beliefs and myths from ancient times

Private Collection

Euripides [trans. Anne Carson] from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides; Herakles. (via kehrouac)

Earrings with Nike, Greek, about 225-175 BC, gold and glass. The J. Paul Getty Museum.

Ancient Roman gold ring with a glass intaglio engraved with an image of Venus Victrix leaning on a column, dated to the 2nd to 3rd centuries CE. Source: Medusa Ancient Art. 

Pair of Hellenistic Greek gold, glass, and stone earrings featuring an Egyptian Atef crown motif, c. 3rd-2nd centuries BCE. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Silver locket with Cupid and the inscription ‘Noe Heart More True Than Mine To You’. Made in England, 1690-1700. (source).

Ancient roman amphoras, Pompeii, Italy

sculpture by Haig Patigian

Dionysos prayer, for winedarkrage // r.s.b. (via falanx)

Trans and nonbinary laurel wreaths

Athena and Poseidon contesting the position of patron god of Athens

/ on the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis, Athens-(?)1903 /

— Hesiod, Theogony 96-7. (via terpsikeraunos)

Ancient Greek wreath of golden oak leaves, dated to the 2nd to 1st centuries BCE. Source: civilization.ca.

Ancient Greek roundel with the god Apollon, dated to the Hellenistic period, and more specifically to 150-100 BCE. Currently located in the MFA Boston, the museum stated that this roundel would have been an ornament on a horse’s bridle.

Temple of Athena Nike | Kari L. Nelson