coroebus confronts apollo, adapted from statius’ thebaid, book I, lines 557-666

the thebaid honestly lives in my head rent free. anyway! some highlights from a book I was reading that made me want to run into a forest!

Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban

Bronzino c. 1548-1550

Alkyoneus the Giant Killed by Athena

Detail from the Pergamon Altar's frieze (The frieze depicts the Gigantomachy); built in 2nd century BCE; Today in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

The Pergamon Altar (Ancient Greek: Βωμός τῆς Περγάμου) is a monumental construction built during the reign of king Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Asia Minor.

The Evermore Grimoire: Mythology

The Norns were female beings who ruled the destiny of gods and men in Norse mythology. It was believed that they also decided the destinies of giants, and dwarfs, and were responsible for the fates of every individual human being. Their names were Urd, Verdandi and Skuld. They dwelled within the Well of Urd beneath Yggdrasil, the great ash tree that stood at the centre of the universe and held the Nine Worlds in its branches and roots. They shaped destiny by carving runes into the trunk of the tree, or, in some sagas and poems, by weaving destiny like a web or tapestry. Their counterparts are the Morai from Greek mythology.

“Banquet”, wall painting from Pompeii.

Epigraphic Collection - Naples, Archaeological Museum, Italy.

Antinous as Vertumnus

Cupid & Psyche

"Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori."

Polyhymnia

Muse of sacred poetry, dance, and eloquence. 2nd century AD.