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Miss Ailec @celiapm.bsky.social · 21h

Dante y Virgilio en el Cocito
Gustave Doré

#ClassicsTober25 14 Cocytus

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heather-nicol.bsky.social @heather-nicol.bsky.social · 8h

Classicstober day 13 - Empousa. @classicstober.bsky.social @mhairi-at-ou.bsky.social #Classicstober #classicstober25

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Sand Rougelune 🦉 @srougelune.bsky.social · 9h

10,11 and 12 of #classicstober25
#classicstober

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Dr Christine Plastow @chrissieplastow.bsky.social · 9h

Day 12: Styx.

Your bedside was a dock
And from it I saw you were preparing your fare,
Checking departure times.
When the ferry pushed off we waved and smiled.
The water was flat as glass.

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25

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Dr Christine Plastow @chrissieplastow.bsky.social · 10h

Day 11: Torch

Lighting a candle on an autumn evening
I cast the same old ancient spell:
Fire against the dark.

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25

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Dr Christine Plastow @chrissieplastow.bsky.social · 10h

Day 10: Hekate

At the crossroads I met a woman with three faces.
One smiled, one turned away toward the west.
She handed me a key and the third face said:
'To keep you safe'.
Her dog licked my hand.

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25

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Dr Christine Plastow @chrissieplastow.bsky.social · 10h

Day 9: Lampades

She comes with lights
Stars around the moon
We glint in her wake
Like night-water

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25

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classicstober.bsky.social @classicstober.bsky.social · 14h

That’s a great band name!

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Amy @knittingclassicist.bsky.social · 17h

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... Cocytus (I got nothin' 😢) #ClassicsTober25 #ClassicsTober

River Bralette pattern by Brie Miklaucic

This bralette is knit from the bottom up with 6mm elastic band. First, the circumference is cast on and the bralette is knit in the round, folding the bottom to encase the elastic band. Next the back ...

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 19h

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 14: Cocytus

Sparkle 🇮🇷 Cocytus - Κωκυτός

Chaos Erebus (2021)

Funeral doom metal/post-rock

Full track list:
1. Cocytus - Κωκυτός
2. Phlegethon - Φλεγέθων
3. Styx - Στύξ
4. Acheron - Ἀχέρων
5. Lethe - Λήθη

#ClassicsTober

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 21h

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 24 of #ClassicsTober25: Cocytus or Kokytos is the river of wailing in the underworld in Greek mythology. Cocytus flows into the river Acheron, on the other side of which lies Hades, the underworld, the mythological resting place of the dead. #ClassicsTober

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Kenzie Rumlily @whitenoisewife.bsky.social · 1d

day 13 of #classicstober25 : empusa! she's a crazy lady i love her

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Amy @knittingclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... Empousa #ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25

Shapeshifter Scarf pattern by YIYO Designs

Metamorphosis! Three different lace knit patterns shift into one another seemingly seamlessly in this captivating textured scarf.

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classicstober.bsky.social @classicstober.bsky.social · 14h

Nice!

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 1d

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 13: Empousa

Clayshaper 🇸🇪 Empusa

The Demon Tapes (2019)

Melodic death metal

"Twisting into form
Drawn into the swarm
Beautiful and warm
Lust, a violent storm
She is out to feed
Triumph is decreed
I will surely bleed
My life she will need"

#ClassicsTober

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Michael @buccifolio.bsky.social · 2d

Hekate, guardian of the crossroads. For @classicstober.bsky.social

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Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social · 2d

Classicstober Day 12: Styx 💀🖤🌊

Art by flaroh illustration. Styx floating in dark water with hands reaching for her

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 2d

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 13 of #ClassicsTober25: Empousa. She was a "demonic phantom" with shape-shifting abilities. She was be one-legged, having one brass leg or a donkey's leg. She was a being sent by Hecate or was Hecate herself. #ClassicsTober

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Amy @knittingclassicist.bsky.social · 2d

Ode to a typical #ClassicsTober ...

A Lego Zeus made out of bricks
Thetis dipping her son in the Styx
The dark goddess Nyx is
displayed on a pyxis
All shown on an old iPhone 6

#ClassicsTober25

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Kenzie Rumlily @whitenoisewife.bsky.social · 2d

day 12 of #classicstober25 : styx!

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Amy @knittingclassicist.bsky.social · 2d

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #ClassicsTober25 #ClassicsTober

Styx pattern by Magdalena Lorentz

A half-circle shawl worked top-down with alternating color stripes which are formed by short-rows.

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 2d

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 12: Styx

Sinister 🇳🇱 Cross the Styx

Cross the Styx (1992)

Death metal

"Souls drowned in the blood of Oblivion
dragged in the stream of the inflicted access
zymotic slime of substracted skin
into damnation tortured infinity"

#ClassicsTober

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Miss Ailec @celiapm.bsky.social · 2d

“ La encantadora Calipso y Eudora y Ociroe y Tyche y Anfiro y Estigia, que entre todas ellas es la más señalada. Estas son las hijas mayores que de Océano y Tetis nacieron “
Teogonía, Hesiodo

#ClassicsTober25 12 Styx

Charon carries souls across the river Styx
Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 3d

To enter the Underworld, first you must cross the river Styx. Charon will be your guide. This interpretation by Flemish painter Joachim Patinir is our pick for #ClassicsTober25 Day 12: Styx. With these delightful blues and greens, the entrance to the other side looks positively delightful…

‘Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx’ is an oil on wood painting dating to c. 1515–1524, held by the Museo del Prado, Madrid. The Styx is depicted as an aquamarine river that shimmers under a blue sky dotted with clouds. Charon is a bearded man with not many clothes but enough to cover his modesty. The far bank on the right has burning buildings and thunderous clouds.

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Häferlkaffee @haeferlkaffee.bsky.social · 3d

#ClassicsTober25 Day 12: Styx

On this sarcophagus, Protesilaos is accompanied to the banks of the Styx by Hermes Psychopompos, where Charon's boat waits to bring him back to the underworld, after he spent 3 hours with his wife Laodameia.

#ClassicsTober #AncientBluesky 🏺

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