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Art lifted up her head and was seated on her throne, and said, All eyes shall see me, and all knees shall bow to me. (William Hazlitt, on the Louvre)

Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab yo...

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listography GIVE MEMORIES
TERMS
FAVORITE LISTOGRAPHY MENTIONS
IMPORTANT NOTICES
MESSAGES
  • THE MOIRAE (FATES): determine the course of human life
    • Clotho: spun the thread of life
    • Laschesis: held it to its fixed length
    • Atropos: cut it off
  • THE GRACES: enhanced the enjoyment of life by refinement and gentleness
    • Aglaia: brilliance
    • Euphrosyne: joy
    • Thalia: bloom
  • THE MUSES: memory and arts and sciences
    • Calliope: epic poetry
    • Clio: history
    • Erato: love poetry
    • Euterpe: lyric poetry/flute playing
    • Melpomene: tragedy
    • Polymnia: sacred poetry/pantomine
    • Terpsichore: dance
    • Thalia: comedy
    • Urania: astronomy
  • ANEMOI
    • VENTI
      • Boreas/Aquilo (Aquilon)): north wind; bringer of winter
      • Notus/Auster): south wind; bringer of storms of late summer and autumn
      • Eurus/Vulturnus): east wind; bringer of warmth and rain
      • Zephyris (Zephyr)/Favonius: west wind; bringer of spring
    • ANEMOI THUELLAI
      • Kaikias/Caecius: northeast
      • Apeliotes (Apeliotus)/Subsolanus: southeast wind
      • Skiron (Skeiron)/Caurus (Corus: northwest wind
      • Livas/Afer ventus (Africas): southwest
  • HORAE
    • Auge: first light
    • Anatole (Anatolia): sunrise
    • Mousika (Musica): the morning hour of music and study
    • Gymnastika (Gymnastica, Gymnasia): the morning hour of gymnastics/exercise
    • Nymphe: the morning hour of ablutions
    • Mesembria: noon
    • Sponde: libations poured after lunch
    • Elete: prayer, the first of the afternoon work hours
    • Akte (Acte): eating and pleasure; the second of the afternoon work hours
    • Hesperis: evening
    • Dysis: sunset
    • Arktos: night sky, constellations
  • THE ERINYES/FURIES
    • Megaera: grudging
    • Tisiphone: avending murder
    • Alecto: unceasing
  • THE PLEIADES
    • Maia: grandmother, mother, nurse
    • Electra/Eleckra: amber, shining, bright
    • Taygete/Taygeta: long-necked
    • Alcyone/Halcyone: queen who wards off evil/storms
    • Celæno: swarthy
    • Stereope/Asterope: lightning, twinkling, sun-face, stubborn-face
    • Merope: eloquent, bee-eater, mortal
  • EROS/CUPID: carnal desire
  • PRIAPUS: fertility and protection
  • PHOBOS: panic
  • DEIMOS: fear
  • NIKE: victory
  • PAN/FAUNUS: woods and pastures; protector and shepherds and their flocks and merchants
  • THANATOS: death
  • HYPNOS: sleep
  • ONEIROI: dreams
    • Morpheus: principal god of dreams, able to take on any human form
    • Icelos/Phobetor: personification of nightmares; appears in the form of animals and monsters
    • Phantasos: appears in the form of inanimate objects
  • IRIS: personification of rainbow; messenger of the gods
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