Stand On The Axe Blade Of Light And Dark

This Etruscan mirror of Athena and Ajax is amazing because it’s a uniquely Etruscan conception of the myth where Athena literally urges Ajax to commit suicide rather than simply driving him mad. Today I got to see it in person at the Boston Museum Of Fine Art!

Rose O'Neill knew what was up

everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one

“τέτλαθι δή, κραδίη: καὶ κύντερον ἄλλο ποτ᾽ ἔτλης.”

— Homer, Odyssey 20:18 “Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this.” “Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this” (via antiquedroman)

The Judgement of Paris, Frontispiece from Padraic Colum’s The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy by Willy Pogany (1918)

love this vase art of achilles by the achilles painter because it's got it all. the gorgoneion. the cunty little hand on the hip with the half-lidded eyes expression. the sheer fabric tunic with fancy draping and visible dick and balls. incredible work all around

Sketch while we're waiting. I enjoy mounted charges more than I enjoy most things. :`)

homophrosyne

Gaston de Latenay, Nausikaa scans by Book Graphics blogspot/2014

i WISH more people knew about age of bronze, it's literally the 'historically accurate' comprehensive and GAY adaptation of the trojan war all the accuracy warriors are clamoring for

it's a comic series written and drawn entirely by Eric Shanower, started in 1998 with those exact parameters

historically situated in the Mycenaean/Hittite cultures

drawing from nearly every text on the war from Homer to Shakespeare

explicit about the possibility that achilles+patroclus may have been meant as lovers. Shanower is gay himself, and found it important to depict them as such all the way back in 1998.

it can be read here in part or here completely (🏴‍☠️), but i also highly recommend supporting the artist, since this is a multi-decade passion project.