My interpretations of Ares and Aphrodite recovering after the war.

FINALLY finished this only took me like forever.. but hey I can finally post something again !!

Lord Hermes is a god that's been really present in my life lately, which I'm extremely grateful for. He's been showing up around me and one of my now best friends has a really deep relationship with him , and I can't help but think he had his hands in it somehow <3 .

So I thought it's only fair to show my gratitude in the only way I can really do, by drawing something for him :3 I hope he likes it , you guys too of course!!

I also used this drawing as an opportunity to study Jean-Jacques Lagrenée 's painting titled " Mercury, Bearer of Abundance on Earth " :3

( divider made by @/sister-lucifer <3 )

I turn to Ares.

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I like to think about Andromache thriving once she was free from Neoptolemus and that she had a great rest of her life. Carrying all her immense grief but still being strong enough to keep going until old age, having new kids (and then grandkids?) to take care of and people to love and live with.

I like to think that she and Helenos, who marries her in the version I know, soothe and support each other through the grief and trauma and survivor's guilt.

kinda gets me emotional thinking that in The Odyssey Book IV the first regret Helen has mentioned was leaving her child. Her child, her fidelity, then her husband. Important things Aphrodite took from her for sure (or things she took from herself if you interpret willing Helen), but Hermione first.

Contrasting that to the Iliad ten years prior where her first regret is the destruction of her fidelity, in extension her husband— then her kinsmen (the soldiers who were robbed of seeing their families and thus blamed her) then her favorite full grown child, and lastly her friends. It makes you think of how lonely Helen must’ve been, how stigmatized she was…

It makes you think that in the Odyssey Helen has reclaimed the hearts of her friends and her kinsman, and obviously reconciled with Menelaus: and still Hermione is the first on her mind. The one relationship she cannot fix, not with time, not with her only daughter far away with Neoptolemus. Helen knows this now, the way the old her never thought to, and that’s the tragedy.

we're a little distracted

Sthenelus bandaging Diomedes' finger

(from a lost 550bce amphora)

This is too cute

every time I do a web search, right at the top I have AI info dumping on me

just give me the top result please

Swear in your search request. I know it sounds ridiculous, but the most effective way I've found of it not doing the AI summary is just to add "fucking" go my search.

Holy shit

You're welcome! I can't claim credit to have come up with it, but very happy to spread it around 😄

One of my favourite finds for Ganymede and Zeus in the LIMC (under the Etruscan "Catmite" obviously, which came at the end of Ganymede's section). The arm around Zeus' shoulder!

AHH!! Quickly!! The artefacts have escaped the museum!! 😘😘 This video is adorable :D

These ladies are wearing Tang Dynasty hanfu, the famous "golden age" of Chinese history. Artefacts show that aesthetics during this dynasty favored fuller shaped women, if you've ever seen the figures from the museums these ladies look like exact replicas :D

Video src: 包意凡 【博物馆闭馆时间到，我俩要粗去玩！】 https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1iJ4m1K7Mq/

This is gorgeous. Paintings and figurines are helpful but seeing the clothes being worn and IN THE SUNSHINE!!

The fabric is glorious and you see the drape of the cloth during movement.

Fine, I think every museum needs a team of people to walk around wearing replicas of clothes. This would be amazing for kids on school trips.

I mean Every museum, too!

its been awhile since i posted any artemis or athena so uh here you go.

A peaceful break before duty calls once again.

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Sumerian/Mesopotamian Amulet Seal in the Form of a Bull, c. 3250 BCE.

Queen of the Dead part 2, 53

Sisyphus having a pretty normal, boring day when a giant eagle suddenly flies by with a woman.

This page took me ages to draw, but I think it actually came out pretty good.