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From Antioch, Turkey. The 9 muses : Urania, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Erato, Clio, Terpsichore, Melpomene & Thalia, Calliope is by herself handling a scroll to Hesiod. Pictures Dick Osseman.

Ajax the Great & Ajax the Not to Great. (Yes, I'm a Monty Python fan). Both fought the Trojan war. Both ended poorly.
2 designs I recreated from bronze shield straps dedicated to Zeus in his temple in Olympia.
Details of individual stories with each picture.

#Silenus, the old rustic god of wine-making and drunkenness was the foster-father of young Dionysos entrusted to him by Hermes after his birth. Get my Silenus printed on awesome products. #RBandME: https://t.co/G3XD8yvetV #findyourthing #redbubble

How its done : recreating Greek the design of Louvre K240 vase (Dyonisos procession).
1. Work on separate drawings.
2. Flatten designs to adjust perspective from vase to plane.
3. Draw with different colors on separate layers in both GIMP and Inkscape programs.
4. Recombine.

Playing with a pattern from some medieval floor tiles. The palmette was already used in archaic greek vases in the 6th century BC.

Working from books of paintings of #Pompeii frescoes Some painters were extremely accurate, some less so. Sometimes their works is all that is left of the originals since damaged by neglect, theft or destroyed in war.
Achilles discovered in Skyros, House of the Dioscuri

In Iran during the Sassanid period, 241 to 274 AD, magnificent mosaics of both roman and Sassanid influences were used in the palace of Chapour I in Bîchâpour (Fars province). National Museum in Tehran

I reproduced a magnificent Greek vase painted by Euphronios ca 505 BC. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich. You can order this design printed on many supports from my #redbubble boutique
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More details about how Roman mosaicists used squares and triangles only to generate intricate designs in Volubilis, #Morocco

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