THANK YOU for taking part in #ClassicsTober this year! A lovely end to FIVE YEARS of prompts! We hope you had fun. Jenks & CB x #classicstober #classicstober25

Classicstober day 29 - Mysteries @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

Classicstober 30 - Lethe @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

Classicstober day 31 - Elysian Fields @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 31 of #ClassicsTober25: Elysian Fields. In the picture Aeneas meeting with his father in the Elysium. Sebastian Vrancx (1573–1647). Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. #ClassicsTober

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day 30 of #classicstober25 : lethe

#ClassicsTober25 30 Lethe

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 30 of #ClassicsTober25: Lethe was one of the rivers of Hades. All those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. The river was often associated with Lethe, the personification of forgetfulness & oblivion, the daughter of Eris (Strife). #ClassicsTober

day 29 of #classicstober25 : mysteries! the heart of the eleusinian mysteries, demeter and persephone :)

Placa Campana. Misterios eleusinos © Musée du Louvre #ClassicsTober25 29 Mysteries

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 29 of #ClassicsTober25: Mysteries. The Eleusinian Mysteries were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone in Eleusis in ancient Greece. They are considered the "most famous of the secret religious rites of ancient Greece". #ClassicsTober

✨The Eleusinian Mysteries✨ Demeter and Persephone flank a young youth thought to be Triptolemos. This beautiful Augustan era rendition based on a Greek relief is our pick for #ReliefWednesday and #ClassicsTober25.

Classicstober day 28 - Deimos and Phobos @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #classicstober25 #Classicstober

day 28 of #classicstober25 : phobos and deimos!

deimos and phobos were hungry for snacks so deimos and phobos both ordered flapjacks their platter was served to them covered in berries so they took their leftovers back home to Ares so proud to be in this year's #classicsTober so sad to think that this month will be over #ClassicsTober25

phobos and deimos went out for a walk phobos dared deimos to swallow some chalk deimos told phobos he rather would not so phobos and deimos sailed off on a yacht #ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25

Mosaic Mask of Phobos © British Museum #ClassicsTober25 28 Phobos and Deimos

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 28 of #ClassicsTober25: Deimos and Phobos were the gods or personified spirits of fear. Deimos represented terror and dread, while his brother Phobos was panic, flight and rout. They were sons of the war-god Ares. As sons of Aphrodite, they also meant fear of loss.

Classicstober day 27 - Erinyes @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #classicstober25 #Classicstober

Classicstober day 26 - punishment @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #classicstober25 #Classicstober

Der Mörder un die Furien, Arnold Böcklin © Colección Schack #ClassicstOber25 27 Erinyes

days 26 and 27 of #classicstober25 : punishment and erinyes! here we have orestes and his fury-haunting days

The Erinyes (aka. The Furies) for Day 27 of @classicstober.bsky.social

#ClassicsTober25 27: ERINYES

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 27 of #ClassicsTober25: The Erinyes were chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Their Roman counterparts are the Furies, also known as the Dirae. #ClassicsTober

#classicstober #classicstober25 Day 7: witch, sorceress I've gotten really far behind on Classicstober, so I'm just going to try to finish the prompts I feel really inspired to do.

#classicstober25 Day 14: Cocytus. Dante and Vergil walk on the frozen river of lamentation, after one of Gustave Doré's illustrations for Dante's Inferno #classicstober

Fragmento de la Biblioteca Histórica de Diodoro Sículo. #ClassicsTober25 26 Punishment

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 26 of #ClassicsTober25: Punishment. The Titan Atlas was transformed into stone after he refused Perseus hospitality. Copyright: © ph. Luciano Romano 2009. #ClassicsTober

Day 25 of #Classicstober is Tartarus! Sisyphus, Ixion, & Tantalus, seen on this 2nd c CE marble sarcophagus in the Vatican, suffered their punishments in Tartarus. #Classicstober25

Classicstober day 25 - Tartaros. @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

#ClassicsTober25 Day 25 & 26: Tartaros & Punishment The right short side of this sarcophagus of Protesilaos & Laodameia shows the Tartaros with Sisyphos, punished by externally rolling a stone up the hill, Ixion tied to an eternally spinning wheel, and Tantalos who couldn't drink the water.

day 25 of #classicstober25 : tartaros, here we have kronos and his long, isolated, eternal (unless you're hesiod!) torment

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#ClassicsTober25 25 Tartaros

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 25 of #ClassicsTober25: Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. In the picture Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attic black-figure amphora, c. 530 BC. #ClassicsTober

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Classicstober day 24 - Phlegethon. @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

Classicstober day 23 - Lamia @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

day 24 of #classicstober25 : phlegethon !

Classicstober day 22 - Judge @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

CLASSICSTOBER DAY 21: KERBEROS @classicstober.bsky.social #classicstober25 #classicstober

#ClassicsTober25 24 Phlegethon

Day24 of #Classicstober is Phlegathon, the flaming river of the underworld. This river also makes it into Canto XII of Dante’s inferno (seen here) digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine... #Classicstober25

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 24 of #ClassicsTober25: Phlegethon was one of the five rivers in the underworld, along with the rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron. It was the river of fire. In Divine Comedy, it is the river of blood that boils souls in the Seventh Circle. #ClassicsTober

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“ Parecía, al mismo tiempo, una sufriente dama élfica. Una especie de amante del demonio, o el demonio mismo “ John Keats #ClassicsTober25 23 Lamia

Day 23 of #Classicstober is the Lamia. Lamia were beautiful women with the body of snake who lured men (maybe children) in order to drink their blood/feast on their flesh. Companions to Hekate. (The only historic image I could find was a 17th century woodcut) #classicstober25

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25 #Judge King Yama is the judge of the souls in the underworld. At a certain point there were so many souls to judge, King Yama (Yan Wang) became a position, held by ten gods. The OG, known as Yanluo, still judges in the fifth hell. They're recruiting, CV through me 📄