April 30, 2012
Pastor Bonus from Ostia… Does anyone have any further information on this image?

Pastor Bonus from Ostia… Does anyone have any further information on this image?

2:21am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZshkRyKa59xp
(Notes: 1)
  
Filed under: antiquity christianity rome ostia 
April 22, 2012
Tyche. Getty villa

Tyche. Getty villa

5:08am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZshkRyK3mFsf
(Notes: 7)
  
Filed under: tyche antiquity fortuna 
February 19, 2012
Marble grave stele Depicting an athlete with a strigil.From Piraeus (?). 330-320 BCE.Athens, National Archaeological Museum, 888. On display in the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games in Antiquity.Ancient Olympia, Greece

Marble grave stele

Depicting an athlete with a strigil.
From Piraeus (?). 330-320 BCE.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, 888.

On display in the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games in Antiquity.
Ancient Olympia, Greece

4:45pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZshkRyGfovrq
(Notes: 26)
  
Filed under: stele funerary antiquity -330 
January 25, 2012
copulationofash: Eros in Pompeii.

copulationofash:

Eros in Pompeii.

(Source: , via funeral-wreaths)

10:14pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZshkRyFLyfyJ
(Notes: 150)
  
Filed under: antiquity rome pompei priapos pornography 
January 19, 2012
Oedipus solving the riddle of the Theban SphinxOxford Ashmolean Museum - Amphora (5th cent BCE) - Sphinx-Buch

Oedipus solving the riddle of the Theban Sphinx
Oxford Ashmolean Museum - Amphora (5th cent BCE) - Sphinx-Buch

4:30am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZshkRyE-68c1
(Notes: 6)
  
Filed under: oidipus greek antiquity mythology 
January 6, 2012
necspenecmetu: Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, Nestor and Philoctetes Console Telemachus Concerning His Combat with Hippias, book 16, 1773

necspenecmetu:

Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, Nestor and Philoctetes Console Telemachus Concerning His Combat with Hippias, book 16, 1773

6:02am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZshkRyEKh31I
(Notes: 52)
  
Filed under: philoctetes hero greek antiquity tilliard 1773 
January 3, 2012

beautythatsaves:

iheartchaos:

An animated version of Plato’s Cave, narrated by Orson Welles

The soothing baritone of Orson Welles brings Plato’s ancient story of The Cave to life in this animated short from 1973.

Via

If I have a son, I will name him Orson or Osmond - or both.

(via happyphantom)

10:11pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZshkRyECzLTR
(Notes: 35)
  
Filed under: plato antiquity philosophy 
December 27, 2011
"

“God from afar looks graciously upon a gentle master.” (in reference to a teacher?)

Aescyhlus. Agamemnon.

"

— http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jan/12/do-classics-have-future/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=January+12+2012+issue&utm_content=January+12+2012+issue+CID_a8fc8c8b6aa59f1908ad21d711f2ef76&utm_source=Email+marketing+software&utm_term=Do+the+Classics+Have+a+Future

5:28am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZshkRyDqWqJ9
(Notes: 2)
  
Filed under: tragedy literature antiquity text greek aeschylus 
December 19, 2011
centuriespast: Two-handled jar (amphora) Greek, Late Archaic or Early Classical Period, about 480 B.C. the Flying Angel Painter, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

centuriespast:

Two-handled jar (amphora)

10:57pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZshkRyDUMjpU
(Notes: 20)
  
Filed under: antiquity greek pornography - 480 
December 18, 2011
The muse Polyhymnia, by Philiscus of Rhodes, 3rd century B.C. In Greek mythology, the nine Muses were the patron-goddesses of the arts. They were believed to be the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, a Titan who personified memory. During the Hellenistic period, the island of Rhodes was the home of a highly developed school of sculpture founded by Lysippus, sculptor to the court of Alexander the Great. His school continued to flourish well into the period of the Roman Empire.

The muse Polyhymnia, by Philiscus of Rhodes, 3rd century B.C. In Greek mythology, the nine Muses were the patron-goddesses of the arts. They were believed to be the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, a Titan who personified memory. During the Hellenistic period, the island of Rhodes was the home of a highly developed school of sculpture founded by Lysippus, sculptor to the court of Alexander the Great. His school continued to flourish well into the period of the Roman Empire.

5:15pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZshkRyDQSmgU
(Notes: 4)
  
Filed under: antiquity greek sculpture philiscus 
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