Κυθήρα

And a life without concerns.
The pleasure in this school stems from a negative viewpoint rather than positive: the avoidance of pain rather than hedonism. This difference is often misunderstood in Epicureanism.

#ReliefWednesday - Relief featuring the symbols of Herakles, the bow and the lion skin. It was part of a public structure from the 1st century BC in Aedepsus, Euboea, a place associated with the mythical hero.

Sorry. I did not intend to come across as rude by any stretch of the imagination. Just to save you time and effort, in that you will not find its meaning in the empirical (e.g. culinary habits in the Mediterranean). That is it.

A similar frog semiotics is featured in Aristophanes and ps.-Homer.

You are missing entirely the esoteric element in Lucian's works.

The tombs of Boethius and Augustine of Hippo in Pavia, Italy

Indeed. Social media can be poison for the mind if one is not careful with engagement and can not unread what has been read. Works best for me then to focus on a pastime.

#FrescoFriday - Wall painting of Perseus holding the head of Medusa. From Villa San Marco in Stabiae, Italy. Dated mid-1st century AD.

A #Roman pottery money-box, purpose-made with a slit in the top to insert your coins through. It was found in Lincoln (Britain), still with some coins inside, which date the box to at least the C4th AD - I wonder who it was who saved these coins but never got to spend them..? AncientBlueSky

...so now we're into uncomfortable behaviour being legislated also? Just what else does the FIA president wish to command and conquer...?

Pitiful indeed.

Welcoming a year of challenging the FIA, certainly. Odds are off as to who will be brave enough to do it.

"Unexpected"...?

Pythagoras would like to have a word here.

Always look forward to your wonderful posts.

Beautiful.

Not forgetting, too, the rhetorical device of the mythical "Thracian slave".

Now, if only Greek classics would be correctly exegesized—the delusion of ascribing them politics or gender studies.

Mastery over desires. The liver, the mountain, the eagle, and then Hercules.

The infant Hercules at center fights off serpents sent by Juno after she unsuccessfully prevents the birth of Hercules, jealous of the result of Jupiter's affair with Alcmene. Jupiter is seated at right, prepared to draw his sword while Alcmene reacts behind Hercules. At the left, Alcmene's consort Amphitryon holds their child, and Hercules' half-brother, Iphicles.

#FrescoFriday, from the Augusteum at #Herculaneum, the infant Hercules strangles serpents sent by the jealous Juno. Seated Jupiter draws his sword while Amphitryon holds Iphicles. Alcmene reacts behind Hercules. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky

The ancients would see it as ominous.

Classes every day. Including weekends.

#SarcophagusSaturday - Phoenician anthropoid sarcophagi from Sidon, beautifully carved in white marble from Greece. The sarcophagi consist of a hollowed lower box covered by a lid that slightly conveys the contours of the upper body and the legs. Dated 5th century BC.
National Museum of Beirut.

Endearing and fascinating subject, isn't it. I, too, doubt such an analysis as a chthonic image would be out of place in a garden. I'm inclined to parse Ovid and the myth of the creation of the Hermaphrodite: it involves Hermes and Aphrodite—and thence their Muses in the mural would be cogent.

Very likely that the 'Samaritans' here are used as an image: representing a spiritual or ideological opposition, and his deliverance symbolizing the divine protection of Paul in the face of adversity.

Euterpe and Erato accompanying Hermes, my reasoning.

It is most definitely a mesmerising field.

(I love Plotinus and Proclus myself.)

...though if a given class of henads shares at least a monad and a given being participates of this monad, would it not follow that the being would participate equally of this class of henads?

Fragment of a cuneiform tablet on a stand.

This tablet is the earliest record of Alexander's victory over Darius III in 331 BC. It dates to c. 330 BC, and was written in Gaugamela by priests of Marduk. It records astronomical details that coincide with the battle, such as a lunar eclipse that foreshadowed Darius' defeat.

🏺 BM 1880,0617.496

Cult of Priapus...?

"Principals"?... 'Principles' in the background.

The quintessentially important concept of akrasia. Very meaningful and consequential mosaic.

Sock for the left foot of a child with separation between the big toe and four other toes worked in 6 or 7 colours of wool yarn.

People can think the ancient world is distant, but finds like this bring it into clear - and colourful - focus.

A child's left sock from Antinoupolis in Egypt, ca. 3rd-4th Century AD, in pink, purple, yellow, green, and blue wool. 🏺

Image: BM (EA53913). Link - www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...