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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 1h

ClassicsTober Day 8: Erebos 🖤👹

art by flaroh illustration. a quick facial sketch of Erebus the ancient greek personification of darkness

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 2h

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 8: Erebos

Erebos 🇯🇵 Erebos

The Engraving (2016)

Melodic death metal

"It's the final stage of endless torture
Before your soul dies, break it away yourself
Erebos is always at your side"

#ClassicsTober

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Miss Ailec @celiapm.bsky.social · 4h

La noche. El amor. El erebo. El caos
Joaquim Pi i Margall

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25 8 Erebos

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classicstober.bsky.social @classicstober.bsky.social · 9m

Made me chuckle!

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Matei Tomasevici 🥨 馬太 @covrig.bsky.social · 6h

#ClassicsTober
#ClassicsTober25
#memes
#day8

Low effort...

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 9h

#ClassicsTober25 Day 8: Erebos was the personification of darkness, born from Chaos and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night) according to Hesiod. The image is from the card game Magic: The Gathering. #ClassicsTober

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Alejandra González-Jiménez 🫒🌿 @heliconide.bsky.social · 1d

On the seventh day of #ClassicsTober25: φαρμακíς - witch, sorceress

In his 1907 work, Jason and Medea by John William Waterhouse, Medea prepares the potion for Jason to give to the dragon guarding the Golden Fleece. Her dress, emblazoned with bold symbols, suggests her role as a sorceress.

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 1d

‘The Magic Circle’ 1886 by John William Waterhouse is our pick for φαρμακίς ‘witch, sorceress’ #ClassicsTober25

This painting captures the power and potential of harnessing a knowledge of nature to achieve certain ends. Could this be Medea, Circe or yet another powerful ancient figure? #Witch

Description from the Tate: “The woman in this picture appears to be a witch or priestess, endowed with magic powers, possibly the power of prophecy. Her dress and general appearance is highly eclectic, and is derived from several sources – her hairstyle is like that of an early Anglo-Saxon; and her dress is decorated with Persian or Greek warriors. In her left hand she holds a crescent-shaped sickle, linking her with the moon and Hecate. With the wand in her right hand she draws a protective magic circle round her. Outside the circle the landscape is bare and barren; a group of rooks or ravens and a frog - all symbols of evil and associated with witchcraft - are excluded. But within its confines are flowers and the woman herself, objects of beauty.”

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classicstober.bsky.social @classicstober.bsky.social · 10m

Nekiya! (He doesn’t really get a Katabasis, but he does talk to the dead)

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Kenzie Rumlily @whitenoisewife.bsky.social · 23h

day 7 of #classicstober25 ! witch! here we have circe explaining to odysseus his uh......semi-katabasis? dubious katabasis?

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Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social · 19h

Day 7 of #classicstober and the theme is witch/sorceress. Pressed for time today so here is a 16th-century drawing showing Circe with Odysseus plus crew members transformed into pigs

@classicstober.bsky.social #classicstober25

drawing | British Museum share.google/w117nan5PeNJ...

drawing | British Museum

Ulysses and Circe; Ulysses in a boat with companions (in the form of pigs), Circe standing on the shore, offering him a vessel Pen and black ink, with red, blue, grey and brown wash, sheet cut down

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Sand Rougelune 🦉 @srougelune.bsky.social · 16h

4, 5 and 6 of #classicstober

#classicstober25 #ME/CFS

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Urania @deityofstars.bsky.social · 13h

#classicstober #classicstober25
Day 4: Shroud
I don't know how I forgot to share this here on the correct day, but here it is!

A digital art piece of a ba, a bird with the head of a human, standing on a shroud covered mummy. The art is rended in a flat coloured largely lineless style. The shroud shows a woman's face with a large wekesh collar necklace stretching across her neck. She has bronze skin, dark wavy brown hair pulled away from her face, and dark eyeliner around her eyes in an Egyptian style. Below her necklace is an arm with a large feathered wing attached to it, part of an image of the goddess Ma'at. Below this is a kneeling goddess, Isis, with her hand up in a gesture of mourning. The bottom of the shroud shows a line of kneeling figures with knives. Each section is seperated from the others by a gold boarder. The ba has the face of the woman on the shroud but her body is of a white bird with green wings and tail. She is looking down at her portrait on theh shroud and smiling slightly.

