What is our favourite #ancientGreek play?
Mine is The Frogs by Aristophanes. 🐸
#WorldTheatreDay #ancientGreece #ancientGreekReligion #theatre
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Since today is #WorldTheatreDay – you all know this already – but #Dionysos is the God of Theatre!
#Theatre performances were held in his honour and probably evolved from the jokes made during the Dionysia's procession of phalloi 🎭
@mythology @pagan #PhallusThursday #ancientGreece #ancientGreekReligion
“Top of the Thursday to you,” said Silenus to the passersby on the way to Athens. Such a sign as the one offered by Silenus is surely a positive one! While the Greeks preferred sophrosyne for themselves, the ways of the divine were clearly different.
This #ReliefWednesday we are enamoured of this gorgeous fragment that shows an almost nude man on a horse. Both are superbly detailed but the question of comfort for rider (and horse) lingers in the air…
Do you live in ancient Athens and have a son or daughter to marry off?
With this handy guide you'll make a great match in no time!
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@pagan @antiquidons The last day of the #Anthesteria is called #Chytroi or #Khýtroi, 'The Pots'. It's a festival of the dead where fruit or pulse is offered to the souls of the dead, who are then bidden to depart, and to #Hermes Chthonios, who should guide them back to the underworld. No one is supposed to eat the pottage, which is food of the dead. A rehearsal to select the players for the City Dionysia also takes place on this day.
Today is the #Pithoigia, the first day of the Athenian #Anthesteria festival in honour of #Dionysos. It lasts three days, from the 11th to the 13th of the month of Anthesterion.
The Anthesteria festival celebrates the beginning of Spring and in particular the maturing of the wine stored at the previous vintage, whose pithoi (storage-jars) were now ceremoniously opened. Spring flowers decorate the house and drinking vessels.
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#ancientGreece #HellenicPolytheism #HelPol
Okay, I couldn't let #superbowl pass without indulging in personal show n tell 🦉
Some ancient Athenian Owl coins. 5 silver tetradrachms and one small Athenian bronze. Only the reverses are shown. The other side of each bears the bust of Athena
Dates - Main box and 1st two in top row were struck 454 to 404 BCE. Top Right: 393 to 294 BCE. Centre left column: 170 BCE. Bottom Left: 166 to 157 BCE
Watch out on your way back from the party tonight.
"One day #Sokrates came home from a dinner at a late hour of the night. Some badly behaving youths learned of his movements in advance and lay in wait for him. They carried lighted torches and wore masks of the Erinyes, it being their habit to misuse their leisure by playing tricks on other people. Sokrates was not frightened when he saw them; he stopped and began asking them questions."
It’s #PhallusThursday and we’re celebrating with this pelike which depicts a man placing a herm before an altar. The herm, is, you could say, ready for action. Let’s hope the gods smiled upon this respectful gesture!
💫New Episode - Storylife with Professor Joel Christensen💫
We chat with the one, the only Sententiae Antiquae about some of key ideas in his latest book Storylife. What happens when we think about stories as having their own drive to survive? Let’s find out!
💫Early Release💫
We sat down recently to chat with Professor Joel Christensen aka Sententiae Antiquae about his forthcoming book Storylife. Out now on early release for our wonderful Patreon supporters 🥳
#AncientGreece #History #Homer
https://www.patreon.com/posts/117545516?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
A late #MythologyMonday thread on #Disability in #GreekMyhology. If you would like to learn more about the real life history of disability in #ancientGreece, I recommend the @phistorians's special podcast episode with Dr Debby Sneed:
https://partialhistorians.com/2021/04/08/special-episode-disability-in-ancient-greece/
In this thread, I'm introducing characters from Greek mythology who are disabled. First up: #Hephaistos 🔥
He was born disabled and thrown from Mount Olympos by his mother Hera as a baby or by his father Zeus...
✨Brand New Episode - Gods and Mortals with Liv Albert✨
We delve into the realm of mortal and divine unions across Greece and Rome with the one and only Liv Albert from the Let’s Talk about Myths, Baby! Podcast
#AncientGreece #AncientRome #History #Podcast
https://partialhistorians.com/2024/11/14/special-episode-gods-and-mortals-with-liv-albert/
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Here! Have a taste!
Not convinced? It's *11 hours long*. BE DISTRACTED.