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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:38:17 GMT -5
Quote:Janus, the two-faced Roman god of transition, looking to the future and the past, who was venerated on Roman New Year Quote:Janus showing a young face to Mars, and an old one to Minerva. Giovanni Batista Foggini, c. 1710 Hamburg
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:38:39 GMT -5
Quote:2nd century AD Roman marble statue of Melpomene, muse of tragedy
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:39:01 GMT -5
Quote:Greek Bronze folding mirror, depicting Zeus as an Eagle abducting Ganymede - dated to c.360 BC
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:39:19 GMT -5
Love this! Quote:Greek gold earring dated to the mid 4th century BC (on display at the @metmuseum)
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:39:40 GMT -5
Quote:A victorious athlete hauls away his tripod prize on a black figure vessel. C. 530 BC (National Museum of Denmark)
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:39:57 GMT -5
I just love art. Quote:Morpheus and Iris Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, 1811
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:42:12 GMT -5
Ancient Rome And Greece The swastika also appeared in ancient Greece, often printed on coins, as well as in Greco-Roman architecture as repeating or interlinking motifs. The symbol is believed to be used more as a representation of perpetual motion, such as with a windmill, rather than as a significant religious symbol.
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:42:47 GMT -5
Quote:Pandora - John William Waterhouse, 1898 Pandora's Box is an awesome box set by Aerosmith.
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:43:03 GMT -5
Quote:Fame Holding Back Pegasus - Eugène Louis Lequesne, 1875
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:43:19 GMT -5
Quote:Ancient Greek miniature terracotta "Myrrhine's Ball" c. 500BC, part of rattle showing athletes via @magistramichaud
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:43:38 GMT -5
Quote:Ancient greek mosaic, signed "Gnosis created", late 4th century BC, Pella Archaeological Museum.
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:43:55 GMT -5
Quote:ἰδοὺ ἰδού A statue's right eye: marble, obsidian, glass, copper. Greek, 500-100 BC @gettymuseum
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:44:14 GMT -5
Quote:Medusa - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1630
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:44:41 GMT -5
Quote:Greek bronze statuette of a veiled dancer, dated to the 3rd century BC
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:45:05 GMT -5
Quote:@mariasuu Lovely! We also see Odysseus' reunion with Argos on coins of Limetanus RRC 362/1 pileus A twisted thought, but perhaps Odysseus is in love with an argos, from the MONSTROUS MANUAL. Lovecraftian horror in Achaea...? Keep in mind that all of the heroes from DEITIES & DEMIGODS are alive, at the present time, on Aerth.
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:45:23 GMT -5
Corinthia Ancient Greece. From Corinth (Korinthos), a rich city in Classical Greece. Possibly suggested to Howard by the Epistles to the Corinthians, or by the region of Carinthia. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyborian_Age#Etymology
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:45:37 GMT -5
Quote:Greek bronze head of Poseidon dated to c.227-1 BC
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:45:52 GMT -5
Quote:Scylla, the beautiful naiad and one of two evils.
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:46:46 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:47:00 GMT -5
Quote:The Diskobolos of Myron - a Roman 2nd century AD of the famous but lost Greek bronze from 450 BC
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:47:19 GMT -5
Quote:The Piraeus Athena - the 2,350 year old bronze statue is one of the best preserved Greek statues still extant.
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:47:45 GMT -5
Quote:Scenes from the Medea sarcophagus: 1. Creusa in agony, Creon puzzled 2. Medea escapes on dragon chariot c. 150 BC AD; correction Presumably Medea's chariot took off like a Harrier jet; conventional takeoff impossible w/ dragon tail stuck in wheel.
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:48:04 GMT -5
Quote:Gold emerald inlaid Greek Herakles knot arm ring, dated to the 3rd century BC
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:48:29 GMT -5
Quote:Prometheus - Eduard Müller, 1868
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:48:47 GMT -5
Quote:Painted terracotta statuette of a woman playing the tympanon (tambourine), 4th century BC (Altes Museum, Berlin).
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:49:02 GMT -5
Quote:The Minerva Bowl, silver cup from the Hildesheim Treasure, the largest collection of Roman silver found outside Italy
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:49:50 GMT -5
Quote:Kylix showing an aroused Satyr mounting an aroused donkey. The image hints at the sexual arousal caused by wine.
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:50:07 GMT -5
Quote:RT @ahencyclopedia: Today in ancient history: The Festival of Hecate - (goddess of the Moon). #Mythology #Moon Quote:Marble statuette of Hecate depicted as a triple goddess surrounded by dancers, from the Mithraeum at Sidon.
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:50:27 GMT -5
Quote:Bronze head of the god Apollo, 1st - 2nd century AD. (Nîmes Archaeology Museum)
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 18:50:44 GMT -5
Quote:The Farnese Atlas - a Roman 2nd century copy of a Greek original dated to the 3rd century BC
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