#corinth

[plangentia]

postcards from ancient corinth

[whencyclopedia]

Central panel from tesselated floor of a Roman villa (second half 2nd Century BCE), Corinth. Depicted is Dionysos with fruit and ivy in his hair. Corinth Archaeological Museum.

[illustratus]

Destruction of the Athenian Army in Sicily by Hermann Vogel

[unteriors]

Meadow Road, Corinth, Maine.

[not-ester]

A comic I promise, a comic I shall deliver!

Hint: something out of this is bound to be extremely important later on.

[snarp]

Sisyphus's hometown keeps falling down.

[the-puffinry]

Arybalos in shape rooster. Imported Corinthian vessel, ca 600(?) BC. Archaeological museum of Paros.

[gemsofgreece]

do you know the connection between poppies and ancient greece? all over athens and on acropolis there was alot of poppies- then they were depicted in objects at the national archeological museum aswell (crystal staff with poppy ontop). just curious!

Poppies had a lot of significance for the ancient peoples of the East Mediterranean and the Near East, such as the Sumerians, the Egyptians and the Greeks.

Poppies and poppy seeds had considerable presence in early Greek culture, namely the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations. A lot of this significance survived to the Classical period and up to the Greco-Roman era. The poppy seeds were used in rituals, worship and medication for their psychoactive effects.

Demeter consumed poppy seeds to sleep and forget the abduction of Persephone. Apollo and Asclepius used them for medicinal purposes. Aphrodite was sometimes imagined with poppies, apparently for its seeds generating sensations of pleasure. Hypnos, Nyx and Morpheus, deities associated with sleep, night and dreams respectively, were also often imagined with poppies in their hands. The drug morphine, produced from the poppy seed, takes its name from Morpheus. The name opium, for the basic drug produced by the poppy's seeds, also comes from the Koine Greek name for it όπιον (ópion), and so does even Afyon Karahishar, the Turkish city in which one third of the global cultivation of poppy takes place. Extra fan fact: there was a double lexical borrowing and Greek opion through some modifications apparently towards ophion -> arabic afyun -> turkish afyon -> then returned back to post-Byzantine / old Modern Greek as αφιόνι (afióni). So, in Greek opium is both όπιο(ν) - ópio(n) and αφιόνι (afióni). Even though the old word όπιο is far more common, there is an interesting verb derived from αφιόνι, αφιονίζομαι (afionízome) which means "I go mad, delirious like I am under the influence of opium". Usually used when someone gets angry to the point of not making sense. You didn't ask for etymology and language lesson lol but my point was to show that evidently, even lingusitically, we see that poppies and the psychoactive, hypnotic and medicinal properties of its seeds were widely used in the Ancient Greek and then Greco-Roman world all the way until and beyond the interactions with the Arabs and the Turks, as the Greek words associated to the products of the poppy have travelled both west and east.

Carving of Demeter holding poppy seeds and wheat, Corinth, Greece photographed by Tiggrx on flickr.

Poppy field in Paros island. From DiscoverGreece.

PS 1: Since I made an etymology analysis for opium, the ancient Greek word for the poppy was μήκων (mekon) but the modern Greek one derives from the Latin papaver instead and is παπαρούνα (paparúna).

PS 2: The red poppy and the poppy that makes the drugs are not the same species but obviously all these exist in Greece so-

[escapism-from-the-real-world]

Something I thought about recently about power rangers RPM is that we don’t really know how long Ziggy and Dillon were out in the wastes together.

Could’ve been a day

Could’ve been a week

Probably wasn’t a month, but it could’ve

Because we just don’t know

Furthermore, I think it would be incredibly funny if they did only spend like a day together in the wastes because it means that Dillon looked at the small, scruffy, Adhd gremlin that is Ziggy Grover who almost got his ass beat in prison with terrible jokes and sarcastic quips, with his silly little shadow puppets and went

“That one. I want that one.”

It gets even more funny the shorter the amount of time they spent driving into Corinth together because it just means that Dillon, who canonically gets attached to people pretty quick and really hard (get out of here with that “you guys are the answer. I’m just looking for the question” bullshit, you’re gonna make me cry), found the first scrawny, barely making it human being he maybe has ever remembered meeting and adopted him immediately.

Hilarious. Peak comedy. Love these dorks with all my heart.

[beatricecenci]

Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593-1653)

Medea

[thingamajigs-n-whatchamacallits]

Corinthian terracotta oil flask (aryballos) in the form of a hare, 650-600 BCE, Orientalizing period

harvard art museums

[whencyclopedia]

Pelops

Pelops was a Greek hero and king of Pisa in Greek mythology. As the son of Tantalus, he was a member of the cursed House of Atreus, and was cruelly sacrificed by his father in a twisted way to test the gods – an act that backfired and led to Tantalus' eternal punishment.

The myths most commonly associated with Pelops include the disastrous feast with the gods in which he was killed and placed in a stew by his father and his quest to win the hand of Princess Hippodamia. He is considered a great Greek hero and was admired by the Greeks, with the Achaeans claiming him as their ancestor.

Family

Pelops was the son of Tantalus and the nymph Dione (some sources list his mother as Clytia or Euryanassa) and the grandson of Zeus and Atlas. He was the father of several sons and daughters, including Atreus, Thyestes, Dias, Corinthus, Cleon, Aelius, Nicippe, Archippe, and Eurydice with his wife Hippodamia, and the father of Chrysippus with either the nymph Axioche or Danais.

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[illustratus]

Sisyphus by Titian

[unteriors]

Taplin Hill Road, Corinth, Vermont.

[not-ester]

The Peloponnesian war summarised

Featuring Mutant fish lady who is obsessed with horses™ & Personification of a concrete wall with a dose of unresolved family issues™.

[aretis]

📍Isthmus of Korinth,Greece 🇬🇷

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