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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

shymagnolia

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

flagellant

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

coffee-or-hot-cocoa

i need all the help i can get for finals

finnglas

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.

So you know.

This might be the real one, y’all.

avhira

I could use some luck

shop5

Happy March 15th to those who celebrate.

#ides of march

anexperimentallife

(I scheduled this for the Ides of March all the way back on October 23, 2022. You're welcome.)

omnilily

"This salad is my body. Stab it in remembrance of me."

- Julius Ceasar at supper on March 14th, probably

thahalfrican

Congrats if you survived this year because what the fuck was that

baskervilleshund

benedictsvestcollection

Today’s the only day you can reblog this until next year guys.

bigandlong

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

jae-felidae

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

escuerzoresucitado

#comics #art #history #alexander the great

archaeologistd

Museum of the Royal Tombs at Aigai, Macedonia, Greece. Several tombs in the complex, they excavated them and then rebuilt the tumulus around them. It was very clever. Plus heck, it might contain Alexander the Great's father's (Phillip II) tomb among them.

#Philip II of Macedona #Museum of the Royal Tombs at Aigai #archaeological site #alexander the great

pothos-hemitheos

two coins of alexander, a tetradrachm and hemidrachm. these are both from the same mint in susa from around 319-316 BCE under the authority of philip iii but on the orders or eumenes of cardia, who needed to liquidate large amounts of silver to fund his war against antigonus I.

very rarely does a coin so singularly represent a moment in history, particularly a moment so pivotal as this, but these coins are a testament to eumenes' newly appointed position as strategos of asia by polyperchon, and his authority to draw upon the treasury to fight the royalist cause in the memory of alexander.

it is unlikely these two coins were produced at exactly the same time, but it is plausible they were struck by the same hand. the tetradrachm has survived in better condition, although it has been cleaned and bears deposits throughout, while the hemidrachm has far more corrosion on the silver. nonetheless, the details on such a small coin have been remarkably well preserved.

the asian mints of alexander coinage bore a distinct look from other types, most notably a flattening of the lion mine worn by heracles, as opposed to the perkier look on the common amphipolis mints, and these two coins bear that distinctive style.

these examples, while not the finest of alexander coinage, are certainly some of the more interesting in terms of their historical context and relationship to each other.

#alexander the great #ancient coins #ancient greece

pothos-hemitheos

a selection of ancient macedonian coinage. the middle-sized silver pieces are drachmae, which roughly corresponded to a days wages for a skilled worker, while an unskilled worker would earn closer to a hemidrachm, which are the smallest silver denominations you see here. the largest silver pieces are tetradrachm, of four times the amount of a drachm.

most of these coins bear the image of alexander as heracles wearing a lion skin, with an image of zeus on his throne on the reverse. there are various mints present here from amphipolis in thrace to babylon in asia, while the bronze units may have been produced in macedon itself at aigae or pella. most of these coins date to around 356-316 BCE.

the gold coin is a stater of alexander, produced in the early years after his death in abydos, which was a city just on the hellespont, bearing an interesting early use of the pentagram on the reverse (not shown here). it was worth about 28 drachmae, or a months wages for a skilled worker.

The oldest coin here is likely the small silver hemidrachm depicting a gorgoneion, which was a mythological creature, such as medusa. it dates to around 500 BCE and was minted at a colony of macedon known as neapolis in southern italy. in greek, this meant "new city", and today is known as napoli, or naples.

alexander's father philip, and later his half-brother philip arrhidaeus, used bearded zeus instead of heracles as coin portraits. there is a philip iii tetradrachm shown here, and just below it a coin that roughly corresponds to a hemidrachm (1/8 tetradrachm) under alexander, but was worth 1/5 tetradrachm instead.

#alexander the great #ancient greece