@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialWhat is our favourite #ancientGreek play?
Mine is The Frogs by Aristophanes. 
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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social @AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialSince 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.
@RLIBlog@mastodon.socialUn vistazo a la gigantomaquia a través de la pélice de figuras rojas áticas del pintor de Pronomo (c. 400 a.C.). Las tres figuras que quedan arriba podrían ser Cástor, Ares y Pólux 
Museo Arqueológico de Atenas 
George E. Koronaios #antiguagrecia #ancientgreece #mitologiagriega #greekmythology
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…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialDo 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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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social@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.
@RLIBlog@mastodon.socialCocina portátil (πύραυνος, pyraunos) de los siglos V-III a.C. de Delos. El carbón se colocaba en la bandeja superior y el aire entraba desde abajo. Ahora ya no está en un rincón del museo, sino en una vitrina más grande con su descripción. Museo Arqueológico de Delos #antiguagrecia #ancientgreece
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialToday 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
A fragment of #ancient Greek black figure pottery, found in excavations just outside #rome when building an Ikea. Now in the Antiquarium di Via Lucrezia. #ancienthistory #ancientrome #ancientgreece #romanhistory @parcoappia
@RLIBlog@mastodon.socialLos antiguos griegos ya tenían "orlas". Esta estela muestra los nombres de 31 jóvenes áticos que completaron su formación militar durante el gobierno del emperador romano Claudio. Museo Nacional de Escocia #antiguagrecia #ancientgreece
@RLIBlog@mastodon.socialImagen de cílica del periodo arcaico tardío (510-500 a.C.), donde muestra a un hombre limpiándose el trasero con una piedra. #antiguagrecia #ancientgreece
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialWatch 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!
@RLIBlog@mastodon.socialEn este lécito funerario (450-425 a.C.), de un joven soldado. El color azul y verde visto aquí, creados con huevo, no suele conservarse.
En los mitos griegos, Hades tenía un cetro con el que transportarse entre mundos, pero es curioso como esta imagen recuerda al bidente con el que lo representaban en el Renacimiento.
Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Atenas #antiguagrecia #ancientgreece
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!
The Partial Historians · Special Episode - Storylife with Professor Joel P. Christensen - The Partial HistoriansWhat if stories have a life of their own? What happens when we think of narratives as external agents? And why is Homer good to think with?
@RLIBlog@mastodon.socialMás de 2500 años, y la recogida tradicional de aceitunas apenas ha cambiado, como dejó plasmado el pintor de Antimenes (530-510 a.C.). Museo Británico #antiguagrecia #ancientgreece
@RLIBlog@mastodon.socialAríbalos áticos desenterrados en Fanagoria con forma de Afrodita saliendo de una almeja. Hermitage Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii #antiguagrecia #ancientgreece
@RLIBlog@mastodon.socialPélice del pintor Misón con una hetera vistiendo solamente una redecilla (sakkos) junto con una cesta de falos de cerámica o pan para las fiestas de la Haloa en honor a Deméter en el mes de Poseidón (diciembre-enero). En la segunda imagen, se prepara para lavarse con la esponja y el estrígil, colocando su ropa sobre el taburete (difros). Museo Arqueológico Regional Paolo Orsi Archivo Beazley #antiguagrecia #ancientgreece
