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mapsontheweb · 7 months
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The Persian Wars, 5th century BC.
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museofpangolins · 1 year
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Florence Welch once said "hubris is a bitch" and I, Xerxes the great, really felt that
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lionofchaeronea · 2 years
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On a Statue of Pan
Anthologia Planudea 232 = Simonides Note: According to Herodotus, when Phidippides was sent to summon help from Sparta before the battle of Marathon, Pan appeared to him and offered his aid. After the Athenian victory, Miltiades established a cult of the god. Miltiades put me here – Pan, the one with goat-feet, The one from Arcadia, The one who opposes Medes, The one who favors Athenians. τὸν τραγόπουν ἐμὲ Πᾶνα, τὸν Ἀρκάδα, τὸν κατὰ Μήδων, τὸν μετ᾽ Ἀθηναίων, στήσατο Μιλτιάδης.
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Small marble statue of Pan. Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE. Found at Argyroupoli (=ancient Lappa), Crete; now in the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.
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Herodotus, the Persian Royal Lion Hunt, and the Achaemenid views on the Greco-Persian wars
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In this talk from the Winter 2024 edition of the Herodotus Helpline, Professor Hilmar Klinott (Kiel) explores the background of the Persian Royal inscriptions before examining Herodotus' awareness of the lion hunt motif.
From the youtube channel of Herodotus Helpline.
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greecedlightningpod · 11 months
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300: The Battle of Thermopylae and the Persian Wars
Sara, Luke, and Sam take their first dive into ancient history, rather than myth, this week with the 2007 violent, machismo-soaked 300! Learn all about the Persian Wars and Spartan life while enjoying topics of discussion such as: jock rock as a movie, fun ancient instruments, and the Greeks' aversion to pants
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attichoney4u · 1 year
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endivinity · 1 year
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“Well, I can’t tell what the pattern itself means, if it ever stood for anything. But the tattoos themselves - the intricate care put into them - they mean that somebody, somewhere, loved you very much.”
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trustymikh · 1 year
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Queen give us more of your Rocket admins agenda I love to see it
oh boy, I do have a lot to say regarding these four, so here are a few hcs
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Petrel and Proton started off as an agent duo similar to Jesse and James before being promoted to admins
Every day Petrel wakes up and chooses to be as annoying to other executives as possible
Do not mess with Proton, he is not above bypassing a pokemon battle to throw fists directly
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Archer is unreasonably jealous of Giovanni’s Persian. Hates that thing (the feeling is mutual)
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boyrobott · 1 month
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best thing about the pluto anime is that my friend and i now refer to ptsd exclusively as "persian war syndrome"
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~ Clay bulla with impression of a stamp seal depicting the Persian king spearing a Greek hoplite.
Place of origin: Near Eastern, Iranian
Culture: Persian
Period: Achaemenid
Date: 550–331 B.C.
Medium: Clay
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theactioneer · 26 days
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The Persian Gulf Inferno (Innerprise, 1990)
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xplore-the-unknwn · 5 months
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My roman empire is that people should make more big budgeted musicals about the ancient civilizations. We can have an Epic of Gilgamesh musical, the Trojan War, and any ancient story that was passed down through song for generations.
I wanna hear our ancestors come alive again and hear the beautiful words and stories that they’ve so passionately sang and written about-for us not to forget about them.
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museofpangolins · 1 year
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the time has come to settle this argument once and for all
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lionofchaeronea · 2 years
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Victory at Sea
Anthologia Palatina 6.215 = Simonides Note: According to Plutarch, Diodorus was a Corinthian trierarch (trireme captain) at the battle of Salamis. These shields, taken from their foes the Medes, The sailors of Diodorus dedicated To Leto – monuments of the fight at sea. ταῦτ᾽ ἀπὸ δυσμενέων Μήδων ναῦται Διοδώρου ὅπλ᾽ ἀνέθεν Λατοῖ μνάματα ναυμαχίας.
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Battle of the Combined Venetian and Dutch Fleets against the Turks in the Bay of Foya, 1649, Abraham Beerstraaten, 1656
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aboutanancientenquiry · 6 months
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Dreams in Homer and Herodotus
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The purpose of this paper is to compare the dreams of Xerxes and Artabanus from Herodotus' Histories VII to the dream of Agamemnon in Iliad II. The structural similarities between the dream sequences are established through a consideration of the Homeric dream type scene, which is replicated in the dreams of Histories VII. A specific comparison between Xerxes' and Agamemnon's dreams is established through an analysis of the deceptive nature of both dreams. Further analogies are considered through an investigation into similarities evident in the characterization of Agamemnon and Xerxes with respect to the concept of hybris, which is prevalent in council scenes that precede the dreams. This paper demonstrates that the opening council and dream scenes in Histories VII evoke the opening books of the Iliad, and effects the reading of the latter books of Herodotus' text. The prevalence of epic resonance here and elsewhere in the Histories VII-IX illustrates the degree to which Herodotus' rendering of the Second Persian War was influenced by Homer. Moreover, the similarities of these dream episodes serve to define Xerxes' characterization as a king possessed by hybris and plagued by delusion."
Andrew Fulham, BA From the Gates of Ivory: the Dreams of Agamemnon, Xerxes and Artabanus in Homer and Herodotus, submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Classics, Faculty of Humanities, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, 2014.
The whole paper can be found on the link given above.
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Andrew Fulham, Brock University
This is a very interesting paper. I believe of course that obviously Homer's influence on Herodotus is huge. On the other hand, we should not forget that Herodotus is not just a "Homer in prose", because with Herodotus we have the foundation of a new discipline, historiography, a development with very important intellectual consequences. Moreover, and more specifically concerning Xerxes' and Artabanus' dreams and their role in Xerxes' decision for the invasion of Greece, it is probable that these dreams are not just reworkings by Herodotus of a Homeric theme (more about this in the next post of mine).
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spicynectarines · 8 months
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you guys need to understand i WANT to draw kalluzeb but Zeb is so weird looking that i physically can’t
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