#mythologyart

[tylermileslockett]

Hey folks, this image of Apollo was done for a private commission. Xoxo

The following text is reposted from my previous Apollo Olympians image.

“Phoebus, of you even the swan sings with clear voice to the beating of his wings, as he alights upon the bank by the eddying river Peneus; and of you the sweet-tongued minstrel, holding his high-pitched lyre, always sings both first and last…And so hail to you, lord! I seek your favor with my song.”  (-Homeric Hymn, translated by H.G. Evelyn white)

APOLLO (uh-PAH-low), God of prophecy, oracles, music, art, protector of and disease of boys and men, and archery. Just as his twin sister Artemis is patron to women and girls, Apollo is both protector, and killer from disease of boys and men. In my Illustration the god holds his bow and arrows behind, while he strums the lyre gifted to him by trickster Hermes. Near the sun flies his ally and divine messenger, a white raven. The column on the right is capped with a cow, representing his sacred animal as a god of herds. The serpent Python sits dead at his feet, killed by Apollo’s arrow so that the god could take over the Delphi temple location. The temple complex sits beneath the god, while on the far right, the Pythia (Apollo’s oracle priestess) sits upon a tripod, breathing the hallucinatory gasses seeping up from the earth to get her prophecies which she bestows upon visitors.

The laurel tree has associations with Apollo because the god, chasing a Naiad (water nymph) named Daphne call out to Gaia (mother earth) for help, who transformed the nymph into a laurel tree, which the god adopted as his sacred tree. In book 1 of the Iliad, Apollo supports the Trojans by raining down a plague on the Greeks, and later helping Paris to kill Achilles. Apollo’s cruelty is shown in Ovid’s mythical lyre contest with the inventor of the flute; a satyr named Marsyas. When Apollo suggested they play their instruments upside down, the satyr lost, and was flayed (skinned) alive as punishment for his hubris. 

[matustheus]

Hermes and his Lightning McQueen sneakers KACHOW

[kleioscanvas]

🌙Divine Intervention☀️

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Thanatos II’ by Jacek Maleczewski, c. 1899.

[i-na-ri]

Apollo and Hyacinthus :D

Can someone explain to me why I’m so afraid of posting on tumblr.

[olekciy]

Thimble - "Little Gargoyle". 2 cm - 4 cm. Pear, rosewood, stained oak.

[charliescreatures]

Sight hound Cerberus

Cerberus is the many headed dog from Ancient Greek mythology who guards the gates of the underworld.

Saw a dog like this (with just the one head) running on the beach and was enamoured, a creature whose shape lends itself to the mythological.

[thesymbolsofparadise]

The Fight on the Bridge (1882-1885) by Arnold Böcklin

[thebloodgroove]

What’s a funerary practice to the damned?

His flesh finally mine, though not in the way I wanted.

What’s a prayer through the lips of the cursed?

I moved in human ways once. 

[ancientsstudies]

Aphrodite by maestro.ai.

[arumseed]

Finally, I can show you my illustration of Brodnycya I did for Maloviy Ukrainian Bestiary. 🌿🦫 I'm so proud to be a part of this project. I've met new wonderful people, passionate and hardworking. Thanks to each one of our organization team, they put so much work and responsibility on their shoulders... I'm still waiting for my book copy, so stay tuned. I'll be posting some pictures and videos when it comes. ✨💫

[tylermileslockett]

"Homecoming,"

In this scene, of Aeschylus's Greek tragic play "Agamemnon",  King Agamemnon has finally arrived back to his palace in Argos (Mycenea) after conquering Troy. He arrives in a chariot with his spoil of war; CASSANDRA (a Trojan slave girl cursed by Apollo with the power of prophecy - but that none shall believe her visions).

Agamemnon's wife, CLYTEMNESTRA meets them at the palace doors, obstructing his entrance. (The chorus has previously related the tale of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter, Iphigenia, ten years prior on the way to Troy. So this confrontation is eagerly anticipated). She showers her husband with rhetoric of love and respect, then rolls out fine embroidered cloth (with fragile red dye) and then convinces him that only by walking barefoot on the  tapestry will he prove his high worth and placate her to enter.  

Professor Peter meineck, in his "Modern Scholar" audio lecture series: "Greek Drama", points to the symbolism when he says "...Agamemnon is wading through blood of his sacrificed daughter," and "...trampling the wealth of the house." Professor Meienck also thinks this tapestry is a menstrual image representing Clytemnestra's power (he even mentions that the ancient Greek word for door was also a slang word for vagina). So when Agamemnon relents, he unknowingly goes to his death. He now represents the sacrificial bull of the Greek new year "Buphonia" Festival.

Random Fun fact: this scene in this play is where we get the concept of "rolling out the red carpet" for honored guests.  

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[matustheus]

Fast sketch of the Underworld Hermes with souls of the dead

[kleioscanvas]

Mistress over Life and Death

[leatherandmossprints]

‘The Fall of Phaeton’ (detail) by Hendrick Goltzius, after Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, c. 1588.

[mcversipellis]

Her heart wears wisdom skin and wit warmed splendor, the echoes of a war cry holding its four chambers together. She rises like Athena on a night of victory dancing. She rises like the blood moon in a night sky of a thousand nebulae bursting.

-Athena Girl by Nikita Gill