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𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙧: "𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙮" 𝙖𝙣𝙙 "𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨" 𝙗𝙮 𝙃𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙙 -

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄:

Foundational
Ethics-Driven
Intricate

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:

In what ways are the works of Classical Greece advancements or dilutions of Hesiod's narrative?

#bookreview #literature #books #book #reading #frictionalreading #hesiod #theogony #worksanddays #ancientliterature #ancientgreece #mythology #morality #philosophy

𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙧: "𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙮" 𝙖𝙣𝙙 "𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨" 𝙗𝙮 𝙃𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙙 -

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄:

Foundational
Ethics-Driven
Intricate

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:

In what ways are the works of Classical Greece advancements or dilutions of Hesiod's narrative?

#bookreview #literature #books #book #reading #frictionalreading #hesiod #theogony #worksanddays #ancientliterature #ancientgreece #mythology #morality #philosophy

𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙧: "𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙮" 𝙖𝙣𝙙 "𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨" 𝙗𝙮 𝙃𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙙 -

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄:

Foundational
Ethics-Driven
Intricate

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:

In what ways are the works of Classical Greece advancements or dilutions of Hesiod's narrative?

#bookreview #literature #books #book #reading #frictionalreading #hesiod #theogony #worksanddays #ancientliterature #ancientgreece #mythology #morality #philosophy

𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙧: "𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙮" 𝙖𝙣𝙙 "𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨" 𝙗𝙮 𝙃𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙙 -

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄:

Foundational
Ethics-Driven
Intricate

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:

In what ways are the works of Classical Greece advancements or dilutions of Hesiod's narrative?

#bookreview #literature #books #book #reading #frictionalreading #hesiod #theogony #worksanddays #ancientliterature #ancientgreece #mythology #morality #philosophy

𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙧: "𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙮" 𝙖𝙣𝙙 "𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨" 𝙗𝙮 𝙃𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙙 -

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄:

Foundational
Ethics-Driven
Intricate

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:

In what ways are the works of Classical Greece advancements or dilutions of Hesiod's narrative?

#bookreview #literature #books #book #reading #frictionalreading #hesiod #theogony #worksanddays #ancientliterature #ancientgreece #mythology #morality #philosophy

💫 AMAZING REVELATION: The Helmet of Miltiades, Symbol of a Famous Ancient Greek Warrior
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💫 AMAZING REVELATION: The Helmet of Miltiades, Symbol of a Famous Ancient Greek Warrior
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💫 AMAZING REVELATION: The Helmet of Miltiades, Symbol of a Famous Ancient Greek Warrior
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💫 AMAZING REVELATION: The Helmet of Miltiades, Symbol of a Famous Ancient Greek Warrior
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! You won't believe what they found! 😱
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💫 AMAZING REVELATION: The Helmet of Miltiades, Symbol of a Famous Ancient Greek Warrior
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! You won't believe what they found! 😱
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⭐ MUST READ: Seductive Sirens of Greek Mythology and How Heroes Resisted Them
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⭐ MUST READ: Seductive Sirens of Greek Mythology and How Heroes Resisted Them
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⭐ MUST READ: Seductive Sirens of Greek Mythology and How Heroes Resisted Them
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⭐ MUST READ: Seductive Sirens of Greek Mythology and How Heroes Resisted Them
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AO THROWBACK: Aphrodite: The True Origins of the Greek Goddess of Love, Sex, and Beauty
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?? EXPLOSIVE DISCOVERY: Serapis: God of Fertility and the Afterlife that United Greeks and Egyptians
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?? EXPLOSIVE DISCOVERY: Brazen Bull: Gruesome Ancient Greek Torture Device Turned Screams into "Music'
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AO THROWBACK: More than fifty ancient Greek inventions brought to life through incredible reconstructions
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?? AMAZING REVELATION: The Legendary Erinyes or Furies of Ancient Greek Mythology
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sachsen-Odyssey/pages/001-chapterhead/

Another engraving from Homer’s Odyssey. Seems like a good time for them :-)

This time i included the border, which is also used for the full-page illustrations.

Can you tell me more about what’s going on here? This is at the start of the poem. See Web page for my uninformed guesses :-)

#vintageEngraving #vintageArt #fobo #Homer #Odysseus #Odysee #Odyssey #ancientGreece #chapterHead #engraving

The Reality of Dreams

https://johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/the-reality-of-dreams/

I'm really looking forward to watching The Odyssey this weekend

I took this photo at the acropolis of Mycenae, getting some shelter from the summer heat

#doorsday #photography #ancientgreece #Μυκήνη #Mycenae #greece #ελλάδα

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!

#CelebratingWomen #AncientGreece

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!

#CelebratingWomen #AncientGreece

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!

#CelebratingWomen #AncientGreece

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!

