#helenistic

[planet-gay-comic]

United in Battle Through the Crisis

Orestes and Pylades are renowned figures in Greek mythology and literature, often depicted as the epitome of deep friendship and loyalty. They appear in various ancient works, notably in the tragedies of Euripides, and their story is intricately linked to the complex and tragic narrative of the House of Atreus.

Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, central figures in the saga of the Trojan War and its aftermath. Pylades, the son of King Strophius of Phocis and nephew to Clytemnestra, was Orestes' cousin. Their friendship commenced in their youth when Orestes was sent to Strophius for protection following the murder of his father Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

Their relationship is often portrayed as the ideal of ancient Greek friendship and loyalty. They support each other in times of difficulty and danger, prominently displayed in the story of Orestes' vengeance for his father's murder. Pylades accompanied Orestes on his return to Mycenae to kill his mother Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, an act seen as righteous vengeance but one that plunged Orestes into deep despair and madness.

In Euripides' tragedy "Orestes," Pylades' unwavering support and compassion for Orestes are highlighted, especially as Orestes is tormented by the Furies. Pylades speaks little in this play, but his constant presence by Orestes' side during his tribulations exhibits his profound connection and loyalty.

The relationship between Orestes and Pylades has been idealized in later literary and artistic works, often symbolizing true friendship and devotion. In some interpretations, their relationship is also seen as romantic or erotic, though this is not explicitly stated in ancient sources. Their story exemplifies how friendship and loyalty were highly valued in Greek mythology and culture, considered essential elements of human relationships.

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#LoveInAntiquity #gaycomic #gaylove #samesex #manlovesman #Orestes #Pylades #ancientfetish #ancientgay #helenistic

[persephonesfoxway]

moments when i feel my deitys:

(i saw this post in @caduceussky so i want to try it. credit to them)🖤

🥀Persephone’s pressence🥀

•When I'm at work (I work with children).

•When I use the color red.

•When I feel sensual

•when I set boundaries.

•When I do my skincare.

•The day

💀Hade’s pressence💀

•When I see a dogs.

•When I buy something that i really wanted.

•When I watch ghost or mystery movies.

•Death stuff.

•When I smoke and listen to music.

•The night

🦁Circe’s pressence🦁

•When I go to the beach.

•When I think about being a mother.

•When I'm working with my plants.

•When I make spells without looking at my books.

•When the sun shines on my face.

•Sunset.

#deity work #witchcraft #hades deity #persephone deity #workship persephone #deity persephone #deity worship #persephones hades #worship deity #witchy things #circe deity #circe #greek mythology #helenistic

[greekbros]

(Dionysus and Zeus)

(Zeus looks like he knows what Dionysus is up to.)

#greek mythology #art #greek gods #hellenistic #my art #greek bros #greek posts #greek myth memes #dionysus #zeus #eagle dad and leopard son #dionysus deity #zeus deity #helenistic

[judithdisccoje]

#Mana yugioh #thai series #SOULJABOY #matt braly #Spoby #a hope in hell #hello kitty wallpapers #Johan Cruijff #helenistic #CV2f6vCV

[sudsybubbles]

Hey, I'm a newish pagan. I don't know who to worship.

Does anyone have any tips for me?

Also, how do I make a discrete altar? My family is Christian and I don't want them to kick me out or anything.

#helenistic #pagan altar #paganblr #baby pagan

[theunabashedepicurean]

Fragments of antiquity. ________________________________________________ #naples #archeologicalmuseum #naplesarchaeologicalmuseum #mosaics #antiquity #art #artworks #ancientrome #ancientgreece #classical #classicalperiod #romanmosaic #pompeii #herculaneum #romanempire #helenistic #design #decoration #decor #decorative #mosaicart #classicalantiquity #history #culture #grecoroman #ancienthistory #europeanhistory #renaissance #romanrepublic #italy (at Museo Archeologico di Napoli) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfKBEb6osCN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#naples #archeologicalmuseum #naplesarchaeologicalmuseum #mosaics #antiquity #art #artworks #ancientrome #ancientgreece #classical #classicalperiod #romanmosaic #pompeii #herculaneum #romanempire #helenistic #design #decoration #decor #decorative #mosaicart #classicalantiquity #history #culture #grecoroman #ancienthistory #europeanhistory #renaissance #romanrepublic #italy

[phonydiaries]

Me, someone who is so normal: dude Lies of P Pinocchio is soooo biblical Isaac coded lol

#i will not be elaborating #jk yes I am i literally have a 'art history pieces that remind me of P' post drafted #one thing about me i'm gonna be so so weird about art history all the time #my specialest special interest #i cant help that he looks like 90% of the men in classical/helenistic sculpture #lies of p #lop

[vintageshits]

#Apelles #Helenistic Greece #ancient greece #history of art

[kotaenoichi]

What if Diogenes was actually metaphorically in the right direction when judging Plato’s definition of humans as “featherless birds”?

