#ancienttexts — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ancienttexts, aggregated by home.social.
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2/10 Meet The Yahwist (J), from 950 BCE. J is the master storyteller, using the name "Yahweh" for a very human-like God who walks in gardens and sews clothes. J’s tales are earthy, vivid, and focused on the patriarchs. When you read about the Garden of Eden or the colorful drama of Abraham, you’re likely reading J's handiwork. It’s the raw, ancient heart of the narrative, full of grit and personality. 🏺✨ #AncientTexts
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The gold medal for deception: How a professor created an international award out of thin air.
In 2016, Florent Montaclair stepped into the spotlight when he received the Gold Medal of Philology, a sort of Nobel Prize for the discipline.
In fact, the award was created by Montaclair himself. It took an investigation by Romanian journalists to uncover this hoax, which is now the subject of a judicial inquiry in France.
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Came across this article from 2020 that I bookmarked...
#AncientTexts encouraged hope and endurance when they spoke of #EndTimes
Published: April 13, 2020
"Other apocalyptic texts, such as the #Sibylline #Oracles, describe poetically a coming light, a 'life without care,' and a time when the 'earth will belong equally to all.' "
For those not familiar with the #SibylineOracles, this from Encyclopedia Britainnica:
"Sibylline Oracles, collection of oracular prophecies in which Jewish or Christian doctrines were allegedly confirmed by a sibyl (legendary Greek prophetess); the prophecies were actually the work of certain Jewish and Christian writers from about 150 bc to about ad 180."
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Came across this article from 2020 that I bookmarked...
#AncientTexts encouraged hope and endurance when they spoke of #EndTimes
Published: April 13, 2020
"Other apocalyptic texts, such as the #Sibylline #Oracles, describe poetically a coming light, a 'life without care,' and a time when the 'earth will belong equally to all.' "
For those not familiar with the #SibylineOracles, this from Encyclopedia Britainnica:
"Sibylline Oracles, collection of oracular prophecies in which Jewish or Christian doctrines were allegedly confirmed by a sibyl (legendary Greek prophetess); the prophecies were actually the work of certain Jewish and Christian writers from about 150 bc to about ad 180."
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Came across this article from 2020 that I bookmarked...
#AncientTexts encouraged hope and endurance when they spoke of #EndTimes
Published: April 13, 2020
"Other apocalyptic texts, such as the #Sibylline #Oracles, describe poetically a coming light, a 'life without care,' and a time when the 'earth will belong equally to all.' "
For those not familiar with the #SibylineOracles, this from Encyclopedia Britainnica:
"Sibylline Oracles, collection of oracular prophecies in which Jewish or Christian doctrines were allegedly confirmed by a sibyl (legendary Greek prophetess); the prophecies were actually the work of certain Jewish and Christian writers from about 150 bc to about ad 180."
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Came across this article from 2020 that I bookmarked...
#AncientTexts encouraged hope and endurance when they spoke of #EndTimes
Published: April 13, 2020
"Other apocalyptic texts, such as the #Sibylline #Oracles, describe poetically a coming light, a 'life without care,' and a time when the 'earth will belong equally to all.' "
For those not familiar with the #SibylineOracles, this from Encyclopedia Britainnica:
"Sibylline Oracles, collection of oracular prophecies in which Jewish or Christian doctrines were allegedly confirmed by a sibyl (legendary Greek prophetess); the prophecies were actually the work of certain Jewish and Christian writers from about 150 bc to about ad 180."
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Came across this article from 2020 that I bookmarked...
#AncientTexts encouraged hope and endurance when they spoke of #EndTimes
Published: April 13, 2020
"Other apocalyptic texts, such as the #Sibylline #Oracles, describe poetically a coming light, a 'life without care,' and a time when the 'earth will belong equally to all.' "
For those not familiar with the #SibylineOracles, this from Encyclopedia Britainnica:
"Sibylline Oracles, collection of oracular prophecies in which Jewish or Christian doctrines were allegedly confirmed by a sibyl (legendary Greek prophetess); the prophecies were actually the work of certain Jewish and Christian writers from about 150 bc to about ad 180."
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A real ancient text made a strange claim about Jesus… but it wasn’t part of the Bible.
So why did the story disappear?
