PSYCH

i like anything antiquity and also posting about it

[jarrows]

recently i reread a bunch of my favorite sherlock holmes stories (norw my beloved) and felt compelled to create my own diagram for 221B

[nathanielthecurious]

5th century athens tumblr dashboard simulator

💪🏻 theoeikelos because you follow #athenian politics

just a reminder in advance of ostracism season: i know themistocles might not be your first choice to exile (he sure isnt mine!) but being realistic, the only people who have a chance of winning are themistocles and aristides. if you vote for some random guy you hate or write in a joke, thats as good as voting for aristides and we cant take that risk. please please please vote themistocles

#athenian politics #themistocles #aristides

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🍇 symposiarch

hey guys should i go knock the penises of the herms i think it would be really funny

🌌 your-fave-is-aeolic follow

this is probably the unmixed wine talking but yes, yes you should

🏛 generation-of-leaves follow

It makes me so sad to see how this website glorifies impiety against the city and the gods. I have hope that you will find your way back to timē.

🍇 symposiarch

lmao i always forget there's a cult of hermes side of tumblr

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🐢 aspiringchoregos

guys ive been looking at that most tragic character poll and honestly i think that the antigone side is using bots to vote. the vote count is going up by 100 every few seconds, who even likes antigone?? all i remember about that play is that my teacher made me write prosopopoeiae based on it

#also its just suspicious to see so many antigone votes on the new music enjoyers website #choregos shut up

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🏺 kallias-art-blog follow

finally finished painting this today, im really happy with how it turned out!

like all my other projects, this is for sale at my etsy store! support metic artists :)

#art #artistsontumblr #redfigure #vasepainting #oenochoe #my art

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👁 most-tragic-character-agon follow

MOST TRAGIC CHARACTER AGON ROUND 2: ANTIGONE VS MEDEA

Antigone

Medea

Voting ended onDec 4, 2023

😝 asexual-oedipus

reblogging again because we can not let antigone lose to a character best known from a fucking EURIPIDES play! medea isnt even that tragic she's just evil

#tragedy agon #antigone

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🏳️‍🌈 harmodogeiton

i keep getting s*cratics following me so i guess i havent been clear enough on here: i do not support oligarchy, terrorism, or corrupting the youth and if you do then i kindly suggest that you unfollow me and also go to the fucking crows

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🐝 bucolic-aesthetic

#sicily #lilybaeum #bucolic #bucolic aesthetic #shepherd aesthetic #selinous #magna graecia #apoikia

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🔱 piercedbyeros follow

i call my dick the thesmophoria because it's abundant in seed and only for the women

🍇 symposiarch

i call my dick the panathenaea because i parade it through the acropolis

🆕 post-store

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[darkparisian]

𝓛𝓪 𝓢𝓸𝓻𝓫𝓸𝓷𝓷𝓮

Est. 1257

[eothas]

Kore 670 from the Acropolis Museum in Athens

[thoodleoo]

MY ASS!!!!!!!!!!!

[cy-lindric]

La Dame de Saint-Sernin, and an Early Dynastic Sumerian lady

[cuties-in-codices]

armour and intimacy

illustrations in a "gladiatoria" manuscript, bavaria/austria, ca. 1450

source: Krakow, Bibl. Jagiellońska, Berol. mgq 16, fol. 46v, 16r, 47r, and 57v

[cy-lindric]

She

[fluentisonus]

Glass Funeral Urns

Roman, 1st-2nd century AD

Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes

[tentacion2099]

Graffiti left on the tomb of Ramses V in Egypt by ancient greek tourists (when the tomb was only a few hundred years old). "I visited and did not like anything but the sarcophagus" and "I cannot read the hieroglyphs."

[mortalityplays]

Cool article about it if you're interested.

[jessebloom]

what never fails to make me cry are ancient toys

[jessebloom]

someone made these for a child so they could have fun. that’s its only purpose.

[psy-yche]

about the little figurines on the bottom left of the top image: we're actually not sure these are toys at all! respectively, they are named psi and phi figurines, and while it's true they were only found in children's graves, they were never found among living areas. every single child may have been buried with their toy, but these being clay and children being children, i feel like some might have been found broken and/or repaired? that's the general consensus anyways.

there's also one figurine in the louvre with two little psi figurines holding what seems like a child up, acrobatics-style! so there's definitely a bit of diversity there. i was taught that these psi and phi figurines had more of a ritualistic purpose, meant as guiding, motherlike figures for a child who might understandably feel lost in the underworld.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[hedgehog-moss]

The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:

the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”

That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”

oh, that hurt

I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots

the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life

on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious

I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was

The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”

God.

for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again

it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”

[psy-yche]

man literally all i watch these days are korean housewives. these women are more talented than half of the directors i know

[psy-yche]

welp it's my second art history exam in a week tomorrow. everything would be fine except i definitely don't know all the specific details from every example (some museums are very... shaky!!)

i hope i'll be alright, and i wish everyone good luck on their exams if they have any!! i'm off to bed, confident in the knowledge that if any essay question on chinese art is given tomorrow i will fail spectacularly.

[kyrieignisdivine-deactivated202]

Unpopular opinion but being in your mid twenties is worse than being in your teenage years

[reimenaashelyee]

Ancient Greek Earrings Speculation Time

So seeing this clicked something inside my brain. For a good while I always imagined all these earrings are the lobe type...

Like so. A cute lobe earring. Except the shape of the arc and the kink at the hook puts me in doubt.

So then I thought... what if it's some other kind of piercing. Or... what if it's not a piercing at all. What if -- it's an ear cuff?

As an ear cuff, the design makes more sense. The placement of the gem, the bird, the arc and hook. Plus you can layer it behind heavier dangly earrings so the bird looks like it's snuggling underneath flowers or leaves (as these lobe earring pendants tend to be)

So then with my possibilities wide open, I'm suddenly seeing the "solution" to the issue I've always had with this style of ancient Greek earrings

What bothers me about this is that if you hang it by the lobes, the animal hangs upside down cos of the weight. Backward facing lets you to see the animal more but it's still strange Forward facing is much worse... you can't see its face if you look at the wearer from the front.

Upside down animal pendants may very well be the fashion but I honestly can't imagine that SOME olde jewellers wouldn't be bothered by this too. It's a design flaw??? If you know a designer you know how particular they are about details like this.

But what if... they are not lobe earrings at all. What if... these earrings are helix types (forward helix and helix piercings)

Suddenly the design makes MORE sense. Look!! The animal is UPRIGHT and facing forward. And it's snug on top of the ear, which carries the weight of the pendant. My only ?? is possibly the size of the hook going through the hole but large piercings are not uncommon.

What supports my weirdo speculation for the helix earrings is that the hook (including the missing pin meant to be placed on the ram's mouth) is quite smooth until the metal becomes fancy + twisted. Which is a lot of room to insert across two piercing holes.

I've been bothered by these silly animal earrings for so long.

I'm FREE now when I allow myself to speculate that ancient greeks had multiple ear piercings + earring styles.

Who knows if it's legit historically but the animal is upright + facing the correct way like this lol /end