Michel Laraさんのイラストまとめ

Ultimately, Machiavelli tells us it doesn't matter how many wise counselors are in a prince's court as "a prince who is not wise himself cannot be wisely counseled"

"We live, as we dream-alone."

-Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness", 1899

The Paradox of Greek Gods

The very immortality of a god impedes the taste of a noble death. As the Olympians lack the urgency born out of a mortal's finitude of being. Thus gods ever yearn what mortal heroes possess: a selfless sacrifice in the face of an inevitable end.

"In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done"

Sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri nec considerate potest

-Cicero, De Officiis,"On Moral Duties" 44 BC

The contrapasso or "suffering the opposite" endured by the gluttonous is being battered by an incessant foul rain & tormented by mad, howling barks coming from the sinners as well as from the three-headed dog monster, Cerberus as he's the guardian and torturer of the Gluttons.

These are 4 variations of 'Memory' by Magritte where a marble bust of Mnemosyne, Greek goddess of Memory is depicted bloodstained, perhaps a violent act of erasure in order to subjugate. The other constant object, a small bell's resonance contains the faint sound of lost memories

There's a tension between the pool’s immutable (yet deceptive) reflection of Narcissus & the metamorphic nature of the woods where all is in flux.

Constant flux is a reflection of Ovid’s world where all things suffer changes despite the human aspiration for an unchanging ideal.

They say moonlit ruins hoard undreamt dreams...

Moonlit Gothic Ruin by Sebastian Pether [1790–1844]

The light
never grows old
in a sunless sea

Ivan Aivazovsky- A Moonlit Night at Sea, 1885

Demeter's Lament

Black earth
she roams

poppy goddess
she mourns

her daughter
lost

on the unlit shores
of no return.

Evelyn de Morgan-Demeter mourning Persephone, 1906