#old Greece

[notsofriendlyfriendlyreminder]

Sometimes you have to approach a math problem like the old Greeks did, from a new perspective and with a glass of wine in hand.

#math #mathematics #old greece #ancient greece #greece #greek #greeks #wine #greek mathematics #greek mathematicians #mathematicians #notsofriendlyfriendlyreminder

[thatpunnyperson]

According to NBC here in the US, the missing titanic sub has been found. As debris. Off the bow of the Titanic wreckage.

And it looks like the sub suffered what we all suspected, and what was undoubtedly the more merciful of the two options: a catastrophic implosion from the pressure.

Also, more info has come to light about the fishing trawler with the hundreds of migrants that sank cataclysmically off the coast of Greece, indicating that the greek coast guard knew about the vessel AND how much trouble the vessel was in, and were towing it at a speed that made it capsize, at which point they unhooked the tow line and watched the trawler sink without helping the passengers to safety. Despite a bunch of other ships trying to help as well throughout the whole ordeal.

So a lot of people are dead, all because of regulations (and the lack thereof) regarding sea-faring vessels and rescue protocols. People shouldnt be allowed to make a business charging a ton of money for a ride on an uncertified, unsafe, un-seaworthy ship going deep into the ocean with no distress beacon or tether to the mothership. People also shouldnt be allowed to enact laws that criminalize the ferrying of refugees, which then force the refugees to hitch rides on fishing trawlers, and which also prevent people from helping those fishing trawlers full of refugees due to fear of legal consequences.

Hopefully BOTH of these events spark changes on an international scale in terms of what is legally allowed to be sailed, who is legally allowed to be the passengers, and what the rescue protocols are in the event of disaster for any seafaring vessel, illegal or not. It shouldnt be just the global 1% who get 24/7 search parties and remote-operated submersibles helping rescue them.

#the question of 'what do we owe to each other' can be answered simply with 'the dignity of retrieving our remains when we die' #another answer is 'the dignity of thinking about each other fellow humans with similar motivations and feelings' #also 'stopping someones potentially self-destructive behaviors just because theyre rich and want to feel special' #also i feel like humans have been sailing the seas long enough that it should be guaranteed that people will survive sea voyages #im very mad about specifically mediterranean maritime disasters because we have ancient writing saying they made it safe #sailing from Egypt to Greece was so old hat and safe that people legit took the ancient equivalent of cruises back and forth #cleopatra habitually sailed from alexandria to rome with a ton of ships and was fine #Nero tried to have his mother drowned at sea by orchestrating a dramatic shipwreck while she was our sailing AND SHE SURVIVED #and then swam to shore got back to rome and whooped his ass #fuckin pliny the elder tried to evacuate people from pompeii and the surrounding coast villages when vesuvius erupted #and he actually WAS able to rescue people #but he himself had an asthma attack from the fumes which led to a heart attack and he died on the beach #there is legit no excuse for that trawler of migrant refugees to have wrecked #negligence all around #anyway #oceangate

[allthingseurope]

Athens, Greece (by Despina Galani)

#athens #greece #europe #travel #travel blog #europe travel #vertical #old town

[arnirea]

𝖬𝗂𝗀𝗎𝖾𝗅 𝖢𝖺𝗋𝖻𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗅𝗅 𝖲𝖾𝗅𝗏𝖺, 1881 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙝𝙤 (ancient Greek poetess)

#art #old art #artists on tumblr #painting #miguel carbonell selva #artwork #canvas painting #portrait #greece #ancient history #ancient greece #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems and poetry #poetic #poetry #romantic academia #chaotic academia #light academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #academia aesthetic #classic academia #girl crying #aesthetic #overthinking #just girly things #philosophy #pinterest #tumblr girls

[gemsofgreece]

In Athens, Greece (unknown date)

#greece #europe #black and white #photography #old photos #places #greeks #greek people #athens #attica #central greece #sterea hellas #mainland

[balkan-marie]

I see cool artstyle and I draw the Squid Sisters in it

Edit: Just saw I forgot to color Marie's sleeves omg sorry. I drew this at 1am and didn't notice

#splatoon #marie splatoon #squid sisters #callie splatoon #Callie is wearing a clothing from Crete (Greece) and Marie from Rhodopes (Bulgaria) #Idk what this style is called but it's common in old Bulgarian art

[ivettaflowerblooom]

Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and the Fine Arts with Urania, Muse of Astronomy by Charles Meynier, 1798.

