2K Bowling Bag

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Falling Stars Observed from the Balloon, illustration by Albert Tissandier for the second edition of James Glaisher's Travels in the Air, 1871

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god grant me the serenity to eroticize what i cannot change

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Nestoris with mythological scenes, Greece, 360-330 BC

from The Harvard Art Museums

#top scenes look like trojan war and that hunter guy who was ate by his dogs bottom scenes i cant reallu discern anything

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"The Plate of Bacchus", a Roman silver plate dating to the 4th century. Part of the Mildenhall Treasure, a collection of 34 Roman silver objects near Midlenhall in Suffolk, England in 1942.

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CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

#hawtest movie of the year

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

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whenever i take off my pants and i unbuckle my belt i feel like a corporate ceo about to get his dick sucked

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to the sea

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Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii . Triclinium (dining room) Reconstruction, daylight and evening lighting.

All photos and reconstructions are copyright of JAMES STANTON-ABBOTT. With acknowledgements and thanks to: PIETRO GIOVANNI GUZZO, Archaeological Superintendent of Pompeii, for his generous permission to photograph the Villa of the Mysteries. ELAINE GAZDA, professor of classical art and archaeology in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan and curator of Hellenistic and Roman Antiquities at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology for her expertise and help in reconstructing the Villa. BETTINA BERGMANN, Helene Phillips Herzig '49 Professor of Art Specialization: Greek and Roman art; the art of landscape, also for her insight and help in the process.

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