To describe it with religions

Kain is non-denominational Christian
Thea is Norse pagan
Abigail is Hellenistic https://t.co/MhDtQMC6dx

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Medusa

One of the most famous monsters in the world. Medusa is believed to have been a goddess worshipped by the inhabitants of the Greek peninsula prior to the Hellenistic invasion. Her frightening visage was believed to have been a mask worn by her priestesses.

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Thank you so much to collect in 1/1 : "hellenistic period of the mutant twins": https://t.co/NsZKiooe8Z more than an honor, it is an incredible recognition that one of my works is part of your collection, more thanks my fren 🙏❤️🥲🤟

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hellenistic period of the mutant twins:
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there is a classic period in the mutation and this since the body is highlighted in art...
https://t.co/NsZKionGjr

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Hellenistic Greek cast glass pomegranate vase, 2nd century B.C. - 1st century AD. From (https://t.co/6vIxRjaOnx)

Articles explaining why pomegranate is the fruit Hades gave Persephone to eat in the underworld...

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4 variations of on a Hellenistic bronze head of Dionysus

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Greek-speaking areas during the Hellenistic period.

During antiquity, Greek was by far the most widely spoken lingua franca in the Mediterranean world.

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Regarding the Hellenistic style, I think the shoulders of the armor are well represented. very beautiful ! Because, shoulders like this always remind me of Alexander the Great! Ha ha! ~

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Also, my 2md collection on , myth·o·poe·ia (from the Hellenistic Greek μυθοποιία, after μυθοποίησις, meaning "myth-making")

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The North African species are smaller, even smaller than the Asiatic species.

The Carthaginians, Libyans, Numidians, the Hellenistic Kingdoms of Epirus (like the ones you just posted) and the Ptolemies, and lastly even the Romans mostly use the North African species

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Macedonian Greece or Hellenistic Greece I guess?, tried imitading a typical Hellenistic Sculpture with the pose and RIPPED body.

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In 276 BC the Hellenistic king Pyrrhus famously remarked upon departing Sicily, 'Oh what a wrestling ground we are leaving for the Carthaginians and Romans to fight over.' He was proved right when, 12 years later, the First Punic War erupted

Artwork by © Johnny Shumate

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this hellenistic bronze which is cool af to see survive because they reused most of the bronze figure casts made so the rare few we have were lost at some point and refound far more recently.

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from wikipedia “In Hellenistic and later Roman mythology, roses were associated with secrecy because Cupid gave a rose to Harpocrates (the Hellenistic silence god) so that he would not reveal the secrets of Venus.”

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The ancient Greek thymiateria were used in private & public rituals of the 7th C BCE – 4th C CE, and includes 17 main types of censers.
I get interested in one particular type shown in the Hellenistic relief from Panticapaeum, today Kerch early 4th C BCE.

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Skin tone is a variable but not the only one to consider here considering facial features. In any case, Hellenistic Greek and Roman art, despite inheriting gendered skin tone tropes from Minoan and Egyptian art, did utilize realistic lighting and shading for fresco figures:

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When you depart from a very japanese based land to a very hellenistic one down under

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When did "Greeks" fight her aside from her own Greek brother Ptolemy XIII & sister Arsinoe IV in Egypt?

The whole of Greece had been under Roman rule for almost a century by the time Cleopatra was born in 69 BC. Are you just confusing Hellenistic Greeks with Romans or something?

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Correct, and the Minoans also borrowed the concept from the Egyptians in terms of gendered artworks, but this was more of an artistic trend than a rigid rule in Classical and Hellenistic Greek art, plus later Roman art. For instance, the differences are meagerly pronounced here:

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