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Going through the pile of books to go to charity shops and there’s this amazing kids history one that’s literally like

Give your friend a neolithic burial

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the kids i babysit love the story of the golden apple, so i made this coloring page for them. you can get it for free on my gumroad here

#love

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Tenderness..

#reblogging for your amazing anatomy

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No OP you don’t understand I am never going to get over this art you made because I have carved this piece into a blockprint to wear it as a t-shirt and the Persian Boy is one of my favorite books. I love you for this OP. I will never forget you.

You can buy it here. :)

‘You must tell me when I say the Persian wrongly. Don’t be afraid to correct me, or I shall never learn.’

I said I had thought he would never love me. I did not beg him to take me with him wherever he was going; I did not think so far. I was like a traveler in the desert,who comes to water.

The persian Boy- Mary Renault

#the persian boy #bagoas #alexander the great #iskander #ho pais kalos #my t shirts #linos and mousaios #red figure pottery

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Achilles sacrificing to Zeus for Patroclus’ safe return, from the Ambrosian Iliad, a 5th-century illuminated manuscript

#what the fuck

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Mundari tribe, South Sudan. Photo Eric Lafforgue

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i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

#new sadness unlocked

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I was watching this video about the usage of tar in history (it’s in Polish and without subs, sorry), and this part spoke to me

#im looking behind him at his gear and ill believe whatever this man says

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A painted terracotta figurine of a barber cutting a man's hair, made in Boeotia, Greece, ca. 500 BCE. Greek men would regularly visit the barber -- known as a cureus -- in the agora, or central marketplace, of Greek towns to get their hair and beards trimmed.

{WHF} {Ko-Fi} {Medium}

#screaming

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This year for Pride I decided to rank some heroes from Greek Mythology by thickness, so we have Herakles, Odysseus, Theseus, Achilles, Jason, and Perseus ranked in order from beefcake to twink. 

#in awe #gorgeous

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Aphrodite Heyl

* 2nd century BCE

* terracotta

* height: 37,5 cm

* Altes Museum, Berlin (acquired from the collection of Maximilian von Heyl)

photo: Ophelia2

Attribution: Altes Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Alcibiades and Tissaphernes being besties in 411 BCE

#we are blessed your art exists #alcibiades

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ἀρνοκόμης (arnokomes) - an epithet assigned to Apollo that means of lamb-like hair or curly-haired.

#😂 #apollo

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Mosaic of Aelia Eudocia Augusta; Late Greek: c. 401 – 460 AD), also called Saint Eudocia, was a Greek Eastern Roman Empress by marriage to Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (r. 408–450).

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria

@sirinesirin-34 hayatım sen seversin ❤️😘❤️

#shes so beautiful im going to die

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dude you should have been at the club last night it was insane. the dj was playing the lament and funeral of hector from the iliad and everyone was beating their breasts and tearing open their garments. at the end we all built up a funeral pyre in the middle of the dance floor and set it aflame. we were all feeling the inherent human connection through millennia old poetry, it was wild

#going to cry i missed it

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omg Hector hi

#soo beautiful #been rewatching lotr and its so iliad