Ulla RajalaDay 31 of #ClassicsTober25: Elysian Fields. In the picture Aeneas meeting with his father in the Elysium. Sebastian Vrancx (1573–1647). Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. #ClassicsTober
Day 30 of #ClassicsTober25: Lethe was one of the rivers of Hades. All those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. The river was often associated with Lethe, the personification of forgetfulness & oblivion, the daughter of Eris (Strife). #ClassicsTober
Day 29 of #ClassicsTober25: Mysteries. The Eleusinian Mysteries were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone in Eleusis in ancient Greece. They are considered the "most famous of the secret religious rites of ancient Greece". In the photo initiation to Eleusinian Mysteries. c. 100–50 BC; relief, Louvre museum (Paris, France). #ClassicsTober
The Partial Historians✨The Eleusinian Mysteries✨
Demeter and Persephone flank a young youth thought to be Triptolemos. This beautiful Augustan era rendition based on a Greek relief is our pick for #ReliefWednesday and #ClassicsTober25.
Day 28 of #ClassicsTober25:
Deimos and Phobos were the gods or personified spirits of fear. Deimos represented terror and dread, while his brother Phobos was panic, flight and rout. They were sons of the war-god Ares. As sons of Aphrodite, they also meant fear of loss. In picture Ares and Phobos in Ares's chariot, dated to the 6th century BC. #ClassicsTober
Deimos and Phobos were the gods or personified spirits of fear. Deimos represented terror and dread, while his brother Phobos was panic, flight and rout. They were sons of the war-god Ares. As sons of Aphrodite, they also meant fear of loss. In picture Ares and Phobos in Ares's chariot, dated to the 6th century BC. #ClassicsTober
Day 27 of #ClassicsTober25: The Erinyes were chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Their Roman counterparts are the Furies, also known as the Dirae. In the vase painting Clytemnestra tries to awaken the sleeping Erinyes. Detail from an Apulian red-figure bell-krater, 380–370 BC. #ClassicsTober
Day 26 of #ClassicsTober25: Punishment. The Titan Atlas was transformed into stone after he refused Perseus hospitality. Copyright: © ph. Luciano Romano 2009. #ClassicsTober
Day 25 of #ClassicsTober25: Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. In the picture Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attic black-figure amphora, c. 530 BC. #ClassicsTober
@ClassicsTober Day 24 of #ClassicsTober25: Phlegethon was one of the five rivers in the underworld, along with the rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron. It was the river of fire. In Divine Comedy, it is the river of blood that boils souls in the Seventh Circle. #ClassicsTober
Lamia was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, a type of night-haunting spirit. She was originally a beautiful queen of ancient Libya who had an affair with Zeus. Hera robbed Lamia of her children. The loss of her children drove Lamia insane and turned her to a monster. #ClassicsTober25
