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Cupids playing with a lyre.  Fresco from Herculaneum (thought to come from the basilica).

talesfromweirdland:Ancient Greek theatre masks.

worldhistoryfacts:Fragment of one of Sophocles’ plays, the Ichneutai. Only about half of the play ha

fuckyeahannecarson:Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

The playwright Menander.  Ancient Roman marble medallion (4th cent. CE) after a Greek original of th

lionofchaeronea:A woman playing the kithara.  Fresco from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscorea

pink-lemonade-rose:Two girls playing ephedrismos, a game in which players tried to knock over a rock

gemma-antiqua:Ancient Greek amethyst intaglio of Achilles playing the cithara, dated to 75-50 BCE. C

cma-greek-roman-art:Fragment of a Painted Vase: Head of a Musician Playing a Lyre, c. 520 BC, Clevel

romegreeceart:House of Cadmus - the death of king PentheusIn Euripides’ play the Baccantes Dionysos

goldentailedmermaids:Inktober #10 | Antigone

hounskul:revamped ancient character from when I first played Morrowind when I was like…….9 or 10…….h

Scene from a phlyax (mythological burlesque) play, showing Zeus as a pot-bellied old man walking wit

Terracotta amphora with a young man playing the kithara (top) and a judge (bottom), attributed to th

sonichedgeblog: ‘Sonic: Ancient Isles’ by @catswellmeow - New stages to play through in ‘Sonic

grandegyptianmuseum:Mandore player from Histoire de l'art égyptien (1878) by Émile Prisse d'Avennes

life-of-a-latin-student:*talk dirty to me trumpet solo playing in the back*~~~Graece:Ξέρξηςβόα νυν ἀ

talesfromweirdland:Ancient Greek theatre masks.

omniabelladevoratis:patbroklos:If anyone ever tells you that Ancient Greek plays are boring, show th

Finial of a Monk’s Staff, anonymous, c800. Java. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.In antiquity sound played a

Two greek girls playing ephedrismos* late 4th-early 3rd century BCE* MET museumsource: Metropolitan

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