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@Corvuscorax81 Wolves, ravens, moonlight... who could ask for anything more!
#classiclitsaturday game time
You're a nature poet! Show us who you are, where you live, your enemy in the wild and how you chased it away! QT with your answer!
"I love not man the less, but Nature more” https://t.co/0kfdZK7BXj
"I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs... It was a fairy funeral." (William Blake, #DOTD 1827)
🖼️ M. Pirner "Funeral of a Fairy" (1888)
#folklorethursday
"Peace, peace!
Dost thou not see my baby at my breast
That sucks the nurse asleep?" (Shakespeare)
Cleopatra VII Philopator committed suicide #OTD 30 BCE in Alexandria.
🖼️ Hans Makert "Der Tod der Kleopatra" (1875)
"The arrow flew with such force that it pierced Bel’s armor, shot through the giant’s chest and stuck into the ground behind him. Bel would no longer menace the people of Hayk" (Moses of Chorene)
Legendary Armenian founding figure Hayk Nahapet slew the giant Bel #OTD 2492 BCE
@MaeneSigne @Corvuscorax81 I just leave this here... aioli, anyone?
https://t.co/FIYZlRet1A
“So it was a mistake. Kisses, bites...
They sound alike, and those who deeply love
Can reach for one as well as for the other...”
In Kleist's version, Amazon queen Penthesilea misunderstands Achilles' amorous intentions and slays him. Quite messily.
#FairyTaleTuesday