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⭐ MUST READ: Seductive Sirens of Greek Mythology and How Heroes Resisted Them
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! Share your thoughts below! 💭
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/sirens-greek-mythology-008198
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #AncientGreece #GreekMythology #Legends #Mythology #HumanOrigins #Evolution #Incredible -
⭐ MUST READ: Seductive Sirens of Greek Mythology and How Heroes Resisted Them
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! Share your thoughts below! 💭
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/sirens-greek-mythology-008198
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #AncientGreece #GreekMythology #Legends #Mythology #HumanOrigins #Evolution #Incredible -
⭐ MUST READ: Seductive Sirens of Greek Mythology and How Heroes Resisted Them
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! Share your thoughts below! 💭
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/sirens-greek-mythology-008198
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #AncientGreece #GreekMythology #Legends #Mythology #HumanOrigins #Evolution #Incredible -
⭐ MUST READ: Seductive Sirens of Greek Mythology and How Heroes Resisted Them
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! Share your thoughts below! 💭
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/sirens-greek-mythology-008198
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #AncientGreece #GreekMythology #Legends #Mythology #HumanOrigins #Evolution #Incredible -
⭐ MUST READ: Seductive Sirens of Greek Mythology and How Heroes Resisted Them
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! Share your thoughts below! 💭
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/sirens-greek-mythology-008198
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #AncientGreece #GreekMythology #Legends #Mythology #HumanOrigins #Evolution #Incredible -
⏱️ NEW: #Ctesibius, a Greek inventor of the 3rd century BCE, turned the ancient #clepsydra into an automated #water clock.
A feeding reservoir steadied the flow, while a siphon reset the cycle each day and a floating marker tracked daylight hours. It beat every clock on #Earth until 1656, when the pendulum arrived.
#ancientgreece #greece #history #science #invention #engineering #automation #technology #tech
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⏱️ NEW: #Ctesibius, a Greek inventor of the 3rd century BCE, turned the ancient #clepsydra into an automated #water clock.
A feeding reservoir steadied the flow, while a siphon reset the cycle each day and a floating marker tracked daylight hours. It beat every clock on #Earth until 1656, when the pendulum arrived.
#ancientgreece #greece #history #science #invention #engineering #automation #technology #tech
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⏱️ NEW: #Ctesibius, a Greek inventor of the 3rd century BCE, turned the ancient #clepsydra into an automated #water clock.
A feeding reservoir steadied the flow, while a siphon reset the cycle each day and a floating marker tracked daylight hours. It beat every clock on #Earth until 1656, when the pendulum arrived.
#ancientgreece #greece #history #science #invention #engineering #automation #technology #tech
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⏱️ NEW: #Ctesibius, a Greek inventor of the 3rd century BCE, turned the ancient #clepsydra into an automated #water clock.
A feeding reservoir steadied the flow, while a siphon reset the cycle each day and a floating marker tracked daylight hours. It beat every clock on #Earth until 1656, when the pendulum arrived.
#ancientgreece #greece #history #science #invention #engineering #automation #technology #tech
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⏱️ NEW: #Ctesibius, a Greek inventor of the 3rd century BCE, turned the ancient #clepsydra into an automated #water clock.
A feeding reservoir steadied the flow, while a siphon reset the cycle each day and a floating marker tracked daylight hours. It beat every clock on #Earth until 1656, when the pendulum arrived.
#ancientgreece #greece #history #science #invention #engineering #automation #technology #tech
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✨New Episode - You Are Odysseus with GreekMythComix✨
We chat with Laura Jenkinson-Brown about her amazing book ‘You Are Odysseus’ which shakes up Homer’s epic poem by placing the reader in the centre of the story and all its complexities.
For a chance to explore the different myths connected with Odysseus, this is an interactive reading adventure without compare!
#AncientGreece #Odysseus #Odyssey #Podcast
Listen in now! https://partialhistorians.com/2026/09/10/special-episode-you-are-odysseus-with-laura-jenkinson-brown/
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✨New Episode - You Are Odysseus with GreekMythComix✨
We chat with Laura Jenkinson-Brown about her amazing book ‘You Are Odysseus’ which shakes up Homer’s epic poem by placing the reader in the centre of the story and all its complexities.
For a chance to explore the different myths connected with Odysseus, this is an interactive reading adventure without compare!
#AncientGreece #Odysseus #Odyssey #Podcast
Listen in now! https://partialhistorians.com/2026/09/10/special-episode-you-are-odysseus-with-laura-jenkinson-brown/
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✨New Episode - You Are Odysseus with GreekMythComix✨
We chat with Laura Jenkinson-Brown about her amazing book ‘You Are Odysseus’ which shakes up Homer’s epic poem by placing the reader in the centre of the story and all its complexities.
