A sepia-toned satellite map is centered on the portion of the Mediterranean sea lying between the island of Cyprus and modern Turkey. On the Turkish shoreline, near the center of the map, an orange dot appears.

Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 3 new and 251 updated place resources, reflecting the work of nine people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at one […]

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Revered in ancient texts and contested in modern geopolitics, Mount Hermon sits at the crossroads of myth, power, and strategy. What was once spiritual high ground is still strategic terrain today.
#MountHermon #AncientMyth #Geopolitics #HighGround #HiddenHistory #BrokenTruth

What does a giant white horse have to do with ancient Celtic rituals around the Winter Solstice? Find out:
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#WinterSolstice #WINTER #CelticHistory #AncientBritannia #ancienthistory #ANCIENTMYTH #Horses #Britain #Celts

“Ancient Myths and Lesbian Legends” with Mara Gold Medusa, Medea, Artemis… we’ve all heard their stories before but what do they sound like when not told by (or centred on) men? Mara Gold, the sapphic scholar, is here to tell us all about these figures and about how there is always more than one side to a story and more than one reading to a myth. Come for the lesbian legends, stay for the witty witches and follow us @queerlitpodcast and @sapphic_scholar.   References Mara Gold’s Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men (2025) Mara Gold’s “Rebels Against the Tyranny of Men’: Women Performing Greek Comedy in Early Twentieth-Century Britain” in Women Creating Classics (2025)  https://mara-gold.com/ @sapphic_scholar Beyond the Binary Pitt Rivers Museum https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/beyond-the-binary Ashmolean Museum Rebellious Bodies audio tour  https://app.smartify.org/en-GB/tours/ashmolean-rebellious-bodies-tour?utm_campaign=ashmoleansmartifywebpage&utm_medium=webpagelink&utm_source=ashmoleanwebsite&utm_content=rebelliousbodiestour Smartify Hélène Cixous’ “The Laugh of the Medusa” (1975) Femme fatale Gorgons Apotropaic figure Athena Hera Natalie Haynes’ Stone Blind Madeleine Miller’s Circe Rosie Hewlett Pat Barker Madeleine Miller’s Circe Sirens Odyssey Durham Castle Hans Christian Andersen Selkie Demeter Penelope Medea Maenad Dionysus Bacchus True Blood Amazon Atalanta Nataly Barney Lesbos-en-Seine Artemis Double Slice https://doubleslice.studio/ Actaeon Callisto Zeus Aphrodite Jason Argonauts Glauce Suranne Jones Doctor Foster Gentleman Jack Children of Srikandi (2012) Hector and Hephaestus Radical Book Fair Lighthouse Books Edinburgh The Bookish Type Caper bookshop The Magicians Persephone Cassandra   Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: -      What is sapphism? -      What is classical reception? How is this relevant to Mara’s work? -      What are the archetypes that Mara uses to structure the book? Which one are you most interested in and why? -      What does Mara say about Srikandi and Srikandi’s role in LGBTQIA+ activism in Indonesia? -      How can we draw on ancient myths for queer activism today? What does Mara say about this? What are your thoughts? -      Do you have a favourite figure from mythology or legends?  

📣 New Podcast! "“Ancient Myths and Lesbian Legends” with Mara Gold" on @Spreaker #ancientmyth #artemis #diana #feministhistory #feministmythology #gorgon #greekmyth #lesbian #lesbianathena #lesbianhistory #lesbianmyth #medea #medusa #mythology #queer #queermonster #sapphic #sapphicscholar

Scene of three tribal figures crouched in a sandstone cavern, illuminated by warm sunlight, studying a massive wall painting of an alien spider-like deity with red and black segmented limbs and antennae, ancient pigment dripping down the stone, textured rock details, atmospheric light depth, historical sci-fi aesthetic, 35mm lens, f/4.

The Wall of the Eight-Limbed God

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#aiart, #blueskyart, #digitalart, #aicommunity, #cavepainting, #ancientmyth, #tribaldiscovery, #paleoscifi, #alienlore, #primitiveculture, #spidergod, #caveartscene, #ritualsymbolism, #mythicbeasts, #sunlitcavern

The Four-headed heavenly creature was witnessed by Ezekiel, a prophet and priest of ancient Israel. Ezekiel saw the creature, with the heads of a lion, human, ox, and eagle, stand beside the heavenly chariot of Yahweh.

#biblicalart #inkart #traditionalart #fantasyart #ancientmyth

He moved like memory, a myth wrapped in divinity. A presence that begged to be touched, dangerously near.

#MythicalElegance #DivinePresence #SlowBurn #TempleofStrength #UntouchableBeauty #AncientMyth #MythicalConquest #DivineSilhouette #GodlikePresence #MythicalTemptation

The Lilith were wild demons of the ancient desert said to feast upon infant flesh. They would make their homes in the desolate ruins of human settlements abandoned in times of war or famine.

#inkart #traditionalart #ancientmyth #biblicalart #mythandfolklore

I am looking for links between Aphrodite and Dionysos...

Any advice or help?

#twitterclassics #classics #classicists #AncientMyth #Dionysos #Aphrodite

The iconography of Actaeon is known, a hunter who according to legend had the misfortune of discovering the goddess Artemis entertaining with her own nymphs and she transformed him into a deer as punishment; later the dogs of Actaeon, not recognizing him, killed him by assaulting after a long flight. In this fresco found in the house of Menander in Pompeii, we see a partial version of it, the moment in which the dogs attack Actaeon. Here, evidently, Cretan hounds are depicted, the ancestors of all Mediterranean hounds. I dedicated a chapter to the Cretan hounds on 'ORIGINS - In search of ancient dog breeds' in which I tell the origins of this breed. I also wrote about these dogs in ROMA CANES MUNDI, the second volume of ORIGINS, talking about their diffusion in the Roman age. Both books are online in electronic and paperback format; in English and Italian. ORIGINS is also in Spanish, French and Russian. #dogs #dogs #mythology #art #Archaeology #history #rome #Pompeii #puppylove #pets

On Acteon, #hunting goddess #Diana and the tragic end of this #HUNTER according to #Legend
#mythology #ANCIENTMYTH #Greece #ROME #Historyofviolence #art #Archaeology #dogs #puppy #pets