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𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀
𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲
Vyron Antoniadis, Charikleia Papageorgiadou (eds)

#Greece #Roman #History #Archaeology #Antiquity #Historysky #Archaeologysky #Antiquitysky

Roman laws expose the hidden system behind Rome’s amphitheater animal hunts buff.ly/TpiXA25 #RomanLaw #AncientRome #Archaeology #Antiquity

Two interpretations of the #Minoan Gold Pendant from Malia, Crete (~1700 BC):

a) traditionally seen as two honeybees holding a honeycomb.

b) new research has identified the insects as mammoth wasps (Megascolia maculata) and the seed heads as Tordylium apulum (καυκαλήθρα).
#Antiquity #Archaeology

#blueskyartshow #golden

The vault mosaic inside the #Albenga #italy Battistero di Albenga dating from the late 5th Century - the stars are a byzantine mosaic technique of fusing glass and gold leaf into tesserae.

#antiquity

#eck #byzantine #hiddenhistory

Every beast is driven to pasture by a blow.
Heraclitus, c. 500 BCE, Fragment 41

I think of the worthwhile lessons I have learned in life.
Of how much external pressure was needed to get going.
How much nudging, course-correction was needed
to keep going in the right direction.
#phronesis #antiquity

Civilization 7 marks the series' 35th anniversary with a big 1.5.0 update and the paid Hall of History Collection 👑

The headliner is True Start Location Earth: from Antiquity onward you build your empire right where your...

#SteamAndEpic #Collection #Civilization #Washington #Apparently #Antiquity

TY. A new addition to my overflowing bucket list. 🪣🤩
If my bank account was like my bucket list
I could go tomorrow! 😁
#antiquity

Enduring landscapes 🌊💮
c. 3,500 years ago in the Minoan frescoes of Akrotiri on the island of Santorini (Thera), plants were painted in vivid detail before being buried by volcanic ash (1627 BCE).
#Arte #Art #History #Archaeology #ArtHistory #Antiquity #Museum #papyrus #Minoan #flora #frescos #Thera

Does #democracy depend on reading?

Democracy depends on an informed citizenry
that has enough practical wisdom.
Does that require reading?

In #antiquity, only Athenian elites & merchants could read, yet Athens was a democracy. How good? Well, ours? 🤔
#phronesis

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Zeus ordered the goddesses to appear
before Paris to judge.

Hera bribed him with the kingship of Eurasia;
Athena, wisdom & war skills;
Aphrodite, the world’s most beautiful woman -
Helen of Sparta, wife of king Menelaus.
Paris chose poorly. And destroyed his world.

#mythology #antiquity #phronesis

Origin of Sleeping Beauty’s poisoned apple:

In Stephen Fry’s Troy, the prologue tells the (misogynist) myth of the wedding of Thetis & Peleus, where Eris (Strive)
showed uninvited & offered a golden apple
to the fairest of Hera, Athena, Aphrodite.
Discord ensued.

#mythology #antiquity #phronesis

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men with barbarian souls.

Heraclitus, c. 500 BCE, Fragment 13
🖋️ The Complete Fragments, William Harris, tr.
#philosophy #phronesis #antiquity