#Greece

[gemsofgreece]

White day in the Acropolis of Athens by pastelidis_greece on Instagram.

[guessillalwaysbethisway]

The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894

[damydevito]

olive tree on the acropolis in Athens

[janusfranc15]

An intriguing take i shall Reblog.

Ta.

Re: my observation that the average undergraduate now seems to have much greater familiarity with Homeric epic and at least some Greek literature (esp. tragedy) than with the Aeneid or any Roman material, I think there’s a myriad of things at work here but at least one is that we’ve reverted to this weird cultural construct where ancient Greek myth and literature is viewed as universal while Roman literature is viewed as particular and this affects what books are taught e.g. in high school and college English classes but also what gets mined for retellings. and I also think Roman material is often imagined as being more deeply implicated in the ideological framework of patriarchal western imperial society and like, in some cases perhaps that’s fair, but I would argue as a literary historian that Roman poetry is precisely where we see the cracks forming in Roman gendered imperialism just like Greek tragedy is where we see the cracks forming in Athenian gendered imperialism. whether we want to commit to any idea of authorial intent is a different question but imo it’s impossible to read e.g. Roman elegy or pastoral or even Lucan and come away with the pop-culture idea of the iconic masculine Roman subject (hell, I think even the Aeneid questions the conventional notion of masculine Roman virtus that Lucan absolutely shatters, but that’s another discussion)

anyways this also gets combined with a dynamic that’s really maddening to me as a classicist where anything Roman is almost exclusively gendered as masculine in popular culture (see the Roman Empire meme, but also the subculture of Jordan Peterson bros roleplaying as stoics and reading or pretending to read Marcus Aurelius) whereas on the Greek side we have Anne Carson’s Sappho translations and a total saturation of feminist rewritings of Greek myth, Homeric epic, and tragedy. this is actually really weird from the perspective of a Roman social historian, given that women are far more visible in Roman material (esp. from the 1st century CE onward) than they are anywhere in classical Greek society, and it has the consequence that Roman poetry (except, like, Lucretius I guess) gets sidelined because the types of dudes that are going to maybe read Marcus Aurelius or Tacitus are definitely not going to read Catullus or Vergil’s Eclogues or even the Aeneid given that poetry itself is often gendered as feminine in the 21st century popular imagination, and the types of non-classicists who like Anne Carson’s Sappho and feminist approaches to Greek myth are also probably not going to read Roman poetry

[zegalba]

2,000 year old Olive tree in Greece

[bookofsecretstotell]

Selene, the moon herself 🌕

[scrapblring]

See also: https://www.flickr.com/photos/129235284@N04/48723088481

[gemsofgreece]

Hello, quick question. What the fuck

"Santorini: The local department of the National Conservatory has shut down - It will be converted to an Airbnb"

If you ever ever travel to Greece, one plea: DON'T stay to an Airbnb. They are destroying the country. Trust me. If you want the good of the country and its people, go to a hotel, maybe ideally a small business boutique hotel but any hotel is more ethical than an Airbnb at this point.

[iko66]

Meteora , Greece

[wgm-beautiful-world]

S A N T O R I N I

[almostacoffeewizard]

[worldhistoryfacts]

A little over two centuries ago, a man without a nose hacked many of the sculptures off the Parthenon and shipped them off to Great Britain.

At the time, the Parthenon was not as well-known as it is today -- it was a moldering ruin in the shrinking backwater of Athens.

So Lord Elgin (the aforementioned noseless man) took it upon himself to strip the Parthenon of its treasures:

Why did he do it? And should the British government undo what Elgin did back at the turn of the 19th century? All that and more in this week's post...

[arc-hus]

The Lap Pool House, Tinos, Greece - Aristides Dallas Architects

[ashotasfireandasdeepastheocean1]

...traveling 💕

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Asos, Greece (by Sara)