#Myrtales

[chlorophyll-and-chitin]

Fuchsia sp. detail

18-MAY-2023

Melbourne, Vic

#australia #victoria #melbourne #flower #pink #pink flower #anther #pollen #rosids #myrtales #onagraceae #onagroideae #circaeeae #fuchsia

[bansheehaunt]

Crepe-Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica)

#Crepe-myrtle #Lagerstroemia indica #Myrtales #Lythraceae #Flowers #Flores #Gardening #Beautiful #Nature #Kukkat #Puutarha #Luonto

[thebotanicalarcade]

n174_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Atlas de poche des plantes des champs, des prairies et des bois Paris :P. Klincksieck,[1894] biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11018393

#Botany #Pictorial works #MBLWHOI Library #Woods Hole #bhl:page=11018393 #dc:identifier=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11018393 #Chamerion angustifolium #Plant #fireweed #North America Plant #rosebay willowherb #Europe Plant #Epilobium #Onagraceae #Myrtales #Rosids #Eudicots #Flowering plant #taxonomy:binomial=Chamerion angustifolium #flickr #willowherbs #willowherb

[deathtek]

7/30/22

#purple loosestrife #Lythrum salicaria #rosids #Myrtales #Lythraceae #plant #flowering plant

[miomcreat]

#juli2022☀️ , die #natur in üppiger fülle, #prachtkerze #gaura (#onagraceae🌸 aus den #myrtales) #bienenweide🐝 #digitalispurpurea #samthortensie🌸🌸💖 #pfirsichbaum #fraxinusexcelsior (hier: Plauen) https://www.instagram.com/p/CftxRv7tIs4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#juli2022☀️ #natur #prachtkerze #gaura #onagraceae🌸 #myrtales #bienenweide🐝 #digitalispurpurea #samthortensie🌸🌸💖 #pfirsichbaum #fraxinusexcelsior

[jeannereames]

Just saw the cat publication and it came to my attention that Polyxena/ Myrtatle/Olympia/ Stratonike and Hephaistion had similar personalities I need to know more!

I should be more forthright. This is my reading of them, for the novels, as we don’t know a lot about the real Hephaistion, personality-wise.

In Dancing with the Lion: Becoming, part of why Alexandros latches onto Hephaistion so quickly owes to the fact he feels vaguely familiar. I don’t mean that in a creepy way, and specify as much because Oliver Stone has said, in interviews, that he cast Rosario Dawson as Roxana because she resembled Angelina Jolie in certain respects, and he wanted the Oedipal Thing.

I manifestly do NOT, nor do I think it applicable (see this post for an explanation of why).

Even so, we are drawn to people who remind us of those we love (and understand).

My Hephaistion and Myrtalē are both FIERCE in their devotion to those they love. They’re also intense and so, a bit scary. And they both have a jealous bone. Also like Hephaistion, Myrtalē as I envision her got on very well with and cares deeply about her siblings. I think readers can pick up a sense of that between the sisters at least, when Myrtalē is exiled in Epiros in DwtL: Rise.

I also see Myrtalē and Hephaistion as having similar styles of psychological manipulation (of those they perceive to be enemies). That was what I had a little fun with in the short story, “Two Scorpions.” Myrtalē/Olympias goes after him because she sees him as a threat to Alexandros. He tries to fight back, but is essentially dealing with an older, more experienced version of himself. So, we see her drop him to the (virtual) mat a few times. In the end, he “kinda” wins, but only because he walks out before she can get in a retort. LOL The confrontation is written in his POV, but I hope it’s still evident she is (overall) getting the better of him.

In “Two Scorpions,” both act out of love for Alexandros, and what they perceive as the best for him. Myrtalē/Olympias isn’t jealous of nor “hates” Hephaistion. She tells him, quite bluntly, that she didn’t really have much of an opinion about him until he made himself Alexandros’s lover. And she explains why (she perceives) that to be dangerous. She’s brutal, but she’s completely transparent—and knows how to use that honesty to undermine her opponent, just as she has a knack for guessing her opponent’s weak spots. Hephaistion often employs the same tactics. And both pair that with an apparently unflappable façade. But she’s better at it than he is. 😉 Because she’s almost fifteen years older than he is.

Too often, Olympias in literature is portrayed as irrational, vindictive, and jealous. But that’s an ancient Greek male projection of what drives “meddling” women who get above themselves by trying to “do” politics. How dare they?!

I hope that explains why I, at least, see the two as quite similar, at least in the novels. Again, we don’t know enough about the real Hephaistion to say what he was like, although I did build my fictional character on what seemed to me a feasible extrapolation from the source material.

