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    Default Tattoo design

    Hi all.
    This isn't really that EB-related but I thought here would be a good place to ask.
    I'm planning on getting a tattoo in the next few months to symbolise my love for music as well as my love for ancient and classical history (a by-product of playing EB since 0.7). So, naturally, I want to get an Apollo tattoo. I want him to be unmistakably Apollo, but all the paintings/statues of him depict the god with not many clothes on and I'm worried, as a straight man, that it might look a little gay to have a naked man perminantly marked on my flesh. Would it be un-Apollo-like for him to be dressed in a way which is a little less effeminate?

    I was thinking of giving him a beautiful hoplite's helmet and maybe even a linen cuirass, but he would still be holding a lyre and would have the sun as his background and I possibly even give him a bow and quiver. So would that be a complete bastardisation of the deity?

    Another thing I was thinking about was whether I could get something written in ancient Greek underneath it, maybe something to do with music or art in general as I am an avid musician.

    EDIT: I also think that this conventional representation of Apollo misses the point of my historical interests which, being EB-influenced, are primarily military.
    Last edited by Laevex; 07-22-2008 at 15:36.
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