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#ClassicsTober Day 16: “νέκυια.” Erictho, the necromancer from Lucan book 6.
“She sees the shade of the laid out body standing by, fearing the lifeless limbs and hated bounds of its ancient prison. … and enraged at death, she lashes the cadaver with a living snake.”
#ClassicsTober day 15: monument. The colossal half painted statue of Constantine looks on with concern as a master mason trims his eyebrows a touch.
#ClassicsTober day 14: a rather haggard looking Luna pulls over in a lay-by to inspect a bust gasket that has been fouling the drive shaft of the phase modulator. It’s not all glamour and spirituality in this line of work you know.
Keeping #ClassicsTober simple tonight & sticking with this gruesome Homeric #Simile. I always felt sympathy for Polyphemus as he was just going about his daily routine until that scoundrel, Odysseus showed up.
#Classicstober Day 11: Priestess 👩🏻🦰🔥💭🏛️ inspired by the priestess/oracle Pythia of Delphi, and those black-background roman frescoes
Jour 11 du #ClassicsTober : Prêtresse. J'ai donc choisi une vestale, dont le rôle principal était de maintenir le "foyer" sacré de la cité 🔥
" Y Apolo vino como la noche" , Iliada
La puesta de sol, François Boucher
Wallace Collection
#ClassicsTober 12 Simile
#classicstober Day 11 (yes, I realize my compound hieratic numbers are going the "wrong" way, but that was an artistic choice. 😉 ) #karomama #GodsWifeofAmun #Louvre #bronze #gold #silver #electrum
Classicstober day 11 - Priestess
The Priestess of Artemis in Tauris, the long lost princess of Mycenae Iphigenia
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#ClassicsTober day 11: Priestess. A priestess of Hathor treats herself to a foot massage after being rushed off her feet all bloody day. The idol of the goddess is oblivious as she’s rather busy herself thank you very much. Original picture for reference.
#ClassicsTober day 10 "Psyche'' goddess of the soul with butterfly wings 🦋
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October 10 (ψυχή): So my ACTUAL #ClassicsTober contribution today is Psyche walking in the lush and flowery dale where Cupid's palace is placed. It is said that the palace had golden pillars, so I imagined they were also golden on the outside.
#ClassicsTober day 10: Psyche. The idol of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias ponders why her shrines are empty. Meanwhile, the simple folk of Caria sneak off to worship psyche.
#ClassicsTober day 9 ''feat'' with Atalanta who accomplished many of those 🏆
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#ClassicsTober day 8 ''octopodes'' with a nice minoan vase sporting an octopus🦑
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#ClassicsTober Day 9: FEAT
My favourite of Heracles’ labours, probably because of the Giant Crab sent by Hera just to complicate things, and it doesn’t count in the end because Heracles’ nephew Iolaus helps,cauterising the necks of beheaded Hydra to stop new heads growing.
#ClassicsTober day 9: feat.
Jason (The night before He tackles the bulls of Aeetes): you’re saying I have to be oiled up for this?
Medea: (bashfully) it’s the only way. Jason: and do I really have to be naked?
Medea: oh, absolutely. I don’t make the rules.
OCTOPODES (polypi) is the #ClassicsTober prompt for today. Here's a suspicious octopus I drew for @CarolineLawrenc for The Sewer Demon
(Minimus and I are still full of Covid, so new drawings will have to wait)
#ClassicsTober day 8: octopode. A Minoan octopus casts off its amphorae chrysalis after a fortuitous shipwreck (the latter not pictured for reasons of sensitivity and laziness)