Hmmmm

What's good. I love history. I got autism and adhd so yeah. liberal.

[cuties-in-codices]

genealogical peacock (displaying coats of arms of members of the hainhofer family of augsburg)

double-page miniature from a heraldic manuscript (stammens-beschreibung des hainhoferischen geschlechts), augsburg, 1626

source: Augsburg, SuStB, 2 Cod Aug 14, fol. 5v-6r

[stuckintime3938]

Cool. I like this

[kurzler]

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

[elianzis]

First: yes

Second: WHAT HECTOR DID TO YOU, PEOPLE?😭

[stuckintime3938]

The song of Achilles was made which caused a massive view shift of Hector from tragic hero caught up in a war to defend his homeland to bloodthirsty villain.

[cosmordial]

I love No Man's Sky because during the main storyline, you get big lore reveals then you can check in with Nada and ask them questions n shit. and they'll just be like

[stuckintime3938]

Then Polo would want you to get something called the "Core of Pain and Suffering" so he can display it on his shelf

[stuckintime3938]

There is something existential about reading bromze age tablets during the collapse and seeing officials begging foreign powers for food, or nations trying to get soldiers to defend there homelands from *something* that is attacking them. Hearing about the Capital and nearby cities being in distress. Seeing the desperate attempts of some poor Bureaucrat begging for help from their Lord, yet they don't know their Lord Has already fallen. Really puts things into perspective huh.

[stuckintime3938]

A Mycenaean drinking cup in the head of a bull, made some time in the 16th Century BC.

[stuckintime3938]

The fact that these 2 are more than a thousand years apart yet they are both considered "Ancient Egyptian" is kinda crazy

[stuckintime3938]

The odd squad caused my internal love for the scp foundation

[lyculuscaelus]

I just realized that if y’all are picturing the Iliad with historically accurate armor, specifically, with the ones similar to the Dendra panoply, then Hector would not die the way he died.

During the duel, Hector was wearing Achilles’s old armor, which means it’s a Mycenaean panoply, and the most famous one looks like this:

As you can see, the neck is well protected by the cuirass, so the thing about Achilles finding Hector’s open throat exposed thus stabbing him through the neck—that’s not gonna happen. Achilles would not be aiming for his throat for this reason, with this outcome.

Such a historical Hector would not die an Iliadic death.

[stuckintime3938]

Hector was probably wearing hittite armor (like this in the image) because troy and Mycenae are 2 different places with 2 different cultures. Achilles was the one probably wearing Mycenaean armor.

[stuckintime3938]

Cool take but I believe that auctioning off historical artifacts should be illegal

[stuckintime3938]

It's odd to me how the executives at EA and dice thought battlefield 1 was to risky to do as a game. But then it became one of the best battlefield games ever made. Moral of the story always take risks and stuff or something

[stuckintime3938]

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom was the last known hieroglyphics to be written. Made in 394 AD, it was written in the Philae temple complex by a priest named Nesmeterakhem. Nesmeterakhem was descended by a line of priests of Mandulis, a Nubian God imported to Egypt by the Ptolemies. The inscription in itself was written in hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic, a script developed between 650 and 400 BC.

The hieroglyphic text reads as follows:

"Before Mandulis, son of Horus, by the hand of Nesmeterakhem, son of Nesmeter, the Second Priest of Isis, for all time and eternity. Words spoken by Mandulis, lord of the Abaton, great god."

The demotic script reads as follows:

"I, Nesmeterakhem, the Scribe of the House of Writings(?) of Isis, son of Nesmeterpanakhet the Second Priest of Isis, and his mother Eseweret, I performed work on this figure of Mandulis for all time, because he is fair of face towards me. Today, the Birthday of Osiris, his dedication feast, year 110."

[fancygermancar]

”pdf file” “unalived” “grape” “corn” what if i killed myself right here right now

[fancygermancar]

imagine you read the local newspaper and in the section where they discuss a recent murder they describe it as “young adult unalived by serial game ender”. like you’re a toddler surrounded by adults who need to watch their language around you. you’re sanitizing and cutting down gruesome, horrific actions and situations into digestible baby words. i know this has been said before by other people but i’m so so sick of it dude, don’t speak advertiser language to me.

[novaraptorus]

truly and utterly what the FUCK is corn and grape in this context

[stuckintime3938]

Exactly. By censoring words like murder and rape we are taking away the impact of people who actually experienced this trauma. It's Anti-intellectualism in it's modern form. Stop censoring words.

[stuckintime3938]

Knights these days are using stuff like "cannons" and "hand cannons". I remember when I had to actually fight my enemy's with spears and maces. These modern knights have it easy.

[stuckintime3938]

I fucking hate the angelid dynasty why did you guys gain power you suck. You fought the crusaders in the third crusade then killed alot of Latin Christians and caused the collapse of the Eastern roman empire. Why did you do this. Why

[stuckintime3938]

A group of priests worshipping the great god Lincoln, 2666 (art made by the after the end crew. Great art guys)

[worldhistoryfacts]

By 1900, the bison was more myth and symbol than anything else. The Wild West shows of Buffalo Bill Cody used the bison to capitalize on nostalgia for an “Old West” already gone:

{Buy me a coffee} {WHF} {Medium} {Looking Through the Past}

The Most American Animal

Slaughtering (and saving) the bison

[stuckintime3938]

The ad for the stage show is extremely threatening

[stuckintime3938]

A ancient Roman fresco of the ancient Greek poet Sappho, found in the city of Pompeii. Created in the year 50 CE