#winged roman

[illustratus]

The Triumph of Light over Darkness by Franz von Matsch

[q8qwertyuiop8p]

In the French version of the Enemy of my Enemy clip, Smeech calls Jinx "Little Blue Fury" instead of "Baby Blue." In Greco-Roman mythology, furies are the inescapable godess of vengeance that are born of the blood of the murdered and wronged. They resemble winged women with snake-like hair and are strongly associated with curses. Coming up from the underworld, they rise to earth to hunt and punish the wrongdoers. They believe that blood is repayed in blood, continuing an endless cycle of violence and vengeance.

Jinx is the Fury born of the blood of Powder, of Silco, and the other victims of Piltover's brutal oppression. She has come from the undercity, the place below earth, to enact brutal revenge on Piltover and its inhabitants and bring justice to Zaun. This is the reason she was framed with wings.

[pend4ri]

" I know I'd never be me

Without the security

Of your loving arms

Keeping me from harm "

This. This is one of my favourites.

I thought I'd share it with my fellow GO people and friends out there 💙

To be honest, kisses are great, but seeing a powerful embrace hug between these two, heart against heart, would be an absolute treasure 🫶🏻

[zondearts]

Experimenting with Seawing architecture

[intairnwetrust]

Dain's favorite view

Sloane's favorite view

[goldenduckie]

Songbird

[diesmercurii]

heyybesties. so ive been looking into ancient greek lore recently (mostly for hermes) and. the transition from chiton wearing bearded messenger hermes to athletic, chlamys wearing twink hermes is extremely funny to me i had no idea he used to look like that.

anyway hermes looked especially cunty in that second image i wanted to redraw him with my own design but his chlamys is covering his hips too much you cant really tell :(

[captaincanonly]

business show but make them psychic

part 2

[caeli0306]

guys if xaden and violet aren’t endgame or one of them dies im simply never reading another book ever again

[essjaywrites]

imogen + garrick when they finally get their shit together. (redrawing an old comic 🩷)

[oplishin]

In both 2022 and 2024, you can see the exact moment Roman throws logic out the window and decides to hit Seth with the chair again

[illustratus]

The Parca and the Angel of Death by Gustave Moreau

[blueiscoool]

Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Mosaic of Winged Medusa in Spain

The stunningly preserved Ancient Roman mosaic floor was found at the Huerta de Otero site in the city of Mérida.

In both ancient and modern interpretations, Medusa is often known as a monster — a Gorgon with tresses of serpents whose stare turned men to stone. This version typically appears in children’s movies and fantasy thrillers, but her image hasn’t always been so awe-inspiring. In late June, archaeologists in Western Spain uncovered an Ancient Roman mosaic floor that depicts Medusa with tiny wings and flowing locks of hair, thought to have been used as a protective symbol.

The mosaic was found in the city of Mérida’s Huerta de Otero archaeological site. Ancient Romans established a colony there in 25 BCE named Augusta Emerita. Traces of its former inhabitants — including an amphitheater and a bridge — can be found throughout the modern-day city. “[The site] is of an exceptional nature due to the level of conservation of the ruins and, above all, the ornamental elements that decorate the well-preserved house: not only the mosaic of the Medusa but also paintings and sculptural motifs,” said archaeologist Félix Palma in a statement.

The Huerta de Otero location was excavated in 1976 but lay untouched for decades. Research picked back up in 2019, when the city employed professional archaeologists and students from its Barraeca II Professional School to explore the ruins. Since then, the team has uncovered an Ancient Roman defensive wall, a road, and the home of a wealthy family.

The Medusa mosaic adorned the floor of this home. Depictions of fish, peacocks, and carefully tessellated patterns surround the artwork’s central figure: a human-like Medusa, her gaze turned to one side.

Although this image diverges from some contemporary renditions of the mythological figure, the mosaic’s winged version was common in Ancient portrayals of Medusa. While early Greek depictions of the mortal-turned-monster, cruelly punished for being raped by the god Poseidon, show her as grotesque, Medusa’s image softened by the time of the Ancient Romans. Beginning in the Classical Greek period, her face acquired more human attributes. It started to be rendered with symmetry and youthful beauty in the following centuries.

Other Ancient Roman mosaics featuring the head of Medusa have been discovered throughout Spain. Medusa again comprises the focal point of an Ancient Roman mosaic in a 115–150 CE work found in Rome, where she can be seen sporting human curls and a snake around her neck. A 1st-to-2nd-century ornament from a chariot pole shows a young woman with curly locks (although a couple of snakes still peer through her tangle of hair).

In Ancient Greek mythology, Perseus killed Medusa to avoid being turned to stone. Medusa, in her early terrifying form, was used as a protective symbol — “an image of evil to repel evil,” Madeleine Glennon writes in a 2017 essay for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The goddess Athena famously included a representation of Medusa’s severed head on her protective cloak or aegis. In Ancient Rome, her beautified image was still employed as a protective symbol, although the depiction shifted into a form more similar to a woman than a monster.

By Elaine Velie.

[temperamentalaquarius]

Cassandra Cain... batgirl 2000.... Unstoppable force and immovable object. She can kill like others breathe but she will never kill again. A knife can have more than one use. If she can change then maybe anyone can but not everyone will. She knows change cannot not free her. One life lost is a life too many and she has blood on her hands. She wants to die, but she has so much work left to do.

[piliiiiconfusionf]

Wanted to make myself a new wallpaper! Have them XD needed to jump into the winged sides train too

[intairnwetrust]

The way I eat up every Dain x Sloane fanfiction I come across 🍽

Please keep feeding me.