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.”

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day 15: monument. The colossal half painted statue of Constantine looks on with concern as a master mason trims his eyebrows a touch.

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LUNA aka Selene, here with her beloved: the ever youthful, but super-snoozy Endymion. 🌙💜

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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.

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First black-figure-style attempt of the season and phew I'm out of practice!
Heracles & his nephew Iolaus lopping off and cauterising the heads of the SERPENTINE Lernaean Hydra.

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Just a little lararium for Day 13: “Serpentine.”

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Keeping simple tonight & sticking with this gruesome Homeric I always felt sympathy for Polyphemus as he was just going about his daily routine until that scoundrel, Odysseus showed up.

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Day 11: Priestess 👩🏻‍🦰🔥💭🏛️ inspired by the priestess/oracle Pythia of Delphi, and those black-background roman frescoes

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Jour 11 du : Prêtresse. J'ai donc choisi une vestale, dont le rôle principal était de maintenir le "foyer" sacré de la cité 🔥

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" Y Apolo vino como la noche" , Iliada

La puesta de sol, François Boucher
Wallace Collection

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Day 11 (yes, I realize my compound hieratic numbers are going the "wrong" way, but that was an artistic choice. 😉 )

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Classicstober day 11 - Priestess
The Priestess of Artemis in Tauris, the long lost princess of Mycenae Iphigenia

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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.

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day 10 "Psyche'' goddess of the soul with butterfly wings 🦋

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October 10 (ψυχή): So my ACTUAL 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.

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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.

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Day 10: 'Psyche'. Passing over the obvious, Canova's Cupid and Psyche, here is Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid.

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day 9 ''feat'' with Atalanta who accomplished many of those 🏆

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day 8 ''octopodes'' with a nice minoan vase sporting an octopus🦑

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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.

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