#History #Jesus #AncientTexts #HiddenHistory #Faith
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/shapeshifter-001361 -
Scroll fragments once labeled “blank” revealed hidden Hebrew and Aramaic letters using new tech, shaking up Dead Sea Scroll history and helping fight forgeries. #DeadSeaScrolls #AncientTexts #HiddenHistory #RealOrFake #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/dead-sea-scroll-fragments-0013733 -
Scroll fragments once labeled “blank” revealed hidden Hebrew and Aramaic letters using new tech, shaking up Dead Sea Scroll history and helping fight forgeries. #DeadSeaScrolls #AncientTexts #HiddenHistory #RealOrFake #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/dead-sea-scroll-fragments-0013733 -
Scroll fragments once labeled “blank” revealed hidden Hebrew and Aramaic letters using new tech, shaking up Dead Sea Scroll history and helping fight forgeries. #DeadSeaScrolls #AncientTexts #HiddenHistory #RealOrFake #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/dead-sea-scroll-fragments-0013733 -
Scroll fragments once labeled “blank” revealed hidden Hebrew and Aramaic letters using new tech, shaking up Dead Sea Scroll history and helping fight forgeries. #DeadSeaScrolls #AncientTexts #HiddenHistory #RealOrFake #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/dead-sea-scroll-fragments-0013733 -
🎉 Oh, joy! Another riveting day where ancient texts finally escape copyright jail, only to join the treasure trove of free stuff nobody reads. 📚✨ Because nothing screams "true book lover" like waiting 95 years to download a dusty classic for free. 🙄
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026 #copyrightfree #literature #dustyclassics #freebooks #booklover #ancienttexts #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Oh, joy! Another riveting day where ancient texts finally escape copyright jail, only to join the treasure trove of free stuff nobody reads. 📚✨ Because nothing screams "true book lover" like waiting 95 years to download a dusty classic for free. 🙄
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026 #copyrightfree #literature #dustyclassics #freebooks #booklover #ancienttexts #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Oh, joy! Another riveting day where ancient texts finally escape copyright jail, only to join the treasure trove of free stuff nobody reads. 📚✨ Because nothing screams "true book lover" like waiting 95 years to download a dusty classic for free. 🙄
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026 #copyrightfree #literature #dustyclassics #freebooks #booklover #ancienttexts #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Oh, joy! Another riveting day where ancient texts finally escape copyright jail, only to join the treasure trove of free stuff nobody reads. 📚✨ Because nothing screams "true book lover" like waiting 95 years to download a dusty classic for free. 🙄
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026 #copyrightfree #literature #dustyclassics #freebooks #booklover #ancienttexts #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Oh, joy! Another riveting day where ancient texts finally escape copyright jail, only to join the treasure trove of free stuff nobody reads. 📚✨ Because nothing screams "true book lover" like waiting 95 years to download a dusty classic for free. 🙄
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026 #copyrightfree #literature #dustyclassics #freebooks #booklover #ancienttexts #HackerNews #ngated -
The #Bible Doesn't Say So
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VidaQPd3C6Q
Dr. Dan McClellan is well known for #debunking #Biblical #misinformation online. He’ll explain why understanding biases matters and how misunderstanding #ancienttexts shapes modern debates in harmful ways. Dr. Dan McClellan is a public scholar of the Bible and #religion. He earned his PhD in #theology and religion from the University of Exeter
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Did John COPY This Lost Gospel? 🤯Egerton Gospel #gospelmanuscripts
The Egerton Gospel COULD be a source for John's gospel. it could preserve separate traditions. Or, it may have come later. We'll learn the history and explore the manuscript!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9un1FX2p0
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels
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Did John COPY This Lost Gospel? 🤯Egerton Gospel #gospelmanuscripts
The Egerton Gospel COULD be a source for John's gospel. it could preserve separate traditions. Or, it may have come later. We'll learn the history and explore the manuscript!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9un1FX2p0
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels
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Did John COPY This Lost Gospel? 🤯Egerton Gospel #gospelmanuscripts
The Egerton Gospel COULD be a source for John's gospel. it could preserve separate traditions. Or, it may have come later. We'll learn the history and explore the manuscript!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9un1FX2p0
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels
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Did John COPY This Lost Gospel? 🤯Egerton Gospel #gospelmanuscripts
The Egerton Gospel COULD be a source for John's gospel. it could preserve separate traditions. Or, it may have come later. We'll learn the history and explore the manuscript!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9un1FX2p0
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels
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Did John COPY This Lost Gospel? 🤯Egerton Gospel #gospelmanuscripts
The Egerton Gospel COULD be a source for John's gospel. it could preserve separate traditions. Or, it may have come later. We'll learn the history and explore the manuscript!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9un1FX2p0
