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My favourite Minoan octopus, plus eight extra feet, for #ClassicsTober Day 8: “Octopodes.”
(It was a tough call on whether to do this guy or an Aristotle ref.)
#classicstober day 7 ''katabasis'' the trope in greek tales where the protagonist has to travel down in the underworld 🔥 Here is Orpheus, aching as he failed to save Eurydice
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#ClassicsTober day 7: katabasis. So this word was something new I Learned. What’s the modern equivalent? I feel like a trip to ikea comes close. In the meantime, here is Heracles petting random 3 headed dogs on a busy thoroughfare.
#classicstober Day 5 "Knowledge'' obviously I had to draw Athena 🦉
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#ClassicsTober day 6: bough. The course of my now routine frantic googling of each prompt leads me to learn that Aeneas’ golden bough might be mistletoe. Having just started reading Asterix books with my son, I just had to draw the venerable Druid Getafix.
October 5th (Knowledge): I went for the owl of Athena (Athene noctua) today, since she's the Goddess of knowledge and I like birds.
Took quite a bit of time to get the anatomy "right". I didn't realise you could just... put the beak between the eyes. #ClassicsTober
#ClassicsTober day 5: knowledge. A young Achilles hesitantly scans his knowledge of mycology before selecting todays side dish. Chiron takes a break from marking the young fellows trigonometry to observe.
Classicstober day 5 - Knowledge
Featuring dear Helenus prince of troy and Apollo
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Very serious one for Day 5 of #ClassicsTober: knowledge.
Just couldn’t help but share this meme. Perhaps those of you that are artistic, would actually like to try and paint philosophers like one of Leo’s French girls… PLEASE DO IT!
#ClassicsTober day 4: threshold. I half arsed this one by just putting a two faced Janus above the door. It’s not a great sketch but I like the idea of hanging out on a stoop in Roman towns.
#ClassicsTober day 2: script. Baby Hermes pursues this grand wheeze he’s had which he is tentatively calling “writing”
#ClassicsTober this was just inspired the coin I enjoyed studying the most. #Augustus
#ClassicsTober day 1: a coin is no place for a bird to spend a couple of thousand years.
#ClassicsTober Day 30: ευδαιμονία, having a good daemon. Bit of a stretch to draw Socrates’ daimon, who would stop him from doing what he shouldn’t.
Flowers a nod to the translation of ‘flourishing’ that some philosophers prefer to ‘happiness’ for ευδαιμονία.
#classicsTober day 28: trident. Poseidon visits an entirely proportionate response upon a vessel whose captain slightly botched the sacrifices.
The Thread Has Spoken:
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(Also available as a print of the original illo from yesterday's #ClassicsTober post!)