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Women’s History Meme || Women from Ancient History (or legends) (2/5) ↬ Amestris, Queen consort of the Achaemenid Empire (d. c. 440 BCE)

It is easy to see that the traditional view is based primarily on an uncritical reading of the Classical sources. Aside from Herodotus’ passage on the choice of a crown prince and a very brief allusion to Xerxes’ reconquest of Egypt, all of books VII, VIII, and IX of his Histories are dedicated to examining the king’s preparation for and the Persian defeats at Salamis (480), Plataea, and Mycale (479). Herodotus’ narrative stops suddenly with Xerxes’ preparations for leaving Sardis after the defeat at Mycale. What is more, the last chapters of Herodotus have played no small part in establishing the picture of a decadent king. Herodotus relates, in fact, that during the king’s stay at Sardis when he returned from the European expedition, he fell in love with his sister-in-law, the wife of his brother Masistes; unable to seduce her, he “arranged a marriage between a daughter of Masistes and this woman and his own son Darius, under the impression that by this means he would be more likely to get her”. Herodotus then introduces Amestris, Xerxes’ wife, and her fateful influence on the spirit of her husband, as well as her untold cruelty. This adventure touches on the revolt of Masistes, which led to the massacre that took not only Xerxes’ life but also the lives of his children and his forces. Injected into the story of the Greek victories in Asia Minor, these tales fostered the image of a king subject to the nefarious influences of the women of the palace and more interested in slaking his guilty passions than in defending the territorial inheritance of Darius. In reality, placing such an emphasis on the story of Xerxes and his sister-in-law results from a highly questionable methodology. On the one hand, the story is a romance, characterized by a whole series of repetitive motifs on which it is extremely imprudent to base any historical extrapolation. On the other hand, Herodotus’ tale contains many other informative elements that are much more convincing about the policy and strategy followed by Xerxes after his return from Salamis—at least if the historian chooses to free himself from the overwhelming weight of stereotypes. — From Cyrus to Alexander. A History of the Persian Empire by Pierre Briant

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Abiae Acadoregana Acansi Acass Acasticocle Acricota Acridtintai Adythia Agrinutia Alla'a Amallut Ambentruita Ambia Ambusa Amelacrits Amelfly Amelood Amenti Ampsa Amsee Amsehi Androcopter Andust Anidiveria Anigory Antia Antis Antris Aptoophana Aragrina Argan Athert's Aucke Avacky Berria Berryx Biater Biaturt's Bicoton Bilachenow Bildes Blaamon Blacrophype Bladdiventa Blanara Blatorabbow Bluanobaris Bludo Blusthilor Bomajane Bomon Bossa Bridens Bryloce Burai Buruit Burusilis Buskiwige Bustantodew Busti Bustiti Caddis Camburt Canaruit Canatt's Canguave Canosed Cantisolis Cantix Cantricles Cargyra Caringe Cavacanum Centiates Chagalia Charossis Chies Chleob Chlosana Chrerict Chroplusa Cilinus Clacra Clata Coces Colexa Colon Conda Conflies Conies Conophtod Copaw Corule Cott's Crapplus Cricanut Cricophu Crile Crinus Cropps Crous Cyphyllact Cyphylle Damay Damberry Damse Datagrotone Delea Delluananti Dermis Derr's Dischipes Distooss Dreenia Drobate Drocophogo Drombacra Dromoneae Drosa Dubrion Ducabidwa Ducum Duruit Dwapples Dwaterry Earano Earata Ectont Elokai Elush Enata Erlaamict Eupeapps Euperry Eupris Evergo Extia Extickeber Extix Fasta Fasthi Figed Figon Figuatana Flienista Fling Flychrompha Forapecas Fortt's Fusicolusa Genist Gentin's Graiestia Granguana Granto Grattix Gricneus Grion Grissi Grobigs Grobil Groccusta Groense Grogodes Grogon Grostagats Gueyia Gueylla Helfly Helia Helietan Helitanged Hella Hellaeme Hetula Hogpley Hokais Holenobee Holicoccus Holus Hoptering Hyaperis Hyappe Hydroes Hygra Hygrapefrum Hygroenis Hygry Hymeg Hyperry Hypomilis Hyprosciae Immoes Immon Incon Incorui Inefruiton Irigens Jugan Jugatydes Jugodeahi Junct Junemnes Kahuentus Kahus Kettone Key's Kimmanut Konatodea Konossiono Laamerces Labbreet Labianossh Lackchnats Lacolinsis Lakerry Leacov Leopha Lepacila Lepidtis Lepleyi Leppleis Lepples Leudocolus Levia Leych Libbosa Lierry Lincle Lincta Linge Lingo Linsilimia Lochest Locle Lorum Lyred Macens Madyantrum Manta Maropops Masist Masmarile Maspria Masterid Matoran Mecalana Mecocle Meggeris Megrosa Mettin Metuscula Midoces Midones Midti Midwayfly Minct Mingoras Minutix Mipplum Mipton Miralnut Mirsh Misflietan Mitus Mlitula Mollagris Monewelefly Monfrus Moraspawpaw Moterabil Motonai Mouna Mounda Mouplea Moustlens Mulaschee Nedmulata Neyellabata Nicolon Nidlena Nierrinies Nocophalta Nomanew Nomphyapera Nophilierry Novacky Nowifrum Nowin Nozoa Nutus Oahil Oahucaddis Oahucoche Oahus Obidean Olagma Olierata Olimita Ombiged Oodemarf Oodes Orata Orttinemus Ortules Pacan Palones Palorttin Parinta Parotocle Parwinuta Pawpan Peapensis Pectaruitus Penartti Pensis Pergans Perive Perla Perry Phalifaspaw Phipe Phlobana Phloosatty Phucangen Phypeant Pidentit Piens Plarinee Plect Plentinclut Polut Pomis Pomon Posoperry Possa Prerrymery Prindivens Prockle Proes Prophileis Psedus Psellaga Pumpkincle Quiti Randa Ratus Recan Recilberrys Revuamis Rhagonfus Rhala Rhalnutulus Rhamsee Rhana Rharowin Rhyala Rhyling Ridoch Ridus Rilocopple Robata Roberingoni Roberis Robiaemusti Robigo Roces Rocypoles Rocyth Roensis Ronis Rophleura Rothagala Rottes Rowinut Ruitorba Saindus Schet Scoca Scocles Sconis Scothe Searttita Seldban Seycheria Shilocheles Shthor Siclumanber Silla Simmoes Singens Skmellasis Slies Sliest Slindhora Slita Sopsyches Spberisi Spinack Spinefruid Splenala Sples Stens Stonfus Stooderidle Stophacum Submous Subres Sugand Tabia Tansis Thothoko Thotine Tobas Tobustnut Tobut Todesta Togon Tombus Treettin Tresterces Tricia Trounick Valan Valoches Vodes Vogon Watty Weetles Wiforme Wollum Xerictanta Xerinutte Xerry Xersh Xylis Xyllefruita Xylon Yorum Yorumbia Yorylory Zulaampsi Zularuits Zulauit

