#the house of asterion

[illustratus]

The House of Asterion by Piero Vettori

#minotaur #labyrinth #asterion #art #piero vettori #illustration #greek mythology #mythical creatures #crete #cretan #cretan bull #bull #maze #mazes #mediterranean #ancient greece #ancient greek #classical antiquity #jorge luis borges #monster #monsters #history #europe #european #house of asterion #the house of asterion

[iirulancorrino]

The House of Asterion, Jorge Luis Borges / Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

#I cannot get over how piranesi is like. the good ending version of house of asterion it makes me so emotional #the sense of wonder and joy in a book that with any other narrator would be a horror story is so moving #piranesi #the house of asterion #jorge luis borges #let heaven exist though my place be in hell #what I'm reading

[contrappostoes]

"Borges's The House of Asterion", Maurice Bennett

#not funny didn't laugh #the house of asterion #jorge luis borges #minotaur #upl

[himemiyaaah]

I knew it I knew it I knew it

(source)

#i just read the house of asterion and i was like. huh. the language sounds familiar. i wonder if susanna clarke knows this one #piranesi #the house of asterion

[0pandalanda0]

The Minotaur (1885) painting by the English painter George Frederic Watts.

It just shows so much emotions of being trapped and lonely giving a whole new perspective of the acient greek mythology of the Minotaur. It also reminds me of a short story from Borges called The House of Asterion (1947).

#tumblr #art #quotes #painting #jorge luis borges #borges #the house of asterion #minotaur #greek mythology #the minotaur #maze #george frederic watts #loneliness #lonely hearts club #bpd #actually bpd #tw depressing stuff

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

*Originally published in Spanish under the title "La casa de Asterion"

#short stories #short story #the house of asterion #la casa de asterion #jorge luis borges #20th century literature #spanish language literature #argentine literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls

[riff-raaf]

Coming out of the labyrinth and I've been doing just fine

Gotta gotta be down because I am a bull

It started out with a kiss how did it end up like this

(My mom was cursed to do kiss, a beastiality kiss)

#minotaur posting #theseus dni #ariadne you know what you did #minotaur #greek mythology #the house of asterion

[bzedan]

#the house of asterion #la casa de asterión #polls #polls as poems

[mourningmaybells]

finally read The House of Asterion short story

#the house of asterion #i think i ve already read parts of it before but............................augh. oof even

[sewerfight]

it's autumn! Which means that I know they accuse me of arrogance, and perhaps misanthropy, and perhaps of madness. Such accusations (for which I shall exact punishment in due time) are derisory. It is true that I never leave my house, but it is also true that its doors (whose numbers are infinite) (footnote: The original says fourteen, but there is ample reason to infer that, as used by Asterion, this numeral stands for infinite.) are open day and night to men and to animals as well. Anyone may enter. He will find here no female pomp nor gallant court formality, but he will find quiet and solitude. And he will also find a house like no other on the face of this earth. (There are those who declare there is a similar one in Egypt, but they lie.) Even my detractors admit there is not one single piece of furniture in the house. Another ridiculous falsehood has it that I, Asterion, am a prisoner. Shall I repeat that there are no locked doors, shall I add that there are no locks? Besides, one afternoon I did step into the street; If I returned before night, I did so because of the fear that the faces of the common people inspired in me, faces as discolored and flat as the palm of one's hand. The sun had already set, but the helpless crying of a child and the rude supplications of the faithful told me I had been recognized. The people prayed, fled, prostrated themselves; some climbed onto the stylobate of the temple of the axes, others gathered stones. One of them, I believe, hid himself beneath the sea. Not for nothing was my mother a queen; I cannot be confused with the populace, though my modesty might so desire.

#the house of asterion

[weboftigers]

"Would you believe it Ariadne?" said Theseus. "The Minotaur scarcely defended himself."

The House of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges

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#borges #jorge luis borges #minotaur #theseus #ariadne #labyrinth #the house of asterion #house of asterion #literature #literature quotes #sticker #books & libraries

[theunfairfolk]

the first time i heard from asterion as the minotaur name was from the jorge luis borges short story. i think a post with parts of it (web weaving) git popular at some point

ok that’s an excellent point bc borges’ story is called “the house of asterion” which is GREAT cause it’s a reference to both asterions, the king and the minotaur. so the “house” is both the maze the minotaur is trapped in and the legacy he’s unwillingly inherited. not only that, the story is framed as a biiit of a “reveal”, where you don’t know asterion is The Minotaur until the end (so borges couldn’t just call him the minotaur before then, and instead borrowed a pseudonym from the annals of history).

this certainly predates the hades game and i didn’t mean to make it sound like that was the first/only piece of media to call the minotaur that, but i’d never seen asterion declared as his Real Name en masse before hades. this is a really good example of how something can have juuust enough “proof” to mislead.

#the house of asterion #jorge luis borges #the minotaur #ask #anon #asterion #asterius #greek myths #greek mythology

[lesbianboyfriend]

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT, ARIADNE????

#whatever i’m being soo normal about this #the house of asterion #jorge luis borges #jules.txt

[worldsofzzt]

Source “The House of Asterion” by Flimsy Parkins (2005) [ASTERION.ZZT] - “Title Screen” Play This World Online

#Flimsy Parkins #The House of Asterion #asterion #title screen tuesday

[theoffingmag]

Alex Jackson’s Mythologies of Survival

Alex Jackson’s The House of Asterion (For Borges) (2023) features the first pages of a U.S. passport for the Minotaur, the Greek mythological creature with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man. On the passport, we read the animal’s given name, Asterion (or “star”), and nationality, Labyrinth, written against a background of the American national seal and red and white stripes of a waving U.S. flag — all detailed airbrushed and painted with painstakingly naturalistic precision. Jackson’s reimagining of the passport renders the object and its nationalist iconography just as mythic and constructed as a half-man, half-bull creature. The artist’s intervention illuminates the mythology inherent in national borders and regulatory documents used to summarize, identify, and track individuals and their movements.

Image: Alex Jackson, The House of Asterion (For Borges), 2023, Acrylic and Marker on Aluminum Panel, 6 7⁄8 x 9 7⁄8 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Peep.

#the offing #art #art review #art writing #alex jackson #the house of asterion #minotaur #labyrinth #greek myth #emily alesandrini

[riff-raaf]

coming out of the maze and i've been doing just fine

#the house of asterion #my art #digital art #illustration #book cover #jorge luis borges #the city is athens even though it's supposed to be thebes #let's all agree to ignore that