sorry for not being normal about ancient poetry. it will happen again btw
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I bring a bacchic revelry sort of vibe to thebes that pentheus doesn't really like
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The Kimbolton coin hoard, a collection of 68 Celtic coins made from a gold-copper-silver alloy. Uncovered by a metal detectorist near Kimbolton, England in 2010. Dates to around 100 BC - 40 AD.
from The St. Neots Museum
Source: stneotsmuseum.org.uk
Funerary stele of Paramythion and Pheidiades, Athens (Greece), ca. 380/70 BC.
From left to right: 1) how it has been conserved nowadays, 2) the stele as seen in UV fluorescence, and 3) an experimental color reconstruction of how it would have looked like in antiquity.
Source: Gods in Colour: Polychromy in Antiquity online exhibit by Liebieghaus - Skulpturen Sammlung museum in Frankfurt (Germany).
i know the development of the contrapposto was an important turning point in the history of greek art and i agree it's sexy as hell but there's something about a kouros that really speaks to me. i love me a classical statue but a kouros is just so cunty. the stiff posture, the archaic smile. and that one little foot forward? girl you shouldn't have.
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~ Pair of Architectural Reliefs with Elephants.
Date: A.D. 80–100
Culture: Roman
Place of origin: Western Roman Empire
Medium: Italian marble
Alexander the Great was a thot
cryptomaster-leviathan
is*
–Is Alexander the king alive? –He lives, still rules, and
fucks
haunted by the edwin smith papyrus description of the treatment for what was likely breast cancer. it makes me want to find the original author and show them how far we've come.
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Egyptian Statue of a deified individual covered with magic spells and deities. Date: c. c. 672-342 BC.
may his pussy haunt the narrative forever
reading an article about latin nouns that changed from neuter to masculine/feminine and it's really interesting but it also means that i now know of an instance of a masculine version of the latin word for wine (vinus) which would have been pronounced "weenus"
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~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.
Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region
Period: Ilama Period
Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100
Medium: Ceramics
Source: collections.lacma.org
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i don't "dissociate" i'm just practicing separating my soul from my body so i'm ready for death. like any good philosopher should
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you can't stop me from filibustering or throw rocks at me im literally a 40 years old minor