Aristotle and Xunzi on Shame, Moral Education, and the Good Life by Jingyi Jenny Zhao, 2024
The first major work that takes two philosophers from the ancient Greek and early Chinese traditions to stimulate discussion of an interdisciplinary nature on the rich and complex topic of the emotions-in particular, of shame.
This beautifully intricate crown embodies a variety of flora including oak, myrtle, ivy, and rose culminating in several figures including a winged goddess.
📍The tomb of Kritonios, Armento
🏛Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Show-stopping doesn’t begin to capture just how gorgeous this Hellenistic armband is. Gold flowers complement garnets, emeralds, and enamel decoration. Bonus: ward off the evil eye with a Herakles knot!
🌊 SICILY GRECE/MAGNA GRAECIA: how to tell the story of a seminal relationship, that built the #AncientMediterranean giving shape to our cultural imaginary. An exhibition of extraordinary artefacts from various #museums of #Sicily, southern Italy and from Athens at the Salinas Archaeological #Museum of Palermo #Exhibition curated by F. Frisone,
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Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds
The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge centuries of Western music theory and encourage greater experimentation with instruments from different cultures.
Bronze portrait of a Greek goddess ~ c. 300-270 BCE
This wonderfully detailed portrait suggests an idealised form of a goddess, often thought to be Artemis or Aphrodite, as both were connected with wavy and loosely bound hair.
Even so, the identity of the portrait is not secure, and other candidates include Arsinoë II, who was queen of Egypt in the 270s, but of the Ptolemy line which may explain the Greek style.
Here we see the son of Achilles, Neoptolemos, receiving his father’s weapons from Odysseus. The artist Duris, has signed this piece, so too the potter, Python.
I need a new hobby like I need a new hole in the head, but I am also powerless to resist when a new hobby strikes. Such is life.
I work as a #TechnicalWriter at a Danish software company. I have three clever and independent children who shout at me a lot, and a wife who doesn't. We live a happy normie-life in suburbia.
Another informative piece by Joshua J. Mark (one of my sources for "Women in the Ancient World"). Also, ever wonder where #Christianity got some of their ideas about the #afterlife? Pretty much, they took what they wanted (or what was popular), then banned the Rites.
"The #RitesOfEleusis, or the Eleusinian Mysteries, were the secret rituals of the mystery school of #Eleusis and were observed regularly from c. 1600 BCE - 392 CE. Exactly what this mystic ritual was no one knows; but why the ancient Greeks participated in it can be understood by the testimonials of the initiated.
"The Eleusinian Mysteries, held each year at Eleusis, Greece, fourteen miles northwest of Athens, were so important to the Greeks that, until the arrival of the Romans, The Sacred Way (the road from Athens to Eleusis) was the only road, not a goat path, in all of central Greece. The mysteries celebrated the story of Demeter and #Persephone but, as the initiated were sworn to secrecy on pain of death as to the details of the ritual, we do not know what form these rituals took. We do know, though, that those who participated in the mysteries were forever changed for the better and that they no longer feared death.
"The rituals were based on a symbolic reading of the story of Demeter and Persephone and provided initiates with a vision of the afterlife so powerful that it changed the way they saw the world and their place in it. Participants were freed from a fear of death through the recognition that they were immortal souls temporarily in mortal bodies. In the same way that Persephone went down to the land of the dead and returned to that of the living each year, so would every human being die only to live again on another plane of existence or in another body."
[Thread] So, the following is from a presentation I gave at a Women and Gender Studies class I took in 2017 (as a Classics Major). I thought it was important to post here -- especially in this day and age where women's reproductive rights are being threatened. In some ways, we've taken a step backward as time has gone on...
Women's rights in Greece and Rome were more of my specialty -- especially ancient Greece. And yes, all this was how it was -- women had few rights under #Athenian#patriarchy.
Women were dependent on fathers, husbands, or #kyroi (appointed guardians). They could not own property, and were considered wards of their fathers or kyroi.
In #500BCE, fathers could sell their unmarried daughters “who had lost their #virginity” (Blundell, 69) into slavery.
“#Inheritance was #patrilineal” (Blundell, 66) – even if a daughter was the only child, she could not inherit her father’s property – it would be passed down to “her sons” (Blundell, 66), or “more distant [male] relatives” (Blundell, 66).
While not as well-documented as those in #Rome and #Egypt, substances to prevent pregnancy were mentioned in ancient medical texts, as were drugs like “myrrh, alum, galbanum, and anything similar” (Lefkowitz, 238) which were used to “bring on menstruation” (Lefkowitz, 238).
#Soranus, a first century Greek writer specializing in #gynecology, wrote:
“It is safer to prevent conception from taking place than to destroy the foetus” (Lefkowitz, 253).
Top reason to go to Delos? To see these magnificent phalloi set up to show appreciation to Dionysus and Pan. Just a matter of finding where the tips went…
This Greek marble stele commemorates a young girl. Although there is some damage to her face and what she holds (pomegranates?), the poignant grief of saying goodbye to a child too soon is clear.
Sorry, had to redraft. My app is not having fun with the edits.
A thought I've been chewing on after a particularly vivid dream: I wonder if the minotaur in the maze was a symbol of the internal human struggle between our needs in both a wild and a built world and how those structures, like cities, are overwhelming and oppressive while simultaneously being isolating and entrapping. Or perhaps a symbol of domesticates being trapped between two worlds...
🌊 SICILY/GRECE/MAGNA GRAECIA: how to tell the story of a seminal relationship, that built the #AncientMediterranean giving shape to our cultural imaginary. An exhibition of extraordinary artefacts from various #museums of #Sicily, southern Italy and from Athens at the Salinas Archaeological #Museum of Palermo
This golden wreath is thought to represent oak indicated by gold acorns. Interwoven with the foliage is a bee and two cicadas. Breathtakingly beautiful!