What is our favourite #ancientGreek play?
Mine is The Frogs by Aristophanes. 🐸
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Since today is #WorldTheatreDay – you all know this already – but #Dionysos is the God of Theatre!
#Theatre performances were held in his honour and probably evolved from the jokes made during the Dionysia's procession of phalloi 🎭
@mythology @pagan #PhallusThursday #ancientGreece #ancientGreekReligion
“Top of the Thursday to you,” said Silenus to the passersby on the way to Athens. Such a sign as the one offered by Silenus is surely a positive one! While the Greeks preferred sophrosyne for themselves, the ways of the divine were clearly different.
Est-ce qu'il y a sur ce réseau de vrai.e.s chercheureuses en archéologie/histoire sur l'Âge du Fer dans la Méditerranée (pas des étaleurs de culture dans mon genre, quoi) qui pourraient vite fait me faire un topo sur les sources de l'"arrivée des Achéens" en Grèce ?
J'arrive pas à trouver des infos fiables, tout ce que je vois sur Google pue un peu ou date d'il y a 30 ans.
Que dit l'archéo sur les habitants de la Grèce à l'Âge du Fer ? #archéologie #archeology #ironage #greece #ancientgreece
This #ReliefWednesday we are enamoured of this gorgeous fragment that shows an almost nude man on a horse. Both are superbly detailed but the question of comfort for rider (and horse) lingers in the air…
Do you live in ancient Athens and have a son or daughter to marry off?
With this handy guide you'll make a great match in no time!
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@pagan @antiquidons The last day of the #Anthesteria is called #Chytroi or #Khýtroi, 'The Pots'. It's a festival of the dead where fruit or pulse is offered to the souls of the dead, who are then bidden to depart, and to #Hermes Chthonios, who should guide them back to the underworld. No one is supposed to eat the pottage, which is food of the dead. A rehearsal to select the players for the City Dionysia also takes place on this day.
Today is the #Pithoigia, the first day of the Athenian #Anthesteria festival in honour of #Dionysos. It lasts three days, from the 11th to the 13th of the month of Anthesterion.
The Anthesteria festival celebrates the beginning of Spring and in particular the maturing of the wine stored at the previous vintage, whose pithoi (storage-jars) were now ceremoniously opened. Spring flowers decorate the house and drinking vessels.
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Okay, I couldn't let #superbowl pass without indulging in personal show n tell 🦉
Some ancient Athenian Owl coins. 5 silver tetradrachms and one small Athenian bronze. Only the reverses are shown. The other side of each bears the bust of Athena
Dates - Main box and 1st two in top row were struck 454 to 404 BCE. Top Right: 393 to 294 BCE. Centre left column: 170 BCE. Bottom Left: 166 to 157 BCE
Broad (but not super technical deep) dive into Late Bronze Age Greece. Very chill, almost ASMR style presentation. Very long format, probably good for a road trip, hike, bath, sleep, etc.
Watch out on your way back from the party tonight.
"One day #Sokrates came home from a dinner at a late hour of the night. Some badly behaving youths learned of his movements in advance and lay in wait for him. They carried lighted torches and wore masks of the Erinyes, it being their habit to misuse their leisure by playing tricks on other people. Sokrates was not frightened when he saw them; he stopped and began asking them questions."
It’s #PhallusThursday and we’re celebrating with this pelike which depicts a man placing a herm before an altar. The herm, is, you could say, ready for action. Let’s hope the gods smiled upon this respectful gesture!
the word music is derived from the Greek mousikē tekhnē, «the art of the Muses». The Muses were the daughters of Mnemosyme, the Ancient Greek personification of memory, suggesting that the origins of music are rooted in oral culture.
💫New Episode - Storylife with Professor Joel Christensen💫
We chat with the one, the only Sententiae Antiquae about some of key ideas in his latest book Storylife. What happens when we think about stories as having their own drive to survive? Let’s find out!
Daily Life In the Hellenistic Age from Alexander to Cleopatra by James Allan Evans, 2007
https://archive.org/details/dailylifeinhelle0000evan
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