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I want to know what the relative elasticity of trousers were in 300BCE otherwise I will never feel right about this Alexander and Bagoas comic.
a49538f9-e8b4-48ae-bce0-083be4d74b0c #generative #art #procedural #creativecoding
Languages of Ancient Italy, prior to Celtic Invasions (600BCE) https://t.co/X5BhBdPfRw #MapPorn
New twitter (and soon youtube) avatar up, thanks to @cyangmou. It's a recreation of one of the Priest-Kings of Uruk, who appear in iconography there during the 4th millennium BCE.
The Fantastic Adventures of Alexander the Great Part 2:
Alexander the Great being awoken once again by a nightmare of his bathysphere incident, while on campaign in Asia.
circa. 328 BCE.
(Hephaestion is used to it by now and tries to comfort his boyfriend as best he can.)
Alexander the Great inside his bathysphere, seeing the ocean underwater for the first time.
circa. 330 BCE.
(Sorry I got lazy with the second image, I'd love an actual artist to redo my crappy art attempt 🤣)
I create manga/webcomics and write film scripts! I'm currently working on Erinys & The Seer (webcomic) and FVRY (film script) #OriginalContentArtist
Most of my current projects center around Mycenaean Greece (~1200 BCE) and ancient Greek mythology.
THE ILIAD - BACKGROUND
Iliad = the story of Ilium (Troy), the city of Ilus (the grandfather of Priam). The work, 15,693 lines of hexameter, has been called this since the 5th century bce.
https://t.co/lwIxeEXnbx
Medallion with a winged goddess probably from Eastern Iran, 2nd century BCE.
Gilded silver, diameter 12 cm
https://t.co/3VFaJMIv42
Hellenistic amethyst intaglio depicting a maenad holding a thyrsus in one hand and a phallus in the other, dated to the 2nd century BCE. The intaglio is set in a modern gold ring.
Opium has been actively collected since prehistoric times, since approximately 3400 BCE. The upper Asian belt of Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, and Burma still account for the world's largest supply of opium. And there is a city called opium in Turkey #FolkloreThursday
Roman Republic in 44 BCE, at the time of the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar whom many modern historians chronologically mark as the Emperor zero.
Sometime around 2686 BCE, Upper Egypt (King Menes/Narmer) came north and invaded Lower Egypt, unifying the two kingdoms under a single ruler who took the title of pharaoh and wore a double crown.
Hippopotamus devouring of a crocodile, 1st century #Roman carnelian intaglio in latter setting. https://t.co/JJ4PG7zcGd
I remembered the @ChristiesInc ring, Alexandria, Hellenistic period, 2nd-1st C BCE https://t.co/bnNGiOAvk9 @DLVLK
#OnThisDay in 323 BCE, the worlds greatest twink, Alexander III of Macedon, passed away due to mysterious circumstances. Thought I would commemorate this wide eyed boys memory with a quick drawing. 🐏 🏳️🌈 #zeusammon #AlexanderTheGreat
My version of @StudioTeaBreak #PortraitChallenge Neolithic figurine from Cuccuru in Arrius, Sardinia. Grave find, 4000-3400 BCE @MuseoArcheoCa #eink #digitalwatercolour #thedailysketch
On #WorldBeeDay here are an exquisite bit of Cretan filigree jewelry from-almost unbelievably-7th century BCE & a gold plaque depicting the Bee-Goddess Melissa from Rhodes about 1,000 years later. She fed the baby Zeus honey not milk as in top of Poussin pic. He loved her for it
I traced a picture of myself and redrew me in the Ancient Minoan Civilization city of Knossos in period accurate clothing circa. 1600 BCE. (sorry)