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the-puffinry · 6 months
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I really enjoy this oinochoe where a woman (maybe?) is just watching a young man going out of his mind with a lyre and also there's a duck.
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"what the quack?"
i like to imagine that's his/her pet duck and they're observing him together.
(Oinochoe, late 5th century, Boeotian).
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lionofchaeronea · 5 months
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Polychrome terracotta sculpture of the god Dionysos, holding an egg and a rooster. The unusual attributes may hint at a connection to Orphism, which held that the first deity, Phanes or Protogonos ("First-Born"), was hatched from a cosmic egg. Adherents of Orphism saw humankind as the descendants of Dionysos (under the name "Zagreus"), created when the Titans devoured the young Zagreus and were then struck by Zeus' thunderbolt. Artist unknown; created in Tanagra, Boeotia (an important center of terracotta production) ca. 350 BCE. Now in the British Museum.
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gemsofgreece · 3 months
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Mount Parnassus, Greece by Christos Kapoulas.
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beatricecenci · 1 year
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Evelyn de Morgan (English, 1855-1919)
Cadmus and Harmonia
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oliverscarlin · 17 days
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Terracotta bust of Dionysos holding an egg and a cock (c.350BC) Boeotia
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no-barbarians-here · 5 months
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey
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ophierian-vp · 3 months
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2seeitall · 2 years
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The Lion of Chaeronea (Boeotia), Greece
Height: 5,5 meters
The lion was erected by the Thebans after the battle of the same name to commemorate their fallen. Under the monument, archaeologists unearthed a mass grave of 254 people, now identified as members of the elite military unit known as “The Sacred Band of Thebes.  
The monument was found in pieces, and restored to its full height in the early 20th century. The lion is one of the oldest standing war memorials of Greece.
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Three terracotta statuettes of ancient Greek women (and a baby).
Made in Boeotia; the top two, made in c 250-200 BCE; the third, c. 300BCE. All were found at Tanagra (in Boeotia).
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alisaineurope · 2 years
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Boeotia, Greece
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the-puffinry · 5 months
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'three doves on a ring base, 500-490 BC.
The illustrated ring with the three birds belongs to the category of figurines, which is often found in Boeotia, both in cult places and in cemeteries. The birds might symbolize a group of deities or semi-divine figures associated with a local cult or with chthonic deities related to the afterlife. Perhaps they represent the Nymphs, the Hours or the Moirae (the Fates). Most of these objects date from the second half of the 6th c. BC, and the early 5th c. BC.'
four doves on a ring base, late 6th century BC.
'The ring with the four birds belongs to a category of figurines often found both in places of worship and in cemeteries. Some of them are considered to be Boeotian, although their exact provenance remains unknown. The number of birds on a ringed base varies. Usually three or four are depicted. They may symbolize the epiphany of a triad or quadruple deity or they may represent the transformations of female deities associated with local worship or with chthonic deities associated with the world of the dead. They probably represent Fates, Horai or Nymphs. In a more elaborate variant, the birds accompany a standing female figure identified with Aphrodite as they are particularly associated with her worship. Most of these objects date back to the second half of the 6th c. BC, but some date later, in the early 5th c. BC.'
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gemsofgreece · 6 months
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October in Livadiá of Boeotia, Greece by PHOTOGRAPHER @__d.i.a.n.n.a__ on Instagram.
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deathlessathanasia · 1 year
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“The final question concerning Theban motives for the building program is how they may have used the myth of Hera Nympheuomene to their advantage. As we saw above, Pausanias relates how the Daidala festival arose from a domestic quarrel between Zeus and Hera, but he does not tell us what gave rise to the dispute. Rocchi (1989: 320-321) has suggested that it arose from Zeus's affair with Metis, daughter of Alalkomene and the subsequent birth of Athena from his head. This interpretation is attractive, for it metaphorically suggests that Hera was temporarily afraid she would be displaced by Metis and Athena, the latter of course being the patron goddess of the Athenians, but then she was restored to her rightful position of honor beside Zeus. As Prandi (1982b, 1983, 1988: 22-24) points out, it may also be significant that the festival took place along the Asopos, the disputed borderline between Boiotia and Athens. The Thebans, then, could have exploited the myth to represent the return of Plataiai (Hera) back to the Boiotians and the restoration of Hera's honor at Plataiai beside her lord Zeus (the Thebans). All of these arguments complement Schachter's thesis (1981,1: 245) that the Thebans built the new stone temple and inn for the Heraion Sanctuary complex "as a political act," to counterbalance the only other large stone temple at Plataiai - the temple of AthenaAreia.60 When we recall that the temple of Athena Areia was built from Plataiai's share of the booty after the Persian invasions of 490 and 479,61 battles in which the Thebans were forever castigated for having medized and in which the Plataian alliance with Athens was cemented further, much to the chagrin of the Thebans, then it is likely that the worship of Athena Areia at Plataiai, in a very real and spiritual sense, linked Plataiai with Athens and was one of the most obvious symbols of its atticizing. After the siege of Plataiai, when the Plataians pleaded for their lives to the Spartans on the basis of their common alliance against the Persians fifty years earlier and reminded the Spartans that the Thebans had medized, the Thebans countered by saying that their medization was involuntary, while the Plataians' atticizing was voluntary (Thuk. 3.64.5). We may postulate that the charge of atticizing extended into the realm of religion and the Thebans could have called this religious atticizing on the part of the Plataians a neglect of the pan-Boiotian worship of Hera, particularly if it is correct that after the Persian Wars the Plataians merely replaced the Persian-destroyed Heraion with a modest wooden complex while building a grander stone temple for Athena. Even if this new Heraion was something modest in comparison to the stone temple of Athena Areia, from the testimony of both Herodotos and Thukydides we know that after 479 it became an important symbol of Plataian and Greek resistance to the Persians. Undoubtedly, the halting of the Greek army near the Heraion and the prayers of Pausanias became potent stories of the goddess's aid. These incidents were no doubt incorporated into the iconography of the sanctuary somehow, and if the Plataians left part of the Persian destruction in view, this would have also been a visual symbol of Theban complicity in barbarian crimes.”
 - The Small and Great Daidala in Boiotian History by Paul A. Iversen
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no-barbarians-here · 11 months
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Fort Gla
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ophierian-vp · 8 months
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clare-with-no-i · 4 months
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although I do know that I spelled Nikalaos as Nikolaos randomly across theogony, I have neither the will nor the energy to change it im so sorry
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