#lycians

[galusandmalus]

Bellerophon is so fucking cool like just read this shit in the voice of Horus from 40k

Euripides, fr. 292.6 (Bellerophon)

“If the gods do a shameful thing, they are not gods.”

“Is there anyone who thinks there are gods in heaven? There are not. There are not, for any man who wishes Not to be a fool and trust some ancient story. Look at it yourselves, don’t make up your mind Because of my words. I think that tyranny Kills so many men and steals their possessions And that men break their oaths by sacking cities. But the men who do such things are more fortunate Than those who live each die piously, at peace. I know that small cities honor the gods, Cities that obey stronger more impious men Because they are overpowered by the strength of their arms.”

i love how HES MEANT TO BE WRONG BUT BROS FUCKING ESSENSE, dudes fucking style is so fucking cool that its like "yah no I'm WITH Bellerophon" its meant to be a story of hubris but he's so fucking cool I cant even blame him. of course lycia joined the trojans lmao. no one not a single fucking soul in greece Bellerophon:

✂️ bellerophon-pilled

5 seconds · Clipped by Nkosi g · Original video "The Duel" by Josh Martin

[arthistorywitches]

Diodorus wrote of a nation in this area in which “women held the supreme power and royal authority.” According to his reports the queen of this land assigned the tasks of spinning wool and other domestic duties to the men, while law was established by the queen.

When God Was A Woman, Merlin Stone

[ukdamo]

Xanthians

Poem found on a tablet in the Xanthos excavations, translated by Azra Erhat

We made our houses graves And our graves are homes to us Our houses burned down And our graves were looted We climbed to the summits We went deep into the earth We were drenched in water They came and got us They burned and destroyed us They plundered us And we, For the sake of our mothers, Our women, And for the sake of our dead, And we, In the name of our honor, And our freedom, We, the people of this land, Who sought mass suicide We left a fire behind us, Never to die out...

[catilinas]

hey lycian script are you ok

[goddessgangg]

Rock tombs of Myra The ancient Lycians are among the most enigmatic people of antiquity because little historical record has been left behind them. But what has been discovered reveals a fascinating people culturally distinct from the rest of the ancient world at the time. Around twenty major sites remain today with the Lycians' unusual funerary architecture, including incredible rock-cut tombs carved into cliff faces dominating the breathtaking unspoiled land of Lycia.

Lycia is situated in the region which is today the provinces of Antalya and Mugla on the southern coast of Turkey, and the Burdur province, which is further inland. The Lycian civilisation is mentioned in the historical records of ancient Egypt as well as the Hittite Empire. By the 6 th century BC, however, the Lycians were incorporated into the Achaemenid Empire. One of the most interesting features of the Lycians is their funerary culture, as seen in the incredible tombs that they built.  Source: Ancient Orgins

[galusandmalus]

feminist king bellerophon/sarpedon??!???!?

(after being conquered by sarpedon/lycos) "then by the name taken from Lycos they were called after a time Lykians. The customs which these have are partly Cretan and partly Carian; but one custom they have which is peculiar to them, and in which they agree with no other people, that is they call themselves by their mothers and not by their fathers; and if one asks his neighbour who he is, he will state his parentage on the mother's side and enumerate his mother's female ascendants: and if a woman who is a citizen marry a slave, the children are accounted to be of gentle birth; but if a man who is a citizen, though he were the first man among them, have a slave for wife or concubine, the children are without civil rights"-Herodotus "when Bellerophon slew a certain wild boar, which destroyed the cattle and fruits in the province of the Xanthians, and received no due reward of his service, he prayed to Poseidon for vengeance, and obtained that all the fields should cast forth a salt dew and be universally corrupted, the soil becoming bitter; which continued till he, condescendingly regarding the women suppliants, prayed to Poseidon, and removed his wrath from them. Hence there was a law among the Xanthians, that they should not for the future derive their names from their fathers, but from their mothers."-Plutarch, Concerning the Virtues of Women, Moralia

"Constitution of the Lycians 43. The Lycians spend their lives as brigands. They don't employ laws, but customs, and from ancient times they have been ruled by women. They sell those convicted of perjury and confiscate their possessions" - Heraclides Ponticus 

[catilinas]

letoon in turkey!

[catilinas]

the coolest rock tomb is unfortunately not on street view, possibly because it is not on a Street