It’s was the LAST DAY of #ClassicsTober23 on Tues, and I just want to say a massive thank you on behalf of me and @corabeth.bsky.social to everyone who has taken part over here on new BlueSky, in our third year of running the prompts!
For my very last #ClassicsTober23 post, here are some thoughts on my month of finding myth in Pompeii. 🏛️🏺
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Lego witches from Discworld
31. Hecate - Thank you so much @GreekMythComix & @drcorabeth for all the fabulous inspiration & divine work! This is from @LegoAnkhMorpork and I just love threes. #ClassicsTober23 over and out! #ClassicsTober forever!
#ClassicsTober23 31: Hecate
“ibat ad antiquas Hecates Perseidos aras,
quas nemus umbrosum secretaque silva tegebat”
She went to the ancient altars of Hecate, the daughter of Perses, which the shady wood and the hidden forest concealed.
(Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.74-5)
#ClassicsTober23 day 31: Hecate
Hecate's Wheel Mittens pattern by Elayne Glantzberg @solinox www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#ClassicsTober23 day 31: Hecate
Hecate pattern by Woolly Wormhead @WoollyWormhead www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Hecate may have shared a temple in suburbs of #Pompeii (w/Artemis, Zeus Melichor, Ceres), where these statues were found. But her image also appeared in temple/shrine painting such as this one from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. #ClassicsTober23 day 31 🏺🏛️
Hécate romana triforme con las tres Cárites (Gracias). Mármol. S. II d.e.c. MET
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Día 31. Hécate. Ἑκάτη
Titánide hija de Perses y Asteria, se posicionó con los Olímpicos en la Titanomaquia.
De origen incierto, quizá provenga de Caria (Anatolia).
Diosa de múltiples epítetos y a veces denostada. En la Grecia clásica era protectora del hogar.
Black and white drawing of a woman with three heads carrying a torch, in a border of snakes, smoke and branches.
Hecate, for the final post of #ClassicsTober23! 🎉
#ClassicsTober23 Hecate: we tend to think of her as the Goddess of Witchcraft, but she was also the goddess of transition, hence her often being portrayed in a triform looking in multiple directions. This was dedicated by Aelius Barbarus, a freedman to Emperors
🕰️ 161-200CE
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#ClassicsTober23 30: Tiresias
“placuit quae sit sententia docti
quaerere Tiresiae: Venus huic erat utraque nota”
It was agreed to ask the wise Tiresias of his opinion: both aspects of Love were known to him.
(Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.322-3)
Odiseo consultando a Tirésias (bajo su pie asoma). Crátera de cerámica ática de figuras negras. S. IV a.e.c.
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Día 30. Tirésias.Τειρεσίας
Adivino ciego de Tebas. Hijo de Everes y la ninfa Cariclo.
Aparece en mitos como el de Edipo y en la Odisea.
Medió en una disputa entre Hera y Zeus... Hera lo cegó, Zeus le otorgó una vida larga y el don de la profecía 🐍🔥🐍
Text from The Odyssey with doodles
30. Tiresias - I love The Odyssey & have lots of different versions. Hurrah for Emily Wilson with some pictorial additions to Sat-nav Prophecy! #ClassicsTober23 #ClassicsTober
A black and white drawing of a male figure, with eyes and thunderbolts.
For #ClassicsTober23 Day 30, my drawing of Tiresias (just a quick one today, because I'm in meetings!)
Tiresias was turned into a woman for 7 years & was oracle of Apollo. The Vesuvian region has it's own (already female, no Hera assistance necessary) the Sibyl of Cuma. Last time I was there heard weird noises in the cave...can attest pigeons less good as oracles. #ClassicsTober23 day 30 🏛️🏺
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Day 30 Tiresias. (Loose connection to Narcissus)
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A song from the Twist The Myths album (on streaming platforms),
Lyrics: Elizabeth Auzan. Music: James Fraser & Nigel Robinson. Vocals: James/Kris.
#ClassicsTober23 Tiresias: here we see the blind Theban prophet as he appears in the Odysessy. This is by Henry Fuseli. Like many of his paintings, it’s suffused with gothic sensibility - darkly disturbing, macabre & eerie. A perfect style for this scene
🏛️📷Albertina, Vienna
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a line drawing of Odysseus is sitting mostly naked on a rock, looking surprised, with the head of Tiresias poking out of the ground at his feet.
#ClassicsTober23 30: 👀Tiresias🦯
a lineart drawing of a stick-figure Nemesis, wearing a sakkos cap on her head and peplos, and is holding an unsheathed sword. She is pointing at someone out of frame and walking heavily towards them.
#ClassicsTober23 29: 🗡️Nemesis🫵
#ClassicsTober23 29: Nemesis
“”sic amet ipse licet, sic non potiatur amato!”
dixerat: adsensit precibus Rhamnusia iustis”
“So may he love himself, so may he not obtain the beloved!”
He had said: Nemesis approved his righteous prayer
(Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.405-6)
Nemesis page from Heroines of Olympus by Ellie Mackin Roberts
29. Nemesis- others have posted the wonderful Heroines of Olympus book by the glorious Ellie Mackin Roberts- I have a signed copy for my daughter! #ClassicsTober23 #ClassicsTober me
#ClassicsTober23 day 29: Nemesis
Nemesis pattern by Susan Dittrich www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#Pompeii has a depiction of the version of the myth where Nemesis is the mother of Helen. Here she is performing a sacrifice to Venus, and you can see that pesky swan (Zeus) pulling at her clothes. I.4.25 stereoview Sommer & Behles c.1860-1870. #ClassicsTober23 day29 🏺🏛️
