#myceneaen greece

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The Pride of Crete - Bull Leaper

Excavations at the Palace of Knosses in Crete suggest the existence of ritual bull leaping. Acrobats, both male and female, vault over bulls displaying their skills and honoring the gods. Depictions of the sport can be found on frescoes, vases and statues.

Also I read Mary Renault's The King must Die and The Bull from the Sea and I am obsessed.

[dootznbootz]

In reference to your post about Greek epic timelines - the Greeks weren't particularly interested in the precisely chronological storytelling that we're used to. The timelines will not sync up no matter how hard you try because that wasn't really the point for them. Time in the epics is fluid and often figurative. They are like this with color and other descriptors as well; it's not meant to all be literal. (Besides, these are ancient oral stories, so there are many inconsistencies and changes resulting from multiple tellers over the course of history.) Basically, write whatever you want in your fics timeline-wise; it's in keeping with their story-telling tradition.

Thank you! T.T It feels a lot better knowing that as long as I keep to the story's purpose and spirit it should be fine. I was worried about spreading misinformation (I know fics aren't grand scale but STILL.) if a character made a joke in the fic about how Daedalus could've made another pegasus with wax wings if Bellerophon hadn't done his feats with pegasus yet lol.

I made the post mostly as a joke and a vent because I basically had 7 pages in my notebook of research and realized that it was never gonna connect. I know it basically depends on who's telling it but I was mostly worried about remaining respectful and not just pulling stuff outta my ass XD Just basically converting my notes into lil "snippets of info" that I can pull from to add to the story.

I'll probably still have a disclaimer of some sort at the end of my fics that some stuff is inaccurate. Don't think Myceneaen Greece had certain meals and/or let pets inside their homes and the like but I'll make do!

[marysmirages]

Fallen Hero (2021)

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Getting super frustrated. Trying to research what the ancient (myceneaen) greek word for "princess" and other members of the royal fam is and im finding nothing.

With all the sources im finding for "king" none of them are really confident, mostly saying the word for "king" was used for leaders of all kinds. Which makes complete sense. What's getting me mad though is in english we use these words to refer to specific people within greek mythos: Princess Andromeda, Prince Hector, Zeus the king of the gods, Persephone the queen of the Underworld. I think Homer wrote down the Iliad in the 300s? Which is classical greece but i still cant find anything in his works outside "anax" vs "wanax" (high king/king/top leader vs king/general/chieftain). And there was SO MANY royal members in that story! And a few sources i found say female members didnt have titles, but in english translations of the Iliad and so many greek myths have "queen" and "princess"! So did the Greeks/Homer not use these words and the relationships (english words) were found out through context (ex. instead of "Queen Helen of Sparta" was it "Helen the wife of King Menelaus"?)

This is seriously frustrating me. If anyone knows the answer please tell me! Whether its a myceneaen, classical, medieval (roman), or modern title.

The best luck i had was with greek words for the Roman imperial fam (and that was almost exclusively the word for emperor(s)) and the history of the word "basileus".

[dootznbootz]

ON IT. Don't think Myceneaen Greece had access to Lemons but I'll make do.

Odysseus would be the type of dad who would let baby Telemachus taste a lemon just to see the funny face he makes.