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.

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OCTOPODES (polypi) is the prompt for today. Here's a suspicious octopus I drew for for The Sewer Demon
(Minimus and I are still full of Covid, so new drawings will have to wait)

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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)

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My favourite Minoan octopus, plus eight extra feet, for Day 8: “Octopodes.”

(It was a tough call on whether to do this guy or an Aristotle ref.)

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Why Orpheus looked back, for Day 7, “Katabasis”.

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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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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.

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Day 5 "Knowledge'' obviously I had to draw Athena 🦉

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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.

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Day 6: 'bough'. What else could it be but J.M.W. Turner's 'Golden Bough', a depiction of an episode from Virgil's Aeneid, and the inspiration for J.G. Frazer's study of myth.

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Today's a stupid flea, stood on a stupid eyebrow hair whilst wearing stupid wax boots. Drawn to represent the KNOWLEDGE to be gained by measuring a flea's leap, but also my new found KNOWLEDGE that I don't much care for translating Aristophanes & his nonsense!

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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.

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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.

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Classicstober day 5 - Knowledge
Featuring dear Helenus prince of troy and Apollo

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Very serious one for Day 5 of 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!

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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.

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Dies 3: Tres

Capienda sunt omnia

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The magpies entering classicstober like the Nazgûl

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day 2: script. Baby Hermes pursues this grand wheeze he’s had which he is tentatively calling “writing”

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