#ancient stuff

[alatismeni-theitsa]

The other day archaeostoryteller made a great post that touched my soul 😢

It was about a funeral stele showing the death of two young brothers, one at a wedding age (Sosmenes) and the other younger than three years old (Sokrates). The loutrophoros (high slim jag) symbolizes the older brother's age since they used it to wash the bride and groom, and the khous (small round pitcher) where they offered wine to three-year-olds in the festival of Anthesteria.

Even today the Greeks bring wedding elements (such as stefana and koufeta) to the funerals of the young and unmarried.

#greece #greek history #ancient stuff #antiquity #ancient greek religion #ancient greek custom #greek custom #greek tradition #hellenismos

[valkraud]

#cave paintings #fanart #formula 1 #f1 #have fun with f1 #daniel ricciardo #good old days #probably #cyril abiteboul #ancient stuff

[the-little-fox-in-the-box]

🌿🏺If you have a blog about ancient Rome please like/reblog this post so I can find you and follow you easier. I need some ancient content to fuel myself with. 🏺🌿

#ancient rome #rome #ancient greece #ancient stuff #ancient history #latin #classical latin #ancient literature #oddysey #illiad

[tavi-the-rat]

Since you’re really into Ancient Rome, do you know anything about emperor Nero? I heard his name mentioned in the book I’m reading, and i’d like to know more. :)

NERO LETS GOOOO

my second favourite emperor i want to put him in my pocket an carry around hehe

anyway, some facts!

i think you probably know this already but his name wasn't always nero. in fact, his birthname was lucius, but later in life he took up the name nero, which is latin for "stern". he was also the last emperor of the julio-claudian dynasty - he was a great-great-grandson of emperor augustus :)

despite his daughter claudia being only a few months old when she died, nero was strongly emotionally attached to her, he even gave her the title "augusta" before she died and it was essentially a title for high-ranking women in the dynasty (as "august" was a title for emperors only) so you can tell he highly valued her. he even issued a coin to be made to commemorate her and he was absolutely devastated and grieved a lot after her death. he loved his daughter a lot it makes me sob 😭😭😭

also, a lot of people think he killed his wife, poppea when she was pregnant but... i don't think it's necessarily true, especially since he really really wanted to be a father so killing his pregnant wife just... wouldn't make much sense

nero loved art, there are many depictions of him reciting poetry or singing with a lyre. he hosted art and sport competitions as he liked them better than watching gladiators fight but other romans weren't too happy with it as they liked to witness violence and bloodshed

while we're at it, he probably wasn't responsible for the great fire of rome (might've been the heat waves, especially since rome is located in the mediterranean area which is pretty hot)

greeks absolutely LOVED this guy bc he appreciated their culture a lot, he became interested in it as a kid and it contributed to him becoming an artist. he loved greece and its people, he often travelled to greece to perform :)

when he was a little boy he used to watch chariot racing with his friends from school and was a great fan of the green team. while he was talking with his buddies about the last race where the green charioteer was dragged across the field by his hoses, his teacher seneca caught them talking in class and little nero lied that they were actually talking about Iliad where achilles drags hector's body around with his chariot and seneca believed him without punishing them. this is such a cute story, it makes you notice that humans haven't really changed much 🤲💗

i think that more people should learn about nero as we all have the image of a "blood-thirsty cruel tyrant" which is... very far from true. also if you wanted to learn more about him my friend @/emperornero knows a lot as well :)

#ancient stuff #ancient rome #nero #ancient history #asks #ty for asking btw!! i love ranting about my fave figures aaa

[marlowe1-blog]

Job Chapter 27

Job starts talking about the fate of the wicked and I'm confused

Did Job and his friends switch positions? Or is he coming around to agree with them. First off, he still says that he's innocent. He isn't speaking blasphemy. He's not saying anything that is out of bounds. He's truly in pain. He's truly speaking on behalf of humanity against his friends who seem to be too immersed in the G-d justice mindset to have any empathy.

But then it sounds as if he is agreeing with them. He's saying everything that they said back to them. When he says "let my enemy be like the wicked?" whom is he referring to? His friends that came to fight with him? Satan?

Then he goes on about the fate of the wicked and he sounds like his friends from discourse two who wouldn't stop saying that the wicked eventually fail and lose everything.

Is he mocking them? Agreeing with them? Is he being sarcastic or has he come around to their way of thinking?

Um...seriously what fucking book are you reading?

The part in the middle where he askes "will they call upon G0d at all times?" might mean that his friends are going to face the same trials. Only that seems to be what they are saying too

But then Job says that God punishes the wicked. There's a long discourse on how Job punishes the wicked. It makes no fucking sense in context unless Job is saying that the wicked are his friends. Or is he going "Yes, the wicked are going to lose everything, but I'm not wicked and your implication that I am wicked is nasty."

Fucking hell, that completely contradicts everything that Job said to his friends in previous chapters.

I'm still holding out hope that he's being sarcastic and repeating what his friends said in order to tell them that they are fucking idiots.

