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ace-n-revelry · 23 days
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Bull-horned Dionysus
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Martha Nussbaum, introduction to C. K. William’s The Bacchae of Euripides
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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1725 - 1805) Mars & Venus, Allegory of Peace, Detail, 1770
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ace-n-revelry · 2 months
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//MAENAD// 2021
for my girlfriend, who is beautiful and loved and deserves to see herself as the work of art she is
Inspired by Ancient Greek art, The Bacchae by Euripides, and being a trans theater artist in the middle of a plague.
Available >HERE< as a sticker!
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ace-n-revelry · 3 months
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Tempio di Esculapio, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy | barbarawebsky2
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ace-n-revelry · 3 months
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Kissobryos
This prayer is written specifically for making thyrsi - there's just something cool with the parallel between Kissobryos, "wrapped in ivy", and the wrapping of the thyrsus in ivy.
Dionysos, I call upon You, He of a thousand shades of green, The blessed Kissobryos. EVOHE!
Dionysos, I call upon You, The pinecone is set upon the staff, Like a head upon a body. EVOHE!
Dionysos, I call upon You, Colorful ribbons adorn the staff, As You are adorned by Your followers. EVOHE!
Dionysos, be with me now, Guide my hands that wrap the ivy, As You Yourself are wrapped. EVOHE!
Dionysos, be with me now, As the ivy is wrapped around the staff, So may I be bound to You. EVOHE!
Dionysos, be with me now, Bless the ivy upon the staff, Dionysos, be with me now, Bless these hands that bind the ivy. EVOHE!
Dionysos, be with me now, Like the ivy on the thyrsus, Wrap Yourself around me, Like the ivy on the thyrsus, Bind me to Thyself, Like the ivy on the thyrsus, May I embrace You forevermore. EVOHE!
Dionysos, bless this thyrsus, May it stand as a reminder of the bond between You and Your followers.
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ace-n-revelry · 3 months
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Robert Maplethorpe
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ace-n-revelry · 3 months
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currently reading this really cool article called The Maenads: A Contribution to the Study of Dance in Ancient Greece, which is a roughly ~100 year-old article about (as the title says), studying dance in ancient Greece, but specifically as it appeared on red- and black-figure vases. it's wicked cool stuff, and breaks down the basics of Greek dance in the context of Dionysiac worship!!! i'm not really much of a dancer, but this is so cool that i'm pretty damn close to trying to work some of the dance into my own ritual practices :)
anyways who wants to fulfil my dream of having historically accurate Dionysian dance parties in the woods at midnight with me?
[p.s. you can get this article on JSTOR, and if you have difficulty reading it lmk, i'm working on transcribing it to Google Docs to be more accessible]
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ace-n-revelry · 3 months
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kevin hense
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Καλή χρονιά
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@fourth-gorgon there needs to be a book written about this like the spin-off book Grendal(?) from Beowulf. Or at least a comic. I would read it immediately.
Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus
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ace-n-revelry · 3 months
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One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.
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ace-n-revelry · 3 months
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Greco-Roman Pattern from L’ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet (1888)
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Bacchus pendant in Etruscan revival style, 22ct gold, attributed to Castellani, an Italian jewelry company best known for reviving the lost art of granulation. 1870, Rome.
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Colossal Sculpture Depicting Dionysus with a Satyr. end of 1st.century A.D Roman. basanite stone.      http://hadrian6tumblr.com
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Ispirato alla riscrittura “le baccanti” di Giulia Marino. <3
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