EmTheHistoryGirl

Poppaea Sabina (AD 30 – AD 65) was the second wife of the Roman Emperor Nero, she was born in Pompeii (yes! where the volcano erupted!) and according to (women hating) ancient historians, used her great beauty and intrigue (murder?) to get herself into the position of empress

Katherine of Aragon (divorced) Anne Boleyn (Beheaded) Jane Seymour (Died) Anne of Cleves (divorced) Katherine Howard (Beheaded) Katherine Parr (survived)

Hades

Mary Stuart

Khepri

Richard III

TATBILB: Lara Jean

Dido

Fran

I was planning a lesson for one of my junior classes on Aztec deities and came across a description of Ītzpāpālōtl (name means Obsidian Butterfly or Clawed Butterfly) as having obsidian tipped wings and skeletal. I had to draw her.

Augustus was the first emperor of Rome and of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. He rose to power after the collapse of the second triumverate and his defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium

When working on my version of Clytemnestra after reading her chapter in Pandora's Jar, I decided purple needed to feature heavily in her regalia as a nod to the whole saga with the tapestries. I also found myself reflecting on how she is (in my opinion) the most relatable of the protagonists in Jennifer Saint's novel "Elektra" and that, while her actions are extreme, I don't know how I would respond if Agamemnon were my husband (eww). This rendition of Clytemnestra is based on a red-figured Krater called "Death of Agamemnon" in the Hermitage Museum.

And thats Chapter eight of Pandora's Jar finished. It was an intense one, but did reaffirm the fact that Theseus is my least favourite of the Greek Hero's. I've based this image of Phaedra on a calyx-krater (350BC-340BC) from the British Museum (Accession Number 1870,0710.2)

Cleopatra

No Harm Ever Came From Reading A Book

Ubbe

Brutus

Isetnofret

Horus

Osiris

Elizabeth Woodville

Isabella I of Castile

Anubis

Lucilla was the daughter of "The last good Emperor" Marcus Aurelius and the sister of the Ancient Roman Emperor Commodus, she was exiled for the part she played in a plot against her brother. She died in exile.

Elizabeth I

Miss Dinosaur - Ankylosaurus

I've just finished the second chapter in "Pandora's Jar, Women in the Greek Myths" and have drawn Jocasta. As there are no confirmed images depicting Jocasta from the Ancient World, I have used a presumed image of her as inspiration for this image, a Sicilian red-figure calyx-krater.

Feeling 2022

I have just finished the third part of "Pandora's Jar, Women in Greek Myths" and I found this one particularly difficult. Simply because there are so many different Helens and each representation of her (particularly in modern media) seems to reflect modern standards of beauty. I took inspiration from "Recovery of Helen by Menelaus" an Attic black-figure amphora, from c. 550 BC.

Ancient Egyptian Goddess Isis

Ramses II

Dino Portrait - T-Rex

Catherine The Great

Tutankhamun

Empress Theodora

Elizabeth I