#frescofriday — Public Fediverse posts

🌸Flora🌸

Sydney feels like it’s jumped straight from winter to summer these last few days, but really it’s Spring in the air.

This fresco fragment is often identified as the goddess Flora and was found in the Villa of Ariadne in Stabiae. Now held in the MAN Napoli.

#AncientRome #History #FrescoFriday

🌸Flora🌸

Sydney feels like it’s jumped straight from winter to summer these last few days, but really it’s Spring in the air.

This fresco fragment is often identified as the goddess Flora and was found in the Villa of Ariadne in Stabiae. Now held in the MAN Napoli.

#AncientRome #History #FrescoFriday

🌸Flora🌸

Sydney feels like it’s jumped straight from winter to summer these last few days, but really it’s Spring in the air.

This fresco fragment is often identified as the goddess Flora and was found in the Villa of Ariadne in Stabiae. Now held in the MAN Napoli.

#AncientRome #History #FrescoFriday

🌸Flora🌸

Sydney feels like it’s jumped straight from winter to summer these last few days, but really it’s Spring in the air.

This fresco fragment is often identified as the goddess Flora and was found in the Villa of Ariadne in Stabiae. Now held in the MAN Napoli.

#AncientRome #History #FrescoFriday

🌸Flora🌸

Sydney feels like it’s jumped straight from winter to summer these last few days, but really it’s Spring in the air.

This fresco fragment is often identified as the goddess Flora and was found in the Villa of Ariadne in Stabiae. Now held in the MAN Napoli.

#AncientRome #History #FrescoFriday

✨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