ClassicsTober

THANK YOU for taking part in #ClassicsTober this year! A lovely end to FIVE YEARS of prompts! We hope you had fun. Jenks & CB x

THANK YOU for taking part in #ClassicsTober this year!
A lovely end to FIVE YEARS of prompts!
We hope you had fun.
Jenks & CB x

#classicstober #classicstober25

Classicstober day 29 - Mysteries @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

Classicstober 30 - Lethe @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

Classicstober day 31 - Elysian Fields @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 31 of #ClassicsTober25: Elysian Fields. In the picture Aeneas meeting with his father in the Elysium. Sebastian Vrancx (1573–1647). Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. #ClassicsTober

Lethe pattern by Alison Green This cardigan is shaped with raglans and has a lovely rib and cable collar. Body is worked in one piece to underarms, then divided for back and front. Sleeves are worked in the round to underarms, the...

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day 30 of #classicstober25 : lethe

#ClassicsTober25 30 Lethe

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A woman and man drinking from Lethe

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 30 of #ClassicsTober25: Lethe was one of the rivers of Hades. All those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. The river was often associated with Lethe, the personification of forgetfulness & oblivion, the daughter of Eris (Strife). #ClassicsTober

day 29 of #classicstober25 : mysteries! the heart of the eleusinian mysteries, demeter and persephone :)

Placa Campana. Misterios eleusinos
© Musée du Louvre

#ClassicsTober25 29 Mysteries

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 29 of #ClassicsTober25: Mysteries. The Eleusinian Mysteries were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone in Eleusis in ancient Greece. They are considered the "most famous of the secret religious rites of ancient Greece". #ClassicsTober

Description from the Met: “Demeter, the goddess of agricultural abundance, stands at the left holding a sceptre. At the right is Persephone, her daughter and the wife of Hades, the god of the underworld. Each goddess extends her right hand toward a nude youth. The boy is thought to be Triptolemos, who was sent by Demeter to teach men how to cultivate grain. The original marble relief was found at the sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis, the site of the Eleusinian mysteries, a secret cult that was famous throughout antiquity. The original Greek work and a number of Roman copies survive. Here the ten Roman fragments are embedded in a cast of the Greek relief.“

✨The Eleusinian Mysteries✨

Demeter and Persephone flank a young youth thought to be Triptolemos. This beautiful Augustan era rendition based on a Greek relief is our pick for #ReliefWednesday and #ClassicsTober25.

Classicstober day 28 - Deimos and Phobos @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #classicstober25 #Classicstober

day 28 of #classicstober25 : phobos and deimos!

deimos and phobos were hungry for snacks
so deimos and phobos both ordered flapjacks
their platter was served to them covered in berries
so they took their leftovers back home to Ares

so proud to be in this year's #classicsTober
so sad to think that this month will be over

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phobos and deimos went out for a walk
phobos dared deimos to swallow some chalk
deimos told phobos he rather would not
so phobos and deimos sailed off on a yacht

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Mosaic Mask of Phobos
© British Museum

#ClassicsTober25 28 Phobos and Deimos

Phobos and Ares in Ares's chariot, dated to c. 6th BC

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 28 of #ClassicsTober25:
Deimos and Phobos were the gods or personified spirits of fear. Deimos represented terror and dread, while his brother Phobos was panic, flight and rout. They were sons of the war-god Ares. As sons of Aphrodite, they also meant fear of loss.

Classicstober day 27 - Erinyes @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #classicstober25 #Classicstober

Classicstober day 26 - punishment @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #classicstober25 #Classicstober

Der Mörder un die Furien, Arnold Böcklin
© Colección Schack

#ClassicstOber25 27 Erinyes

days 26 and 27 of #classicstober25 : punishment and erinyes! here we have orestes and his fury-haunting days

The Erinyes (aka. The Furies) for Day 27 of @classicstober.bsky.social

Drawing of the Erinyes by Greek Myth Comix. Text: ‘The Furies pursue those whom have committed murder and act as agents of Fate t exactly revenge.’

A poster about the agates and other agents of Fate like the Erinyes, by Greek Myth Comix

#ClassicsTober25 27: ERINYES

Clytemnestra tries to awaken the sleeping Erinyes. Detail from an Apulian red-figure bell-krater, 380–370 BC.

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 27 of #ClassicsTober25: The Erinyes were chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Their Roman counterparts are the Furies, also known as the Dirae. #ClassicsTober

A flat coloured digital art piece of Isis holding her husband Osiris. Isis is a woman with tawny brown skin, and long dark brown hair. She's looking down with a mournful expression at Osiris whose head she's holding up with one hand. Her other hand is cupped with magic flowing from it to Osiris's mouth. Osiris is a man with dark sepia coloured skin who's wrapped in linen from his neck down. His eyes are closed and his mouth is slightly open. Both of them are wearing heavy eyeliner in the Ancient Egyptian style.

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Day 7: witch, sorceress
I've gotten really far behind on Classicstober, so I'm just going to try to finish the prompts I feel really inspired to do.

#classicstober25 Day 14: Cocytus. Dante and Vergil walk on the frozen river of lamentation, after one of Gustave Doré's illustrations for Dante's Inferno

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Fragmento de la Biblioteca Histórica de Diodoro Sículo.

#ClassicsTober25 26 Punishment