Romney based this design for a tattoo on a traditional ceramic ornament brought back from Greece in the 1950s. It must represent Actaeon, "who by the man-eating hounds he had raised was torn apart," in the moment after he spied the naked Artemis. A tattoo for the kind of hunter who is not afraid to confront virgin goddesses.
Quote from the Bacchae of Euripedes translated by E.P.Coleridge, sometime around 1910.
No comments:
Post a Comment