#Greek Olympics

[thepastisalreadywritten]

FUN FACT:

In 393 CE, Emperor Theodosius I (347–395) banned the Greek Olympics due to the religious element of the celebration.

He considered the Olympics to be a pagan festival, which had no place in his Christian empire.

As a consequence, the games were cancelled and didn’t start up again for over 1,400 years — until 1896.

[franchuuachuu]

Redraw of my favorite greek god

[look at the original!! He's so beautyfull omg]

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↑↑ the best Hermes design I've seen ↑↑

↑↑ so much better than mine ↑↑

[enlitment]

Trying to trick my beloved classics mutuals into getting excited about the French Olympic Games' mascot! ->

[gemsofgreece]

Bronze pole vaulter Emmanuel Karalis and golden long jumper Miltiades Tentoglou are long time friends. This gorgeous photo encompasses the euphoric state after a shared big success, the accumulated chronic physical struggle it takes to reach those athletic levels and above all their healthy and heartwarming friendship.

[expatesque]

Before lighting the Olympic flame. Dresses by Mary Katrantzou.

[diioonysus]

feasts of the gods

giovanni bellini (1514) | jacob jordaens (1633) | frans floris (1550) | hendrik de clerck (1606-1609) | cornelis cornelisz van haarlem (1593) | jan van bijlert (1635-1640)

[catdemondez]

So my autistic ass was OBSESSED with The Titanic as a kid and one thing I keep thinking about with this whole lost submarine incident is the “name curse”.

White Star Line, the company that produced the Titanic, made three Olympic class ocean liners: The Olympic, The Titanic, and The Britannic.

(Seen in order top to bottom. Picture stolen from reddit. X )

The Olympic is the only of those three that did not sink.

Now, the “name curse” that comes in to play here is related to greek mytholoical races from which each ship has supposedly taken its name: The Olympic Gods (also just called Olympians), The Titans, and The Giants. The giants are involved due to a claim that The Britannic was originally called The Gigantic, based on an unofficial poster featuring the ship with the supposed name above it, as well as a contemporary newspaper stating that the company announced a ship with said name three years before The Britannic was launched.

Both The Giants and The Titans were races that were vanquished by The Olympic Gods in what are called the Titanomachy and Gigantomachy, with the latter event being less well know.

Another race of gigantic beings seen in greek mythology is The Cyclopes. The Cyclops were never vanquished by The Olympic Gods as they were never at odds with the gods, even crafting artifacts for the gods themselves, namely: Zeus’s thunderbolts, Poseidon’s trident, and Hades’s helmet of invisibility. 

The submarine that went missing is part of the Cyclops class submarine line produced by OceanGate Inc., probably called such due to the design. Two vessels of the class have been produced with two more planned following a naming scheme of Cyclops I, Cyclops II, and so on. Cyclops II however was renamed to Titan specifically for its use in touristic viewing expeditions of The Titanic.

Now, more about the submarine itself;

Cyclops I performed well for its intended depth, Titan however has not, with OceanGate having lost track of it before. This is due to the vessel lacking a tracking beacon, as well as navigation controls and communication devices, relying on a support ship to text Titan’s captain its directions, as revealed by Journalist David Progue, who also said that they “turned off the ship’s internet to prevent tweeting.” Also, due to the lack of these features, Titan was denied official certification by ship classification societies for not meeting safety standards of ANY society. Problems started long before this, though.

During the testing of Titan’s design, OceanGate claimed that the dimensions and structure were partly designed and tested by NASA, Boeing (the plane company) and The University of Washington. All three of which have denied this. In fact, when Titan was first built, it was handed over to the company’s operations department with no testing whatsoever as well as an insufficient monitoring system. The Director of Operations, however, saw this and submitted a negative quality report, for which he was promptly fired. When they DID finally test it over a year later, the vessel resurfaced with signs of cyclic fatigue, which is the near microscopic bending of metal that happens before cracks appear. Instead of changing the design to prevent this from happening in future expeditions, the company simply replaced the damaged parts and called it good.

All in all, its just so funny to me that OceanGate used the same supposedly cursed naming pattern for its ONE safety violation riddled submarine only to send it to a lethal depth its not equipped to handle AND SOMEHOW not expect it to eventually crush like a soda can under a semi.

[keirahknightley]

Remembering the opening ceremony of athens 2004 💙🤍💙🤍

And because i know many of you were babies then (some even not born 😅) here is a link to watch the full ceremony. I promise it's worth it 💖💖

[ridenwithbiden]

[huntressofladyartemis]

So this is from april, but i need to say it...

