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Quixoticgeek

A long shot, but do I have any followers with a lot of knowledge about ancient Greece, and/or Roman empire (~200BC-200AD)?

Am trying to find some info on Archeological finds, and well, Google search is essentially useless now, so I'm hoping the amazing power of the fediverse can help.

#History #Romans #AncientGreece #Archeology

A long shot, but do I have any followers with a lot of knowledge about ancient Greece, and/or Roman empire (~200BC-200AD)?

Am trying to find some info on Archeological finds, and well, Google search is essentially useless now, so I'm hoping the amazing power of the fediverse can help.

#History #Romans #AncientGreece #Archeology

Anthony

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!)

#summer #beach #AncientGreece #myth #classics

#OTD, first #NewMoon after the #SummerSolstice, ancient #Athens would celebrate #NewYears with the first day of the month #Hekatombion. The Panathenaia, athletic games in honour of #Athena, would take place later this month.

@antiquidons @pagan #ancientGreece #pagan

A photo of the illuminated acropolis in Athens with fireworks above it. The words "year 1 of the 701st Olympiad" are added in a white font with an emboss effect that is reminiscent of the Greek alphabet.

Erotic Saturnalia 🥂

Happy #JuneSolstice to all who celebrate ☀️
It's now officially summer where I live and while the #SummerSolstice 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.

@antiquidons #ancientGreece

Happy #JuneSolstice to all who celebrate ☀️
It's now officially summer where I live and while the #SummerSolstice 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.

@antiquidons #ancientGreece

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.

The Partial Historians

It’s #WorldBeeDay and we’re celebrating in style with this jaw-dropping gold wreath that has a bee and teo cicadas amongst the oak leaves and acorns. Found in Turkey, this wreath is believed to be from the Hellenistic period c. 350–300 BCE.

#AncientGreece #History

Close up of the part of the gold wreath that depicts a bee. The bee sits on the branch that forms the round of a wreath, hold acorns and gold oak leaves surround the gold bee.

Description from the British Museum: “Gold oak wreath with a bee and two cicadas. This wreath consists of two branches. At the back the stems have obliquely cut end-plates; at the front the two branches are held together with a split pin fastener that has a bee as its cap. The branches are made of sheet-gold tubes, over a modern copper core. Each branch has six sprays with eight leaves and seven or eight acorns, as well as a cicada. In addition, there are about a dozen single leaves set straight into each branch. The leaves are of three different sizes and are made in one piece with their stalks. The acorns are made in left and right die-formed halves; the cups are cross-hatched and there is a point on the top of the fruit. The cicadas are constructed from four separate sheets of gold - lower body, upper body, two wings.” Image credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

The Partial Historians

🌟Aphrodite of Aphrodisias🌟

The cult image of Aphrodite of Aphrodisias is packed with gorgeous details and is our pick for #ReliefWednesday on account of the relief decoration along her body that reflect different aspects of her divinity including: the Three Graces, Selene and Helios, Aphrodite as a sea-goat with Tritons, and three winged Erotes.

#AncientRome #AncientGreece #History

Description from the Aphrodisias Excavations website: “The statue stands stiffly and frontally, like an old Anatolian goddess, and was designed to recall that earlier identity, now subsumed in Aphrodite. The figure wears a tall headdress and veil and a thin dress covered by thick, hard cladding. The cladding is divided into a chest area and four lower zones. Each of the four zones contains figured decoration that concerns different aspects of Aphrodite: (1) the Three Graces, her handmaids; (2) Selene (Moon) and Helios (Sun), the permanent temporal extent of her realm; (3) Aphrodite in classical form on a sea-goat with tritons; and (4) three winged Erotes, her children and agents, engaged in sacrifice. The iconography of the statue was designed to combine the archaic aspects of the old local goddess with ideas of the classical and hellenistic Aphrodite.” Photo credit to wneuheisel via Flickr

The Partial Historians

Perseus’ rescue of Andromeda is complicated by his murder of Medusa. Here Andromeda appears in a yellow gown and Perseus is clearly identifiable from his winged boots and the head of Medusa…

#AncientGreece #AncientRome #History

Description from The World History Encyclopaedia: “Fourth style fresco depicting Perseusfreeing Andromeda from her chains on the rock, from the House of the Dioscuri in Pompeii, National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Andromeda, chained helplessly on the rock, a prey to pacify a sea monster sent by Poseidon to punish Cassiopeia, Andromeda's mother, who had boasted of her daughter's beauty. Perseus comes face to face with the beautiful Andromeda, immediately falls in love with her and rushes off to kill the sea monster. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.”

Resolviendo la incógnita

Estuche de maquillaje de la segunda mitad del siglo III a.C. en forma de vieira, con nereida de espaldas montando un hipocampo en la cara interna del espejo y otra de frente montando una pantera marina en la cara externa. 🏛️Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Tarento #AntiguaGrecia #Ancientgreece

Estuche con forma de vieira. La tapadera superior es redonda y muestra una nereida sentada de espaldas sobre un hipocampo, con la cola enredada y con crin escamosa.

The Partial Historians

We’re not saying you definitely need to visit Delos, but we’re not not saying that either 😉

Happy #PhallusThursday to all those who celebrate 🥳

#AncientGreece #History @AimeeMaroux

Description from the World History Encyclopaedia: “Two columns topped by a phallus, each carrying relief scenes of Dionysos and Pan, c. 300 BCE. The phallus was a typical symbol of the cult of Dionysos. They stand as part of the Stoivadeion, a rectangular exedra.”

Erotic Saturnalia 🥂

What is our favourite #ancientGreek play?

Mine is The Frogs by Aristophanes. 🐸

#WorldTheatreDay #ancientGreece #ancientGreekReligion #theatre

A humorous comic of a dialogue between Dionysos and Herakles from The Frogs by Aristophanes. Dionysos and Herakles are represented by bronze statuettes of Dionysos and Herakles respectively. The dialogue goes as follows:
Dionysos: As I'm reading to myself the Andromeda, a sudden pang of longing
shoots through my heart, you can't conceive how keenly.
Herakles: Caused by a woman?
Dionysos: No.
Herakles: A boy?
Dionysos: No, no.
Herakles: A man?
Dionysos: *sighs*
Herakles: Was it for Kleisthenes?
Dionysos: Don't MOCK me, brother.

Erotic Saturnalia 🥂

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

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

Stone phallus atop a stone column in the remains of the Temple of Dionysos on the island of Delos.

The Partial Historians

“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.

#PhallusThursday #AncientGreece #History

Statue of Silenus, a satyr and minor god of drunkenness, dated from 540-530 BCE. Held at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. (Photo by Prisma/UIG/Getty Images)

Histoires Mythiques

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

The Partial Historians

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…

#AncientGreece #History @antiquidons