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heather-nicol.bsky.social @heather-nicol.bsky.social · 17h

Classicstober day 7 - pharmakis @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

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classicstober.bsky.social @classicstober.bsky.social · 23h

Hey Crom 😁

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Matei Tomasevici 🥨 馬太 @covrig.bsky.social · 1d

#ClassicsTober
#ClassicsTober25
#Day7

I don't know much Greek, but familiar with biblical φαρμακεύς (warlock, sorcerer, drug brewer)
I couldn't find a biblical drug brewer pics, since their mention is very general
So here's Baba Yaga riding her giant mortar.

#slavic
#witch
#mythology
#folklore

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Valerie @valerieadventures.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7 of #classicstober is pharmakis (witch, sorceress). I am sharing a book I have on my October stack and that I will be starting this weekend! The First Witches: Women of Classical Power in the Classical World by Alexis Hannah Prescott #Classicstober25

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Miss Ailec @celiapm.bsky.social · 1d

Jason and Medea
John William Waterhouse

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25 7 Pharmakis

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 1d

Classicstober Day 7: Φαρμακίς (witch, Sorceress)🔮✨🏺

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 1d

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵

#LatinForTheDay - 7 October - meets #ClassicsTober Day 7: Φαρμακίς (witch, Sorceress) #Juvenal

“hic magicos adfert cantus, hic Thessala vendit
philtra, quibus valeat mentem vexare mariti
et solea pulsare natis. quod desipis, inde est,
inde animi caligo et magna oblivio rerum...

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alexandermustill.bsky.social @alexandermustill.bsky.social · 1d

Classicstober Day 6: " Moirai". Clotho the Spinner, Lachesis the Apportioner of Lots, and Atropos, She Who May Not Be Turned

After a painting by Paul Thumann, 19th Century

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 1d

#classicstober 6: Moirai

pen sketch showing three women from left to right: an old woman crouching with a drop spindle, a middle-aged woman kneeling at a loom taking thread from the first, and then handing another thread to the third, a young woman seated with shears

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👻🐈‍⬛ Ben Paites (but Spooky) 🧙‍♀️🐉 @benpaites.bsky.social · 1d

Day 6 - Moirai
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25

White chalk on black background style design. A young short girl stands to the left, a woman in the centre and older woman to the right kneeling. Each holds a spindle with thread connecting them. Below is the Greek word Moirai.

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

We walk on our path,
Unknowing the length of our thread,
Just to play our part.

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#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober5 #DailyPrompt #Moirai #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #Katabasis #FinalJourney #Underworld #Classics #TheFates #Destiny #GreekMythology #MythsAndLegends #StringsOfFate #Fatalism

ClassicsTober25: Katabasis

1. Hypnos
2. Thanatos
3. Graeae
4. Shroud
5. Hermes Psychopompos
6. Moirai
7. φαρμακίς (pharmakis) - witch, sorceress
8. Erebos
9. Lampades
10. Hekate
11. Torch
12. Styx
13. Empousa
14. Cocytus
15. Τέρατα (Térata) - monsters
16. Typhon
17. Echidna
18. Kharon
19. Shade
20. Acheron
21. Kerberos
22. Judge
23. Lamia
24. Phlegethon
25. Tartarus
26. Punishment
27. Erinyes
28. Phobos & Deimos
29. Mysteries
30. Lethe
31. Elysian Fields

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Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social · 1d

Day 6 of #classicstober and the theme is the Fates (moirai). Here's my quick rendition of the fabulous Fates from Disney's Hercules (a bit of a blend with the Graiai of day 3) #classicstober25 @classicstober.bsky.social

Pencil crayon and black fibre tip drawing of the Fates as featured in Disney film Hercules. Three caricatured old women draped in black. One sort of looks like a bird with a long beak, another sort of like a pig, maybe? The third has a long pointy chin and is holding an eyeball. They all have black eye sockets as they share that single eye. Lovely.

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