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Art. History. Classical Mythology. Best of Greek & Roman Myths (and a little Near East, too). Co-host @MythologyMonday.📜🏺⚡️

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The Great Pyramid at Giza, build ca. 2589-2566, took over 2 million blocks & 20 years to construct & is one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Inside includes a king's & queen's chamber. The pyramid likely acted as a tomb for a king. The structure around 480 ft. high.

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2019-05-02

Atusa (550-475 BCE) was the daughter of emperor Cyrus the Great & married to Darius who held the vast Persian empire that spanned huge portions of Asia. Atusa was considered an influential & helped put Xerxes in power after Darius. She suffered from mastitis.

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2019-04-26

Hermês is an god charged w/ care of herds, travelers, roads, athletes. A powerful god, he is called to assist others such as Perseus & Odysseus w/ perilous tasks. From birth he was mischievous, hiding & killing oxen sacred to Apollo.

Bartholomaeus Spranger (d. 1611)

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2019-04-11

Paris holds the golden apple to Hera & & other and watch on.

Judgment of Paris, after Rosso Fiorentino, 1553, engraving

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2019-02-19

The Goat-Unicorn appeared in a bestiary-like text within The Physiologus (ca. 100-300 CE) but it's origin can be found in various Near Eastern and Far Eastern &

John Jonston, Historiae Naturalis, 1657

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2019-02-17

The Spindle of Fate was used by
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.

The Three Fates (1558-9), Giorgio Ghisi, engraving, 13.8 x 22.2 cm

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2019-02-06

Hephaistos (Ἡφαιστος), Olympian of metalworking & fire. His main cult centers were on Lemnos & at 🔨#mythology

Vulcan's Forge in "Allegory of Divine Providence," completed in 1639, Pietro da Cartona

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2019-02-02

Men wearing the mask of oversee mummification. Various amulets adorn the body's layers prior to the application of a coffin and burial.

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2019-01-26

The we seven daughters of placed in the heavens after death. Only six are visible. Merope is the lost Pleiad.

The Pleiades (1885), Elihu Vedder

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2018-12-29

Jupiter, the Roman father of the gods, appears in zodiac form.

German Woodcut, ca. 1510-1560, after Hans Burgkhmair the Elder

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2018-12-13