What if he just missed the opportunity of giving us a better analogy, like, idk, smart ants?

#shower thoughts #personal #diary #helenistic philosophy #plato #diogenes #cynicism #platonism

[arc-angel-o]

Everyone in Neo Yokio has an eating disorder, it's an occupational hazard

#that fucking bachelor board... #need s2 to confirm this #the themes!!!! it fits!!!! #also im starving pun intended for good rep #untagged neo yokio #this post is specifically written with kaz arcangelo helena and motoko in mind #but im open to other hcs #maybe agatha or a helenist or two #ofc i got ny ocs with eds too

[egotisticalnightmare]

I always see people talk about “God’s plan” and correct me if I’m wrong but, isn’t that kind the opposite point of the bible? The way I understood the bible is that it is a book of God teaching humans lessons. He interferes and tests their faith, he interferes to teach them something, he interferes to help them. And then, the lessons and tests are over. He tells you to take what he taught you and go out into the world and be a good person, he gives you free will. So of course God doesn’t do miracles anymore, because for him to interfere is to remove your freewill. Then you take the lessons he taught you, incorporate the messages into your daily life(not necessarily take them literally) and he judges you after you die.

#god #christianity #catholiscism #religion #bible #bible scripture #lutheran #baptism #faith #faith in jesus #faith in god #pagan #paganism #i am a helenistic pagan but i was raised lutheran #i still vibe with God and Jesus and stuff tho #ever read the book of Ruth? very queer

[cryptotheism]

What we would recognize today as alchemy started in the Ptolmeic era. For those that don’t know, that was the period of time when Alexander the Great got tired of burning and pillaging his way through Egypt, and decided to leave the place in the hands of a Greek family called the Ptolemies. They would last from around 305 BCE until around 30 BCE, when an Alexander the Great fan club called the Roman Empire would try their hand at burning and pillaging Egypt. Imperial conquest can be a big change, but for the would-be alchemists, it meant a bunch of fun new foreign books to read.  We do not know who actually wrote the first complete alchemical texts. Physika kai Mystika (Natural and Secret Questions) and Peri Asēmou Poiēseōs (On the Making of Silver) are both attributed to the Greek philosopher Democritus. Democritus did not write them. The author is referred to as “Pseudo-Democritus.” Complicated webs of authorship are common when it comes to alchemical texts. If this is confusing, don’t worry, it will get worse. 

Ancient Helenistic Alchemy today on patreon

#occult #alchemy #patreon

[yuckysmells]

I've never mentioned it here but i LOVE Monster High (and doll collecting and customizing in general).

This is my redesign for Iris Clops since i don't like her G3 look :0)

I love the diversity we have in G3. I just wish we had kept the art and clothing style of G1. But that's just my nostalgia talking lol

Btw: she was meant to be bigger but i got carried away with the greek theme and endep up giving her a body shape more similar with that of Helenistic statues :0)

#monsterhigh #iris clops #monster high #drawing #digitaldrawing #digital illustration

[alpaca-clouds]

Let me talk about vampires and running water for a moment

When writing on my NaNoWriMo fic yesterday, I encountered a problem. The finale involves a ship on the Chionthar. And then I ran into the problem that in DnD vampires cannot cross running water. And for just a moment I thought about changing the finale, but then I decided: You know what? No, I don't. Because the entire "vampires cannot cross running water" thing is stupid anyway.

And given I got really annoyed about this a few weeks back when James Somerton did his really bad vampire video, let me quickly talk about this.

Because this has a very specific origin that actually has nothing to do with the vampires per se. Now, yes, technically it should be noted that in some areas of pre-helenistic Greece in ancient times there were stories involving the undead and the cursed being unable to cross water. But in those stories it usually was at times linked to running water - but at times linked to saltwater, too.

The idea of running water is fairly simple in that regard. Running water would wash away blood, death and decay. In dry regions such as Greece, water that came with fall would often wash away animals that had died and stuff that had collected in half dried riverbeds.

Yet, we do not quite know whether that had actual influence on the vampires. Because the reason for the vampires is probably a very different one.

If you look into historical vampire mythology, you will find that those are mostly common in Eastern Europe. Now, you can make a lot of arguments on whether or not certain other undead creatures from mythology are vampiric. But what we actually understand as vampires are all based on a certain subtext of creatures from Eastern Europe. They usually have some of the features we do associate with vampires today. Including that they are undead and they drink either blood or the live energy.

