#alcaeus

[ithaca-my-beloved]

I feel like Sappho is probably going to come out on top here but I'm curious what everyone's Poetry Hot Takes are

#poetry #lyric poetry #classics #tagamemnon #alcman #sappho #alcaeus #anacreon #stesichorus #ibycus #simonides #baccylides #pindar #greek poetry #poll

[pazzesco]

🎨Alma-Tadema 🎨

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Roses of Heliogabalus - 1888

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Finding of Moses, 1904

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Three Graces

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Women of Amphissa, 1887

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Spring - 1894

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Unconscious Rivals - 1893

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Education of the Children of Clovis - 1861

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Sappho and Alcaeus -1881 [depicts Sappho and her companions listening as the poet Alcaeus of Mytilene plays a kithara]

#art #paintings #sir lawrence alma-tadema #lawrence alma tadema #alma tadema #sappho #alcaeus #spring #amphissa #the roses of heliogabalus #moses

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch-British, 1836 - 1912) Sappho and Alcaeus 1881

#Sappho and Alcaeus #Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema #dutch #british #caucasians #sappho #alcaeus #art #fine art #fine arts #europa #western civilization #european art #oil painting #rome #greece #roman #greek

[sunbleachedfliezz]

Alcaeus the greatest voice of our generation

#your enemy dies?drink.what makes man honest?wine.are you worried?drink.is it cold?drink.is it late?drink.why are you happy?you're drinking #x #alcaeus #greek poetry #ancient poetry #tagamemnon

[spiritsdancinginthenight]

Sappho and Alcaeus (detail), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1881.

#sir lawrence alma tadema #art #sappho and alcaeus #sappho #alcaeus #19th century

[literalliterature]

Do you blame yourself?

I've been wanting an excuse to make a video with this audio for so long and last D&D session I finally got it. Long story short my girl got Banishment cast of her and went to Hades (twice!), and her friend was gone by the time she came back. I made this to hurt my fellow players. :)

Audio is originally from "Lucids: Part 3"

[Video description: A grayscale storyboard featuring a young woman and a disembodied voice. The woman, Keet, is stocky with freckles, wavy hair pulled back, and a capelet of fur worm over her dress. The setting is Hades, rendered as a dark cave system with a river running through it. The first shots show images of the river, first from above as it winds into darkness and then up close to show the flowing water. There is then a quick, half-second cut to a white, horned face against a black background, with a garbled voice saying, "Oliver?" Keet's eyes fly open as she gasps, and she stares ahead in shock. The voice, now clearer, returns and asks, "Do you blame yourself?" Keet turns toward the sound but sees no one and responds in confusion, "What?" "Well, it's quite common in this situation for a patient to feel a kind of...guilt," answers the voice. She replies, "What situation?" just as the gloomy environs begin to dissolve around her, causing the lighting to change. She squints at the sudden bright light, then looks ahead in surprise that turns to horror. "The accident," the voice replies as the video lingers on the final shot of a man face-down in a puddle of black liquid. End description.]

#dungeons and dragons #d&d #hades #the accident #captioned #greek mythology #greek myth #storyboard #animation #accessible #dnd #dungos & drangies #keet #alcaeus #polished locks on ancient doors

[deathlessathanasia]

It is implied on theoi.com that Hera was involved with "the mid-wifery of the Kharites and the nursing of the Horai" according to Alkaios (it is listed among other sources where Hera is or could be mother of the Charites), but does anyone know if he actually said that? All I've been able to find is this: "But since this literary form is found among the ancients, and some ere this have sung of the birth of Dionysus and others of the birth of Apollo, and Alcaeus of that of Hephaestus also and again of that of Hermes, I have made it a separate class…. The form is useful only to the poet, never to the prose-writer; for the one deals with the midwifery of the Graces and the nursing of the Seasons and the like, whereas the other will of necessity express himself as briefly as possible." (Menander, Declamations [on genealogic hymns). No mention of Hera here.

I'm aware that Hera is on rare occasion called mother of the Charites in later sources, the Horai were apparently her nurses according to Olen, both the Horai and the Charites were depicted on the crown of her famous Argive statue, her name and the word ὥρα might be etymologically linked, statues of the Horai were placed next to the statue of Hera in the Heraion at Olympia, and the Horai can appear as her handmaidens. So the connection between them definitely exists, but does Alkaios actually mention it or is theoi misleading me? That's what I'd like to know.

