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The war chief of the sea raiders leads the warband by right of might. Clad in a full suit of bronze armor and a dread mask, he is a formidable adversary to any foolish enough to stand in his way. https://t.co/ps0sHjMMQ9
ancient wisdom
Joanne Stone • 1 card
The anecdote is an elaborate fiction, but all the same it expresses a profound truth about the Hellenic mind. It embodies Apollo’s maxims at Delphi—“nothing in excess” and “know yourself”—and was a bleak reminder that the fate of human beings lay not in themselves, but (as Homer put it) “on the knees of the gods.”
Anthony Everitt • The Rise of Athens
Boxer at Rest is a Greek bronze statue, the greatest surviving masterpiece from antiquity [Hellenistic] for the pathos that it still evokes across time capturing the spectator in the transcending immediacy that is our tragic human condition confronting fear, survival & mortality. https://t.co/ugpmr1QkKD
known-rapist Poseidon
Kathryn Nuernberger • The Witch of Eye
Greek mythology
Milly • 4 cards