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

���Since the Armed Forces cannot join the coup d’etat, they use paid youth to attack the MAS campaigns … Who are the anti-Democrats in Bolivia? Where do they come from and what are they preparing?”

These were part of the statements given by the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Evo Morales, after the violent events that took place last Thursday, September 12, in the department of Santa Cruz, when a political activity organized by militants of the Socialist Movement ( MAS) intersected with irregular groups identified with the 21F opposition platforms and the Cruceñista Youth Union.

In the middle of the presidential electoral campaign and with the fires of La Chiquitania as a backdrop, the Bolivian president’s followers in Santa Cruz decided to organize the “blue afternoon” in several traffic circles of a sector called the Second Ring, with the aim of collecting resources and logistical support that would be sent to the front line in the burning locations, to collaborate with the firemen, police and volunteers in the recovery of the forest reserves.

This initiative was boycotted by violent sectors summoned by the Bolivian right, which escalated the clashes at the meeting points of the Masists, then they went to the headquarters of the party, damaging its facilities and burning one of them.

That day a total of eight were injured, including a pregnant woman, a young man with a head trauma and several police injured, as reported by the government minister, Carlos Romero.

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[aboutanancientenquiry]

Punishments and the Conclusion of Herodotus’ Histories

““One must consider the end of every affair, how it will turn out.”1 Solon’s advice to Croesus has often been applied to Herodotus’ Histories themselves: Is the conclusion of Herodotus’ work a fitting and satisfying one? Older interpretations tended to criticize the final stories about Artayctes and Artembares as anticlimactic or inappropriate: Did Herodotus forget himself here, or were the stories intended as interludes, preludes to further narrative?2 Entirely opposite is the praise accorded Herodotus in a recent commentary on Book 9: “The brilliance of Herodotus as a writer and thinker is manifest here, as the conclusion of the Histories both brings together those themes which have permeated the entire work and, at the same time, alludes to the new themes of the post-war world.”3 More recent appreciation for Herodotus’ “brilliance,” then, is often inspired by the tightly-woven texture of Herodotus’narrative. Touching upon passion, revenge, noble primitivism,  East-West relations, the concluding stories at 9.108–122 recall the Prologue and Lydian logos, reinforce many of the narrative motifs that thread through the work as a whole, and (perhaps) offer a warning to the Athenians that with the emergence of the Delian League, a new cycle of tragic history may be beginning.4

