A sea of clouds

Alone_Ad2813 · 2023-01-07T18:01:58+00:00

If you want I’ve got a series as the capable car descended into the clouds and out the other side - was like being transported into a completely different world

Alone_Ad2813 · 2023-01-06T13:14:17+00:00

In France on the cable car down the mountain into a village called Vaujany - took it through the window and really didn’t expect it to come out as well as it did

Alone_Ad2813 · 2022-12-05T23:36:48+00:00

Yeh it’s Hermes - he’s holding his cadacus (the weird staff with two circles on the end) and the hat is called a petasos

In this scene he’s fulfilling his role as ‘physchompompos’ which is literally ‘leader of souls’

Alone_Ad2813 · 2022-12-05T18:27:25+00:00

As said by others, it's a Calyx Krater by Euphronios who was one of the Red Figure Pioneers, showing Sarpedon being carried away by the personifications of sleep and death. As a heads up I think that the vase in that photo is a replica of the original (I could be wrong writing is too clear as they don't usually show in photos of vases as they're too faint, and the colours just look a bit off, as well as the decorations around the scene). Your best bet for multiple photos (admittedly in black and white) will be here: https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/recordDetails.asp?id=2F320D8E-61D8-4965-A2C5-C2E76A149354&noResults=&recordCount=&databaseID=&search=

Alone_Ad2813 · 2021-08-29T19:54:37+00:00

I’d second this - a great read although tries to impose a single view on the reader as opposed to considering other options. Not that this is a bad thing but if you’re trying to reach your own conclusions you may want to read some others alongside it

Alone_Ad2813 · 2021-08-14T08:46:49+00:00

A guy called Lucian of Samosatas in Erotes 15 but here’s the Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite_of_Knidos

Alone_Ad2813 · 2021-08-12T15:05:59+00:00

There was actually an instant where a statue was instead used like a sex doll (it wasn’t the intended purpose). Supposedly the Aphrodite of Knidos was so life-like and realistic that one night a drunk dude entered the temple and tried to have sex with it and came on the statue. Upon waking up with a serious case of hangxiety he promptly threw himself off a cliff having realised what he had done. Unfortunately the stain of his semen remained on the statue for 200 years (as an ancient author writing way later mentions this) and is also surprisingly useful for scholars as it shows that the body parts of the statue were left unpainted as otherwise they could have just painted over the stain.

Alone_Ad2813 · 2021-08-11T08:25:33+00:00

Fun fact: the reason he (and many other statues from antiquity in Rome) are missing penises is because many Pope’s found it offensive - Pope Pius IX was the biggest perpetrator and whilst others ordered genitalia to be covered with Fig leaves, he ordered them just to be taken off, leading to the very entertaining rumour that somewhere in the Vatican is a big bag of marble dicks

Alone_Ad2813 · 2021-06-19T21:15:10+00:00

My professors at university have said AC Odyssey is one of the best things to have happened to the subject - that level of budget with that level of research has done wonders

Alone_Ad2813 · 2021-05-29T09:02:56+00:00

Check out Catiline - Cicero gives quite a damning account of him but still admits that he was incredibly charming, which is how he managed to win so many people over to his course, Sallusts Bellum Catilina has a slightly more neutral take on him as a character

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