#Fasti

[shipcestuous]

(I think mythology goes on this blog? sorry if not) I wanted to share this translation of a line from Ovid's Fasti, dealing with Jupiter and Juno's relationship (the Roman version of Zeus and Hera). she says, "It is something to have married Jupiter and to be Jupiter’s older sister. I am uncertain whether I am prouder of my younger brother or of my husband." It's a really striking line to me bc it explores the "double love" nature of their relationship in a way we don't see often enough IMHO

Hi Anon,

I switched this over because mythology goes on the main.

I've never heard that quote before and I really like it. The "double love" as you put it is totally one of the things that draws me to incest shipping.

#asks #anonymous #mythology #greek mythology #hera and zeus #r: brosis #fasti #ovid

[ovid-daily]

Happy Birthday Mark Antony!

January 14 is Mark Antony's 2105th birthday! On contemporary Roman fasti, such as the Fasti Verulani (below), the date is marked as D•VITIOSUS•EX•S•C.

image source (the first full line says: [F xi]x EN d . vitiosus . ex . s . c . anT . naTal, i.e. F [nundinal day] xix [days before the Kalends] EN [endotercissus: the type of day, where most religious or political proceedings were not permitted in the morning or evening but were acceptable in the middle of the day] d [dies] vitiosus ex . s . c . [abbreviation of Ex Senatus Consulto i.e. by decree of the Senate] anT [abbreviation for Antonius/Antony] naTal [abbreviation of natalis, a substantive noun meaning "birthday"] transl.: "a defective day, as decreed by the Senate, Antony's birthday")

Octavian (not yet Augustus), after the death of his brother-in-law/ally-turned-enemy at Actium in 30 BC and his assumption of power over Rome, had the Senate label Mark Antony's birthday as a DIES VITIOSUS (i.e. a bad, faulty, defective, corrupt day) so that Antony's remaining followers would be unable to celebrate his birthday.

However, after the death of Augustus, this decree appears to have somewhat weakened, as the Emperor Claudius celebrated Antony's birthday, claiming that he was also celebrating the birthday of his father Drusus in addition to his grandfather Antony.

#no ovid daily today #but some fun early imperial calendar facts! #ovid #ovid daily #fasti #mark antony #augustus #tagamemnon

[sarafangirlart]

Ovid’s Fasti Book 6

Tells that Hera is Kronos’s eldest child rather than Hestia, which doesn’t really interest in me in itself but the wording is interesting, that Hera was the first to call Kronos her father, it goes nicely with my “Hera is the only child Kronos raised” headcanon.

Also the point about him being “exiles from heaven” and landing on what will be called Rome is interesting but I’m too lazy to look that up rn

#“idk who I’m prouder of my brother or my husband’’ #lol. lmao even #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #greek pantheon #hera #greek goddess #hera goddess #hera deity #hera greek mythology #zeus #hera x zeus #Kronos #cronos #Saturn #saturnia #Hestia #Vesta #Ovid #Ovid’s fasti #Fasti

[lionofchaeronea]

An Epiphany of Vesta

Ovid, Fasti 6.249-256 Vesta, favor me; now for you I unseal My lips put to use in holy service, If it is permitted me to approach your sacred objects. I was wholly occupied in prayer: I felt celestial powers, and the joyous earth Shined in answer with a purple light. I myself, goddess (away with poets’ falsehoods) Did not see you, nor were you to be Looked upon by a man; but the things I did not know And about which I was in error’s grip, Were known to me, although no one gave me instruction. Vesta, fave: tibi nunc operata resolvimus ora,      ad tua si nobis sacra venire licet. in prece totus eram: caelestia numina sensi,       laetaque purpurea luce refulsit humus. non equidem vidi (valeant mendacia vatum)      te, dea, nec fueras aspicienda viro; sed quae nescieram quorumque errore tenebar      cognita sunt nullo praecipiente mihi.

Fresco (1st cent. BCE/CE) of Vesta-Hestia, from the lararium of House VII.12.11 at Pompeii.

#classics #tagamemnon #Latin #Latin language #lingua latina #translation #Latin translation #poem #poetry #poetry in translation #Ovid #Publius Ovidius Naso #Fasti #elegiac couplets #Vesta #Goddess Vesta #Roman religion #Ancient Roman religion #religio Romana

[zmaragdos]

I want to do an Ovid’s Fasti daily email newsletter (for next year, starting in January and going thru June) using the public domain Loeb edition

would people be interested in that?

#Ovid #ovid daily #Fasti daily #tagamemnon #i would honestly love to do this #It would be so fun to format #I might do it anyway #just for me :) #Fasti #daily email #email newsletter

[dianasson]

Lemuria

May 9

OVID, Fasti. Translated by A. S. Kline 2004.

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When Hesperus, the Evening Star, has shown his lovely face

Three times, from that day, and the defeated stars fled Phoebus,

It will be the ancient sacred rites of the Lemuria,

When we make offerings to the voiceless spirits.

The year was once shorter, the pious rites of purification, februa,

Were unknown, nor were you, two-faced Janus, leader of the months:

Yet they still brought gifts owed to the ashes of the dead,

The grandson paid respects to his buried grandfather’s tomb.

It was May month, named for our ancestors (maiores),

And a relic of the old custom still continues.

When midnight comes, lending silence to sleep,

And all the dogs and hedgerow birds are quiet,

He who remembers ancient rites, and fears the gods,

Rises (no fetters binding his two feet)

And makes the sign with thumb and closed fingers,

Lest an insubstantial shade meets him in the silence.

