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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
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! Share your thoughts below! 💭
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...
If you see any flaws on the page you'll need to say here -- "sources" category is editable only for moderators.
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@rogueclassicist Ooooh. #CateBlanchett as #Electra? Yes, please!
"The hottest Greek ticket of the year, though, is surely for Cate Blanchett in the upcoming Electra/Persona by Benedict Andrews. Electra is a fascinating choice, not least because we have three different versions of her story: Sophocles and Euripides each wrote one, and Aeschylus’s Choephoroi covers the same part of the myth. There are plenty of variations between the three, not least because Euripides takes potshots at Aeschylus’s version, mocking a recognition scene that depended on Electra identifying her long-absent brother from a lock of hair and a footprint, both of which (implausibly) resemble her own."
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@rogueclassicist Ooooh. #CateBlanchett as #Electra? Yes, please!
"The hottest Greek ticket of the year, though, is surely for Cate Blanchett in the upcoming Electra/Persona by Benedict Andrews. Electra is a fascinating choice, not least because we have three different versions of her story: Sophocles and Euripides each wrote one, and Aeschylus’s Choephoroi covers the same part of the myth. There are plenty of variations between the three, not least because Euripides takes potshots at Aeschylus’s version, mocking a recognition scene that depended on Electra identifying her long-absent brother from a lock of hair and a footprint, both of which (implausibly) resemble her own."
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@rogueclassicist Ooooh. #CateBlanchett as #Electra? Yes, please!
"The hottest Greek ticket of the year, though, is surely for Cate Blanchett in the upcoming Electra/Persona by Benedict Andrews. Electra is a fascinating choice, not least because we have three different versions of her story: Sophocles and Euripides each wrote one, and Aeschylus’s Choephoroi covers the same part of the myth. There are plenty of variations between the three, not least because Euripides takes potshots at Aeschylus’s version, mocking a recognition scene that depended on Electra identifying her long-absent brother from a lock of hair and a footprint, both of which (implausibly) resemble her own."
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@rogueclassicist Ooooh. #CateBlanchett as #Electra? Yes, please!
"The hottest Greek ticket of the year, though, is surely for Cate Blanchett in the upcoming Electra/Persona by Benedict Andrews. Electra is a fascinating choice, not least because we have three different versions of her story: Sophocles and Euripides each wrote one, and Aeschylus’s Choephoroi covers the same part of the myth. There are plenty of variations between the three, not least because Euripides takes potshots at Aeschylus’s version, mocking a recognition scene that depended on Electra identifying her long-absent brother from a lock of hair and a footprint, both of which (implausibly) resemble her own."
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@rogueclassicist Ooooh. #CateBlanchett as #Electra? Yes, please!
"The hottest Greek ticket of the year, though, is surely for Cate Blanchett in the upcoming Electra/Persona by Benedict Andrews. Electra is a fascinating choice, not least because we have three different versions of her story: Sophocles and Euripides each wrote one, and Aeschylus’s Choephoroi covers the same part of the myth. There are plenty of variations between the three, not least because Euripides takes potshots at Aeschylus’s version, mocking a recognition scene that depended on Electra identifying her long-absent brother from a lock of hair and a footprint, both of which (implausibly) resemble her own."
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@skua And you used one of my favorite terms -- #Eumenides! I wrote a play in college (titled "Vendetta") based on #Aeschylus' #Oresteia, with #Athena as a slick lawyer and #Apollo as a mayor on the take!
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The Reality of Dreams
Throughout Human history, dreams have fascinated, inspired and disturbed us. Where do they come from? Why do they happen? What do they mean? Different civilisations have tried to answer these questions. The Ancient Mesopotamians thought of dreams as divine messages. The most well known Mesopotamian story is the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh receives dreams about the future. They also had dream temples, where people would go in order to sleep and receive these divine messages in their […]https://johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/the-reality-of-dreams/
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Socrates learned the stonemasonry trade from his father and worked as a mason, too, as he didn’t have enough money to be a philosopher full time.
10 things you didn't know about Socrates.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/05/20-may-socrates.html
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#alien #aliens #ancienthistory #ancientegypt #ancientcivilizations #ancientindia #ancientmesopotamia #ancientwisdom #ancientgreece #atlantis #anunnaki #baalbek #celticculture #celts #celticgods #dilmun #dumuzi #enki #enlil #eridu #greatpyramid #gizapyramids #giza #pyramidsofegypt #egyptianpyramids #egypt #gunungpadang #lemuria #Osiris #Seth #isis #egyptiangods #kukulkan #quetzalcoatl #viracocha #incas #aztec #aztechistory #aztecgods #mayans -
#Alkibiades and #Sokrates by @[email protected]
Alkibiades was so hot that he defected from Athens to Sparta, then from Sparta to Persia, and was still taken back by Athens. He is said to have been in love with #Socrates, whose looks were described as resembling a satyr, something Kebriones captures well in their drawing.
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Backstage Burrow Ep3-2026: Pipe Dreams
🎶🐰 Dive into the fascinating history of music with the Hydraulis, an ancient marvel from 3rd century BCE! Discover how Ctesibius of Alexandria invented the world's first keyboard instrument, revolutionizing sound and harmony and paving the way for Western music traditions. 🎹✨
#hydraulis #organ #musichistory #musictechnology #ancientgreece #romanempire #middleages #charlemagne #keyboardinstruments #backstageburrow #rabbithole
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2booksin52weeks 2026! 1. Set in an Ancient Civilization - Iron Dawn by Matthew Woodring Stover #gamemastersbookclub #ttrpgpodcast #mercenary #ancientworld #fantasyreads #brutality #egyptian #picts #ancientgreece #gritty #ResistPatriarchy #clashofcultures #booksky #bookstagram #booktok
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✨The dance of the maenads✨
This is one of four reliefs depicting maenads dancing held by the Museo del Prado. The exceptional detail and sense of flowing movement is simply exquisite. These are Roman reinterpretations of Greek reliefs from the fifth century BCE and were designed to honour the maenads’ chosen god, Dionysus. The original reliefs were purported to be crafted by the sculptor Callimachus (ca. 410-400 BCE).
#ReliefWednesday #AncientGreece #AncientRome #History #Dionysos
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Sisyphos bound Thanatos (Death) fast, so that men ceased to die, until Ares came to the rescue, released Thanatos, and gave Sisyphos into his power."
Aeschylus, Sisyphus the Runaway (lost play)🏛 Red-figure vase painting
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'Circe Invidiosa' by John William Waterhouse (1892)
#art #arts #artwork #painting #paintings #Myth #myths #mythology #greece #greek #ancientgreece #illustration #realism #arthistory #preraphaelite #preraphaelites #artnet
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#Books shipping to new homes this morning.
#BookSelling #bookstodon #rabelais #french #humanism ##religion #judaica #chassidic #mysticism #iamblichus #philosophy #AncientGreece #JoeSunpool #NativeAmerican #DonWilcox
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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 -
The remains of a classical statue of Trajan, #Roman Emperor, found in Dion, west of Thessaloniki, in Northern Greece. He wears the laurel wreath with a little bust on the central #medallion
