
Hecuba is a tragedy by Euripides written c. 424 BC. It takes place after the Trojan War, but … It depicts Hecuba’s grief over the death of her daughter Polyxena, and the revenge she takes for the murder of her youngest son Polydorus.
Merry-Joseph Blondel - “Hecuba and Polyxena” (after 1814)
ceiling at the palace of Louis XIV, Versailles
Lily James behind the scenes of Harper Bazaar’s shoot with the women of Downton Abbey
“i’m in kind of a weird mental place right now” i say, as if there are times when i am not in a weird mental place
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the Contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. - Donna Tartt, The Secret History