Now, those myths were especially common east of the Danube. Which is something that the people in Europe noticed. You got to understand that to them the stories were real in some regards. They believed that those vampires existed. So, the fact that barely anyone had stories about them west of the Danube meant clearly one thing: The vampires could not cross the Danube.

And that is how this myths came up. It was the idea that vampires could specifically not cross the Danube, which in many of the older religions of Europe was also closely linked to gods of water and life. So, it was not about the running water, but about the Danube specifically.

It was just that when Victorian England picked vampires up and their usual standin for unspoken sexual desires and sexual deviancy, that they kinda started to slowly broadened it. But the more than that those early Hollywood monster movies influenced the idea that indeed, vampires could not cross water. (Gentle reminder: It was also Hollywood who got us "vampires cannot go into the sun", which is not linked to the original mythology!)

So, yeah. It is not actually a mythology thing. it is more... complicated.

And also, I kinda just hate the idea, because I always just imagine a vampire running into an invisible wall, because there is an underground river somewhere, and the vampire can just not get across lol Like, call be a pandantic geologist, but running water is freaking everywhere.

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #castlevania #castlevania netflix #vampires #vampire mythology #slavic mythology #horror #victorian era #gaslamp fantasy

[nightlyforrest]

Okay slaughter me if you want but I'm gonna pop a fucking blood vessel if I don't speak my mind

Hellenism IS NOT paganism. They are two completely different spiritual paths and I am getting so frustrated trying to search for content related to my pagan faith and all I can find is tik tok witches talking about chakras, tarot cards and persephone or whatever. Look all those practices are totally valid whatever but none of them are paganism and I'm so sick of the double standard in this community of what can and cannot be closed practice/gatekept. If it's considered basic fucking decency to not burn palo santo out of respect for the culture it dawned from why is it okay for hippies to adopt the practices and traditions of actual paganism and run with them just because they're european at their roots? I'm actually so sick of it. If you worship the greek gods, smoke weed, use tarot cards, chakras and do witchcraft thats totally fine. Live your life to the fullest but you're not a pagan, you're a wiccan, or a helenist. I feel like paganism has been commodified into an aesthetic and any actual history or culture has been dissolved into crystal healing, hyperconsumerism and spiritual psychosis just like so many indigenous cultures. It no longer means worshipping nature, giving back to the land you came from and living to the natural order. It's who has the prettiest altar or the most complex spells. If you want to explore paganism or helenism or whatever spiritual path you choose I completely support you BUT if it's paganism (celtic, norse or eclectic) you're interested in. Look into actual paganism not whatever hippie dippy bullshit is trending on social media. It's the principles you base your life off of not an aesthetic add on to your avatar or a way to 'stick it to christians'. You're not a heathen or a revaloutionary, you're a tik tok witch with a shallow understanding of the world around you based on aesthetics and whatever set of beliefs seem closest to your wattpad fantasy. I feel bad for genuine helenists too cause I'd imagine they're just as frustrated as me.

#paganism #pagan witch #paganblr #hellenism #witch aesthetic #witchcraft #hippie #spirituality #religion #I'm actually so sick of the double standards. #Hippies will vulture everyones culture #just because your culture is of european origin doesn't mean it can't be pinched or appropriated

[ekaarts]

🐍Medusa is back!🐍

It's been so long since I drew her, and I absolutely LOVE the new design. 💕💜💕

Update on her backstory: now it's a mixture of the two different origin stories from the "canon" mythology.

She was born a gorgon, but she was also the most loyal priestess of Athena. 🦉

She wears a headscarf to cover the base of her head. She lost a few of her snakes before she became Bronthea's priestess, but lost almost the rest when the temple fell. The scares left are incredibly sensitive.

She's the only one other than Bronthea (and her plot twist spy) who leaves the island. Though Medusa never physically leaves, only spiritually.

For those unaware, modern helenistic paganism recognizes her as a deity (not to be confused with a goddess), and many people worship, and or work with her.

Now that the temple is mostly empty, she takes time out of her day to help witches and practitioners with their magic.

Her job didn't change, only that now she's only Bronthea's right hand, but never was her high priestess (check the previous post of Bronthea for that).

#art #artist #digital art #original character #oc art #digital drawing #gardenoftheneverknowngoddess #garden of the never known goddess #garden of the never known goddess medusa #gotnkg #gotnkg priestess #gotnkg medusa #medusa #greek mythology #greek mythology medusa #medusa greek mythology #gorgon #lady medusa #gotnkg lady medusa #gotnkg lore #garden of the never known goddess lore