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thoodleoo · 15 hours
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do you ever see a piece of ancient roman art so perfect you feel an immediate need to display it on your wall? anyway. roman mosaic of two funky octopi.
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kurj · 2 days
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i often think about bringing the minoan fresco women back to life through drawing
La Parisienne / Minoan Lady / Camp Stool Fresco -> my drawing
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my english translation/commentary of the phaedo is used because a new one was like $70 for some godforsaken reason and generally i don't like when there are other people's notes in my books but this time i forgot to check for that before i made my purchase and so there's a decent amount of commentary in the margins of the text. which is all to say i just got to a part where the previous owner straight-up crossed out one of cebes' "yes" replies to socrates and wrote "NO"
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katerinaaqu · 3 days
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Remembering "The Odyssey" (1997) and when I get to the part of the murder of the suitors there is one thing I loved about that movie:
In the moment when the suitors are trying to bend the bow made by Odysseus and try to pull the string in it. They used their hands and failed but then the movie does something incredible. Odysseus uses his leg to bend it and put the string on it which made me realize;
Maybe that is the reason why no one could bend the bow in the first place. Because it was never about strength at all!
Odysseus was known for his strong arms and his capability with Spear and sword but he was never the strongest man out there. However he was known to be the most cunning. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the principle with which he made his bow as well. Maybe the bow could be bended only if someone put a certain resistance to a specific place of it.
So that's why no one ever bended the dang thing. Odysseus built a freaking puzzle-box-bow!
😂😂😂
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menelaiad · 2 days
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simugeuge · 3 days
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Odysseus: and that's the thing, you know? I cannot explain it but there's... a connection beyond words. It's not like neither would give any physical cues as one would expect, yet we know what the other is thinking. Or maybe we just think alike? Its-
Diomedes: Nestor saw me sleeping and he kicked me. Again. It wasn't even my watch, he just kicked me.
Odysseus: the first time it happened was at our wedding. Our wedding! We barely knew each other then, still we both knew what everyone was wondering: would we stay in Sparta or move to Ithaca?
Diomedes: I revere him as much as anyone here, but I think I'm becoming resentful.
Odysseus: she didn't make a big show of it, she just covered her face with her veil... I can't do it like her, it's like this with her hand, she does it better. And I felt so happy! I didn't say a word, anyway, because I thought a proper husband should look aloof. But I think she did like Ithaca, from the beginning. I would know if she didn't, right?
Diomedes: Do you think there's any cheese left in this encampment? That would really cheer me up.
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If sacrificing your child when your god tells you to proves that you are faithful and gets you blessings and descendants beyond measure then why is it that I, Agamemnon,
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ala-chrisgoods · 2 days
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the hostage of fate in the golden apple
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Recently described Odysseus as "the ancient Greek equivalent of a nepo baby w/famous godmother, fabulous hair, and trauma all included" and I feel like Tumblr needs to know
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greekmythcomix · 13 hours
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Today’s a Heracles teaching day, so of course it’s when I don my very own Nemean Lion Skin and club to teach*
*run into the class wearing it and shouting ‘RAHHH!’
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olivsie · 16 hours
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Reading the Iliad is fun till nestor yaps for 6 full fuckin pages
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thoodleoo · 2 days
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huge props to whatever ancient roman in pompeii was out there with a painting of a charcuterie board on their wall
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wargodtalk · 2 days
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Working on a role reversal Trojan War thing and am researching Helen with a vengeance because I want to ensure that she stays as complex—to the best of my ability—as she always has been
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mariussuggestions · 3 hours
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I know in my heart that I, Gaius Marius (seven times consul of Rome (unprecedented)) could impregnate another man.
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katerinaaqu · 2 days
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According to the 19th rhapsody/book of Odyssey, Odysseus's grandfather Autolycus named his grandson "Odysseus" because he was angry and the entire world (coming from the verb "οδύσσομαι" which means "be angry at")
As it happens with many Greek myths, the name is a self-fulfilled prophecy since Odysseus attracted plenty of anger in his life from the Trojans whose city practically singlehandedly he sacked, Aias the Telamon (aka Ajax the Great) for he defeated him in a battle taking Achilles's armor as a price till the anger of Polyphemus and Poseidon which pretty much sealed his fate and doomed him to wander about the seas for more than 10 years.
However the name is also extremely symbolic given that Odysseus's anger was the reason he committed hubris and bragged his winning against Polyphemus becoming the literal plot starter of Odyssey.
It also means something else; Odysseus in his anger says "I am Odysseus" to Polyphemus. You may also say that he also indirectly said "I am furious"
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Guys.
Y’all.
I…
I just. I just… i have discovered something. And I have laughed too much. I have laughed every time I have tried to explain it to someone. I cannot get through this.
Look. Okay.
There are two things you need to know, here.
First: There’s a style of Greek pottery that was popular during the Hellenic period, for which most of the surviving examples are from southern Italy. We call them ‘fish plates’ because, well, they’re plates, and they’re decorated with fish (and other marine life).
Like this one, currently in the Met:
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Or this one, currently in the Cleveland Museum of Art:
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They’re very cool. We’re not 100% sure what they were for, because most of the surviving ones were found as grave goods, but that’s a different post.
The second thing you need to know is that when we (Classics/archaeology/whatever as a discipline) have a collection of artefacts, like vases, sculptures, paintings, etc. and we do not know the name of the artist, but we’re pretty sure one artist made X, Y and Z artefacts, we come up with a name for that artist. There are a whole bunch of things that could be the source for the name, e.g. where we found most of their work (The Dipylon Master) or the potter with whom they worked (the Amasis Painter), a favourite theme (The Athena Painter), the Museum that ended up with the most famous thing they did (The Berlin Painter) or a notable aspect of their style. Like, say, The Eyebrow Painter.
Guess what kind of pottery the Eyebrow Painter made?
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