#Greek people

[alatismeni-theitsa]

"Women only started working very recently so a woman's place is the house-" shut up and feast your eyes at old photos of women from around the world doing physical labor only for them to return home and solely care for 5-10 children and the elderly parents of their husband.

Greek women represent:

These photos show Greek women doing the type of physical labor they would perform more often than not. At the luckiest working conditions for rural women (aka most of the country) they would start working the fields as children and when they got older they would work the same fields with their own babies on their backs.

On the way home from the fields, sometimes the women would carry the wood and the mule would carry the man so he could rest.

Of course, we can talk about the manual labor that is rubbing cloth and metal for hours on end, chopping and carrying wood to light a fire for a large cauldron your size, and stirring it for hours.

But we can also talk about how it wasn't for them to break and carry rocks in baskets for the making of new roads. They would gather salt, olives, and grapes and carry them on large baskets filled to the brim. For salt they carried thirty kilos each trip, doing fifty trips each, stepping shoeless on the grains of salt.

Carrying water was also their job, often moving large barrels with all the water a house of 10 needed upon hills that horses and mules had trouble ascending.

(more photos for salt mining and carrying here)

It's no hyperbole to say these women carried their incomes and households on their backs. "The good she-housekeeper is a slave and a lady" the old Greek saying goes. A "good woman" was a woman who could be strong and work at home and in the field, often described with the qualities of a mule. Men took their wives out in the fields so much that some who were a bit more educated had to make their husbands sign that they wouldn't ask them to work alongside them in the fields! (source in Greek)

Some of these photos are also from 1970. I'm missing a photo from Leukada showing women carrying baskets of the stones they broke, and I'll add it here when I find it.

Basically, women were out of the house forever. A woman who got to stay home and never perform any labor had some type of privilege (wealth, status etc). Same as the many privileged men around the world who didn't perform any labor at all.

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#greek women #greece #greek history #vintage #vintage photo #manual labor #working class #greek people #working class history

[gemsofgreece]

In Athens, Greece (unknown date)

#greece #europe #black and white #photography #old photos #places #greeks #greek people #athens #attica #central greece #sterea hellas #mainland

[wordsmithic]

Greeks are putting out books to clean up the misinformation Westerners have spread about our myths and I LOVE it.

Ioanna puts the focus on Demeter and I am here for it! Demeter is the protagonist of this story, after all.

In the reviews so far it looks like Ioanna depicts the Greek gods as powerful, as we truly see them in our culture. I really hope it keeps the balance, as the reviewers say.

Greek author, Greek book cover illustrator (Yorgos "Lanthimos" Cotronis) and we are on for a very promising work!

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#hades and persephone #hxp #retellings #persephone #greek mythology #greek gods #greek people #hellas #ioanna papadopoulou #books #reading #libraries #writing #writers #greek writers #demeter #goddess

[greektradition]

Greek folk costumes from Macedonia 🇬🇷

#greece #traditional #folk #greeks #greek culture #aesthetic #painting #greek women #greek beauty #greek people #greek folklore #folk dress #folklore #traditionalism #greek tradition #folkdress #hellas #hellenic #balkans #balkanculture #culture #macedonia

[greekbeauty]

Handsome Greek male models

#greek people #mediterranean #greece #greek beauty #greeks #greek #handsome greek men #greek men #handsome #handsome greek man #handsome greek #greek male model

[ossthings]

The discourse around the existence of awful Greek mythology retellings would be simpler if people just finally acknowledged that the problem has it's roots on cultural appropriation and discrimination towards Greek people instead of constantly doing mental gymnastics to keep them out of the picture.

#Awful modern myth retellings will continue to exist and they will get worse until we finally identify them as #cultural appropriation #and #racism towards Greeks #greek people #greek culture #greek mythology #Greece #tagamemnon #im dead serious

[pinepickled]

People act like Greece was a country that existed in a vacuum from ancient times onward. The reality is that Greece has been the subject of invasion, enslavement, genocide, and more. Don't put your head in the sand just because you want to fuck up Greek culture without guilt

#pine talks #greece #greek people #greek myths

[amormusicamuerte]

Todo el que disfruta la soledad es una bestia o un dios

Aristóteles, filósofo griego

#Aristóteles #Filósofos #Greek people #Soledad #Disfrutar #Bestias #Dioses #Frases

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

#i think about this story sometimes like yeah I'm proud of them for that too actually. good job baby brothers #they're not babies anymore of course they're turning 20 next year which is crazy #but they're still the type of people who'd do something if they saw something of this sort happen for sure #respectful of women and everyone else too. they're good guys #I'm glad I ended up with them living in my house against my will for like 14 years #anyway i have no idea where i was for all this but my best guess is probably a friends house given the time period #i was always at my besties house lol #i hope she's doing well too actually. haven't spoken in forever... #bestie from greek elementary school... if you're out there... let's get muffins and fanta at the bakery across the street again someday 💜☮️

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Important Greeks

#greek people #important greeks #science #music #writers

[gemsofgreece]

I said I would probably not post today however I am urgently popping up for this awesome fellow

Happy Greek Independence Day 💙🤍🇬🇷🤍💙

Photo source

#greece #europe #Greek Independence Day #march 25 #march 25th #Greek Revolution #Greek war of independence #Greeks #Greek people

[wordsmithic]

Greek Cypriots in the UK, in the wedding tradition of "(ta) Rialia" (source)

#as you suspect that's how the community makes sure the couple has enough money to live #and pay off the lux wedding reception of course #greek #greek cypriot #greeks in the uk #greek tradition #hellas #wedding #greek people #hellenismos

[whompthatsucker1981]

i think that gay sex cats is the new duchamp's fountain

#if youre getting mad at it now you would have been mad about modern art in the 1920s too #this is what people mean when they say that some people are no different than greek statue pfps getting all RETVRN abt art #also pack it up there's better posts on the automation of art and art philosophizing #too much people reblogged this for the quote unquote ethical painting. scram

[greekbeauty]

Beautiful Greek girls

#greek beauty #greek people #mediterranean #greece #greeks #greek girls #beautiful greek woman #women #femalemodel #beautiful #prettygreekgirl #greek model #models #mediterranean women

[that-cunning-witch]

"Aphrodite loves terfs" do you really think a goddess of love formed from a literal penis and the mother of Hermaphroditus, an intersex god who was associated with androgyny and feminine men, fucks around with transphobia?

she is a literal trans icon and to deny that will get you smited by all the gods

#i literally cannot make this shit up #people really say this kind of stuff #witchcraft #witch #witchblr #pagan #magic #hellenism #hellenismos #paganism #greek pantheon

[gorgynei]

λυκάνθρωπος / Μινώταυρος

#caption is ''lycanthrope / minotaur'' in ancient greek. bc im feeling silly #i know that like really werewolves and the minotaur have nothing in common BUT THEYRE BOTH ANIMAL PEOPLE! u have to #understand. its about the abstraction from humanity while also existing SO close to it. #werewolf #aceart #werewolfisms #minotaur #my art