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j-delightful:broadwaytheanimatedseries:fluidityandgiggles:broadwaytheanimatedseries:peryvans:quousque:lifethe-universe-andeverything:Since I’m a giant Classics nerd I made some Greek pottery inspired Easter eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@allaboutmyths Pardon my ignorance but how does the squid/octupus thingy tie into the theme of greek mythology?Leave the squid alone hon, he’s living his best life.But i just wanna knowI think it’s a kraken?Hey guys! OP here. @broadwaytheanimatedseries, @fluidityandgiggles, @j-delightful, and anyone else wondering about the random octopus/squid/kraken looking one, it’s based on one of my favorite jars I saw at the archaeological museum in Athens:It’s from Mycenae, which is one of the older civilizations of ancient Greece. (If you know Agamemnon from the Iliad/Troy, he was king of Mycenae.) It’s not a particular story from mythology or anything, just a popular octopus pattern at the time. This one is actually a knockoff (from the 15th century BCE) based on some made by the Minoans around the same time. The Minoans (like Minos and the Minotaur) lived on the island of Crete so they had a lot of fun sea life designs. As a comparison of just how old this jar is, my other eggs are based on red figure pottery designs that were popular about 1000 years later in the 5th and 4th century BCE, which is about the time the Parthenon was being built in Athens.As for the kraken, that was a really good guess. I don’t actually know anything about the kraken but a quick check on wikipedia just now says that it’s actually Norse and Icelandic in origin. The things you learn!Anyways, hope this helped! Thanks for your interest (and for listening to me ramble about ancient pottery)! -- source link
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