#2nd century BCE

[artschoolglasses]

Pair of gold earrings with an Egyptian Atef crown set with stones and glass, Greek, 3rd-2nd Century BCE

From the Met Museum

[lubentina]

The House of Meander. interior. Pompeii

Fresco depicting the poet meander. 250-79 BCE

[romegreeceart]

Aphrodite

* Asia Minor

* 300-100 BCE

* terracotta

* Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

Stockholm, November 2023

[terebelli]

Ancient Greek mosaics, 2nd century BCE, Zeugma, Turkey.

[ancientromebuildings]

Pons Aemilius, Rome

* 2nd century BCE

Rome, July 2015

[thatshowthingstarted]

Mosaic depicting a cat with a partridge (above) and ducks, fish & shellfish (below), 

From the House of the Faun, Pompeii, Italy,

Late 2nd Century BCE

Naples Archaeological Museum

[blueiscoool]

Marble Head of a Roman Goddess 2nd Century BCE

Marble (Paros 1). 18 1/2 × 14 × 11 in. (47 × 35.6 × 27.9 cm).

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

A Hellenistic Greek mosaic depicting the god Dionysos as a winged daimon riding on a tiger, from the House of Dionysos at Delos (which was once controlled by Athens) in the South Aegean region of Greece, late 2nd century BCE, Archaeological Museum of Delos.  [Robert Scott Horton]

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“Cultivating loyalty is no small thing. George Orwell, for example, considered preferential loyalty to be the “essence of being human.” Critiquing Gandhi’s recommendation — that we must have no close friendships or exclusive loves because these will introduce loyalty and favoritism, preventing us from loving everyone equally — Orwell retorted that “the essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty … and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals.”

— The Myth of Universal Love - NYTimes.com

[Quidnunc: Friendship]

[romegreeceart]

Finestre sull'Arte: The House of the Labyrinth in Pompeii: the first known labyrinth mosaic (20/09/23)

House of the Labyrinth, Pompeii.

[evilios]

Statue of Apollo at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum From Tralles, 2nd century BCE

Picture by: 🏺

[artschoolglasses]

Bronze statuette of a goose, Greek, 3rd-1st Century BCE

From the Met Museum

[romegreeceart]

Pietas

* Italy

* 108-107 BCE

* silver

https://smb.museum-digital.de/object/178538

Source Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Creator Reinhard Saczewski

Copyright Notice Public Domain Mark; (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

[romegreeceart]

Just browsing through some of my favourite blogs from "early years". Mini-girlz was certainly among them :-).

Draped female figurine

2nd half of the 2nd century BC

Terracota

Hellenistic period (323-31 B.C)

[al-mayriti]

What's your PhD about?

I haven't started it yet cause I'm looking for funding first so this might change (also I've altered the PhD propossal depending on the professor that would be my supervisor) but basically I want to study the Muses through the lens of Cultural Memory.

The ideal thing would be to study them and their evolution throughout ancient Greece, but that's impossible so for example my current PhD director suggested I should focus on the Archaic Era (also the Dark Ages, so around the 10th to 6th centuries BCE more or less). I am very interested in the relationship between identity, literacy, and religiosity, so the Muses are perfect for it, as they were used by the Greeks as a sort of fact-check for aoidoi and poets, which were the preservers of Cultural Memory.

Most stuff that's been written about the Muses has always been very philological and especially related to the 'invocation of the Muses' so prevalent in Greek literature. I want to open the scope to new angles, something never done before, and I have experience working with Cultural Memory from my Master's Thesis, so I thought it would be a cool approach :) It's gonna be much more theoretical than you would expect, but I love that sorta thing. Also it's impossible to separate the Muses from literacy so I'll be looking at written sources for sure, my good pal Hesiod (whom my Undergrad Thesis was about) will occupy a good chunk of the research I'm afraid.

So yeah, that's it. This won't happen if I don't get funding tho, so I could just never write this Ph.D. Who knows.

[dlyarchitecture]

[ilookattextile]

1. 19th century sealskin thong, Greenland

2. Pazyryk swan made of felted reindeer wool, circa 400 BCE, Siberia

3. Child’s hat with bird, nalbound cotton and wool, 1000–1476 CE, Chancay culture, Peru

4. Knitted cotton sock from Egypt, 1000-1200 CE

5. Sidonian flask shaped like a date, 1st-2nd century CE, Syria or Palestine

6. World’s oldest surviving pants, woven wool, circa 1300-1000 BCE, China