For the Olympian Games, we saw a emotional and very cute representation of the Ancient Gods Cult... Women dressed as priestess honoured Zeus for the Olympiads, was beautiful 🤗

.... But we have, of course, these comments:

Zeus was also a god of justice and order if you don't know…

Do you really think that Ancient Greece treated Zeus or another deity like Modern Media and Retellings treats them? Pick a book of History and Religion of Greece, please…

"But Zeus did this in the myth…" Gods are not characters that the Greeks worshiped from their myths… The myths are stories that Greeks wrote for the Gods them worshiped! Was a religion first, read the hymns and you will understand how Greeks respected and still respect their gods!

Also is still today a religion… A polytheist religion like Hinduism. Is not "gone"!

Hellenism is still practised in some regions, inside and outside Greece… So please be respectful 🙏💙

[stranded-cetacean]

“Who is that anyway?” I actually don’t want to talk about it

[notanothermikey]

The Paris Oympics Closing Ceremony is quite special.

The Hymn to Apollo was very moving.

[skf-fineart]

Statue of a Victorious Youth, Greek, 300–100 B.C.

Bronze with inlaid copper

59 5/8 × 27 9/16 × 11 in., 142 lb.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California

A naked youth stands with his weight on his right leg, crowning himself with a wreath, probably olive. The olive wreath was the prize for a victor in the Olympic Games and identifies this youth as a victorious athlete. The eyes of the figure were originally inlaid with colored stone or glass paste, and the nipples were inlaid with copper, creating naturalistic color contrasts. Found in the sea in international waters, this statue is one of the few life-size Greek bronzes to have survived; as such, it provides much information on the technology of ancient bronze casting. 

[gemsofgreece]

Obligatory post:

[blueiscoool]

Panathenaic Prize Amphora: A Pot With Olive Oil Awarded at The Ancient Greek Olympics

Instead of a gold medal, victors at the ancient Greek Panathenaic Games received terra-cotta pots filled with Athenian olive oil from sacred trees.

Name: Panathenaic prize amphora.

What it is: A Greek terra-cotta pot known as an amphora.

Where it is from: Vulci, Italy.

When it was made: Circa 530 B.C., during Greece's Archaic period.

Unlike in today's Olympics — in which competitors receive gold, silver and bronze medals — each ancient winner received dozens of terra-cotta vases emblazoned with their specific sport and filled with Athenian olive oil, a highly "valuable prize," according to Harvard Art Museums.

The olive oil award given to Olympic champions came from the sacred groves of Athena, the patroness of Athens, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In general, ancient Greeks considered olive trees "sacred," and they symbolized Zeus, the god of the sky and, later, the god of the Olympics, according to the Journal of Olympic History.

his particular amphora features a lineup of five runners during a footrace, a competition considered the "earliest known event in the Panathenaic Games," according to the Met. Athletes competed fully naked, since they thought their physiques might intimidate their competition, according to Southern Utah University.

The pot, which stands 24.5 inches (62 centimeters) tall, is attributed to "Euphiletos Painter." This anonymous artist was known for an art style called black-figure pottery, in which subjects were drawn in silhouette, according to the British Museum. This is just one of the many vases awarded to the victors at the Games, with other pots featuring charioteers, archers and boxers.

By Jennifer Nalewicki.

[destiel-news-channel]

please, dear Dionysos, tell me this is satire! please. i am begging you, you blue-skinned, yellow haired deity.

you heard about reading comprehension on tumblr now get ready for tumblr image interpretation!

Image ID under the cut

[Image ID: Two screenshots of a tumblr post overlayed with a blue water filter. The first sentence is 'i'm sorry but-' followed by a picture from the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris. The picture shows a catwalk from the side with models in different costumes standing along it on the other side. On the catwalk is a nearly naked man painted blue with yellowish hair and a flower crown laying on a bed of flowers and singing in a microphone. The following text is 'This is wrong, so uncomfortably wrong. Blame it on me being Christian but this? No, just no. You can't just take something from a religion and not expect backlash for changing something very important to Christians.' This is followed by a picture of the Last Supper with Jesus sitting at a table with his twelve apostles. He is famously not blue and not laying cuntily on the table while singing into a microphone. There is also a lack of flowers and a catwalk. The text after that is 'This is 'The last supper' a painting portraying Jesus and the apostles before his crucifixion. Where he introduces the Holy Communion, which is an essential part of Christianity. - Everyone jumps up and down when other religions are slighted but with Christianity "it's not so bad." "Get over it." "You had it coming." This is not a joke this is blasphemy. - I get it. You guys want representation, but this is not the way to go.' The tags on the post are '#olympics opening #blasphemy #the last supper #if you're coming into the comments or reblog to fight me #don't #you don't burn sacred texts or change something sacred and just go "oh well" "go cry about it" "you deserve it" #you just don't #incoherent rant #now if you'll excuse me #im going to wait #im getting very involved in things these days #'oh but it's not the same thing' it is #why do you think dstv removed the opening and samsung retracted their sponsorship? #just because? no #of course i'll speak up #olympics 2024 #olympics'. /End ID]