A couple of #playingcards with #musical details from Le Jeu de la #Mythologie (the Game of #mythology ) 1644.
By Stefano della Bella (d #otd 1664.)
#Pallas #Athene and the 9 muses
and
#Amphion playing the #violin

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Snapshot of some of the #GreekMyths of the #constellations we've covered to-date in Season 1 for #MythMonday:
♑ : Sad seagoat dad, who can talk & read, but whose kids don't like him
♒ : Zeus kidnaps handsome boy
♉ : Zeus becomes a bull to seduce woman (who not his wife)
♓ : Aphrodite & Eros become fish/are saved by fish -- all fear Typhon!
♊ : Twin bros, who can't live w/o each other (but in a nice way)
♋ : Hera throws crab at Heracles. Crab dies quickly.
♌ : Lion who kidnaps... women? Killed by Heracles.
♈ : Golden ram saves a kid, who then kills him
♍ : young woman... does... something? (stories vary)
♎ : Astraea abandons humanity during the Iron Age
♏ : Orion is punished for being a jerk
♐ : Satyr who rides horses is beloved by the muses

Coming soon: ⛎ !

You can learn more about the #astronomy & #myths of your #astrological/#Zodiac sign by checkin' out the pod!

Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

Retelling of the myth of Medusa and Perseus, depicting Medusa as the innocent victim she is and Perseus a spoiled wet blanket of a man. Author narrates her own audiobook and I loved the snark.

https://uk.bookshop.org/a/772/9781529061475
https://bookwyrm.social/book/616538/s/stone-blind

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Theseus seduces Antiope to leave her sister warrior Amazons and return to Athens as his Queen. But the Amazons plot revenge.
#greekmythology #greekmyths #mythologyart #mythology #greece #classics #literature #Illustrationart

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