@DF_Media I love him too, he is the one who ensnared me with his vines and got me back into mythology 🥰
The party sounds like the Bacchic Lord chose to possess you that evening 🍷
On #NationalUnderwearDay I want to talk about the ancestor of the bra: the strophion!
In #GreekRomanArt the goddess #Aphrodite can sometimes be seen putting it on or taking it off but mortal women are depicted wearing it too.
It is uncertain what the Greek strophion looked like but the Roman adaptation, the strophium, was a breast band, a strip of cloth wrapped around the upper torso.
It was a normal but optional piece of feminine clothing.
@Sine@mimicofmodes@VVitchy@antiquidons@histodons That's amazing, Sìne!!
I wonder if it will keep just as well with linen since it probably isn't quite as stretchy as lyrca 🤔
The bunching in the back may be resolved with someone just help tie it?
✨Special Episode - Classical Reception in Lil Nas X with Yentl Love
We sit down with Yentl Love (aka the Queer Classicist) to take a deep dive into the layered symbolism and classical allusions in Lil Nas X’s music video ‘Call Me By Your Name’. We very much recommend watching the music video to set the mood!
@phistorians Ooooooh, that is an interesting one! I mainly remember the obvious bible themes in the video so I will have to watch it again and give the episode a listen! :BlobhajPrideHeart:
I'm writing about the intersection between birth and violence in various myths, including the birth of #Athena. Some sources say that Hephaistos or Prometheus used an axe to help her emerge, but many secondary discussions of the story also describe #Zeus having a terrible headache before the birth. I can't find the original sources mentioning the headache. If anyone knows what text or texts this is from, I would love to know! #GreekMyth#Mythology#Classics#AncientGreek#AskMastodon
@AnnaJunePage It was probably Robert Graves, just like the idea of Hestia giving up her status as an Olympian for Dionysos (which wasn't a thing in antiquity).
“Stay and fight” is so ludicrous. Fight for what? Fight with what? Users have no leverage against Musk. None. It’s just more insipid rationalization by people who just can’t bear to think about having to lose any part of their follower counts. It’s actually a chance to expand them and make them more meaningful.
@shoq I was hoping to bring people over to Mastodon but it hasn't been super successful. A few of my friends made it and I'm keeping my account so I still have the means to contact some of them but I haven't posted there for months except for promoting the Fediverse and I don't intend to. Might rather delete all other tweets but I'm not sure how the archive I made works (md files) and if / how I can browse it.
@tbqtalks The X logo alone makes me aggressive.
But when I last signed in, there actually wasn't as much going on as only a few weeks ago. Are people finally leaving?
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is artworks featuring mythology. There are, of course, countless depictions of mythological scenes from ancient times. Some myths, in fact, are ONLY known through artwork, for example the drinking contest between #Herakles and #Dionysos.
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In the 19th century, the popularity of Graeco-Roman myths was still going strong. This is a 19th century painting of #Apollon, catching his lover #Hyakinthos who has been hit fatally by the discus they played with. It can be seen lying on the ground. Apollon is identified by a quiver of arrows on his back.
The scene is tender and incredibly sad. I like to think Apollon and the Muses inspired it.
🎨 La mort d'Hyacinthe (The Death of #Hyacinthus), by Jean Broc, dated 1801
There are quite a lot of artworks I love that were made in our modern day, especially from independent creators who just love #mythology. It is impossible to pick just one so here are four of my favourite artworks from contemporary artists.
@aurochs No, it was very much not a thing. The Greeks saw it as mutilation since the beauty standard was a long, tapered foreskin. The Romans even put the death penalty on circumcision one time.
The ancient Egyptians, however, did practice a form of circumcision.