#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)

[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.

[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)

[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

[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).

[illustratus]

The Tomb of Agamemnon by Louis Jean Desprez

[persephonaae]

TERFs GO AWAY I’m nonbinary and as this is a look that is about exploring my own identity, gender is included in that. I’m not a woman, I am not your “divine feminine”. An edit I wish I didn’t have to make.

Here are some of the pictures of the Minoan/Mycenaean look I did yesterday! Mind you, it's all very generalized since I haven't made any clothing studies from these time periods yet, so I had just grabbed random clothes and jewelry from my closet that I could at least pass off as the ~vibe~ . I went for a pretty simple interpretation of makeup back then and ended up not really putting a whole lot on my face before the decorative elements, just a very thin amount of white foundation, but even so I figured my skin is pretty pale as it is that if this were historical I probably would have just been fairly bare faced anyway in a similar fashion. I tried to stay pretty close to how makeup might be applied back then and not go too anachronistic, and if I did it was for photographic or artistic purposes (namely, light contouring on my nose not for any sort of like, modern feature minimization, but to make sure my own Greek ethnic features weren't flattened by lighting levels or camera perspective)

Overall this was a really fun exploration of historic culture! Seeing the finished makeup on myself kind of brought over this cultural euphoria for me, even though many things have changed since ancient Mediterranean civilizations, there's almost a feeling of sameness in exploring the history of your heritage and seeing someone who looks or feels like you in ancient art. (But also a brief little disclaimer: the Mediterranean has been an extremely diverse region for thousands of years! I'm just one way of looking and that absolutely isn't representative of all people of Greece, neither then nor now!) I want to explore more historical fashions within this realm, and next time try a more extreme version of the makeup, something that feels more on the ceremonial side than casual like this one.

[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.

[marysmirages]

To the shores of Troy. Iliad (2024)

[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".

[oonaluna-art]

A Minoan princess and a Mycenaean prince: two character designs for a webcomic I may or may not make.