For a chance to explore the different myths connected with Odysseus, this is an interactive reading adventure without compare!
#AncientGreece #Odysseus #Odyssey #Podcast
Listen in now! https://partialhistorians.com/2026/09/10/special-episode-you-are-odysseus-with-laura-jenkinson-brown/
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✨New Episode - You Are Odysseus with GreekMythComix✨
We chat with Laura Jenkinson-Brown about her amazing book ‘You Are Odysseus’ which shakes up Homer’s epic poem by placing the reader in the centre of the story and all its complexities.
For a chance to explore the different myths connected with Odysseus, this is an interactive reading adventure without compare!
#AncientGreece #Odysseus #Odyssey #Podcast
Listen in now! https://partialhistorians.com/2026/09/10/special-episode-you-are-odysseus-with-laura-jenkinson-brown/
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✨New Episode - You Are Odysseus with GreekMythComix✨
We chat with Laura Jenkinson-Brown about her amazing book ‘You Are Odysseus’ which shakes up Homer’s epic poem by placing the reader in the centre of the story and all its complexities.
For a chance to explore the different myths connected with Odysseus, this is an interactive reading adventure without compare!
#AncientGreece #Odysseus #Odyssey #Podcast
Listen in now! https://partialhistorians.com/2026/09/10/special-episode-you-are-odysseus-with-laura-jenkinson-brown/
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So, I read an excellent essay about #ToxicMasculinity a few years ago. Pretty much, it has to do with #hierarchy (#capitalism / #colonialism) making men feel powerless -- so they bully other men for dominance, and the result is dominating attitudes toward those perceived as lower in status (women, girls, foreigners, etc).
In many ways, it goes way back to #AncientGreece -- pretty much, the only ones who had any rights at all were landowning men who were Greek citizens. And, of course, power, wealth and status dominating over those dominated men. #TheOdyssey and #Odysseus' attitude toward women (other than Penelope), those of lesser status, and foreigners -- was typical of the Achaean male viewpoint.
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Pyrrho of Elis: The Philosopher Who Found Peace in Doubt
The Traveler Who Questioned Certainty Born around 360 BCE in Elis, Greece, Pyrrho stands as the founder of Ancient Skepticism, a radical philosophical tradition that challenges the very possibility of certain knowledge. His life took a dramatic turn when he accompanied Alexander the Great on his expedition to India. There, he encountered the gymnosophists ("naked wise men"), likely early Buddhist monks. This cross-cultural encounter profoundly transformed his thinking. He synthesized Eastern insights—particularly the Buddhist "Three Marks of Existence" (impermanence, suffering, and no-self)—with Greek philosophical rigor, creating a unique path focused not on discovering truth, but on suspending judgment to achieve peace.
Radical Skepticism: "We Know Nothing" Pyrrho’s core assertion was startlingly simple yet devastatingly deep: "We are so constituted that we know nothing." He argued that our senses and opinions reveal neither objective truth nor definitive falsehood. For every argument, there is an equally convincing counter-argument (isosthenia). Whether discussing the nature of the gods, the existence of the self, or the principles of morality, human reason cannot definitively settle the question.
This isn't cynicism or a claim that reality doesn't exist. It's a recognition of the gap between our experience and the world-in-itself. Because we cannot bridge this gap with absolute certainty, Pyrrho proposed a revolutionary response: Epoché—the disciplined suspension of judgment. Instead of committing to "this is true" or "that is false," the skeptic holds beliefs lightly, refusing to be dogmatic.
Ataraxia: The Goal of Liberation Why suspend judgment? To achieve Ataraxia (tranquility, freedom from disturbance). Pyrrho observed that much of human suffering stems from the anxiety of needing to be right, the fear of being wrong, and the mental exhaustion of defending rigid certainties in an uncertain world.
The Cure: By letting go of the need for absolute certainty, one frees oneself from the turbulence of dogmatic belief.
Not Withdrawal: This is not nihilism or disengagement. Pyrrho lived a full civic life, served as a magistrate, and participated in society. He simply did so without the burden of claiming ultimate truth. He acted according to appearances, customs, and practical necessity, but without the psychological weight of dogma.
Key Practices: A Way of Life Pyrrhonism is a practical philosophy of life, not just abstract theory. Its toolkit includes:
Epoché: Suspending judgment on all matters, refusing to commit to any position as definitively true.
Acatalepsy: Recognizing that certain knowledge is ultimately unattainable; we cannot "grasp" truth with absolute confidence.
Aporia: Embracing puzzlement and doubt as natural, desirable states that keep inquiry alive, rather than problems to be solved.
