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The French Symbolist Gustave Moreau, one of the most distinctive artists I can think of, painted Jupiter and Semele in 1894 and 1895.
It depicts the story of Zeus appearing to his mortal lover, Semele. It’s a tale that explains both Zeus’ habit of showing up to his sundry women in the guise of animals, money, gusts of wind, &c., and the danger of tiny old ladies who give you strange romantic advice: sometimes they’re actually the wives of your weird deity boyfriends trying to trick you into demanding a glimpse of said boyfriend in his highly lethal superhuman-being form.
In short, don’t sleep with Zeus.
Semele, unfortunately, did not take my advice, and here dies in a visual cacophony of flowers and partially clad figures.
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date a girl who stops mid-sentence to tell you there’s a dog nearby
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Priam killed by Neoptolemus
Greek, ca. 520 BC–510 B.C.
Death of Hypatia, c.1930 by William Mortensen (American, 1897–1965)
Snow leopards and their giant nommable tails
BEHOLD DOGS
WE HAVE ACHIEVED THAT WHICH YOU CANNOT
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