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When Pandora’s box has opened.
Today my favourite class (yezzz, bad teacher who has their fav students) told me they join to our next online lesson in halloween costumes because of lockdown! These kids are so f*cking amazing and I love them!
My first attempt was my selfportrait in a reverse Azira’s costume but then I added the beard and change the hair color and he was far far better than me. He is something between a vampire, gothic and dandy man, I haven’t decide yet. Two things he never take off - his skirt with long ruffle sleeves, tartan skirt of course, and the red bow.
common misconceptions of greek or roman mythology
» Nike & Dike are two different gods. Nike is the goddess of victory & Dike is the goddess of justice
» Hades is the god of the underworld & Thanatos is the god of death
» Persephone isn’t just the queen of the underworld, she’s the goddess of spring
» There’s two goddesses named Thalia, one of the muses, and one of graces
» In Greek, a name like Hekate or Kassandra would be spelled with a K, but in other languages it can be spelled with a C
» In Roman Mythology, Apollo is still Apollo (there many be other wording to how it’s spelt, but it’s still Apollo)
» Hermes could fly without his sandals as they were simply symbols for him
» The definition of the twelve Olympians changes because multiple texts decipher other gods/goddesses as being apart of the twelve Olympians
» The titans were not ultimately bad gods, some would say they were nicer to humanity and never tried to destroy humanity (this idea was popularized by Percy Jackson), and the Olympians attacked first
» There is no “Pandora’s” box, Pandora, who is actually a woman created, actually opened the box after being gifted it on her wedding day
» Not many people worshiped Ares because he was majority of the time on the losing side & he was considered too violent and difficult to have on your side
» At first Rome’s gods had no appearance until they absorbed more Greek Mythology
» The Trojan War is still being debated as actually happening, there has been debris found that could indicate that there was a siege to the city
» Male demigods tended to have higher-than-average ambition and physical powers, while female demigods (like Helen of Troy) only were gifted with exceptional beauty
» Death gods were pretty laid back compared to other gods & the only person/god Hades ever killed was Asclepius, but only because Asclepius was bringing the dead back to life & disrupting the cycle of life
Forever Muse™
1920s ladies: louise brooks as lulu in pandora's box (1929)
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#Miniature Monday
Pandora's Box by Peter & Donna Thomas
This is part of a series focusing on a small fraction of the lovely artists books by Peter and Donna Thomas!
Today's item is a scroll on a wooden frame that the makers compare to Pandora's Box-easy to open, but harder to put back! (Don't worry- I got it rolled back up again safely.)
When unrolled, it features a quotation from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, which begins: "I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres." The text is on a backdrop of green and blue linoleum cuts by Donna Thomas.
Peter and Donna Thomas are "book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books." They have made over 100 limited edition books, often with Peter making the paper, and Donna doing the illustrations.
Check out more of Donna and Peter's books at Uiowa here.
--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student
