#Mycenaean

[persephonaae]

TERFs die mad: you just reblogged a nasty transgender person with pronouns and all who did this historical look to explore their cultural history as well as express their own nonbinary identity in a way that resonates with them. An edit I wish I didn’t have to make on this post

I’ll try to post the actual pictures I took soon, but I was bored today and wanted to shirk some other responsibilities, so I decided to do some general vague Minoan or Mycenaean look since it’s been on the mind and also my hair was looking really good today and I wanted to take advantage of that haha

[memories-of-ancients]

Duck shaped cosmetic vessel made from a single piece of rock crystal (quartz), Mycenaean Greece, circa 1500 BC

from The National Archaeological Museum, Athens

[doesephs]

i don’t know why odysseus was so scared of a bunch of women, what an incel (circes island)

[greekmythcomix]

Stand down, lads. We’re getting BLAH.

I, as an avowed nerd of Mycenaean Greece, am disappointed: while the filming locations are local and the monsters might be animatronics and the budget is ONE OF THE BIGGEST EVER, the cast is still very HOLLYWOOD and not a very representative, so I had *really* high hopes for the costuming. There could have been so much more going on that was period, or at least took inspiration from the period - like the sets clearly are in the background of this first-look image.

Dun dun duuuuuun? More like Done Done Done.

Ok, it’s mostly taken from later Greek pottery - which anachronistically depicts the Trojan War in contemporary armour - so it’s not entirely Hollywood-invention (except for the sodding bracers?!) But it’s hardly inspiring. And why is it so damn GREY? Ugh. I guess it will look like what a non-specialist audience will consider ‘Ancient Greek’.

Also, where *is* he in this scene?! Troy, at the end of the battle? There’s nowhere else in the story where he’d be in a (palatial, judging by the frescos) room in full armour with a cloak.

You could argue that myths are timeless, unreal, but this one is directly tied in with an event - the Trojan War - which occurred (in some form) c. C12-11th BCE. It would have been really nice to see the costumes reference that.

I am really hoping this look and colour scheme aims to make the character look battle-hardened and will contrast with literally every other costume. Maybe all the mortals will be drab and the gods and monsters technicolour. PLEASE let it become more interesting!

Right. Excitement over. Back to editing YOU ARE ODYSSEUS which *does* feature period-specific descriptions and Homeric references… 😋

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Main photo: universal pictures

[thatshowthingstarted]

Mycenaean Swords with elaborate 'Gold Plating' (1600-1300 BC), Crete, Greece.

Sword with gold-capped rivet and gold plating on the hilt.

Small dagger with three gold-plated rivets.

Gold-plated hilt with repoussé decoration representing lions hunting goats, held in place by gold rivets and gold ring.

Sword with repoussé spiral motif on hilt.

Sword with five gold-plated rivets.

Courtesy: Archaeological Museum of Heracleion, Crete

[marysmirages]

To the shores of Troy. Iliad (2024)

[along-the-silkroad]

Golden cup from a LH IIA Mycenaean grave at Vapheio, one of a pair known as the "Vapheio Cups". This cup is believed to be of Minoan manufacture while its twin is thought to be Mycenaean. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

[kpceramics]

I had the immense privilege of going to Greece earlier this summer. I took 400 pictures of ancient pottery and came home inspired to put octopodes on everything.

1. My octopodes on some tiny vases and a cup

2. My reference photo of a Mycenean amphora with an octopus in the Minoan Marine Style, 1500s BCE. (National Arcaelogical Museum, Athens)

3. My bird jug with printed reference photo

4. Bird-shaped vessel from Crete, 2700 - 1900 BCE (Heraklion Archaelogical Museum, Heraklion)

[taniabaj]

Sketchbook - Minoan and Mycenaean Art serie

[katerinaaqu]

Achilles is actually a Mycenaean Name

For the Achilles fans out there I wanna drop the random fact that his name actually appears in the Linear B tablets

A-ki-re-u

So the name of the hero is at least as old as the Mycenaean Greeks!

You're welcome!

PS: "Achilles" probably comes from the word "ἄχος" (achos) which means "pain" or "suffering" or "sighing" or "grief" and "λαός" (laos) which means "people".

So basically "Achilles" means "the suffering of people" or "grief from the people", which indicates both the character's profound grief as well as the rest of Iliad greeks who suffered by his rage

Suffer now!

[victusinveritas]

An Ornate agate sword hilt with inlayed gold disks. From tomb 81 (Mycenae's chamber tombs excavated by the Greek archaeologist Christos Tsountas 1887-1898).

[memories-of-ancients]

Rhyton depicting an octopus, Mycenaean Greece, 14th century BC

from The Louvre

[lyculuscaelus]

I just realized that if y’all are picturing the Iliad with historically accurate armor, specifically, with the ones similar to the Dendra panoply, then Hector would not die the way he died.

During the duel, Hector was wearing Achilles’s old armor, which means it’s a Mycenaean panoply, and the most famous one looks like this:

As you can see, the neck is well protected by the cuirass, so the thing about Achilles finding Hector’s open throat exposed thus stabbing him through the neck—that’s not gonna happen. Achilles would not be aiming for his throat for this reason, with this outcome.

Such a historical Hector would not die an Iliadic death.

[sarafangirlart]

Princess Andromeda

Sources on her appearance and her country of origin are all over the place (to put it mildly) but the one I prefer to use is the on where she is from Ioppa which is in modern day Jaffa Palestine.

First outfit is based on ancient Canaanites

Second outfit is based on Egyptians and Ethiopians, since she is decended from them.

Third outfit is Andromeda as the First Queen of Mycenae.

Final outfit is based on modern Palestinian tradition clothing.

[tchai-castor]

As mentioned yesterday: the drawing of Odysseus, Ctimene and Eumaeus as kids, with Hermes disguised as a tortoise, introducing himself as their great-grandfather and you know Eumaeus is also there.

When I was drawing Diomedes as a kid, this image suddenly popped up in my head. I didn't finish or render any of the background, because when I was starting I thought the drawing looked worse. I actually think the white makes it look more dramatic.

One of my friends really likes this drawing. He joked that maybe Hermes himself gave me some divine inspiration for this, which I personally think would be one of the funniest things ever. Other gods: "Draw me as the godly god I am" and Hermes would just be like "Draw me as a tortoise".

[marysmirages]

Solar ship of the Bronze Age (2024)

Depictions of the solar ship were typical for many Bronze Age cultures (from Scandinavia to Mesopotamia and Egypt). I was inspired to create this painting and further research on the topic of solar ships by the Nebra sky disk.