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origin of my url
It’s a reference to Oscar Wilde’s Salome To be exact the extreme popularity of the Strauss opera adaptation and the subsequent dances inspired by it like maud Allen and Loie fuller Led to the media starting with the New Yorker in 1908 to dub this phenomenon salomania thus the origin of my url
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Orphic Persephone
"The daughter of Zeus, born of his mother Rhea who is also named Demeter, has two eyes in their natural place and two others in her forehead. In addition, she has the face of an animal on the back part of her neck, and horns as well. Hence Rhea, terrified at such a monster for a child, fled from her and withheld her breast [θηλη]. For this reason she is mystically called Athela [Ἀθηλᾶ] though more usually Persephone and Kore." ~ Athenagoras, Pro Christ. 20.2 (OF 82 II, 88 B = Orphic Fragment 58 Otto Kern)
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I literally haven't drawn in over a year, but of course exam season is a good time to pick it up again. It's really inspired by @eleeza artwork, and though the veil makes no fucking sense (I didn't like the shape it made when it draped over the horns) I'm ultimately quite happy with it.
Alternative lineart (I think I like it better).
herakles voice surely nothing bad could come of marrying a girl named man-destroyer
#Deianira (Δηϊάνειρα) as a post-event nickname (an 'nciuria if you will) and her real name lost to time is the theory I didn't know I needed#Can you have headcanons in Classics? I swear to the gods some scholars definitely do seem to have them @ashbakche
post-event names are actually (probably) incredibly common in Greek mythology! Herakles (glore-of-hera) may be another one, where the name wasn't attached to the hero until the story of his apotheosis and reconciliation with Hera emerged. There are even aetiologies given for Herakles, since an alternative name for him is Alcaeus or Alcides, after his grandfather. This name, funnily enough, means strong, which is, um, also very apt and therefore very suspect as his original name/label.
The same occurs for Priamus, whose name may have a Luwian origin ('most courageous') but was explained by a myth where it is connected to priamai, 'to buy'. His original name was supposedly Podarces, but his sister bought him back from Herakles after the first sack of Troy so he could rebuild the city as the last remaining royal heir.
meanwhile king Lycaon ('wolf') has that name even before he is turned into a wolf. Either Zeus had a spark of inspiration or it's another post-event name. And then the mountain the sanctuary the festival and whatnot is named after the dude's punishment, ouch.
Someone in the notes also mentioned Polynices (Polineikes), whose name means 'much strife/much conflict' and Pentheus (sorrow), and i think we can add Aeneas to it as well, who, despite surviving Troy, still has to endure awful sorrows. Aphrodite in the Hymn to Aphrodite explains her chosen name as bearing a child to a mortal being an awful grief to her, but this may be post-event name being retconned into having a pre-birth cause! And Achilles name actually derives from that same word for grief, meaning 'grief of the people'. I find this one especially interesting because it highlights the prioritization of one event in his life, his famous strike from the Iliad, which has nothing to do with his most famous characteristics, like being fast, invincible, or even just the best of the greeks. Not even his iconic birth, baptism, or death! It's incredibly post-event specific. (howeverrrr another reading if you ask me could be that the people in question are the Trojans and then it could pertain to Hector's death or the war in general. hmmmm. BUT then again the proem of the iliad also links him and his name so clearly to the demise of so. many. greeks. so idk)
this is a fun quirk of an organically developing mythology: the story becomes fixed sooner than the name of the figure does, so often the name reflects the most common characteristic or act of the figure.
Laurits Tuxen, 1853-1927
Salome, 1910, oil on canvas, 63x42 cm
Collection Unknown
Frans Francken the Younger, 1581-1642
The Banquet of Herod. Salome presents the head of John the Baptist, 1625, oil on wood, 50.5x65 cm
Statens Museum for Kuns Inv. KMS4457
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Sergej Sergeevic Solomko, 1867-1928
Portrait of Ida Rubinstein as Salome, dated 'Solomko [1]909 Paris, watercolour on paper, 12x10 cm
Private Collection
In 1908, Ida Rubinstein made her debut in a private production of Oscar Wilde's Salome, which she both organized and financed. With minimal formal ballet training, she collaborated with Mikhail Fokine, who choreographed the Dance of the Seven Veils. Originally planned for the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg as a charity event for the Russian Theatrical Society, the production, with music by Alexander Glazuno, was directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold, and the designs were created by Leon Bakst. However, the production was banned by the censors. A single private performance did take place, in which Rubinstein famously stripped nude during the Dance of the Seven Veils, provoking both scandal and fascination. Salome was performed without linguistic articulation, using only mimic language, as the Russian Orthodox Church had prohibited staging Wilde’s text. The script was distributed to the audience in advance. A staging of the dance took place on 20 December (2 January 1909) at the Theatre of the Conservatoire. (Invaluable)
Bela Čikoš Sesija, 1864-1931
Salome, 1919. oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts in Osijek, Inv. GLUO 002
Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898
Salome in the Garden, 1878, watercolor, 72x43cm
Private Collection
Edward Okuń, 1872-1945
Salome, before 1928, oil on cardboard, 52x25 cm
Private Collection
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Symbolist French School, 19th Century
Salome kissing the head of John the Baptist, ca.1870, white marble, 50.5x30 cm
Private Collection
The iconography of this biblical tale was immensely popular from the Middle Ages right up to the nineteenth century. Artists have generally focused on two episodes: either Salome’s sensual dance in the presence of Herod Antipas, or a frontal portrayal of her holding the decapitated head on a plate.
Perfectly fitting the archetype of the seductive and dangerous woman, fashionable in the second half of the 19th century, Salome was very frequently depicted in particular by the Symbolist artists. One of the most famous examples is The Apparition, by the painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898, Musée G. Moreau, inv.222) which shows the princess in all her power, pointing at the hovering head of her victim, in a mystical and suggestive setting. (Sotheby's)
Marcel Delmotte, 1901-1984
Salome, 1984, oil on canvas, 270x160 cm
Private Collection
Maurycy Gottlieb, 1856-1879
Salome with the head of St. John the Baptist, ca.1877/78, oil on panel, 27.5x17.5 cm
National Museum in Warsaw, Inv. MP 2298 (20503)
Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1859-1937
Salome, ca.1900, oil on canvas, 116.5 x 89.4 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Inv. 1983.95.207A
Salome stands out from Henry Ossawa Tanner’s other religious images, which are more conservative than this provocative painting. Salome’s demand for the head of John the Baptist is one of the most lurid stories in the Bible. She dances for her stepfather, who rewards her beauty by giving her the prophet’s head on a platter. Here, Tanner presented Salome in a revealing gown, emphasizing her sensuality. The yellow shape in the lower left of the image, marked with red paint, suggests the corpse of John the Baptist. (Smithsonian Museum)
drowning by numbers (peter greenaway, 1988)
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Fortunino Matania, 1881-1963
Salome, n/d, watercolour, 33x50 cm
Private Collection
Vera Willoughby, 1870-1939
Salome, 1922
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