#hellenism #greek deities #greek gods #greek mythology #deity work #deity worship #greek deity #greek myth art #ancient greece #apollo #art tag #old art #artwork #art #oil painting #painting #apollo deity #urania #urania deity #hellenic deities #hellenic pagan #hellenic polytheism #pagan #paganism #artists on tumblr #theoi worship #theoi #helpol #hellenic polythiest #hellenic paganism

[nobeerreviews]

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.

-- Italo Calvino

(Chania, Greece)

#past #cities #history #italo calvino #travel photography #chania #greece #quote #street photography #old streets #old cities

[ena-nistagmeno-koala]

Ακόμα κι αν φύγεις

Για το γύρο του κόσμου

Θα' σαι πάντα δικός μου

Θα είμαστε πάντα μαζί

#greek #greece #greek posts #greek tumblr #γκρικ μπλογκ #γκρικ ποστ #γκρικ ταμπλερ #γκριικ #γκρικ κουοτς #γρεεκ ποστς #old couple #love #thessaloniki #skg #skgstories

[2seeitall]

Facades in Plaka (Athens, Greece)

#greece #europe #travel #architecture #facade #window #door #plants #hellas #yellow #plaka #athens #yellow aesthetic #old town #travel europe #europe travel #original photography #landscape #photographers on tumblr

[ladywaterfall]

Some of my 2000s stickers 💕

#this is some very strong #2000s nostalgia #for me indeed as a 1994 kid #w.i.t.c.h. #disney princess #disney princess brand #my little pony #my little pony g3 #stickers #2000s stickers #sandylion #Cinderella #sleeping beauty #Snow White #pic #I got all of these sticker sheets as an adult actually #through second hand shops or in one case #just a regular dusty bookstore in Greece that just happened to have some old witch stickers #I have childhood mlp and princess stickers too #but they’re in my sticker books not in sheets

[leroibobo]

etz hayyim (“tree of life”) synagogue in chania, crete, greece. the building dates to the 14th-15th centuries, and was originally a venetian catholic church. it was acquired by chania's jewish community and converted into a synagogue in the late 17th century. chania's jews were deported due to the holocaust in 1944, after which the building remained abandoned until restoration in the 1990s.

romaniote jews are the oldest jewish community in europe and one of the oldest in the world, thought to have lived in and around present day greece since before 70 ce. they have their own liturgy that is unrelated to the more commonly used european ones (ashkenazic and sephardic).

#greece #architecture #interior #worship #jewish #romaniote #old & new #my posts #for all u Westerners 'rom' = constantinople referring to itself as the roman empire #so rome/italy is like 'west roman' constantinople/greece/anatolia is like 'east roman' #in the west its called 'byzantine' from 'byzantium' (proto-constantinople) #also it insinuates w roman empire was the 'real' roman empire (despite east lasting 1000 years longer) #in most mediterranean & w asian languages greece/greek is 'yunan/yawan/yavan' (from ionians) or 'rum/rom' (from roman) #in actual greek it's 'hellas'/'ellas' (from hellenic) #in georgian it's 'saberdzneti' for some reason but they also have their own names for a bunch of places #'greece' comes from the latin name 'graecia' #in a lot of slavic languages it's some variation of 'greece'. weird considering most were never/hardly under latin influence #if you think this is a lot just wait until u hear about the all the names for armenia #but yeah these guys were also in a lot of the balkans. if you're from the balkans and jewish you MAY have romaniote ancestry #(at least more recent romaniote ancestry than all other european jews) #not a guarantee though especially if you're ashkenazi #theres like. other jewish groups in europe that predated ashkenazi migration #most of them just got absorbed into the ashkenazi population

[vintage-tigre]

#art #work #life #quote #ancient greece #the stoics #aesthetic #vintage #old school cool #style #artist #manual labor #artisan #craftsmanship

[allthingseurope]

Rhodes Island, Greece (by Michael Otto)

#rhodes island #greece #europe #travel #travel blog #europe travel #architecture #old town #historic

[conhivemindcent]

Sorry to bring back up the Titan submersible, but I find it fascinating in a very morbid way. Mostly in terms of the news. This will be the media student in me talking but to me, it’s a perfect example of so many of Galtung and Ruge’s news values. I’ll also be looking at the migrant boat that sunk off the coast of Greece for similar comparison and why an American centric website would probably see more news relating to the submersible.

