#lemnos

[owlofarhena]

Lemnos island, North Aegean, Greece.

[illustratus]

Philoctetes on the Island of Lemnos by Gerard van Kuijl

[sarafangirlart]

Hey, so I have a question about Hephaestus and Aphrodite because I want to make a lil comic about them moving past the bs of their relationship and such

I moreso want to ask how you think it’d happen even if it’s just a general idea, mainly for Hephaestus since I have no confidence in portraying him right on my own

(This is post-marriage of Algaia and Hephaestus)

Not for them to be friendly but to just rid the weight of that whole situation that was their relationship if that makes any sense-

In the Argonautica, Aphrodite cursed the women of Lemnos as revenge for Hephaestus humiliating her. Then one thing let to another and there were only women on the island, then she went back on her punishment and helped repopulate the island with the power of love by pairing up the Lemnian women with the Argonauts so they’ll be pregnant with children. Were told she did this for Hephaestus, which is interesting bc she cursed them at first bc she was angry at him. So it could be interpreted as Hephaestus and Aphrodite burying the hatchet.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Panagia Kakaviotissa Church in Lemnos Island, GREECE

[wordsmithic]

On 8 October 1912, during the First Balkan War, Lemnos became part of Greece. Under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, the Greek navy captured it after a brief action without any casualties from the Ottoman garrison, who were returned to Anatolia. Peter Charanis, born on the island in 1908, and later a professor of Byzantine history at Rutgers University, recounts when the island was liberated and Greek soldiers were sent to the villages and stationed themselves in the public squares. Some of the children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like; „What are you looking at?“, one of them asked; „At Hellenes“, the children replied; „Are you not Hellenes yourselves?“, a soldier retorted; „No, we are Romans“.

The word "Romans" here is "Romioi" (singular: Romios/-a), the Hellenized folk way of saying "Romans". The Ottomans called all Greek Orthodox citizens of their empire "Rum" (Meaning "Roman"), regardless of what language they spoke. Anatolia, the area where the last Byzantine kingdoms flourished, was called "Diyar-I Rum" (Meaning "Roman Country" in Arabic). Even the conquered lands in the Balkans (today's Greece) were called Rumeli ("Roman land" but in Turkish).

After the modern Greek state was created, the Turks started using the term "Yunan", a loan word from Persian and Arabic, which means Ionian (from the Ionian Greeks), to differentiate between the Greeks living in Greece and the Greeks living in the Ottoman Empire. Greeks living in Western Anatolia before the Greek Genocide, called themselves Romans up until the 1920s.

[galusandmalus]

ngl I think we kinda girlbossing Lemnos a bit too much, like they kill the slave woman in most sources and then sell the queen into slavery because she saved her father. a lot of Lemnos slavery lore even after the massacre.

[thezonestalker]

Abandoned holiday park Lemnos Greece.

[herprivateswe]

This work was painted during Lambert's visit to Gallipoli in 1919 with the Australian Historical Mission, when the sea journey from Taranto was broken at Lemnos. The Mission travelled from Malta to the Greek island of Lemnos 100 kilometres from the Gallipoli peninsula. During the Gallipoli campaign Lemnos had served as a base, a rest camp and a medical centre. Australian soldiers are buried at the East Mudros Military Cemetery.