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roseblack12 · 18 days
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Rip helen and Menelaus, you would have loved medical marijuana
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hauntedbystorytelling · 11 months
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Ida Rubinstein par Otto Wegener
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Otto Wegener ~ Ida Rubinstein en Cléopâtre. Paris, 1909 | Drouot & DaguerreGrande épreuve agentique d’exposition avec nombreuses retouches à la gouache par l’artiste au niveau du visage, des yeux et des cheveux.
In 1909 Serge Diaghilev engages Ida Rubinstein in the Ballets Russes for the title role of Cleopatra, at the opera Garnier. The interpretation is…
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Otto Wegener ~ Ida Rubinstein, La Pisanelle ou la Mort Parfumée, 1912. | Drouot & Daguerre Grande épreuve argentique d’exposition sur papier mat montée sur carton gris, signature au crayon “Otto Paris”
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dootznbootz · 4 months
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It saddens me that Helen of SPARTA is mostly known as Helen of TROY. As if she wasn't born, raised, and most likely, died in Sparta. Yes, she was of TROY for a while...But she was able to go back home to where she WANTED TO BE.
(Edit: Hating on Menelaus is illegal)
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adhdchilles · 4 months
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boss is asleep. currently on a quest to steal some wine
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stop reblogging this i'm gonna get caught you fuckers
#/srs
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hahaha it would be so funny if i got so deathly drunk my hot doctor boyfriend had to escort me to the infirmary and pin me down so i dont end up stabbing someone and holding me by the hair to force my chin up and make me drink medicine hahahahaha
#please #pleaseee #i am so gay rn
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🚬 menelaghh Follow
i miss my wife
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🦢 helen Follow
currently having the time of my life. everything is great. except my new husband. i hope he dies
#captive princess life
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never thought id have to say this but please do not try to make homemade wine with random shit you find on the woods ?? a guy just died
#psa #medicine
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guys im gonna be honest the worst thing to ever happen in my life was my brother coming back
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:((
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you are literally on my DNI. this is your fifth account. please go away
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why are all the animals coughing to death?
#is this normal #vets of tumblr answer me
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these trojans ain't shit 😂😂😂 we'll be winning this easy fr
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girl help it's been ten years
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👁 cassssandra Follow
being haunted by visions can be very fun actually
#therapist told me to be positive #trying
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🐭 parisbutitsnotfrance Follow
hello
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stop telling me to kill myself???
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i hope you nerds name men on men attraction after me when i die
#if this doesnt happen then what is the point
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mikeybooch · 6 months
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I've been reading Emily Wilson's translation of The Iliad and I'm about to make it everyone's problem.
Not enough people appreciate that Athena pulls Achilles hair to stop him from attacking Agamemnon. I'd like to think, had they been invented, she would have used a spray bottle.
Also, I know that my illustration of the Athena and Achilles scene is more generically classically inspired, and the Aphrodite and Helen illustration uses Bronze Age aesthetics. They're not meant to exist sequentially, I'm just vibin'.
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littlesparklight · 2 months
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You stand above your brother in his bed, occupied now by more than just pillows and blankets, for the woman at his back is fair and terrifying, even in sleep. You look between them, and you stand above your brother and think -
Is it too late to kill him now?
There are no ships on the horizon - yet - and if you present a body along with the stolen wife when the husband turns up, will that break the omen your mother dreamed?
Is it too late to kill him now?
You drop your hand down - perhaps to close around his throat, another already clutching one of those many, many pillows, and in the dark it'd be easy, wouldn't it? All you do is caress his cheek, your fingers digging stiffly into the pillow. He exhales, a tender shallow ease of breath, and there is this little smile on his lips.
You stand above your brother in his bed, there are ships on the shore, and you have cursed him for a plague, a bane, a cruelty raised by the Olympian to bring your house down, and -
it's too late to kill him now.
It'd be easy to do it, however. You carry a dagger at your belt even now, having left your own bed. Or you could perhaps stir up one of your other brothers, the city, some of your father's council. The baby was almost killed once, after all; what would it matter if it was realized now? Kin-blood believed to have been spilled is surely no less polluting than it being done in reality. The attempt might only have been in the handing over of a fragile infant into another's hands, handed over into the bosom of a mountain, wild and no place for such a tender little being.
But the mountain had been merciful, and nurtured instead of torn asunder, and now you're standing above your brother in his bed.
It's too late to kill him now, but would anyone blame you, blame anyone at all they might suspect, as much as they hate him, a hatred unsaid? Simmering. You don't know how he walks through the palace, the city, his life and not cower from the knowledge; he can't not know.
Your brother - pretty, soft, laughing, shining - doomed and dooming all of you from the start. What does an infant know of causing death? Your father tried to kill an innocent. Some of your brothers attempted it next, an innocent only wishing to reclaim what he thought belonged to him and them not knowing who the slave they felt so insulted by was.
Perhaps it's only fair he will kill you all, merely by existing, by batting those ridiculous lashes to lure the woman still sleeping at his back out of her home, her marriage, her life, and into yours.
You stand above your brother in his bed, and brush your knuckles down his cheek.
It's too late to kill him now, and no matter that you've cursed him and wished him dead - to his face, to your parents' faces, but never to anyone else's - with every angry word to spit at him there's always this echo of the wide, wide eyes, the trembling hand in yours as you help him up from kneeling next to the altar in your head.
Your little brother, that you failed to protect when he was born. And what are you if you don't protect? It's too late to kill him now, anyway. Was always too late.
You meet the gleaming whites of Helen's gaze in the darkness, watching her smooth her grip on your brother's arm into a stroke. Both of you can feel the relief staining the air as you turn away, pretending like she wasn't ready to help you.
You leave your brother in his bed.
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gigizetz · 3 months
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Helen of Troy
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aphemera · 14 days
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everyone’s reaction to the kate middleton disappearance is exactly how i imagined the people of sparta reacting to helen’s kidnapping
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medusaspeach · 6 months
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Classicstober Day 14: Helen 🌹
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“We need more complex female characters!”
None of you could even handle Helen of Sparta. And she’s been around for a long time, yet she’s still misunderstood.
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mothmanismymainman · 1 year
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the iliad as those bird memes (sorry for weird formatting at the end)
achilles:
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patroclus:
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helen:
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diomedes:
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hector:
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odysseus:
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andromache:
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calchas:
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paris:
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bonus! clytemnestra:
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roseblack12 · 1 month
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,,Can you feel the love tonight,, but it's Menelaus and Helene
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secretceremonials · 1 year
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- cassandra and helen- evelyn de morgan x the new barbie selfie maker
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apollosgiftofprophecy · 2 months
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Something I found out is that Hyacinthus, Helen, and Penelope are all Spartan royalty.
And they are all said to be absolutely stunning.
hmmm.....
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ladytrist · 3 months
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History of Man by Maisie Peters
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dootznbootz · 4 months
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I currently have writer's block and fucked around and made Iliad and Odyssey memes :'D Some look like "repeats" but aren't. Just different scenarios/people. Enjoy!
There's... A LOT. I don't care if you pick out your favorites! I put this all in one post as I don't want to spam the tags! :D
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