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels
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Do #Bible #Scholars Just Make Stuff Up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYkiQkF0ds
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #HistoricalEvidence #AncientBooks #Exvangelical #Skeptic #Atheist #Agnostic
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Do #Bible #Scholars Just Make Stuff Up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYkiQkF0ds
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #HistoricalEvidence #AncientBooks #Exvangelical #Skeptic #Atheist #Agnostic
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Do #Bible #Scholars Just Make Stuff Up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYkiQkF0ds
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #HistoricalEvidence #AncientBooks #Exvangelical #Skeptic #Atheist #Agnostic
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Do #Bible #Scholars Just Make Stuff Up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYkiQkF0ds
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #HistoricalEvidence #AncientBooks #Exvangelical #Skeptic #Atheist #Agnostic
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Do #Bible #Scholars Just Make Stuff Up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYkiQkF0ds
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #HistoricalEvidence #AncientBooks #Exvangelical #Skeptic #Atheist #Agnostic
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The most misunderstood Bible verse? All scripture?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUytpJ8c9OU
#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #HistoricalEvidence #AncientBooks
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5 Messed Up #Bible Details -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-8BgASPom4
#exvangelical #deconstruction #ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #SUNDAYSCHOOL
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Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
#HackerNews #Herculaneum #Scrolls #DigitalUnwrapping #AncientTexts #Archaeology #NewsTech #History
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🚨 Breaking News: #Jesus is still trending! 📈 #Scholars argue over ancient texts like hipsters at a vintage sale, while others are baffled that his stories, unlike their houseplants, refuse to die. 📚✨
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/miracles-and-wonder-elaine-pagels-book-review-heretic-catherine-nixey #Trending #AncientTexts #VintageSale #RefuseToDie #HackerNews #ngated -
Trio wins $700K Vesuvius Challenge grand prize for deciphering ancient scroll - Enlarge / Text from one of the Herculaneum scrolls has been deciphered.... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2001066 #herculaneumscrolls #digitalunwrapping #vesuviuschallenge #ancienttexts #archaeology #science
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So, my take on #Christianity (after exploring several sects -- as well as other religions), and reading some of the texts in the original languages (Hebrew and Koine Greek), as well as studying Greek and Roman history -- that pretty much, the Romans saw the popularity of early Christianity (which was based on earlier mystery cults), as being a threat to their rule. So they incorporated elements of Christianity into Roman Christianity (which later became Roman Catholicism) -- fusing Christian beliefs (myths) into the existing Roman state religious structure (divine ancestor worship, virgin birth, etc) -- and turned it into the colonizing, misogynistic, abusive, xenophobic monster that committed genocide on Indigenous peoples, subjugated women, and erased any religion that wasn't "Christianity." I think that about sums it up...
#AncientHistory #AncientTexts #AncientMediterranean #AncientReligions #ChurchAndState #RomanChristianity #Christianity #Vatican #PaterPatriae #ThePope
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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, 2023Title 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.
#AncientRome #AncientGreece #AncientEgypt #LGBTQHistory #Histodon #AncientHistory
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Four pictures of a toddler wearing lettuce.
Person 1: I have read in ancient texts that this is actually a form of dryad.
Person 2: Once again [redacted], the 3.5 D&D splatbook put out by Mongoose in 2007 about making Dryads, Nymphs, and Brownies playable characters is not an "ancient text".
#TTRPG #DnD #Dryad #d20 #Memes #DnDMemes #AncientTexts #Mongoose #DnD35
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Reappraisal Of Linkages Between Concepts And Ideas In Geography And The ‘Puranas’ [seven Dwipas]
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https://www.internationaljournalcorner.com/index.php/theijhss/article/view/127964 <-- shared paper
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“Knowledge of Geography had been enlightened in ‘Puranas’ and number of eminent thinkers or scholars studied in this respect. But instead of these there are still remain some corner to be discussed. Among these ‘Puranas’ most popular ‘Puranas’, written in ‘Devnagari’ language or Sanskrit, are ‘Brahma Purana’, ‘Padma Purana’, ‘Vishnu Purana’, and ‘Shiva Purana’. This paper seeks to explore the relevance of Geographical concepts and ideas as described by the ancient sages in India. For this purpose the authors are go through the ‘Puranas’ to search about the aforesaid fact...:
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geography #ancienttexts #hindu #hinduism #hindutradition #spirituality #spiritualism #puranas #dwipas #India #ancienthistory #scriptures #global #world -
Just saw this resource posted today by Working Classicists on Twit: https://www.workingclassicists.com/resources
O.M.G. FABULOUS one-stop-shop for all your classics database needs. WOW.