Adiaphora: Regarding things as indifferent—neither inherently good nor bad, true nor false—freeing ourselves from attachment to outcomes or beliefs.
Legacy: From Antiquity to the Digital Age Though Pyrrho wrote nothing himself, his teachings were preserved by followers like Timon and later systematized by Sextus Empiricus (c. 200 CE). Pyrrhonism resurfaced powerfully during the Renaissance (influencing Montaigne) and the Enlightenment (shaping David Hume). Today, in an era of information overload, competing narratives, and polarized discourse, Pyrrho’s wisdom feels prophetic.
Intellectual Humility: Holding beliefs lightly allows for genuine engagement across differences.
Mental Tranquility: Accepting the limits of knowledge frees us from the anxiety of uncertainty.
Critical Thinking: Rigorous examination of arguments without descending into cynicism or paralysis.
Pyrrho offers a timeless guide: True wisdom lies not in having all the answers, but in being comfortable with the questions. In a world drowning in competing certainties, the peace found in doubt may be the most radical liberation of all.
To listen to the lecture: https://tube.leshley.ca/w/pMo9s8kDutuD5dSL4awfpA
#Philosophy #AncientGreece #HistoryOfIdeas #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #Wisdom #LifelongLearning #Epistemology -
Can we map The Odyssey? How ancient geographers and modern researchers have traced Odysseus’s travels.
Attempts to transpose the locations of The Odyssey accurately to modern maps have proved difficult.
#Odyssey #Geographers #AncientGreece #Homer #Books #Mythology
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From @joannechocolat
#Anyte of Tegea (#Greece: early 3rd century BC) was an Arcadian poet. She is named as one of the nine outstanding women poets of antiquity by Antipater of Thessalonica in the Palatine Anthology.
No reliable information about her life survives, and she can only be approximately dated by the style of her work. She was known for her #epigrams, and she introduced rural themes to the genre.
Only one story about Anyte's life is preserved. #Pausanias claims that Anyte was once visited by the god #Asclepius while she was asleep, and told to go to Naupactus to visit a certain blind man there. On doing so, the man was cured, and he built a temple to Asclepius.
Though so little is known about Anyte's life, more of her #poetry survives than any other ancient #Greek woman, with the exception of #Sappho.
Personal note: Joanne's 'Celebrating Women' posts never fail to send me down *multiple* rabbit holes, and this one was a veritable warren of warrens! 😄 But interesting!
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Ancient Greek Lyrics by Willis Barnstone, 2009
Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry—including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.
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A small minority of well-born men exercised despotic power over their fellow citizens in the name of an aristocratic conception of society, twice around 400 BCE.
After the surrender, the Athenian Ekklesia (assembly) soon divided into three camps:
* supporters of a “patrios politeia” (ancestral constitution),
* preservers of democracy,
* proponents of oligarchy’.
Debate and inaction continued until September 404 BCE, when the Spartans chose to intervene. They asked the Athenians to choose thirty men to manage all the affairs of the polis.‘The Thirty initially avoided drafting a precise constitution. Instead, they sought to: a) establish a functional interim government; b) eliminate opponents; and c) reform the laws.’
https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Thirty_Tyrants/
#coup #oligarchy #extremeCentre #extremeCenter #history #Athens #Sparta #AncientGreece #Antiquity #history #democracy #metics #war #Peloponnese #defeat #Republic
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This thread will show bits of a history of the extreme centre 🧶
#coup #oligarchy #extremeCentre #extremeCenter #history #Athens #FrenchState #AncientGreece #Antiquity #history #democracy #defeat #Republic #raceMaking #stateRacism #complicity #entanglement #farCentre #farCenter
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Spencer's translation below seems pretty accurate to me...
From: Was #Sappho Really a Lesbian?
by Spencer McDaniel
Posted on August 14, 2021"Ancient versus modern concepts of sexuality
"Before we delve into the issue of Sappho’s sexuality, I feel that it is important to discuss the differences between ancient and modern concepts of sexuality. Generally speaking, most people living in the English-speaking world in the twenty-first century tend to assume that each person has an innate sexual orientation that remains fixed throughout their life and is a defining aspect of their identity. In other words, each person is inherently 'straight,' 'gay,' 'bisexual,' or something else.
"The ancient Greeks, however, generally did not think about sexuality in these sorts of terms. In fact, there are no words in Ancient Greek that are equivalent to the English words 'straight,' 'gay,' or 'bi.'
