#Roman myth

[thefugitivesaint]

Samuel Edmund Waller (1850-1903), 'Apollo', ''Всемирная иллюстрация'', #309, 1874

[thesilicontribesman]

The Wolf and Romulus and Remus Mosaic, Roman Aldborough, North Yorkshire, 300-400CE, Leeds City Museum.

This panel formed the centrepiece of a large mosaic floor constructed in the Roman town of Isurium Brigantum, now Aldborough in North Yorkshire. The mosaic depicts the legend of Romulus and Remus. They were abandoned in the River Tiber but washed ashore where they were fed by a she-wolf.

[bugwolfsstuff]

Does Cupid shooting Apollo with a love arrow and Daphne with a hate arrow in the myth (that i'm displeased to find out is Ovid's version) not make Apollo also kinda a victim too?

one shaft that rouses love and one that routs it. The first gleams bright with piercing point of gold; the other, cull and blunt is tipped with lead. This one he lodged in Nympha Peneis' [Daphne's] heart; the first he shot to pierce Apollo to the marrow. At once he loves; she flies the name of love, delighting in the forest's depths, and trophies of the chase, a Nympha to vie with heaven's virgin huntress Phoebe [Artemis];

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And Venus' [Aphrodite's] son [Eros] replied : ‘Your bow, Phoebus, may vanquish all, but mine shall vanquish you. As every creature yields to power divine, so likewise shall your glory yield to mine.’

—Ovid, Metamorphoses 

Like...does that not mean Cupid's arrows overide all other feelings and therefore make Apollo an unwilling participant here?

Not to say Daphne also wasnt a victim, she definetly was but it seems it was non-consensual for both parties?

[imaginal-ai]

"Hercules Reclining"

[allmythologies]

roman mythology: silvanus

silvanus is a protector & god of the forest, fields, and husbandmen. he is also known as the protector of the house, herds, and farm boundaries. silvanus is said to keep the dangers of the woodlands at bay, allowing crops and flocks to flourish.

[etherealmultiplicity]

Put Aphrodite and Venus' altar on my new bookshelf :))

[smbhax]

From "Mercury in the 20th Century" in Red Raven Comics #1, August 1940. Martin Bursten script, Jack Kirby pencils, inks, & letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database

[m00nb04rd5]

Hestia from Greek Mythology pls!

Hestia/Vesta, Goddess of The Hearth (Greek and Roman Mythology)

[fleurbleedinghearts]

The Romans were so real for having Diana deify Hippolytus as Virbius.

I love that kid he deserved it.

[nardialrose]

Trivia (trivialis) in Roman Religion/Myths

The term Trivia was common epithet for Diana and Hecate, but it's also a name given to different other figures and even multiple Dianas as one.

A mythical nymph named Marica was also conflated with the goddesses.

The associations of crossroads and the dead.

All snippets are from Patricia A. Johnston's Artemis and Diana in Ancient Greece and Italy: At the Crossroads between the Civic and the Wild.

[thefugitivesaint]

Pierre Augustin Massé (fl.1880-94) (after Charles Napier Kennedy), 'Neptune, ''The Art Journal'', 1890

[thesilicontribesman]

'The Jupiter Column', Corinium Museum, Cirencester

The ornate Roman capital depicts the story of Bacchus. The larger first image portrays King Lycurgus of Thrace, shown here with a double headed axe and a vine staff.

[hlblng]

Avernus - crater west of Naples, appears in Virgil's Aeneid as the entrance to the underworld

I made the background with liquid gold which only cost me 6 hours of my life and also the rest of my sanity. I will probably do it again.

[almost-correct-quotes]

hero defined loosely

doomed defined as someone doomed from the start (or close to it) or the cards were weighted against them

[allmythologies]

roman mythology: pluto

pluto was god of the dead and lord of the underworld. a figure of enormous dread and terrible might, pluto dispensed luck and controlled the fates of all mortals. as commander of the subterranean realms, he was the master of ores, metals, and the precious stones found within them. for this reason, he was celebrated by many as the bringer of wealth. 

[writingamongther0ses]

Father-daughter moment, even though it's not the right version of her father and she has no idea how old she is.

"It's just been a while since I had a daughter. What do young girls like these days?"

Rhea blinked. "I don't think I qualify as a 'young girl'."

"Really?"

"Vaguely?" Wow, she didn't know her own age?

"Eh, you're still my girl." Neptune reached over and patted her head. "No matter how old."