#hera #horai #horae #charites #graces #greek mythology #alcaeus #theoi #ramblings

[rjdent]

Title: Poems & Fragments

Author: Alcaeus

Translator: R J Dent

Publisher: Circaidy Gregory Press

Formats: Paperback and ebook

ISBN (paperback): 978-1-906451-53-0

ISBN (ebook): 978-1-906451-54-7

Language: English

Pages: 112

Dimensions: ‎ 14.8 x 0.8 x 21 cm

Book details:

#Alcaeus #Poms and Fragments #ancient Greek poetry #Lesbian poetry #Alcaeus in English #R J Dent #www.rjdent.com

[enchantedliving]

The Eternal Wisdom of Sappho

BY KIRSTY STONELL WALKER

According to the Ancient Greek poet Alcaeus of Mytilene, “No man sings like a Lesbian singer.” A very progressive statement for 600 B.C., but he was actually speaking of the magic and beauty of the lyric poets of the island of Lesbos and, more particularly, of his contemporary Sappho. Possibly the most heralded singer-songwriter of pre-Christian times, Sappho is mainly remembered today for her love of the ladies, as so little of her poetry survives. Yet for a woman who literally gave her name to a euphemism for female gayness, she wrote an awful lot of lust poems about men as well and even apparently threw herself off a cliff because a man didn’t love her. All this complication leads me to Sappho’s unexpected heyday, the 19th century, where this magical Greek poet by necessity became all these things and more.

Let’s start with who Sappho was. As someone who lived around six hundred years before Christ, she didn’t leave a lot of personal information, but we know that she wrote lyric poetry that was intended to be sung with accompanying music and that her work was so popular that she was christened the “Tenth Muse.” Much of what we know about Sappho is inferred from her poems, as the earliest biography of her wasn’t written until nearly 800 years after her death. Most of her poetry is now lost, however, with only fragments....

CONTINUE READING

#Alcaeus of Mytilene #greek #poet #poem #Lesbian #saphho #writing #lust #romanic #singer songwriter #ancient greek

[ycungmagick]

@stellarhistoria​ asked: [ Alcaeus ] "I have the power of a dollar store God and a 90s brand anime you've only heard of and never seen on my side."

“Well, it’s still the powers of a god, nonetheless. And, Claudius always said those more obscure anime do have more powers than the mainstream ones.”

#Alcaeus tag pending #stellarhistoria #V: Main #;;answered asks

[stellarhistoria]

aeug anyway i have feeling s again after crying for the second night in a row about the cytos kids and why they're so adamant on being selfishly selfless.

#ariel ''this is my family. my home. mine; mine; mine; and i will stop this war if it meant i keep them'' ashwind #zack ''people can be cruel. that doesn't mean i must be as well'' cytos #alcaeus ''there is so much good in this world and i will pluck it from the ground to preserve it for you'' mallas #luka ''hit me berate me i will care i will always care. your heart beats and if no one else does- i will care'' cytos #aryin ''even if fairytales dont exist. that doesnt mean we cant write a fate of our own design'' cytos #important. #♡. mordred mumbles ⁄ ⁄ right hand to the king .

[sunbleachedfliezz]

i dont wanna study anymoreeee fuck this shit

#pray for me if you believe in something or just send some good luck my way god knows i don't deserve it but anyways #i literally like this stuff. it's sappho and alcaeus and other poets. it's beautiful stuff. why are my braincells so fried #x

[the-poke-nebula]

“Those unapologetic for their crimes against the world deserve to burn.”

#(Alcaeus is trying to be edge here and I can't stop him) #The Wicked Alchemist (Alcaeus) #Wild Area (Open Starter)

[literalliterature]

Do you blame yourself?

Another YT upload :3 I'm just starting out there, so every view/like/comment helps

[Video description: A grayscale storyboard featuring a young woman and a disembodied voice. The woman, Keet, is stocky with freckles, wavy hair pulled back, and a capelet of fur worm over her dress. The setting is Hades, rendered as a dark cave system with a river running through it. The first shots show images of the river, first from above as it winds into darkness and then up close to show the flowing water. There is then a quick, half-second cut to a white, horned face against a black background, with a garbled voice saying, "Oliver?" Keet's eyes fly open as she gasps, and she stares ahead in shock. The voice, now clearer, returns and asks, "Do you blame yourself?" Keet turns toward the sound but sees no one and responds in confusion, "What?" "Well, it's quite common in this situation for a patient to feel a kind of...guilt," answers the voice. She replies, "What situation?" just as the gloomy environs begin to dissolve around her, causing the lighting to change. She squints at the sudden bright light, then looks ahead in surprise that turns to horror. "The accident," the voice replies as the video lingers on the final shot of a man face-down in a puddle of black liquid. End description.]

#dungeons and dragons #d&d #the accident #storyboard #captioned #greek mythology #greek myth #animation #hades #accessible #dnd #dungos & drangies #keet #alcaeus #polished locks on ancient doors

[coeurdelapin]

when stesichorus said

“no it’s not the true story.

no you never went on the benched ships.

no you never came to the towers of troy.”

about helen of troy i felt that in my spirit

#lapinreads #stesichorus & sappho & alcaeus all yelling 'boo we hate your pussy' @ helen of troy is sending me #also i love anne carson

[rjdent]

Books written by, translated by or contributed to by R J Dent...

#www.rjdent.com #Sade #Baudelaire #Maldoror #Myth #Flowers of Evil #The Blood Delirium #Soluble Fish #Capital of Pain #Pierre Louys #Andre Breton #Lautreamont #Aragon #Alcaeus #Paul Eluard