The [painting] depicts the birth of Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty. According to Greek mythology, she was born from the churning sea-foam -‘aphros’ in Greek- and became the lover of Poseidon, the subject of Aivazovsky’s 1894 masterpiece Poseidon’s Travel over the Sea. The drama unfolding in the present work is heightened by a very limited colour palette and a dramatic use of moonlight on the water. Different shades and intensities of blue contrast sharply with the bright moonlight, illuminating the figure of Aphrodite as she is drawn up by winged cupids.

Odysseus THINKS he’s winning but Achilles has been stealth eating the pieces when he and Ajax aren’t looking

[x]

Gold, garnet, and glass earrings with a dove standing on an altar, Hellenistic Greek, 150-100 BCE

THE MUMMY (1999) Dir. Stephen Sommers

the little iliad is a lost epic so i’m just going to assume this is what happened :)

Hildegard von Bingen’s 23 litterae ignotae, letters for her constructed mystical language Lingua Ignota. ca. 1200

“i’ve always preferred mythology to history. history is truth that becomes an illusion. mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.” ― jean cocteau

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

Antinous 12 Henrietta Street Dublin