The tattoos gods (and other creatures) of classical Greece and RomeBesides being very cool, they admit a lot of possibilities.
Today we are going to talk about a pair of gods, Zeus and Neptune, and one of the most mythical monsters of this culture, Medusa.
Zeus, the supreme god
One very cool thing about the ancient gods is that, no matter how gods they were, they still had human attributes. Thus, Zeus was the most important god of Olympus, as he challenged his father to take his place, and he had dominion over storms and lightning, but he was also a womanizer (and manger, since he had relations with some men) of careful, which led him to have lovers and problems everywhere.
In a tattoo, you can illustrate it as it is shown in works of art: with lightning in hand and sitting with majestic pose.
Poseidon, the lord of the seas
Poseidon rides the waves with his white horses (or monstrous serpent-tailed beings, depending on the version) and has the entire sea at his mercy. He is the brother of Zeus but, unlike him, he is a calmer and more benign god, although when he got angry he could cause terrible storms by driving his trident into the sea floor. It was also considered to have been signs of Atlantis, a fantastic and submerged continent.
In a tattoo you can show poseidon in the sea with his trident, the element with which it is customary to identify it in ancient works.
Medusa, the one with the hissing hair
The story of Medusa, who is technically not a goddess, but a monster, is very sad (and, as usual, it has many versions, although none are very happy to say). Legend has it that it was a human who Poseidon raped in the temple of Athena. Athena became angry and, instead of punishing Poseidon, she condemned Medusa to petrify the people who looked her in the eye and turned her beautiful mane into snakes.
In tattoos of gods, Medusa is used to illustrating precisely with her snake hair.
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