#ancientgreece — Public Fediverse posts
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Spartan warriors engage in philosophical debates amidst a sprawling ancient Greek cityscape.
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AO THROWBACK: Aphrodite: The True Origins of the Greek Goddess of Love, Sex, and Beauty
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https://www.ancient-origins.net/news/aphrodite-true-origins-greek-goddess-love-sex-and-beauty-002170
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #AncientGreece #GreekMythology #HumanOrigins #Evolution #Past #HistoryFacts #Heritage -
Pulled from the sea in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism used intricate bronze gears to calculate the heavens—and more than half remains missing today.
#AntikytheraMechanism #AncientGreece #AncientTechnology #Archaeology #AncientHistory #AncientArtifacts
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/115-years-sensational-discovery-world-s-first-analogue-computer-008091 -
As mentioned before, the topic of historical games is currently reorganized on our #wiki. And that line of work brought us the latest subpage, a transcription of a #publicDomain article "Musical Games of Antiquity" by J. F. Rowbotham from 1899:
http://musicgames.wikidot.com/source:rowbotham-musical-games-of-antiquity
The central activity in the text is "The Cottabos" consisting of throwing wine to a cup and listening to the sound...
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So, the bad news is, #MadelineMiller, one of my favorite authors, is still suffering from #LongCovid. The good news is, she has finished one short story ( #Galatea ) and another is due out in September ( #Mestra ). Maybe, just maybe, she'll finish #Persephone. And she is enjoying the renewed interest in #Classics because of #TheOdyssey.
cc: @rogueclassicist
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Leaving you all with this quote from #Hippocrates...
"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
#SolarPunkSunday #Capitalism #CircularEconomy #SharingEconomy #Degrowth #Philosophy #Earth4All #AncientGreece #Greed
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Free Press (North Macedonia): The digital collection of inscriptions and stories “Prometheus” represents a significant source of information about the past. “Through this collection, the general public has the opportunity to become acquainted with part of the epigraphic heritage of the Republic of North Macedonia…and to experience in a different way the life, culture and history of the local […]
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗴𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 & 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗱 -
Going way back now, one of Greece's earliest poets with the earliest versions of the Greek creation along with didactic verse of right behavior.
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #hesiod #theogony #worksanddays #greekmythology #poetry #ancientgreece #didacticpoetry #creationmyth
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New track from me, LAGRANGE POINT 6 out now just on Bandcamp. YouTube etc to follow. From my forthcoming album 'Heros' on the heroes of Ancient Greece.
https://lagrangepoint6.bandcamp.com/track/ariadnes-thread-part-three
#Bandcamp #ElextronicMusic #DavidBedford #AncientGreece #GreekMythology #Theseus #Ariadne #Minotaur
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Another informative piece by Joshua J. Mark (one of my sources for "Women in the Ancient World"). Also, ever wonder where #Christianity got some of their ideas about the #afterlife? Pretty much, they took what they wanted (or what was popular), then banned the Rites.
The #EleusinianMysteries: The Rites of #Demeter
by Joshua J. Mark
published on 18 January 2012"The #RitesOfEleusis, or the Eleusinian Mysteries, were the secret rituals of the mystery school of #Eleusis and were observed regularly from c. 1600 BCE - 392 CE. Exactly what this mystic ritual was no one knows; but why the ancient Greeks participated in it can be understood by the testimonials of the initiated.
"The Eleusinian Mysteries, held each year at Eleusis, Greece, fourteen miles northwest of Athens, were so important to the Greeks that, until the arrival of the Romans, The Sacred Way (the road from Athens to Eleusis) was the only road, not a goat path, in all of central Greece. The mysteries celebrated the story of Demeter and #Persephone but, as the initiated were sworn to secrecy on pain of death as to the details of the ritual, we do not know what form these rituals took. We do know, though, that those who participated in the mysteries were forever changed for the better and that they no longer feared death.
"The rituals were based on a symbolic reading of the story of Demeter and Persephone and provided initiates with a vision of the afterlife so powerful that it changed the way they saw the world and their place in it. Participants were freed from a fear of death through the recognition that they were immortal souls temporarily in mortal bodies. In the same way that Persephone went down to the land of the dead and returned to that of the living each year, so would every human being die only to live again on another plane of existence or in another body."
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/32/the-eleusinian-mysteries-the-rites-of-demeter/
#ReligiousHistory #AncientGreece #AncientRome #Eschatology #ImmortalSoul #Hallucinogens
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DeepMind’s new AI tool helps resolve debate over ancient Athenian decrees - Enlarge / This fragmented inscription records a decree concerning the A... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1839561 #artificialintellignece #deepneuralnetworks #digitalhumanities #machinelearning #gaming&culture #ancientgreece #ancienttexts #science
