Sapientia mea tam spreta quam chaos est.

Satan Summoning His Legions, Thomas Stothard, c. 1790.

MYTHOLOGY MEME: [/4] Titans: Mnemosyne

As a Titan daughter of Ouranos (Heaven), Mnemosyne was also a goddess of time. She represented the rote memorisation required, before the introduction of writing, to preserve the stories of history and sagas of myth. In this role she was represented as the mother of the Mousai (Muses), originally patron goddesses of the poets of the oral tradition.

Etruscan Bronze Figure of a Horse Standing Upon an Integral Plinth. Late Archaic, Late 6th/Early 5th century B.C.E. Most probably from Vulci

René Lalique (identified via: cinematheque.fr)

Athena, Herakles, and Atlas with the apples of the Hesperides, metope from the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece, ca. 470-456 B.C. Marble, approx. 5’ 3” high. Archeological Museum, Olympia.

Tadema Gallery

David Roberts (1796-1864) - Petra’s Treasury, Jordan. 1839.

Illustration from an Ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll Book of the Dead

Ut intellegas quantum vivo me mihi misero interdum scelus sit; noscere milites mortuos qui probius me vixissent atque iuvenes qui mortem medicamine sibi consciverunt nec impediebantur; ego iam impedire hos si velint; scire quo tempore mors omnibus quaerenda sit, sicut aegri somnum vel ad asperrimas poenas damnati secuti feriri quam exinterari malvolunt; scire quae fecerim ut sim dignus beata vita volo.

Photos: cc https://www.flickr.com/photos/notmydayjobphotography/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en

Martin Ålund (Swedish, b. 1967), Chemistry 1 : 9, 2013. Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm.

michael_hamburg69 - Nuremberg cemetery (2014). Detail.

Fallen angels arriving at Pandemonium, by John Martin

mythology alphabet: t - tartarus [(Greek: Τάρταρος)], in ancient Greek mythology, is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans. As far below Hades as the earth is below the heavens, Tartarus is the place where souls were judged after death and where the wicked received punishment.

Essentially, it looks for all the world like an outdoors gathering of 19th-century classical enthusiasts: intellectual, probably, but hardly mythical.

Time is the devourer of things. (via latinavivit)