Promethean Struggle

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"The Ancients are watching." – The American Lyceum The Statue of Dante Alighieri. Photograph by Fabrizio Palumbo. #dante #art #sculpture #florence #history #photography

Hadrian6: Augustus Caesar. Roman, Imperial Period, 1st or 2nd century A.D. marble. (source: hadrian6.tumblr.com/post/172494887…) #augustus #art #sculpture #ancienthistory #rome

"Silence itself is strategy, / a signed language, / gorgeous, fluid in the hands / of those who learned it in childhood." – Mary Jo Bang, from Apology for Want: Poems; “Gretel” [taken from another site] #maryjobang #silence #strategy #quote

The blood moon rises over the temple of Apollo | Corinth, Greece by Valerie Gashe AFP. #bloodmoon #templeofapollo #corinth #greece #architecture #history #photography

#deathnote #lightyagami #fanart #art source: mikami.tumblr.com/post/139762093…

#china #sword #history #photography

#HanDynasty #Gaozu #quote #China #politics #history

Izanami by Ibuzoo R. Meisel (source: ibuzoo.tumblr.com/post/180889726…) #japan #mythology #aesthetic #art

#wuzetian #china #quote #history #strategy #politics #ancienthistory

Illustration of a Young Napoleon Studying at College by Jacques Onfroy de Breville ("Job") (source: greatbigcanvas.com/view/napoleon-…) #napoleonbonaparte #art #history

#andrewroberts #napoleonalife #quote #napoleonbonaparte #history #ambition #ability #leadership #extraordinaryoutcomes #grandpurpose

Detail from The Chariot Race, by Alexander von Wagner, c. 1882 source: classicalsketchbook.tumblr.com/post/375480496… #thechariotrace #alexandervonwagner #artists

"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." – E. E. Cummings #quote #values #identity #self #courage #battle

Bronze statue of a man representing Progress at The Victoria Memorial. #art #sculpture #thevictoriamemorial

"The man who fights for his ideals is the man who is alive." – Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote #migueldecervantes #donquixote #quote #ideals #principles #battle #values #strength #alive

#chess #photography (source: conceptuala-blog.tumblr.com/post/140984941…)

#nikolatesla #quote #humanity #history

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer. (source: macrolit.tumblr.com/post/143460000…) #homer #theiliad #theodyssey #greece #mythology #literature #classic

"No text more thoroughly penetrated Cleopatra's world. In an age infatuated with history and calibrated in glory, Homer's work was the Bible of the day." – Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra #cleopatra #homer #theiliad #quote #history

Alexander the Great (image source: x.com/antiquite1/sta…) #alexanderthegreat #art #history