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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:05:43 GMT -5
Quote:Odysseus and his Lilliputian men blind the drunken Polyphemus. Italian, early 16th century, attribution disputed 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:06:00 GMT -5
Quote:Before sunscreen was invented, people used olive oil and rice bran to protect against UV rays. 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:06:16 GMT -5
Quote:Scylla, a sea monster who haunted the rocks of a narrow strait opposite the daemon Charybdis. #monstersinantiquity  
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:06:34 GMT -5
Quote:Typhon, the Father of All Monsters. It was the most ferocious creature ever to roam the earth. #monstersinantiquity 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:06:54 GMT -5
Quote:Three heads are better than one: Cerberus—the underworld's fearsome guard #dog with a snaky tail #AshmoleanMuseum 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:07:09 GMT -5
Quote:All about Medea - top post on a top witch! Potions and Poisons: Classical Ancestors of the Wicked Witch, Part 2 t.co/jGztKOC2d2 #HappyHalloween 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:07:26 GMT -5
Quote:Perseus holding the head of a young looking Medusa, Villa of San Marco, Stabiae 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:07:41 GMT -5
Quote:Detail from Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt. The Gorgones sickness, madness, death... 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:08:02 GMT -5
Quote:Look - tablet already configured and linked to the internet! Greek, 1stC AD 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:08:23 GMT -5
Quote:12thC Romanesque angel so gently wakes the magi under their crochet-trimmed blanket at Autun. Season's greetings! 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:08:43 GMT -5
Quote:Gilded bronze statue of Hercules holding his club and an apple of the Hesperides, 2nd century BC (Capitoline Museum) 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:09:07 GMT -5
Quote:Bronze statues of Athena & Artemis found at Piraeus, 1959, by workers laying pipes. 360-340 BC. #Greece #archaeology 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:09:35 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:09:51 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:10:11 GMT -5
Quote:Jason and the Golden Fleece Bronze box mirror, 4th century BC, Greece t.co/sMtuHh2xrx
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:10:38 GMT -5
bronze parade greave from 3rd century, with a relief of Mars. both found in my hometown.
link missing
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:10:51 GMT -5
Quote:Orestes Pursued by the Furies - William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1862 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:11:08 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:11:27 GMT -5
Quote:Fresco depicting Perseus releasing Andromeda from her chains on the rock, from the House of the Dioscuri #Pompeii. 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:11:47 GMT -5
Quote:Corinthian black-figure amphora depicting Perseus, Andromeda and the sea monster Ketos, from Cerverteri, c. 550 BC. 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:12:08 GMT -5
Quote:Gruesome detail of the temple relief showing Tydeus devouring the brain of Melanippos in the course of the battle. t.co/aERvEbO3wm
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:12:25 GMT -5
Roman gods "Imperial Gods, The" Eric Oppen 133(26) D&D1
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:12:40 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:12:59 GMT -5
Roman Zodiac
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:13:14 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:13:31 GMT -5
One day, Poseidon sends a tsunami (cf. OA) against one of the Greek realms, from a current begun in his underwater castle. The survivors then suffer a sahuagin raid.
(Note: This is a synopsis of a forthcoming adventure, in the works!)
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:13:45 GMT -5
Quote:ὠθισμός, ὁ (ōthismos) —thrusting, pushing, of shield against shield —jostling, struggling, of combatants in a mêlée 
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:14:07 GMT -5
Asclepius (/æsˈkliːpiəs/; Greek: Ἀσκληπιός, Asklēpiós [asklɛːpiós]; Latin: Aesculapius) was a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology.  God of medicine, healing, rejuvenation, && physicians
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:14:25 GMT -5
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Post by El Borak on Mar 12, 2024 22:14:40 GMT -5
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