Put simply, one of Galtung and Ruge’s news values is proximity, aka how close to home it was and how meaningful it is to the people there. Since the submersible launched from Newfoundland, Canada would’ve gotten more news stories about the submersible. Meanwhile, the boat with the immigrants was found off the coast of Greece, with more stories about it there. Since the USA is closer to Canada than Greece, they got more stories about the sub than the boat.

Another value is currency. This is why me, a Brit, got more news coverage on the boat for the first few days. The UK has a known immigration problem and some really dodgy laws about it (basically in most circumstances you can only apply for a permit once you’re in the country but entering the country without a permit is illegal, so it’s a catch 22), so something about immigration would always be more relevant. However, the antithesis recency would affect how in the last few hours of the sub being missing when the air was thought to be running out (so morning and afternoon of 22nd June) there were more stories on the sub.

A fourth value is uniqueness. Sadly, a migrant ship sinking with people dying and going missing is not an uncommon thing nowadays. A maritime disaster involving billionaires touring the Titanic? Never happened before, I hope it will never happen again (and it most likely will not). Of course the news will focus on something that hasn’t happened before - when will they get the chance to do it?

There’s also the values of Elite People. These people were billionaires. The people on the migrant ship were most likely just normal unnoteworthy people. And also recency - the Messenia boat occurred in the 14th June, and by the time the debris of the boat had been discovered it has already been a week.

I think it is important we take these news values into consideration and also how we as a community on Tumblr can see how we played right into these. An American website with a large American usership would naturally gravitate towards an American story, no matter how global it claims to be. In addition, it’s unusual enough with such strange circumstances that jokes and criticisms were bound to occur. The continuity (another news value) of the story with the search was also intriguing, as we saw it play out first hand with the initial disappearance, the potential signals, the discovery of the wreckage. Add in a level of expectedness (another news value - these people would either be found or not, and let’s be honest they were more likely to be dead than alive) and we have a perfectly newsworthy story to top the trending page for a few days.

It’s something I find fascinating, how despite people saying we should focus on the Messenia migrant boat disaster, we were still echoing the news perfectly on the site. One thing I’ve noted is that I didn’t really see anybody mentioning it before the Titan set out, but once the searching started it started becoming more relevant and trending a little below it. This isn’t a call to do better, this is just something I’ve noticed.

If there’s any saving light, out of the estimated 750 (maximum) of migrants, 104 have been confirmed alive and rescued. And I’m so happy for that.

#con(versation) #greece #migrants #titanic #titan submersible #news values #galtung and ruge #seriously though tumblr look into news values if you want to know what we consume in the news #anyway it’s all old news now there’s a coup in russia

[introspectivememories]

NICO: WE SHARED THE LIFT THIS MORNING! I WAS GOING TO THE POOL TRAMPOLINE WITH MY TWO DAUGHTERS AND HE WAS GOING TO THE RACETRACK. PINKHAM: VERY DIFFERENT LIVES YOU'RE CURRENTLY LEADING.

#that line from nico is like /the/ modern brocedes thesis to me #like this is their happy ending!!! it is not the one they dreamed of all those years ago in greece but is a happy ending. #it's not multiple shared championships or racing against each other for years or anything their 13 year-old-selves would've dreamed up but #it is them achieving their dreams. lewis has 7 wdcs and is aiming for an 8th. nico has a loving wife and 2 daughters he'd die for. they are #both doing the things they love. would it have been nice if those dreams included each other? yeah. would it have been nice that when ppl #mention their names it would be to talk about what great friends they are instead of how they tore each other apart? absolutely! but they #were doomed from the start. so maybe it doesn't matter that they didn't get their traditional 'happy ending'. at least they had a happy #start and a semi-happy middle. at least they have the lift to see each other. at least nico's daughters get to keep lewis in their lives in #a way nico will never get to again. they will never share a bowl of frosties again but at least their roots are so thoroughly tangled #together that they can never look back without haunting each other. at least they still have that. #anyway for all the non-americans who reblog or like this. the poem is 'the road not taken' by robert frost. very famous in america #every middle/high schooler has to analyze/read this poem at some point. i don't know how popular he is outside of america so i thought id #leave a note ig. #anyway. i am going crazy and i need to lie down. that 2nd line was sooo hard to find a photo for. wth does 'hence' even mean??? #brocedes edit #brocedes #f1 web weaving #f1 #nico rosberg #lewis hamilton #f1 edit #nr6 #lh44 #web weaving