This love will undo us all

-CLASSICAL ART RESEARCH CENTRE University of OxfordMenu220523, ATHENIAN, Berlin, Antikensammlung, Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, F2705

CAVI Subject: ADONIS: YOUTH SITTING ON A CHAIR AND BEING KISSED BY EROS; AT LEFT, WOMAN WITH A TRAY OF FOOD; AT RIGHT, WOMAN WITH A BIRD AND A LYRE.

Laughter loving Aphrodite

Oskar Begas - The Judgement of Paris - 1878

Oskar Begas (31 July 1828, Berlin - 10 November 1883, Berlin) was a German portrait and history painter.

The Judgement of Paris is a story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War and (in slightly later versions of the story) to the foundation of Rome.

The Béarn Apollo

Apollo as an ephebe, once in the collection of Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague, comtesse de Béarn. Bronze statuette from Lousoi in Arcadia. Height: 12.3 cm. Votive offering to Artemis with an inscription in large, Arcadian characters that runs across the entire reverse side: τυς Αρταμιτος αποβωμιον τας Ήμερας.

The Apollo was dedicated at the sanctuary of his sister Artemis in Lousoi in Arcadia, referred to in the inscription as 'Himera'— Artemis the gentle, or the soother, or the appeaser. According to the aetiological legend, she is said to have received this name after the seer Melampus cured the daughters of Proetus, who had been seized by Dionysian madness there.

This figure is in the late Severe style, created in 460–450 BC in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Apollo is slender, very long-legged, with a long torso and a short, broad chest. The rib margin arches out and the hips are tucked in, so that the flank grooves are distinctly marked; the abdomen and the powerful hip muscles protrude slightly. The head, with the fine arched framework of the forehead and cheek hair, is turned slightly to the right. The right hand probably held a laurel branch, while the left holds the (now distorted) bow. The hairstyle is a medium-length cut, unusual for Apollo in this period and perhaps adapted to local fashion.

Line of Aphrodite and Helen of Sparta

i really don't have the words for how things have escalated to outright race riots in the last few weeks. just to collect a few of the stories the bbc is reporting in their live thread:

Families led to safety through flames (Dan Johnson) Homes were targeted and burned. Families had to be led to safety through the flames - rescued by emergency services risking their lives in the most dangerous situation. It’s what the authorities feared all day. What they warned against and pleaded not to see. The condemnation came quickly and was widespread. It wasn’t just homes, cars were also torched by young masked man in these predominantly unionist streets but the target here was immigrants and the message to entirely innocent families was: "You’re not welcome". In the north of the city, more people were forced to flee including an African family who’ve lived here for 20 years.

People being put out 'because they're black' - pastor A pastor who has been helping those in houses targeted in tonight's violence says people were being put out of their homes "because they're black". Pastor Jack McKee was at the scene where multiple houses were on fire around the Crumlin Road in north Belfast - he says some members of his church "who have been with us for 20 years" were "getting put out of their home, had their house attacked, windows smashed, houses beside them burned". "They're good Christian people and they're getting put out just because they're black," he says. "I'm doing my best to help them, it's as simple as that." [...]

Masked men shouting 'foreigners out' (Kelly Bonner) Last night on the Lower Newtownards Road in Belfast hundreds of masked men walked down the street carrying bottles, bricks and masonry. They set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out". As they walked street to street, they were banging on doors, kicking doors down and breaking windows. Masked man set cars alight and at one point I witnessed them trying to burn a car until a woman came out of her home and told them it belonged to a "local and not a foreigner" and they stopped. A young family had to be moved from their home by police. The scenes of this young family fleeing their home were really quite shocking.

It's a still from a super artsy 1995 claymation short.

More info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164317/