After cleansing his hands in spring water,

He turns and first taking some black beans,

Throws them with averted face: saying, while throwing:

‘With these beans I throw I redeem me and mine.’

He says this nine times without looking back: the shade

Is thought to gather the beans, and follow behind, unseen.

Again he touches water, and sounds the Temesan bronze,

And asks the spirit to leave his house.

When nine times he’s cried: ‘Ancestral spirit, depart,’

He looks back, and believes the sacred rite’s fulfilled.

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#lemuria #lemuralia #ovid #fasti #roman #roman polytheism #ancestors #ghosts #lemures #spirits #black beans #may

[careful-disorder]

Bust of the Roman god Janus - NYPL

"Two-headed Janus, source of the silently gliding year" Ovid, Fasti, Book I

#ovid #fasti #latin literature #classics #mithology #print #engraving

[hoeratius]

I don't think these are his sex books...

#it'll never not be fun y #ovid daily #fasti #fkn LOVE the Fasti let's GOOOOO

[portraitofapo3t]

just read four different versions of the hercules and cacus myth and what im getting is that the romans were uber obsessed with cattle being pulled backwards by the tail… not much else is consistent !!

#hercules #cacus #dark academia #classics #poetry #epic poetry #the aeneid #fasti #vergil #ovid #livy #propertius #there are so many variations #roman mythology #rome

[starofmithras]

Io Lupercalia! 🐺

"She stood still. With her tail she caresses her tender nurslings, and shapes their two bodies with her tongue. You would know they were sons of Mars: they had no fear. They pull on her teats and are nourished with a supply of milk promised not to them...Great is the reward the foster-mother has for the milk she gave."

--- Ovid, "Fasti," translated by Anne and Peter Wiseman

Art: Lupa Capitolina: she-wolf with Romulus and Remus. Bronze, 13th-century AD (the twins are a 15th-century addition).

#lupercalia #romulus and remus #ancient rome #capitoline museums #statue #ovid #fasti

[xanthekholos]

today, i shall do my little fasti translations with a glass of wine, listening to the most whoreish music i can. for ovid<33

#fasti #ovid #latin

[ovid-daily]

You can subscribe to Ovid Daily here!

Please keep in mind the email newsletter itself won't start until Jan 1, 2023!

#housekeeping #ovid #ovid daily #fasti #fasti daily #sorry for any confusion I might have caused! #this is a brand-new ongoing project!

[zmaragdos]

nunc animae tenues et corpora functa sepulcris

errant, nunc posito pascitur umbra cibo.

Ovid Fasti II.565-6

"Now subtle spirits, and corpses free from their tombs

roam, now a ghost is fed a hallowed meal."

--

I've been getting into a spooky mood with Ovid lately.

This quote comes from a larger passage in Fasti II (February) describing the don't's of the Parentalia (such as getting married or burning incense [Fasti II.557-564]). The Parentalia, culminating with the Feralia, was a 9 day festival (11 day by Ovid's inclusive counting [Fasti II.567-8]) where ghosts were said to wander the streets looking for offerings. Ovid tells us these offerings were given on roof tiles (which I think is particularly charming, as they look rather like a 2 edged tea tray), and consisted of flower garlands, bread soaked in wine, salt, lentils, and loose violets (Fasti II.537-9).

#ovid #fasti #fasti ii #ghosts #halloween #latin #my translation

[diorlx]

HOURLY BENEFITS OF FASTING

dc: source pinterest

4-8 hrs

• Blood sugars fall

• All food has left the stomach

• Insulin is no longer produced

12 hrs

• Food consumed has been burned

• Digestive system goes to sleep

• Body begins healing process

• HGH begins to increase

• Glucagon is released to balance blood sugars

14 hrs

• Body has converted to using stored fat as energy

• HGH starts to increase dramatically

16 hrs

• Body is ramping up fat burning

18 hrs

• HGH starts to skyrocket

24 hrs

• Autophagy begins

• Drains all glycogen stores

•Ketones are released into the blood stream

36 hrs

• Autophagy increases by 300%

48 hrs

• Autophagy increases 30% more

• Immune system reset, and regeneration starts

• Increased reduction in inflammatory response

72 hrs

• Autophagy maxes out

#@na motivation #@na tips #ed not sheeren #meanspø #th1nspø #tw restrictive ed #@na rules #ana tricks #ed tmblr #meal plan #tw ana fast #intermittent fasti #lose weight fast #fasting #tw ana shit #ana tips #ana meal #ana dairy #ana trigger #ana rant #ana inspo #model #inspo #aesthetic #core #coquette #not proana

[miniwl]

Some motivation for y'all! (Not my pics)

#⭐️rving #i need to lose so much weight #i need to ⭐️ve #i want to ⭐️ve #tw ana diary #⭐️rve #⭐️ve #ed not ed sheeran #starv1ng #starvibg #f@sting #intermittent fasti #food #unhealthy weight loss #need to lose more weight #i wanna lose weight #weight loss #i need to lose this weight #tw ed diet #thin$po #ana trigger #tw thinspi #tw restriction #tw weight #tw restrictive ed #tw self destruction #tw disordered eating

[careful-disorder]

Francesco del Cossa, April. Fresco in Palazzo Schifanoia (detail), Triumph of Venus

"They say Spring was named from the open (apertum) season, /Because Spring opens (aperit) everything and the sharp/ Frost-bound cold vanishes, and fertile soil’s revealed,/ Though kind Venus sets her hand there and claims it." Ovid, Fasti, Book IV

#francesco del cossa #fresco #palazzo schifanoia #venus #april #ovid #fasti