One Herodotean motif that has not been explored systematically—either with regard to the Histories as a whole, or with regard to the conclusion—is the theme of punishment.5 The final three stories, disparate as they are, share one commonality: all record punishments—of Masistes’ wife, of Oeobazus, Artayctes and his son, and the threatened divine punishment of Artembares and his descendants. This is not an incidental or unimportant fact, for much of the difficulty in assessing the conclusion’s literary merit is in placing it within its proper thematic context. This context, I will argue, is that of punishments. The Histories are rife with punishments, some minor, others monstrous. Punishment, with the related themes of crime and justice, plays several significant roles: as literary spectacle, as material for ethnographic and political insight, and as vehicle for an implicit philosophy of history. All this ensures that 9.108–122 is a multi-layered and suggestive ending, offering Herodotus’ final meditation on the ongoing interplay between Greece and Asia, the ambivalence of human accomplishment, the injustice and excess that constitute so much of history, the simultaneous existence of human evil and divine justice. Before coming to the concluding punishments, however, we will first examine the various functions that punishments serve in the Histories, whether as “wonders,” as characteristic products of particular cultures and political systems, or as means for con-veying aspects of Herodotus’ historical and religious vision.” 

“   The concluding stories of 9.108–122 thus invite meditation upon the Histories as a whole, and in particular upon the themes related to punishment—desire, pleonexia, reciprocity and revenge, divine justice, the “wondrous deeds” that can be both of world-historical significance and the result of private desires. The punishments of Masistes’ wife and of Artayctes are both displays of exceptional hatred that also foreshadow the ebb of Persian power, the rise of the Athenian hegemony, a new stage in Greek-Asian relations. One should not, however, overemphasize the prospective import of the concluding stories, for they are, after all, concluding material for an already long work. Not prospective, nor simplistically retrospective, Herodotus touches upon all time periods, mingling myth (Protesilaus), archaic even legendary figures (Cyrus and Artembares), Persian-War era history (Artayctes, Xanthippus), and themes of contemporary history (Pericles, Athenian empire). Herodotus does not limit himself to strict chronological narration, but moves back and forth between generations, striving to present, as it were, a timeless presentation of the temporal. Three generation sare viewed as in a single glance; their triumphs and tragediesbecome simultaneous, inseparable aspects of the same historical movement.

Therefore, rather than Dewald’s “indeterminacy” of the concluding chapters which he links with Herodotus’ suspension of judgment about the ultimate success and morality of the Athenian empire, it might be more appropriate to describe the ending as a multivalent one that overwhelms the reader with historical resonances and quasi-philosophical considerations.These final stories offer a compressed image of Herodotean history as a whole, alluding to many of the disparate factors that make a full accounting of the past so complex. Thus, the mutilation, human sacrifice, ���crucifixion,” and stoning are punishments as astonishing (θωμαστός) as any in the work; they testify to Herodotus’ abiding sensitivity to suffering, and to his ambivalent view of human nature, at once capable of high-minded virtue and heinous brutality. The punishment of Oeobazus and Artyactes provides the latest instance of the on-going crimes and retributions that constitute Greek-Asian history. The punishments furthermore offer a final instance of Herodotus’ cosmopolitan detachment, for he recognizes that atrocities were committed on all sides: Persians are punished by Persians (Masistes’ wife), by Thracians (Oeobazus), by Athenians and Elaeans (Artayctes). In the delayed punishment of Artembares’ family, Herodotus invites reflection on the aggressive attitudes that propelled the Persians (and others) to empire and eventual defeat. Haunting the whole conclusion, as the Histories as a whole, is Herodotus’ awareness of time, the inconstancy of fortune and vicissitudes of national success (1.5.4). Both immanent in and transcending these vicissitudes are the gods, just but also cruel and unpredictable in their methods of punishing an Oeobazus, Artayctes, or Artembares.

Other aspects of the conclusion echo narrative motifs that contribute to the Histories’ unity—notably, the “wise advisor,” the link between geographical environment and nomos, the contrast between noble primitives and corrupt civilizations, the struggle for freedom against slavery.37 But perhaps more im- portant than all these for understanding 9.108–122 is the theme of punishment, which has already played many roles in the Histories. In concluding with the description of four punishments, Herodotus evokes for the last time that meditative awe with which he himself approaches history: that such things were done, and will be done again, is a “wonder” not lightly to be forgotten.38″

The opening and concluding paragraphs from Will Desmond “Punishments and the conclusion of Herodotus' Histories”, available on  “https://www.academia.edu/1845415/Punishments_and_the_conclusion_of_Herodotus_Histories?swp=rr-rw-wc-43570534

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[finelythreadedsky]

the books of esther and daniel are herodotus reception, change my mind

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[insomniany]

New video on the Channel xoxo 💋 Finally got over that laziness stage and put together a preview video of our Paris trip. Go check it out and support #MAsisters 🙌🏻 . 마자매 #파리여행 인트로 영상 드디어 올렸어요 :D 나머지 빠릐~ 영상들도 지켜봐주세욧 🙏🏻 https://youtu.be/WwbLFiE0dYs . . . . #마자매 #파리 #여행에미치다 #여행에미치다_파리 #김데일리 #Paris #France #🇫🇷 (at Paris, France)

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