POV: A peek inside Ares’ head when he falling in love with the goddess of beauty and love herself, because I have a feeling that he is a dreamy lover, similar to his mother, Queen Hera. Ty to whoever making this playlist 💖💖🌸👨🏾‍🦱👩🏼‍🦱

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POV: A peek inside Ares’ head when he falling in love with the goddess of beauty and love herself, because I have a feeling that he is a dreamy lover, similar to his mother, Queen Hera. Ty to whoever making this playlist 💖💖🌸👨🏾‍🦱👩🏼‍🦱

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everywhere around the world still had remnants of economic depression and postwar scarcity within its fashion though.

A request on Ares and Aphrodite in their midcentury fashion recommended by a friend on IG !!! My own interpretation of the 1950s fashion style was much more older fashioned and borrowed from the earlier decades, since except in US & parts of Europe that were unscathed by war during that time,

Enter Billig's "banal nationalism": The gingham dresses and apple pies aren't innocent aesthetic choices. They're loaded symbols reinforcing a specific narrative about "traditional" American values. The white picket fence is a political statement.

The authenticity paradox: Real 1950s housewives were champions of convenience foods and modern appliances. Today's tradwives preach "from scratch" while using KitchenAids and Instant Pots. It's not historical accuracy - it's modern wellness culture in vintage dress.

Historically, Marcus Antonius, during his trip to Egypt to visit Cleopatra VII, has always considered himself to be an embodiment of Zeus-Serapis-Dionysus, consort of Isis Aphrodite, but I just think the icon of armed muscular Ares/Mars always suited him more, and look the best.

With various mistresses & marriages to Fadia, Antonia, Fulvia, Octavia the Younger, and Cleopatra, their descendants later went to become famous Roman statesmen, or went on to rule the Roman Empire, as well as various client kingdoms of modern-day Eastern Europe, Middle East, North Africa as well.

Ares’ version of Marcus Antonius was based on the historical statue of the Roman politician himself, with his embellishing muscle cuirass based on the Roman Republican statues of Julius Caesar, Augustus (Octavian) of Prima Porta, and Mars Ultor in the Forum of Nevra.

the iconography was adopted by many Ptolemaic queens, particularly Arisnoe II, Berenice II & Cleopatra VII.

With Aphrodite as the goddess of love, beauty, passion, procreation, prosperity, victory, and the ancestral mother of Rome(Venus Genetrix); while Isis as the goddess of magic, life, wisdom, an epitome of eternal maternal devotion, protectress of all living things & all aspects of the kingdom,

Isis, during this time, was a very weird figure to say the least, since while still keeping her Egyptian identity and attributes, she was further fused, syncretized, and absorbed the qualities of foreign Greek goddesses like Aphrodite, Demeter, Persephone, Tyche, etc.

Aphrodite’s version of the Egyptian queen was based on the depiction of historically-accurate Cleopatra VII made by Joan Oliveras (@/jfoliveras on Twitter & IG) as well as statuettes of Isis-Aphrodite that were carved from the Ptolemaic era-Roman Egypt, taken with modern creative liberties.