This week's #MythologyMonday theme is artworks featuring mythology. There are, of course, countless depictions of mythological scenes from ancient times. Some myths, in fact, are ONLY known through artwork, for example the drinking contest between #Herakles and #Dionysos.
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In the European #Renaissance, the writings of ancient Greek and Roman authors were rediscovered and with them the myths. My favourite piece of #neoclassical Renaissance art is Benvenuto Cellini's #Perseus. He is shown right after having killed #Medusa, holding up her severed head. But to me, he doesn't look triumphant. He looks sad and tired. Cellini paid close attention and kept the tradition of the long tapered foreskin with his Perseus that is known from ancient art.
"Athenian Meles, spurning the love of Timagoras, a resident foreigner, bade him ascend to the highest point of the rock and cast himself down. When Meles saw that Timagoras was dead, he suffered such remorse that he threw himself from the same rock and so died."
Pausanias, Description of Greece
"Athenian Meles, spurning the love of Timagoras, a resident foreigner, bade him ascend to the highest point of the rock and cast himself down. When Meles saw that Timagoras was dead, he suffered such pangs of remorse that he threw himself from the same rock and so died."