#Classics #AncientTexts #Inscriptions #Epigraphy #Atlas #Maps #Coins #Grammar #Greek #Roman #Latin
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@drsueoosthuizen how fabulous to be able to gaze on such an old illustrated text. I love the Vision of Piers Plowman - ‘in a somer seson when softe was the sonne’. Envy. #poetry #ancienttexts #books #booksadon
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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
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🚨 Breaking News: #Jesus is still trending! 📈 #Scholars argue over ancient texts like hipsters at a vintage sale, while others are baffled that his stories, unlike their houseplants, refuse to die. 📚✨
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/miracles-and-wonder-elaine-pagels-book-review-heretic-catherine-nixey #Trending #AncientTexts #VintageSale #RefuseToDie #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking News: #Jesus is still trending! 📈 #Scholars argue over ancient texts like hipsters at a vintage sale, while others are baffled that his stories, unlike their houseplants, refuse to die. 📚✨
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/miracles-and-wonder-elaine-pagels-book-review-heretic-catherine-nixey #Trending #AncientTexts #VintageSale #RefuseToDie #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking News: #Jesus is still trending! 📈 #Scholars argue over ancient texts like hipsters at a vintage sale, while others are baffled that his stories, unlike their houseplants, refuse to die. 📚✨
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/miracles-and-wonder-elaine-pagels-book-review-heretic-catherine-nixey #Trending #AncientTexts #VintageSale #RefuseToDie #HackerNews #ngated -
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, 2023Title 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.
#AncientRome #AncientGreece #AncientEgypt #LGBTQHistory #Histodon #AncientHistory
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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, 2023Title 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.
#AncientRome #AncientGreece #AncientEgypt #LGBTQHistory #Histodon #AncientHistory
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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, 2023Title 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.
#AncientRome #AncientGreece #AncientEgypt #LGBTQHistory #Histodon #AncientHistory
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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, 2023Title 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.
#AncientRome #AncientGreece #AncientEgypt #LGBTQHistory #Histodon #AncientHistory
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Reappraisal Of Linkages Between Concepts And Ideas In Geography And The ‘Puranas’ [seven Dwipas]
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https://www.internationaljournalcorner.com/index.php/theijhss/article/view/127964 <-- shared paper
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“Knowledge of Geography had been enlightened in ‘Puranas’ and number of eminent thinkers or scholars studied in this respect. But instead of these there are still remain some corner to be discussed. Among these ‘Puranas’ most popular ‘Puranas’, written in ‘Devnagari’ language or Sanskrit, are ‘Brahma Purana’, ‘Padma Purana’, ‘Vishnu Purana’, and ‘Shiva Purana’. This paper seeks to explore the relevance of Geographical concepts and ideas as described by the ancient sages in India. For this purpose the authors are go through the ‘Puranas’ to search about the aforesaid fact...:
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geography #ancienttexts #hindu #hinduism #hindutradition #spirituality #spiritualism #puranas #dwipas #India #ancienthistory #scriptures #global #world -
Reappraisal Of Linkages Between Concepts And Ideas In Geography And The ‘Puranas’ [seven Dwipas]
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https://www.internationaljournalcorner.com/index.php/theijhss/article/view/127964 <-- shared paper
--
“Knowledge of Geography had been enlightened in ‘Puranas’ and number of eminent thinkers or scholars studied in this respect. But instead of these there are still remain some corner to be discussed. Among these ‘Puranas’ most popular ‘Puranas’, written in ‘Devnagari’ language or Sanskrit, are ‘Brahma Purana’, ‘Padma Purana’, ‘Vishnu Purana’, and ‘Shiva Purana’. This paper seeks to explore the relevance of Geographical concepts and ideas as described by the ancient sages in India. For this purpose the authors are go through the ‘Puranas’ to search about the aforesaid fact...:
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geography #ancienttexts #hindu #hinduism #hindutradition #spirituality #spiritualism #puranas #dwipas #India #ancienthistory #scriptures #global #world
