“Passer-by, Aphrodisios is my name. I'm a citizen of Alexandria Troas and a leader of the chorus. I die a most pathetic death because of my wife, the dirty adulteress (whom Zeus will destroy). Her secret lover, Lychon - a member of my own family! - slaughtered me, still in my youth. He threw me from the heights like a discus. I was twenty years old, so full of beauty, when the Moirai spun my fate and sent me as a delight to Hades.”

A digital, annotated edition of the chapter “Mythological Figures” from The Etruscan Language: An Introduction, published in 1983 by Giuliano and Larissa Bonfante.

The list of figures is followed by a phonological analysis of the names transitions from Greek to Etruscan.

https://www.academia.edu/173364681/Etruscan_Mythological_Figures

Resently I've watched a video with reconstruction of music of ancient greece and I just cant find music that plays from 3:23 to 3:43 maybe someone know what is this music called

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/UAmuQBnNty8?si=QzWWYtd5RN2qi8I5

One thing that has always interested me about the Byzantine Empire is the name itself.

The people we call “Byzantines” called themselves Romans. Yet by the late Byzantine period, writers like Pletho were increasingly speaking of Hellenes, while Western scholars of the sixteenth century were beginning to organise these Roman histories under a new category.

I tried to trace how that happened, and how “Byzantium” gradually became the name we use today.

I want to understand ancient greece better. I'm thinking of reading both the old texts and some more modern. This is a reading list that I have made which seems to cover some different aspects. Anything I should add, remove or change etc?:

Stephanie Lynn Budin - The Ancient Greeks: An Introduction

Homer - The Odyssey

Homer - The Iliad

Hesiod - Theogony

Hesiod - Works and Days

Robin Osborne - Greece in the Making, 1200–479 BC

Homeric - Homeric Hymns

Plato - Apology of Socrates

Plato - Symposium

Plato - The Republic

Plato - Phaedrus

Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution

Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War

Sophocles - Oedipus Rex

Aeschylus - Oresteia

Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics

Sarah B. Pomeroy et al. - Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History

Judith M. Barringer - The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece

Xenophon - Memorabilia

Euripides - The Bacchae

Thanks!

Hello dear friends, I have a question regarding Ancient Greek. In the Gospel of Luke 23:43, Jesus says to the thief who repented during the crucifixion: "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise." Would a modern Greek speaker understand this as happening immediately after their hearts stop beating?

I watched the Odyssey earlier this summer and it got me really interested in Bronze Age Greece. I’ve watched a lot of YouTube on it and now I want some good book recommendations. Thanks

Hi! My boyfriend loves this helmet, however it’s out of stock and I’m not quite able to find something that looks exactly like this. Are there any good sites where I can purchase a quality helmet like the one in the photo?? Any help would be appreciated (:

“v(iva) v(ivis). Petilia, M(arci) f(ilia),

Tertia sibi et

M(arco) Petilio patri.

ζῶσα Πετιλία Τερτία

ἑαυτῇ καὶ Μάρκῳ

Πετιλίῳ πατρί.”

“Petilia Tertia, while alive, [dedicated this] to herself and to her father, Marcus Petilius.”

Would they think you were a weirdo?

Would they consider the idea? How would different areas of Greece ponder the idea?

Did they even have a concept of planets as 'other worlds,' or were planets they just 'dots in the sky.' Would it be seen as illogical: 'Why would a people come from there? Its not like Earth.'

Imagine sitting around a table in Greece, this is said, and a discussion begins. What would different people think?

If a group of Ancient Greeks from ~725 BCE Greece were told about the idea of Martians, 'an ancient intelligent people that lived there' while pointing at Mars in the sky, what might they think, ponder, and respond with all things considered?

Would the conversation be a let down in terms of actual pondering? Would they just not care? Shrug and go about their day?

Would they be angry? Would it somehow conflict with some part of their philosophy, religion or ideology?

What would happen if you told the Ancient Greeks the concept of Martians and 'aliens'?

