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Minoan, Any member of a non-Indo-European people who flourished (c. 3000–c. 1100 BC) on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age. The sea was the basis of their economy and power. Their sophisticated culture, based at Knossos, was named for the legendary King Minos. It represented the first high civilization in the Aegean area.

Around 500 BCE, Greece

Un problema assai dibattuto è quello relativo al nome della divinità onorata nel santuario. Infatti, se il soggetto dei frontoni fa chiaro riferimento ad Atena, la grande iscrizione, trovata presso il santuario dal Furtwängler, ricorda la erezione di un òikos di Aphaia. Altre iscrizioni, incise sulla roccia, fanno pure menzione di Aphaia. È molto probabile che il tempio sia stato eretto ad Atena, ma che la popolazione abbia continuato a dare alla dea il nome dell'antica divinità indigena. Voce Egina nell’Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica

The Souls on the Banks of the Acheron by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1898)

not a work of dialogic reflections on what we share, culturally & as humans - the blood, the hope, the desire, the fear, the longing that tie us together, penned by one of the most respected authors in recent Italian history

Terracotta statuette, depicting Aphrodite crowning a herm of Dionysus.  Artist unknown; ca. 150-100 BCE.  Found at Myrina; now in the British Museum.  Photo credit:  © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.

it's funny

Hera and her attendants - Herbert Olivier (detail)

The way Albert Joseph Moore paints people just vibing together ♡

pompei freskleri, m.s. 1. yüzyıl.

Gold hoop earring with Erotes riding doves, 3rd century BC / Marble pilaster with lancet-shaped leaves, fruits and roses, Roman, 5-15 AD / Glass pomegranate, Egypt or Cyprus, 1400-1295 BC / Myrtle spray, gold sheet over bronze, Greek, 400-350 BC / Rose quartz & serpentine flower, China / Woman’s parure, Taiz, Yemen / Dancing Maenad, Pompeii, 1st century BC-79 AD / The Apparition by James Tissot, 1885 / Marble sculpture with grape vines, likely Roman

‘The Tambourine Girl’ by Gaetano de Martini / Statue of Ariadne, Etruscan, 3rd Centry BCE, Fresco of a bird from Pompeii, Roman / ‘Lucretia’ by Rembrandt van Rijn / ‘True Beauty’ by Serge Marshennikov / Three hundred gold coins recently found in Como, Roman, 4th Century AD / Terracotta statue of Nike, Greek, Late 5th Century BCE / Terracotta relief plaque, Roman, Early 1st Century AD / ‘Still Life’ by Giuseppe Vicenzino

Circe by Edmund Dulac