#Job #The Book of Job #integrity #sin #wickeddness #whatthefuck Job #WTF Job #I don't get this one #I'm very confused #It's not genocide to win a war #Israel #Gaza #ancient stuff #old books #the speech #long speech #all long speeches from here on out

[novakspector]

AI-generated images of ancient Gandhara Indo-Greek Buddhist temples in the Karakoram mountains

#ai generated #ancient stuff

[breebird33]

When visiting and catching up with old friends, be sure to bring plenty of treats to share 🍇✨

[original characters]

#my art #old gods #ancient cookies #and just gonna starting labeling stuff as original or fanart in the descriptions for y'all

[cozylittleartblog]

New Family Speedrun 00:09.12 (World Record Not Clickbait???)

#deltarune #queen #lancer #rouxls kaard #comic #art #doodles #SDFJKHJKDHSF THIS IS STUPID i said it on discord at like 2AM and then went Wait Thats Funny Actually #and u know what It Is #they're both the wife actually #this is also supremely old this is like WELL over a year old #queenkaard #my art #are you guys enjoying me clearing out my drafts. i hope u are. ancient artwork... now go look at my etsy im posting sooooo much stuff 2day

[wehavekookies]

New body (and skeleton) references for Victoro.

There is stuff happening in our She Is The Ancient campaign with his hexblood transformation that i am exploring some visual ideas for - currently roots growing under his skin and over his skeleton (more on that some time later :))

edit: added the roots spread over the skeleton.

#victoro di terzo #she is the ancient #curse of strahd #skeleton #hexblood #also translating some personal stuff #onto OC stuff #in this case ms symptoms #and im finding it very fitting #so it may be a deeper theme now #kooks art #character ref

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#potions in a walnut shell #antiques #other stuff #ancient perfume kit

[karoochui]

He is just so cray-cray

#don't have my laptop to draw rn bc its getting fixed!! #so we resort to the ancient methods of man #bless the LEDS in my room for making this look so fuckin cool #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf security breach #fnaf sun #sundrop #binary resurgence #binary resurgence: round 2 au #sun x yn #sun x reader #mikas stuff

[kociamieta]

i imagine ascension doesn't happen instantly.

maybe it's a slower process - with each step into the void sea, you lose more and more of yourself. maybe it would give an ancient enough time to consider: is this what they really want? to leave everything behind? maybe it's not too late to go back, to something they loved after all?

but it's too late, the process has begun. thinking they have escaped, they realize only a shadow of their former self remains.

#id in alt text #i just think it's a fun thought ! yay echoes #tricking myself into watermarking stuff again day 175679 #rw ancients #rain world #my art

[furmewolfy]

I love how batshit insane Ninjago is while also not FEELING batshit insane if that makes sense??

Like, explaining any amount of lore to someone who has not seen the show, will make u look like you are either lying, crazy, or both. But if you are watching the show, it feels very natural and in place for the lore and everything. Which is honestly kinda impressive ngl.

#ninjago #no cause how do they mix the ancient ninja/samurai aesthetic with futuristic technology and not make it look clashing #or all of the crazy fantasy stuff

[generouskittentidalwave]

I will never understand how Odysseus has all the braincells while also having none of them at the same exact time. He is an amazing war general and is insanely smart but has the attention span of a rat fuelled by the need to cause chaos simply because he is bored. He can't listen to one thing while getting distracted by the thing he was specifically told not to touch.

#this man will forever be an enigma #odysseus #the odyssey #homer's odyssey #the iliad #homer's iliad #ancient greek mythology #greek mythology #ancient greek #greek myth #greek mythology memes #greek myth memes #greek heroes #greek stuff #greek posts #greek blog #epic the musical #epic: the musical #epic the troy saga #epic: the troy saga #epic the cyclops saga #epic: the cyclops saga #epic the ocean saga #epic saga

[arianod]

What the heck was going on during the Middle Ages

#books #ancient stuff #randomness #wtf

[captainkirkk]

How long was it between when Iroh convinced Zuko to take up the Fire Throne, and Sozin's comet? A day? Less??

AU where Iroh convinces Zuko to be the next Fire Lord MUCH earlier in the series. Zuko, who hasn't been in formal education since was 13yo, understandably panics. He barely remembers his lessons on How To Be the Fire Lord, and they were all focused on how to rule during wartime. Not peace. What does an international peace treaty even LOOK like and how does one go about making it???? How does trade work when you're NOT trying to eradicate every other nation????

Book 3 Zuko spends all of his time teaching Aang firebending, interrogating the other members about their culture's traditions and politics, going on Blue Spirit journeys to raid any passing libraries, and reading everything he can get his hands on. He barely eats. He doesn't sleep. He's info dumping about the DRIEST political texts. The gaang are THIS close to holding an intervention or having Toph sit on him until he sleeps.

#the gaang: morning zuko how did you sleep? #zuko (600 pages into an ancient text on the economic significance of grain farmers in the rural earth kingdom): a... agriculture.... #avatar #atla #atla headcanons #i am obsessed with feral nerd zuko #the kid finished formal education at 13!!! against his will!!! #i know iroh was probably teaching him as much as he could but ngl zuko was NOT gonna sit and listen for long when he had an avatar to find #he's panicking and info dumps about ancient international law the second someone looks at him #hakoda is worried about zuko being nervous around him since he's a Father Figure #but zuko skips straight past the trauma and zeroes in on hakoda being an actual political leader!!! who knows stuff!!! #teach him sifu hakoda!!! #my posts