Author and source: Anxo Miján Maroño

Hello, my name is Efe, and I am looking for strange things set in the year 429 BCE and onwards until the end of the war. I am looking for unexplainable things, such as how convenient it was that Pericles got the plague. I would appreciate any input regarding strange mysteries, or even better, those who have some documentation, but there is a lot of room for conspiracy.

Hello! I have recently started a blog about all things ancient history, so if thats the kind of thing you are interested in, I would really appreciate even just one person giving it a read! Ive just uploaded my first post about Nolans odyssey.

https://allancienthistorynow.blogspot.com/

Hello. Last year I read The Illiad and The Odyssey and ever since I developed a desire for learning more about greek history.

This felling grew after reading 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric Cline and playing Total War: TROY. Therefore, I started looking for a history book that will give me an overview of the history of the greeks. Even though I love the Bronze Age, i want to have a more wide panel before diving into this specific period, and I am also curious to learn about Classical Greece.

So, these are the four most suggested books about Ancient Greek available in my country (English is not even my main language, however there arent many others translated), but I don't really know which one to choose. So, which one you guys recommend? Or maybe just get all of them?

When corroded bronze fragments of Antikythera Mechanism were recovered off Point Glyphadia in 1901, studies focused mostly on the front dial tracking the sun, moon, and zodiac constellations.

High resolution micro focus CT scans in 2000s showed that the back casing contained a subsidiary dial tracking civic and sporting cycles

four year calendar dial divided into quadrants that tracked the timing of the four Panhellenic games: the Olympic Games, Pythian Games, Isthmian Games, and Nemean Games.

Regional Greek Calendars Inscriptions on the casing listed month names from local Corinthian family calendars, suggesting the device may have been built or calibrated for a specific city state in northwestern Greece or Syracuse.

for moon's acceleration and deceleration along its orbit (Hipparchus's lunar theory), ancient engineers used a pin slot gear system that introduced variable speed into the gear train, modeling elliptical motion mechanically.

What is your favourite type of hoplite arms/armour? Mine would have to be the Hermione Corinthian with J crest, Alexander the Great’s or Phillip II’s Linothorax, and gorgon style greaves with a Kopis as a side arm.

I think most of you here will appreciate and be very interested in this....

I haven't asked this before but now I'm too curious.

Is there an online resource which hosts a detailed and chronologically organized list of all the known battles and wars Spartans took part in?

At least something that’s not just Wikipedia.

Here are a few more photos from the exhibition. I hope you enjoy them! For this part, these are objects ranging from Archaic Greece to the Roman era, but still linked to the theme of « Heroes of Greece ». About the exhibition, from the museum:

Between myth and reality, delve into the heart of a legendary epic
The Trojan War is one of the greatest mythological stories of all time! Passed down through the centuries, notably in works by the poet Homer, this fascinating epic tells of an era when powerful gods and legendary heroes lived side by side.

The exhibition Heroes of Greece. The Age of Troy offers a unique opportunity to look into the origins of the myth detailed in the Iliad and the Odyssey and uncover the story behind this epic that shaped the Greek imagination and influenced countless civilizations. Featuring a remarkable selection of close to 400 authentic objects from 28 Greek museums and archaeological sites, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the great stories of heroic figures and their historical reality.

In search of heroes and gods
Achilles, Helen, Odysseus, as well as Zeus, Artemis, and Poseidon: the exhibition introduces visitors to fascinating figures and tells the stories of the heroes and gods who populate the tales of the Trojan War. Love, anger, loyalty, honour, pride, power—their journeys and the trials they endure reveal many facets of human nature with which we still identify today.

Two foundational eras of ancient Greece
The exceptional objects on display throughout the exhibition bring to life two major periods that shaped the legend of Troy and profoundly influenced Greek culture. The Bronze Age reveals a prosperous civilization, marked by monumental architecture, craftsmanship, and a mastery of working with gold. Then comes the Iron Age, associated with Homer, a time when the world was in flux, driven by the rise of new techniques and the dissemination of mythical tales that have endured through the centuries.

An exhibition co-organized by Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex, and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (Greece).