#frescofriday — Public Fediverse posts

✨Pentheus being torn apart by maenads✨

Euripides ‘The Bacchae’ tells the unfortunate tale of Pentheus, the king of Thebes, who banned the worship of Dionysius. This provoked the wrath of the god and led to the women of Thebes breaking out into a Bachhic frenzy. Pentheus was ripped limb from limb. His death was viewed as a sparagmos, where tearing an animal (or human) apart was viewed as a special type of sacrifice. This fresco from the triclinium in the House of the Vettii in Pompeii, seems to run counter to today’s notions of good taste…

#FrescoFriday #AncientGreece #AncientRome #Euripides

✨A centaur and a young man✨

This scene is very reminiscent of another fresco of Chiron educating Achilles. The role of the centaur as teacher and guide to learning the arts and cultivating wisdom draws a connection between the epics of Homer and Pompeii where this fresco was found in the so-called Villa of Cicero. The piece is now held by the MAN Napoli.

#FrescoFriday #AncientGreece #AncientRome #Achilles #Chiron

✨A centaur and a young man✨

This scene is very reminiscent of another fresco of Chiron educating Achilles. The role of the centaur as teacher and guide to learning the arts and cultivating wisdom draws a connection between the epics of Homer and Pompeii where this fresco was found in the so-called Villa of Cicero. The piece is now held by the MAN Napoli.

#FrescoFriday #AncientGreece #AncientRome #Achilles #Chiron

✨A centaur and a young man✨

This scene is very reminiscent of another fresco of Chiron educating Achilles. The role of the centaur as teacher and guide to learning the arts and cultivating wisdom draws a connection between the epics of Homer and Pompeii where this fresco was found in the so-called Villa of Cicero. The piece is now held by the MAN Napoli.

#FrescoFriday #AncientGreece #AncientRome #Achilles #Chiron

✨A centaur and a young man✨

This scene is very reminiscent of another fresco of Chiron educating Achilles. The role of the centaur as teacher and guide to learning the arts and cultivating wisdom draws a connection between the epics of Homer and Pompeii where this fresco was found in the so-called Villa of Cicero. The piece is now held by the MAN Napoli.

#FrescoFriday #AncientGreece #AncientRome #Achilles #Chiron

✨A centaur and a young man✨

This scene is very reminiscent of another fresco of Chiron educating Achilles. The role of the centaur as teacher and guide to learning the arts and cultivating wisdom draws a connection between the epics of Homer and Pompeii where this fresco was found in the so-called Villa of Cicero. The piece is now held by the MAN Napoli.

#FrescoFriday #AncientGreece #AncientRome #Achilles #Chiron

It’s time to celebrate #FrescoFriday with a little bit of monkeying around 🐵

We travel back in time to Knossos and the House of the Frescoes (aptly or boringly named depending on your perspective). Dating to c. 1580–30 BCE this fresco panel is largely fragmentary leaving the concept of monkeys frolicking a possibility but not a certainty. Flowers and nature seem to be abundant but the exact composition of the scene remains elusive.

#History #Minoa