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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.

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The Partial Historians

💫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!

#AncientGreece #History #Podcast

https://partialhistorians.com/2025/01/09/special-episode-storylife-with-professor-joel-p-christensen/

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Daily Life In the Hellenistic Age from Alexander to Cleopatra by James Allan Evans, 2007

https://archive.org/details/dailylifeinhelle0000evan

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💫Early Release💫

We sat down recently to chat with Professor Joel Christensen aka Sententiae Antiquae about his forthcoming book Storylife. Out now on early release for our wonderful Patreon supporters 🥳

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https://www.patreon.com/posts/117545516?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

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A late #MythologyMonday thread on #Disability in #GreekMyhology. If you would like to learn more about the real life history of disability in #ancientGreece, I recommend the @phistorians's special podcast episode with Dr Debby Sneed:
https://partialhistorians.com/2021/04/08/special-episode-disability-in-ancient-greece/

In this thread, I'm introducing characters from Greek mythology who are disabled. First up: #Hephaistos 🔥
He was born disabled and thrown from Mount Olympos by his mother Hera as a baby or by his father Zeus...

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Greek vase painting of Hephaistos' return to Olympos. Dionysos is on the left, holding a kantharos cup in his left. A maenad is walking behind Hephaists, who is riding a donkey. Hephaistos' foot is turned the wrong way, indicating his disability.

The Partial Historians

✨Brand New Episode - Gods and Mortals with Liv Albert✨

We delve into the realm of mortal and divine unions across Greece and Rome with the one and only Liv Albert from the Let’s Talk about Myths, Baby! Podcast

#AncientGreece #AncientRome #History #Podcast

https://partialhistorians.com/2024/11/14/special-episode-gods-and-mortals-with-liv-albert/

Close up of Aphrodite from Botticelli’s ‘The Birth of Venus’. She has a serene expression of flowing golden hair.

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Revenge, Punishment and Anger in Ancient Greece Justice by Joe Whitechurch, 2024

Anger was the engine of justice in the ancient Greek world. It drove quests for vengeance which resulted in a variety of consequences, often harmful not only for the relevant actors but also for the wider communities in which they lived.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/revenge-punishment-and-anger-in-ancient-greek-justice-9781350451544/

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From as early as the seventh century BCE, Greek communities had developed more or less formal means of imposing restrictions on this behaviour in the form of courts. However, this did not necessarily mean a less angry or vengeful society so much as one where anger and revenge were subject to public sanction and sometimes put to public use.

By the fifth and fourth centuries, the Athenian polis had developed a considerably more sophisticated system for the administration of justice, encompassing a variety of laws, courts, and procedures. In essence, the justice it meted out was built on the same emotional foundations as that seen in Homer. Jurors gave licence to or restrained the anger of plaintiffs in private cases, and they punished according to the anger they themselves felt in public ones. The growing state in ancient Greek poleis did not bring about a transition away from angry private revenge to emotionless public punishment. Rather, anger came increasingly to move into the public sphere, the emotional driver of an early state that defended its community, and even itself, through its vengeful acts of punishment.
Table of Contents
Introduction

Chapter One: Anger and the Community in Homeric Society
Chapter Two: Revenge and the Community in Homeric Society
Chapter Three: Punishment and the State in Homeric Society
Chapter Four: Punishment and Anger in the Athenian Courts
Chapter Five: Moral Authority and the Appeal to Anger
Chapter Six: Public Offence and Private

The Partial Historians

#ClassicsTober24 Day 15: Aesop

While there are many fables of Aesop’s to enjoy, we’re particularly enamoured of the story of the bear and the bees. May the weak stand united against the strong!

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Illustration of the bear and bees fable showing a brown bear who has tried to steal some honey and found himself on the receiving end of quite a number of angry bees.

Resolviendo la incógnita

Las vestimentas clásicas, ya fueran quitones, clámides o el exomis, entre otras, eran bastante simples. Su única complicación era su colocación, sujeta con fíbulas o cosidas. #ropa #clothes #antiguagrecia #ancientgreece

A la izquierda, mujer con brazos extendidos a los lados a la altura de los hombros. Lleva una tela cuadrada por la que saca las manos. A la derecha, la tela ajustada al cuerpo y la cintura.

Exomis. Hombre con tela plegada en torno a un costado y, tras abrocharse en el hombro opuesto, se pliega.

Quitón dórico. A la izquierda, mujer con brazos extendidos ligeramente por encima de los hombros. Le tapa una tela cuadrada pero con el cuarto superior plegado. A la derecha, el traje sin mangas plegado y ajustado al cuerpo.

Clámide. Joven con tela rectangular que le cubre un brazo izquierdo y se abre hacia el otro. Tiene un broche en el hombro derecho. Deja el costado derecho al descubierto.

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#ClassicsTober24 Day 12 is Homer.

A figure who has influenced countless stories, poetry, and art. The question about Homer’s historicity may never be settled, but the inspiration left behind is undeniable. Just one example is ‘The Suitors’ by Gustave Moreau:

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This painting shows the suitors in complete disarray. Description from the Musée National Gustave Moreau: “Ulysses, on his return to Ithaca, massacres the young princes who had been courting his wife Penelope during his absence. He is depicted holding his bow in the background of the painting, with an owl on his head, the animal attribute of Minerva. The goddess appears, towering over this scene of carnage, her body surrounded by a halo, like a Christ at the Last Judgment. In this profusion of bodies, several figures stand out: on the right, the androgynous figure of a young man dressed in blue (inspired by a classical sculpture of the god Atys, copied at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence in 1858); in the centre, a figure of the prince-poet kneeling down and leaning on a lyre personifying Phemios, the aed (singer of epic poetry), whom Ulysses spared at the request of his son Telemacus.”

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I'm still immensely proud of my article on ancient (and medieval) sex jokes.

Read it here if you want to find out what hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before 😉

https://eroticmythology.com/ancient-greek-sex-jokes/

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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!

https://eroticmythology.com/wedding-guide-ancient-athens/

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Art History Animalia

For #WorldGoatDay 🐐:
Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)
#AncientGreece, Attic, c. 400 BCE
Terracotta; red-figure, 4in. (10.2cm)
Design featuring a boy driving #goat-drawn chariot.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 21.88.80: https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/251104
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official museum photo of the jug on pedestal against neutral light background
"Boy driving goat-drawn chariot preceded by boy with chous
The representation, with the lively animals and polychromy, is particularly engaging."

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How do cyou know a character is male? He's wearing phallus trunks, of course!

#PhallusThursday #GreekRomanArt #ancientGreece

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Black-and-white image of a red-figure vase painting depicting a satyr as an actor wearing phallus trunks. He also has the pointed ears and horse tail of an ancient Greek satyr.

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The Tralles Artemis ~ c. 120 BCE

This beautiful marble head is thought to depict a goddess, potentially Artemis or Aphrodite. There’s indications that the bust originally was fitted with a crown. The work is exceptional with comparisons made to the Venus de Milo.

🏛 KM, Vienna

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