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may-fleece · 1 year

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Circe - goddess of sorcery, the daughter of Helios and of the ocean nymph Perse

#circe #greek mythology #odyssey #witchcraft #witch #sorceress #magic #illusion #goddess #greek goddess #the secret history #classics #homer #dark academia #greek academia #ancient greece #culture #art #mythology

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dark-aurorae · 2 years

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It is restless the head that wears the crown

- William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II

#dark academia #dark aurorae posts #dark acadamia aesthetic #aesthetics #books #greek academia #shakespeare

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lukewritesthings · 1 year

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giving no context. i love these so much this book is so fun to write

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gaytransbimbo · 2 years

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making frappe can be dark academia

#φραπές #greek academia #dark academia #frappes

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blvvdk3ep · 7 months

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I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

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escapismsworld · 7 months

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The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus in Greece is a remarkable testament to ancient Greek artistic prowess and classical architecture. Built in the 4th century BCE, this meticulously designed amphitheater features exceptional acoustics, allowing even faint whispers to be heard from the highest seats. It was primarily used for Greek tragedies and comedies, highlighting the cultural significance of theater in ancient times.

📸: Dimitrios Pallis

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jamsandsuch · 4 months

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this quote from ovid’s telling of orpheus turning back to look at eurydice makes me crumble

#studyblr #studyspo #college life #academia #university student #aesthetic #college student #university #college #study #quote #quotes #greek mythology

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bebs-art-gallery · 5 months

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Medusa

— by Ignacio Ramirez Torres

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skiffst · 6 months

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i love when academics are like this

from the translator's introduction in my copy of antigone... she's his blorbo.... <3

#books #aesthetic #ancient greece #classical history #ancient greek #ancient history #dark academia

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the-overanalyst · 1 year

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i've come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn't turned around.

inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.

both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it's snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.

#literature #classic literature #greek mythology #shakespeare #dark academia #romeo and juliet #macbeth #tragedy #antigone #history #hadestown #orpheus #the song of achilles #song of achilles #patrochilles #the iliad #classics #living up to my url for once

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tylermileslockett · 10 months

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Hey folks, this image of Apollo was done for a private commission. Xoxo

The following text is reposted from my previous Apollo Olympians image.

“Phoebus, of you even the swan sings with clear voice to the beating of his wings, as he alights upon the bank by the eddying river Peneus; and of you the sweet-tongued minstrel, holding his high-pitched lyre, always sings both first and last…And so hail to you, lord! I seek your favor with my song.” (-Homeric Hymn, translated by H.G. Evelyn white)

APOLLO (uh-PAH-low), God of prophecy, oracles, music, art, protector of and disease of boys and men, and archery. Just as his twin sister Artemis is patron to women and girls, Apollo is both protector, and killer from disease of boys and men. In my Illustration the god holds his bow and arrows behind, while he strums the lyre gifted to him by trickster Hermes. Near the sun flies his ally and divine messenger, a white raven. The column on the right is capped with a cow, representing his sacred animal as a god of herds. The serpent Python sits dead at his feet, killed by Apollo’s arrow so that the god could take over the Delphi temple location. The temple complex sits beneath the god, while on the far right, the Pythia (Apollo’s oracle priestess) sits upon a tripod, breathing the hallucinatory gasses seeping up from the earth to get her prophecies which she bestows upon visitors.

The laurel tree has associations with Apollo because the god, chasing a Naiad (water nymph) named Daphne call out to Gaia (mother earth) for help, who transformed the nymph into a laurel tree, which the god adopted as his sacred tree. In book 1 of the Iliad, Apollo supports the Trojans by raining down a plague on the Greeks, and later helping Paris to kill Achilles. Apollo’s cruelty is shown in Ovid’s mythical lyre contest with the inventor of the flute; a satyr named Marsyas. When Apollo suggested they play their instruments upside down, the satyr lost, and was flayed (skinned) alive as punishment for his hubris.