#asks #Hephaistion #Hephaestion #Olympias #Myrtale #Two Scorpions #historical fiction #ancient Greek historical fiction #DwtL

[lunamond]

RIP Olympias of Macedon

Myrtale would have loved Alicent hightower and Lady Jessica.

#me when mothers who are unhinged for their sons 🥰 #Olympias mother of Alexander the great #she is literally Jessica irl #girlbossing before it was cool #part of a secret cult? check #mother of a deified tyrant? check #also so many war crimes #dune #duneposting #jessica atreides #paul atreides #alicent hightower #aegon ii targaryen #hotd #house of the dragon #alexander the great

[wishesofeternity]

Various scholars have developed explanations for the four names of Olympias... This is what seems likely to me. At first she was known as Polyxena, a Trojan name like those of her sister and brother, appropriate choices if their mother was a member of the Chaonian dynasty that claimed descent from the royal house of Troy, yet a name with connections to Neoptolemus as well. At some point before her marriage she acquired the name Myrtale, almost certainly in connection to some religious experience, whether a rite of passage, Samothracian ritual, or some other, as yet unknown, mystery cult. Olympias, the name the sources always employ about her, must date from the early days of her marriage to Philip, most likely to a wedding somehow connected to the festival of Olympian Zeus, although possibly to Philip’s Olympian victory in the following year. Stratonice (‘victory’ in military matters) is probably the last name, more like an epithet, employed in the brief period in 317 between her victory against Adea Eurydice and Philip Arrhidaeus and her own defeat by Cassander.

Sarah Pomeroy raises an interesting question about Olympias’ name changes. How would she herself have felt about them? Pomeroy wonders whether Olympias would have experienced a “loss of identity” or, alternatively, would have seen the changed name as “an affirmation of his [Philip’s] bond with her.” The assumption seems to be that all these changes in name/epithet were imposed upon her by her father (and perhaps her mother, granted the Chaonian connection), uncle, and husband. Whereas “Polyxena” and “Olympias” were likely chosen by others, Olympias could possibly have chosen her other two names herself. She could have selected “Myrtale” herself, as part of a coming-of-age ceremony or as part of her betrothal, in the same way that those about to receive communion for the first time can choose for themselves an additional name. “Stratonice,” probably selected long after the death of Philip, is, of all these names, the one most likely to have been her own decision.

- Elizabeth Carney, “Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great”

#historicwomendaily #history #olympias #macedonian history #ancient greece #mine #queue #ancient history

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

Wrapped ask game: 94, 28, 10

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#asks #spotify wrapped #spotify wrapped 2023

[al-live]

A year ago, I took a trip to history and I swear it was meant to be. I saw MY pyramids after enduring MY glass shop like Santiago in "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho.

I heard a certain song play by my favorite artist for the first time over my, then, jobs radio the day I pondered the question...and then called the reservation line....and then made the reservation "just incase". Where I would end up was quite a leap for a buckeye girl.

Months later I checked it off my dream list. Wandering on to some random mans balcony because I could access it from the main hallway and I didnt know it wasnt public wasn't on my list. Neither was having an indigestion fueled anxiety attack at the hotels brunch on the patio. Not even catching Dua Lipa and her then boyfriend trying to catch the same elevator before I relinquished it to them but I guess we'll check those off too.

When I went to my favorite place, Santa Monica beach, I was the most at peace. It wasn't tourist season. The ocean was vast and gave off a white noise; melodic and deeply marine. It should be declared blue noise. I wanted to go back to the ocean for years since the time I visited Myrtal Beach at 11 and even in my dreams I wasnt allowed to touch the water. The dreams would turn black or dissolve into another scene anytime I'd try. In Santa Monica, I took off my leather sandals, and walked the shifty beach sand to waters edge. I touched the ocean and it nearly took me away! I wasn't an employee. Or a student. Or a scorned daughter. I owed my time to noone. In California, I was just a girl.

On my way up and down the pier, in my green, silk dress, green beanie, and brown sunglasses, someones grandfather hopped up from a picnic table and started singing 'Isnt She Lovely' to me! Ha!