#CelebratingWomen #AncientGreece

[PART 2] How rigidity and failure to learn destroyed Macedonia — and the entire ancient Greek world
https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/part-2-how-rigidity-and-failure-to-learn-destroyed-macedonia-and-the-entire-ancient-greek-world-5e0adfbb974a
#history #romanempire #ancientrome #ancientgreece #macedonia

[PART 1] How rigidity and failure to learn destroyed Macedonia — and the entire ancient Greek world

https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/part-1-how-rigidity-and-failure-to-learn-destroyed-macedonia-and-the-entire-ancient-greek-world-019069dd2213
#history #romanempire #ancientrome #ancientgreece #macedonia

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#Introduction

I'm just a guy with a lot of hobbies - #brewing, growing stuff, making #vinegar, collecting #AncientCoins, #photography, #boardgames, #ComputerGames, and much more.

I need a new hobby like I need a new hole in the head, but I am also powerless to resist when a new hobby strikes. Such is life.

I work as a #TechnicalWriter at a Danish software company. I have three clever and independent children who shout at me a lot, and a wife who doesn't. We live a happy normie-life in suburbia.

Back in the before-times I studied #linguistics at #AarhusUniversity. I think about #AncientRome and #AncientGreece probably every hour or so.

I noticed this as well!

#AncientTexts depict all kinds of people, not just straight and cis ones – this college course looks at #LGBTQ sexuality and #gender in #Egypt, #Greece and #Rome

By Tina Chronopoulos
Published: September 11, 2023

Title of course:

“LGBTQ Antiquity: A View from the Mediterranean”

What prompted the idea for the course?

I study Greek and Latin literature and have noticed that ancient authors wrote about sex, #homoerotic feelings or relations, and gender more often than we assume.

A few figures from ancient Mediterranean mythology are sometimes held up as LGBTQ ancestors – such as the Greek gods #Apollo and #Zeus who both loved other men. But in a mythology course I taught in the fall of 2021, I found myself highlighting a number of other stories about same-sex attraction and gender variance beyond a strict male-female binary. For example, spells from Egypt show that there were women who tried to get other women to fall in love with them.

Students responded with such curiosity and excitement that I decided to create a stand-alone course that would focus exclusively on these topics.

What does the course explore?

The course explores literary texts from the #AncientMediterranean – including #Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Roman Italy – in which authors describe relationships that can be said to fall under the LGBTQ umbrella. We read the texts in chronological order, rather than grouped by theme or identity. This allows students to encounter the texts relatively label-free, since the words U.S. society uses to talk about gender and sexuality today – like “gay” or “transgender” – do not always align with ancient understandings.

Why is this course relevant now?

Assaults on members of the LGBTQ community, especially trans folks, are rising in the United States: both through legal means in a number of states and through physical attacks and hate crimes.

My goal is for students to take courage and hope from knowing that same-sex relationships and gender diversity have existed in various guises for millennia. In antiquity, homosexuality was not considered an identity category the way it is today, making it hard to determine if and how LGBTQ-like people were discriminated against, but they certainly were not always met with contempt. For example, the body of #Hermaphroditus, a god whom Greeks sought out for help with fertility and child care issues, combined female and male characteristics.

I also want students to connect with the past as a way to feel rooted and validated. In this, I took a cue from trans activist #LeslieFeinberg, who wrote in the 1996 book “#TransgenderWarriors,” “I couldn’t find myself in history. No one like me seemed to have ever existed.”
What’s a critical lesson from the course?

LGBTQ-like individuals have always been here, although modern conceptions of self, gender and sexuality cannot be mapped directly onto the past.

The identities we know today were unknown then: The concept of homosexuality as a distinct sexual orientation or distinct kind of behavior did not exist. For instance, elite men in ancient Athens often engaged in same-sex relationships with men alongside their marriages to women. Those who were in exclusively homoerotic relationships, however, tended to be ridiculed.

Another critical lesson is that language matters. The words we use today are often inadequate to capture how social status or age intersected with one’s gender in the ancient Mediterranean. Take the Greek word for a woman or wife, “γῠνή.” Typically, this word refers to an upper-class woman, rather than, say, one who is enslaved or a foreigner. Norms around sexual activity depended on a person’s social status, age and gender.

What materials does the course feature?

Students come into the course expecting to encounter celebrated characters such as the poet #Sappho, from the Greek island of #Lesbos, whom lesbians have regarded as an ancestor.

However, we also read less famous authors, such as #Lucian of #Samosata, a Syrian-born satirist from the second century C.E. In one of his dialogues, a sex worker tells her friend about an encounter she had with two other women, one of whom describes herself as “quite like a man.”

Not all authors are sympathetic. #JohnChrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople at the end of the fourth century C.E., vilified people who engaged in homoerotic acts or homosexual relationships as criminals, mentally ill, diseased or diabolic. Many of these views are still being promulgated by religious leaders today.

The course also explores the lives of some Byzantine saints who were seen as women before they entered a monastery or became ascetics. Yet their self-punishing practices, such as extreme fasting, transformed their bodies, and the surrounding communities started to see them as men. These stories, which aimed to uplift their audiences, serve as a reminder that cross-dressing and gender variance were not always seen as objectionable.

Read more:
https://theconversation.com/ancient-texts-depict-all-kinds-of-people-not-just-straight-and-cis-ones-this-college-course-looks-at-lgbtq-sexuality-and-gender-in-egypt-greece-and-rome-210182

#AncientRome #AncientGreece #AncientEgypt #LGBTQHistory #Histodon #AncientHistory