#Argonauts

[mournfulroses]

George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner, from Poems translated from the Greek; "Argonauts,"

[hlblng]

"Come, my heart, put on your armour" - Euripides' Medea

Medea sits on the porch of her house in Corinth after killing her children, in a short moment of contemplation, waiting for the arrival of Iason and her final triumph over him. She is the Deus ex Machina in her own play. She doesn't need a god to intervene on her behalf, she is half-god herself.

The Medea of Euripides is probably one of my favourite plays of all time with Medea being one of my favourite characters ever put on stage. Euripides is a master of the pyschological thriller and the portrait he paints of Medea the child-killer, Medea the witch, Medea the wronged woman, Medea the hated foreigner, is still so modern and so topical, even now almost 2500 years later.

[thereinart]

just some chara designs I did for fun :3 on top are Artemis, Athena and Hera, below I wrote the names in French but I think you can tell who's who 😎

Anyway! I hope someday I'll gather the courage to make an argonauts retelling story 🥹 that'd be cool

[sarafangirlart]

Medea

I combined medieval Georgian and Ancient Greek together for this design.

[rabemar]

Я нарисовала коллекцию Царевен Союзмультфильма по аналогии с Принцессами Диснея. Часть пятая. В этом посте у меня Царевны из мультфильмов: I drew a collection of Soyuzmultfilm Princesses similar to the Disney Princesses. In this post (Part 5) I have Princesses from cartoons: «Лабиринт. Подвиги Тесея» 1971 (The Labirynth) «Аргонавты» 1972 (Argonauts) «Дочь Солнца» 1963 (The Daughter of the Sun) «Гунан-Батор» 1965 (Goonan - Bator) «Наргис» 1965 (Nargis) «Сын Камня» 1982 (The Son of the Stone)

[tylermileslockett]

Week 9: FINAL ART THURSDAY and Trivia Art Piece: Talos and the Darkness

The art is complete! After guiding you through plans, sketches, and timelapses, we proudly present the final reveal—where imagination meets the mythic at Lockett Studio. Alongside this, each week, we share surprising insights and lesser-known trivia about the tales behind our art. This week, here are five fascinating facts about Talos, the bronze guardian of Crete!

Bronze Guardian: Talos, the bronze giant, stands as one of the earliest depictions of artificial life in Greek mythology, patrolling Crete with unwavering, mechanical loyalty.

Weakness in Strength: Though formidable, Talos harbors a single vein sealed by a nail, embodying the paradox of an invulnerable hero whose strength is marred by a fatal flaw.

First AI Encounter: With his automated duty to protect the island, Talos could be considered an ancient forerunner of artificial intelligence, a symbol of autonomous guardianship.

Divine Manipulation: Medea’s sorcery reveals Talos' vulnerability, illustrating Greek mythology's theme of intellect and strategy triumphing over sheer force.

Shadows of Mortality: Talos’ downfall, bleeding ichor (the blood of gods), evokes the mythic fear of mortality—a reminder that even godlike beings are not invincible.

[mytholots]

Medea: look Jason, I'm not slut shaming you but...

Medea: Actually yeah, I'm TOTALLY slut shaming you.

[orgroarts]

The Argonauts

[dilfaeneas]

The argonauts are fightingggg and they haven't even set off yet!

"So he spoke, but Idas son of Aphareus burst into laughter and with scorn in his eyes he replied abusively:

'Come now! Tell me this through your prophetic skill: will the gods destroy me in the way your father bestowed the destruction upon the Aloiadai? Take thought for how you will escape my hands if you are found to have uttered empty prophecies!'

So he attacked him angrily and the quarrel would have gone further had not the son of Aison himself restrained their dispute with words of rebuke. Moreover Orpheus took up his lyre in his left hand and began to sing.

- Jason and the Golden Fleece, Book 1 lines 486-494, Apollonius of Rhodes as Translated by Richard Hunter.

Idas really said chat shit get hit. Atalanta is not present in this translation but I simply want her there.

[kanechroniclesgraphicnovel]

Reunion

[grayjoy15]

Day 3: Atalanta, devotee of Artemis and the only woman to travel with the Argonauts. Atalanta joined the heroes Jason, Heracles, and Orpheus on their quest to seek the Golden Fleece. She was renowned for her speed and skill with a bow.

[antiqueanimals]

Elements of Zoölogy: A Text-book. Written by Sanborn Tenney. 1875.

Internet Archive

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

My collection of vintage mythology imagery isn't fictional.

[padfoot-lupin77]

My villain origin story is that Hylas and Atalanta are the most underrated argonauts so much that I didn’t know about them until very recently despite being into Greek mythology since I was five years old. Every book went “and all known heroes joined like Heracles and Orpheus and the twins winged sons of Boreas” FUCK the flying kids why did no one tell me about pretty boy Hylas who had the no. 1 Greek hero Heracles crazy over him or absolute badass queen Atalanta who hunted alone and took shit from no one?

[sarafangirlart]

Caeneus with his son Coronus

Been looking up Caeneus and his mythology and he’s like… the coolest guy to ever exist, seriously, he’s right up there with Perseus as one of my favorite Greek Heroes. Hope he gets a good adaptation someday.

[dougdimmadodo]

Fast Fauna Facts #3 - Winged Argonaut (Argonauta hians)

Family: Argonaut Family (Argonautidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Like the other small octopuses in the argonaut family many Winged Argonauts appear to have spiral-shaped external shells similar to those of nautiluses or ammonites, but this isn't quite the case - what appears to be an argonaut's shell is only seen in adult females, and is actually a thin-walled, calcium-based case secreted from and held by a specialised pair of arms in order to carry fertilized eggs until they hatch. Found in non-polar waters worldwide, Winged Argonauts are found mainly near the surface in the open ocean (in contrast to most octopuses, which are bottom-dwellers,) feeding on small floating invertebrates and often using their suction cups to cling to flotsam or larger animals (sometimes including other argonauts) for protection; when faced with a predator, they may attempt to position the animal they're riding on between them and the perceived threat to act as a meat shield.

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