#the alchemist #paulo coelho #california #santa monica #green dress #chateau marmont #blackgirl #ohio #al-live

[chlorophyll-and-chitin]

Corymbia ficifolia cv. with honeybee

01-FEB-2023

Melbourne, Vic

#australia #victoria #melbourne #flowers #australian natives #native flowers #orange #orange flowers #flowering gum #rosids #myrtales #myrtaceae #corymbia #corymbia ficifolia #arthropod #insect #bug #invertebrates #bee #honeybee #arthropoda #insecta #hymenoptera #apidae #corbiculata #apini #apis

[coferstudio]

Simple y hermoso es el papel tapiz Myrtales ✨· Creado a partir de un diseño en gouache sobre papel de al rededor de la mitad del siglo XIX, @jamesmalonefabrics ha honrado la técnica dando la ilusión de un hermoso papel pintado. Es una novedad de temporada que nos ofrece la distinguida firma española, no debes dudar al incluirla en tus diseños de interiores. Disponible también en tejidos de lino estampado. Colores: - Blue - Soft - Coral
- Ochre - Tinta - Ash - Gredos Exclusivamente a través de Cofer Studio ⚓️

#WallPaper #Luxury #InteriorDesign

[locuradelibrosblog]

Gracias @mariajosevelaescritora ♥️ ・・・ 📚 Encuentro del @clubdelecturall y @lauramasj para hablar de #olimpia publicada por @espasaeditorial 📚 Tras “La maestra de Sócrates” Laura Mas publica su segunda novela. Se titula “Olimpia” y no os la podéis perder. 📚 Olimpia, antes Myrtale y antes Políxena, fue muchas cosas: hija de rey (Neptolemo I de Epiro), hermana de reina (Troa de Epiro), esposa de rey (Filipo II de Macedonia) y madre, ni más ni menos que de Alejandro Magno. Pero ante todo fue una mujer que lo dio todo por defender a los suyos. 📚 Una reina extranjera que tiene serpientes como mascotas y está convencida de que su hijo fue engendrado por Zeus no es fácil de aceptar, menos aún por las otras esposas del rey que cargan posibles herederos en sus brazos. Olimpia no tarda en darse cuenta de que su vida no será nada fácil. 📚 Con una forma de narrar cuidada y fluida, Laura nos va descubriendo este personaje poco a poco y sin tapujos. Nos la va mostrando de tal forma que a priori parece una mujer ambiciosa que anhela poder, pero en una época donde eliminas o te eliminan, ambición y supervivencia terminan siendo sinónimos. 📚 La ambientación, los personajes que rodean y completan a Olimpia, un proceso de documentación que se percibe fue minucioso y una historia de amor de las que hacen soñar, son algunos de los ingredientes que hacen que la lectura de esta novela sea una maravilla altísimamente recomendable. 📚 Gracias, Laura, por descubrirnos este personajazo, y gracias a @pepa_locuradelibros y a todos mis compañeros del club por descubrirme a esta autoraza. Ahora entiendo vuestra insistencia en recomendarme “La maestra de Sócrates”, y más después del encuentro que tuvimos con Laura (ya está disponible en YouTube), que compartió con nosotros infinidad de detalles sobre Olimpia. #EncuentrosZoom #LocuraDeLibros #EncuentrosZoomClubDeLecturaLLlt #ClubDeLectura #ClubDeLecturaLL #EncuentrosConEscritores #EncuentrosConEscritoresLL #leersexi #writerensuhamaca (en Club de Lectura LL) https://www.instagram.com/p/CizB-NVjqIp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#olimpia #encuentroszoom #locuradelibros #encuentroszoomclubdelecturalllt #clubdelectura #clubdelecturall #encuentrosconescritores #encuentrosconescritoresll #leersexi #writerensuhamaca

[nowafflingaround]

oh no, it’s him…

#pokemon arceus #pokemon legends melli #pokemon legends adaman #pokemon legends arceus #myrtales #myart #fanart #anime #pokemon #cartoony

[jeannereames]

Good morning, afternoon or evening Dr. Reames. just finished reading your first book and had a question. After Myratle has just healed Hephestion and goes to visit her, was Hephestion flirting with her?

Oh, dear heavens, no!

He doesn't really know her, except by rumor, and to his mind, she saved his life, or at least helped him heal. So he honestly wants to thank her, and he goes in, with this idea of her as some falsely maligned kindly mother-figure, only to realize, "Oh, no, she's more like one of the Fates!" (Moirai) She may not be a "bitch," in the usual sense, but she had her own reasons for helping him, and they weren't altruistic (except as a favor to her son).

#asks #Olympias #Myrtale #Dancing with the Lion #DwtL #Hephaistion

[dendroica]

Signs of regrowth are seen in the blue gum forest west of Parndana, Australia. More than a third of Kangaroo Island, including much of the Flinders Chase national park, was affected by bushfires

Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

(via The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)

#South Australian Blue Gum #Eucalyptus leucoxylon leucoxylon #Eucalyptus leucoxylon #Eucalyptus #Myrtoideae #Myrtaceae #Myrtales #trees #plants #leaves #wildfire #Kangaroo Island #Australia