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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 & 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗱 -

Going way back now, one of Greece's earliest poets with the earliest versions of the Greek creation along with didactic verse of right behavior.

✨Perseus and Andromeda, the villa at Boscotrecase✨

This fresco captures moments from the myth of Andromeda and Perseus. Perseus is swooping in stage left to rescue Andromeda—trapped on a crag at centre stage—from the sea monster Kêtus. The monster takes up most of the lower left of the fresco panel. Perseus can be easily identified by his accoutrements: the winged sandals and lyre. The upper right of the fresco shows Perseus in conversation with Andromeda’s father, Cepheus, the king of Aethiopia. This part of the fresco seems to allude to the agreement on the marriage of Andromeda (without her input, which was standard in Greek myth).

From the villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase, now held at the Met. Description from the museum: “Perseus is about to rescue Andromeda from the ketos, a snaky sea monster painted in a brilliant blue-green palette. The creature raises his head with gigantic open jaws and frightful teeth toward Andromeda, who stands with outstretched arms in the center of the panel. One hand appears to be chained to the crag; the other elegantly placed on the rocks. Perseus flies in from the left with his lyre in one hand, winged shoes on his feet, and a windblown cloak over his shoulder. In the upper right portion of the fresco, he is greeted by Andromeda's grateful father, a scene that alludes to the myth's “happy ending” the marriage of hero and princess.“

A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Beryl Rawson, 2025 draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families.

Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social, cultural, and economic history

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444390766

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Features illustrations of families, children, slaves, and ritual life, along with maps and diagrams of sites and dwellings. 2011 edition: https://archive.org/details/a-companion-to-families-in-the-greek-and-roman-worlds

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29/x EDIT jk, i went here, instead! I've got guests in town this weekend & this is extremely my jam, but not theirs, please go, its weird theatre, near home, and free:

Sun : x x - “Attack of the Byrds! a verse play by Gary Duehr adapted from “The Birds” by Aristophanes, will be presented as a reading on Sunday, August 10, from 3-4:30.
The reading is free and open to the public. The reading features original songs by Jane Burgess Harcourt, sung by Suzanne Boucher and accompanied by Peter Hoffman on guitar. This version mashes up the classic comedy with “The ” by Hitchcock and songs inspired by the ’60s band the . In rhymed couplets, the brisk verse punches up its wordplay. This adaptation uses the masks and puppets …

Beach vacations only became popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries as part of the lifestyle of the wealthy in Western countries. Early Europeans, and especially the ancient Greeks, thought the beach was a place of hardship and death. As a seafaring people, they mostly lived on the coastline, yet they feared the sea and thought that an agricultural lifestyle was safer and more respectable.

From The beach wasn’t always a vacation destination - for the ancient Greeks, it was a scary place: https://theconversation.com/the-beach-wasnt-always-a-vacation-destination-for-the-ancient-greeks-it-was-a-scary-place-259356

A post in The Conversation by my favorite classicist (my wife!)


Happy to all who celebrate ☀️
It's now officially summer where I live and while the itself is not celebrated any more, there are St. John's fires on St. John Eve and 7 different herbs are hung up to protect the home in some households.
St. John's Day celebrates the birthday of John the Baptist on 24 June. In ancient Athens, the new year was celebrated on the first new moon after the solstice, the first day of the month Hekatombion.

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Photograph of the Athenian acropolis on a clear summer day. The sky is blue and the trees are a lush green, the modern buildings only visible in the far distance with the ancient acropolis and theatres in focus.