#Ancient Greeks

[hornyforpoetry]

Achilles and Patroclus // Apollo and Hyacinthus

Ganymede // Hylas

Narcissus // Orpheus

Artemis // Tiresias

LGBTQ+ Icons in Greek Mythology

- in the honour of Pride Month 2024

In order: ”Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus” by Gavin Hamilton // ”The Death of Hyacinthus” Nicolas-Rene Jollain // ”The Abduction of Ganymede” by Peter Paul Rubens // ”Hylas and the Nymphs” by John William Waterhouse // ”Narcissus” by Caravaggio // „Orpheus” by Paul Duqueylar // „Artemis” statue replica after Leochares // „Tiresias” by Johann Ulrich Kraus

[2seeitall]

Statue of Dionysus, god of wine.

Archeological Museum of Butrint, Albania

Found during the excavations of Ninfeo of Butrint in 1929.

[arysworld]

🌿Compilation of ancient greek art🌿

[cowperviolet]

When they saw Patroklos dead

—so brave and strong, so young—

the horses of Achilles began to weep;

their immortal nature was upset deeply

by this work of death they had to look at.

They reared their heads, tossed their long manes,

beat the ground with their hooves, and mourned

Patroklos, seeing him lifeless, destroyed,

now mere flesh only, his spirit gone,

defenseless, without breath,

turned back from life to the great Nothingness.

Zeus saw the tears of those immortal horses and felt sorry.

“At the wedding of Peleus,” he said,

“I should not have acted so thoughtlessly.

Better if we hadn’t given you as a gift,

my unhappy horses. What business did you have down there,

among pathetic human beings, the toys of fate.

You are free of death, you will not get old,

yet ephemeral disasters torment you.

Men have caught you up in their misery.”

But it was for the eternal disaster of death

that those two gallant horses shed their tears. 

- Horses of Achilles, by Constantine Cavafy

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.

Hippocrates

[whatifwekilledgodandwebothgirls]

Alcibiades says εγωγε a lot in alcibiadds 1. He never says εγω . Not once . I checked . That very cute . I dont know if there is any actual reason for it but as far as i know both words mean " i " but εγωγε is more fancy and flashy and showy and provied a bit more umph . Adorable . Its also included by the writer of the book , probably not a think alcibiades actually used often since its not consisntent to alcibiades speach patterns ( well thucis interpertation of his speah patterns, which i take to be more accurate because come on its thuci ) . I know because when i was reading thuci i also checked contsantly to see is alcis was using εγωγε and he sadly wasnt ( i am obsessed with the word εγωγε ) . What an adorable thing for the writer to include .

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Library of Alexandria/Lost Literature Winners Match Up 3:

Winners head to head.

[parttimesarah]

🎶 Hey, hey! We’re The Thinkers! 🎶

[er-cryptid]

Associates of Socrates

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[arthurdrakoni]

Flags of the Athenian Empire

These are the flags of the Athenian Empire.  I couldn’t decide which I liked better, so I went with both of them.  They come from a world where Athens won the Peloponnesian War.  Following the defeat of Sparta, the Delian League was expanded to include the Greek colonies in Italy, the city-states in Anatolia and all of Greece.  All of this new territory meant more treasure for Athens' coffers.  Athens used much of this new-found wealth to expand its military and navy.  The unification of the Greek city-states meant that the Macedonian Conquest never occurred, and Alexander the Great never came to power.  Though it was still known as the Delian League, in reality, all of the city-states knew that they were now part of the Athenian Empire.

The threat of Persia was an ever-looming concern.  Athens funded many rebellions against Persia in regions such as Egypt and the Levant.  Eventually, Athens declared war on the Persian Empire and conquered it in short order.  However, most of the territory was lost within a few generations.  Athens also went on to conquer Carthage, the fledgling Roman Republic and expanded its territory into Gaul.  Athens also expanded into Hispania and the British Isles, but never for too long.  

Following this series of conquest Athens began to focus more intellectualism and the acquisition of knowledge.  Many libraries and centers of learning were founded across the Athenian Empire.  The Athenian Empire never truly fell, but over the years it did lose territory; at its smallest, it was comprised of Greece and Anatolia.  However, Greek influence on language, art and culture is felt throughout its former empire and the world at large.  In many ways, the Athenian Empire can be seen as the Western world's equivalent of China in terms of influence and culture.  

The flags feature an owl clutching an olive branch, symbols of Athens patron goddess Athena.  The colors of the flags are black and orange in reference to Ancient Greek pottery.  The black on the first flag is also a reference to the black sails of Theseus, mythical king of Athens.

Link to the original flags on my blog: http://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2017/09/flags-of-athenian-empire.html?m=1

[swaglexander-the-great]

Found Alexander the Great's musical key signature

[hornyforpoetry]

Propylaea // Acropolis // Athens, Greece

[nickysfacts]

Pancakes are one of humanities greatest and tastiest inventions!🥞

🥞🍯🥞

[cowperviolet]

Thinking of how the Ptolemies of Egypt managed to out-Targ the Targaryens - when one of their early kings married a princess from the neighboring kingdom (Cleopatra I, the ancestor of *that* Cleopatra) instead of his own sister, it was considered such a scandal that his wife was still called his sister in various ceremonies just to preserve SOME veneer of respectability

[lazyarrogance]

[gemsofgreece]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMF3GSCxQ/

the way they portray how ancient Greeks looked like back then look so similar with today's Greeks :0

I am laughing especially in the comments some say: i have fought with some that look like them for a parking spot lol 😂 or i am pretty sure Ippokratis has served me seafood on a restaurant

I know right XD

The thing is that foreigners often imagine Ancient Greeks to look like what statues of Greek gods and goddesses looked like and ignore the statues of actual human Greeks that walked the earth. They also ignore that god statues depicted the gods in an eternal youth, late puberty or very early adulthood, and always in very strict standards of what ideal (maybe unrealistic?) beauty must have been like to them. This means most people definitely did not look like Apollo or Aphrodite, except maybe 17 year old beardless curly boys. Nowadays boys style their hair very short and try to grow beards as soon as possible so it's harder to make a comparison. Then again older gods, like Zeus, Poseidon and Hades are much closer to what real Greeks look(ed) like maybe because there wasn't so much a focus on their youthful ideal beauty but on their mature manhood.

As for real people, I am not exaggerating at all when I am saying I don't really see a particular difference with modern looks, save perhaps for the toll the hardship of living 2500 years ago took. We should not forget after all - the Greeks never left the East Mediterranean so they must have mixed more with Mediterraneans than other people so it wouldn't make sense for their looks to change dramatically.

Seems as good a time as any to confess my love for Pericles: