#Ancient greece

[entrapdaknation]

It's fascinating to learn about how ancient people struggled with the same traumas as modern people.

Physicians' records from the Assyrian empire describe symptoms among soldiers such as unintelligible speech, disorganized thoughts, depression, and nightmares involving ghosts. That certainly sounds like PTSD.

Nothing New Under the Sun: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders in the Ancient World

In Histories, Herodotus mentions an Athenian soldier names Epizelus who suddenly became blind in the heat of battle, despite having sustained no injuries to his eyes. Perhaps Epizelus experienced a conversion disorder due to war trauma?

Histories -- Epizelus

Sumerian Veteran: *has severe PTSD but doesn't know it because the term won't be invented for another 5000 years* I fight the same battle in my dreams every night and my relationship with my family has fallen apart.

Sumerian Healer: *saw hundreds of veterans with the exact same affliction before* You're cursed by desert demons.

[greekmythcomix]

Happy Solstice! 🌞

[bimu2ndo]

Main ship in the Ghost AU (OR SHOULD I CALL IT THE AFTERLIFE SAGA??? OR THE POLITES SAGA??? GIMME NAME IDEASSSS)

Was thinking of making a comic but Ik my lazy ass won't finish it

[achillestears]

Telemachus: What if I’m not as great as my dad? Athena: Your dad spent 20 years making bad choices. The bar isn’t that high, babe.

[gigisluigi]

Crazy to think that by now, Dionysus should have transitioned from a god of ecstasy to one of social refinement and polite gatherings if it weren't for ancient Greek religion losing its prevalence.

And I mean that Dionysus, as a god who promotes madness and disinhibitions, is what's left of a time when wine was our strongest alcoholic beverage, a time of maenads and symposiums. Nowadays, we have liquor (spirits), far better for getting drunk, and beer, as the always cheaper alternative, so in a "let's get drunk moment," wine isn't picked. That way, the beverage has been left to the sophisticated: culinary connoisseurs, elegant dinner parties, wine enthusiasts, elites, and intellectuals.

And if that's our perception of wine, shouldn't that also be the dominion of its god?

[capelin356]

Hephaistion, Son of Amyntor

for #AlexanderWeek

[randomly-generated-posts-machine]

yeah, sorry… your boyfriend was yeeted by king midas … yeah he's basil omori now… sorry

[nadiresdiary]

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* Lady Aphrodite Philommeidḗs (laughter loving Aphrodite), thank you for blessing my Lover and I today. We laughed until our bellies hurt and our eyes were watering.

I had to think of you 🦢🤍

[blueiscoool]

A GREEK BRONZE CHALCIDIAN HELMET WITH SILVER OVERLAYS LATE ARCHAIC TO EARLY CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 500-400 B.C.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[kimiko24]

DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

mycenaean miku

she was there singing on the beaches of llion. homer copied the catalogue of ships from her.

[msbunnat]

🦉 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒂𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒓

Here is my Atena design!

I'm thinking of making her a little more muscular, but slender, as if she represented the agility of battles. She rarely smiles, like a strict teacher who wants the best for you and one way or another, she will always be remembered. Also her snakes re a refference to medusa, as they represent each other (as my friend told me and I love to see like that).

And! Apollo and Athena after 'God Games' in EPIC - the musical and she gets this lightning scar.

Zeus beat the crap out of her, but he would never kill Athena!! And I like that it suits him to be so strict with her, at least for me, she is the oldest daughter and the one who suffers the most pressure. What I dont like... its that in Epic, Zeus changed to look worse again!! ;w; really, he was way chill about releasing Odisseus and just wanted to not upset Poseidon in the process....

[cy-lindric]

She

[willow-lark]

cast your votes!!