"The ancient Greeks did, of course, recognize that most people have some degree of preference for sexual partners of a certain gender. Unlike modern people, however, they did not generally see these preferences as being written in stone and they did not usually regard a person’s sexual preference as a fixed, innate part of their identity. An anonymous ancient poem in the Greek language that is preserved in the Greek Anthology 5.65 illustrates this ambivalence quite succinctly:
“Αἰετὸς ὁ Ζεὺς ἦλθεν ἐπ᾽ ἀντίθεον Γανυμήδην,
κύκνος ἐπὶ ξανθὴν μητέρα τὴν Ἑλένης.
οὕτως ἀμφότερ᾽ ἐστὶν ἀσύγκριτα· τῶν δύο δ᾽ αὐτῶν
ἄλλοις ἄλλο δοκεῖ κρεῖσσον, ἐμοὶ τὰ δύο.”"This means, in my own translation:
“As an eagle Zeus came to godlike Ganymedes
and as a swan to the tawny-haired mother of Helene.
In this manner, the two [passions] are incomparable. Of the two,
one seems better to some; for me, both are good.”Read more:
https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/08/14/was-sappho-really-a-lesbian/#GayHistory #AncientWomen
#AncientHistory #AncientSexuality #AncientGreece #Histodon #Classics #AncientGreek #Poetry -
Women's rights in Greece and Rome were more of my specialty -- especially ancient Greece. And yes, all this was how it was -- women had few rights under #Athenian #patriarchy.
#LegalStatus of Women in #Ancient Greece
Women were dependent on fathers, husbands, or #kyroi (appointed guardians). They could not own property, and were considered wards of their fathers or kyroi.
In #500BCE, fathers could sell their unmarried daughters “who had lost their #virginity” (Blundell, 69) into slavery.
“#Inheritance was #patrilineal” (Blundell, 66) – even if a daughter was the only child, she could not inherit her father’s property – it would be passed down to “her sons” (Blundell, 66), or “more distant [male] relatives” (Blundell, 66).
#Autonomy #Histodon #AncientHistory #AncientGreece #PropertyRights #WomensRights
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So, no surprise that under #Athenian #patriarchy, #colonialism, and #xenophobia, #WomensRights took a step backward. But even under these extreme conditions, women still had access to #BirthControl and #Contraception...
#WomensRights #Autonomy #Histodon #AncientHistory #AncientGreece
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
This cup of #Hermes and a dog was made as a pair, the other depiting Apollon. The delicately painted seated #Hermes adorns the center of the cup, feeding or playfully teasing the hound reclining at his side.
🏛 Red-figure #kylix by the Iliupersis Painter, ca 375–350 BCE, #Apulia in #MagnaGraecia
@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #ancientGreece #ancientItaly #GreekRomanArt #VasePainting -
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Hermes carrying #Pandora down from Mount Olympus, a #neoclassical artwork based on a design by John Flaxman.
🏛 Bronze medal dated 1854 CE. Today it seems to be in a private collection.
@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt #ReliefWednesday #NeoclassicalArt -
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Hermes carrying #Pandora down from Mount Olympus, a #neoclassical artwork based on a design by John Flaxman.
🏛 Bronze medal dated 1854 CE. Today it seems to be in a private collection.
@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt #ReliefWednesday #NeoclassicalArt -
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Hermes carrying #Pandora down from Mount Olympus, a #neoclassical artwork based on a design by John Flaxman.
🏛 Bronze medal dated 1854 CE. Today it seems to be in a private collection.
@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt #ReliefWednesday #NeoclassicalArt -
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Hermes carrying #Pandora down from Mount Olympus, a #neoclassical artwork based on a design by John Flaxman.
🏛 Bronze medal dated 1854 CE. Today it seems to be in a private collection.
@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt #ReliefWednesday #NeoclassicalArt -
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Hermes carrying #Pandora down from Mount Olympus, a #neoclassical artwork based on a design by John Flaxman.
🏛 Bronze medal dated 1854 CE. Today it seems to be in a private collection.
@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt #ReliefWednesday #NeoclassicalArt -
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
The moon goddess #Selene on a #kylix. She drives a biga-chariot drawn by two winged steeds. On her head she wears a night-cap and is crowned with the disc of the #moon.
Attica, Greece, ca. 490 BCE, Brygos Painter#DayOfSelene #Selene #VasePainting #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #histodon @antiquidons #ancientGreece
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Aimée Maroux is a writer who creates erotica based on Greek Mythology. You can follow at:
➡️ @AimeeMaroux
Maroux's website is at https://www.eroticmythology.com
#AiméeMaroux #AimeeMaroux #Writer #Writers #Writing #Book #Books #ShortStories #ShortStory #GreekMyths #GreekMythology #Greek #Greece #AncientGreece #AncientGreek #AncientGreeks #Myths #Mythology #Erotica
