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it was a free museum and archaeological site day today so i also went to knossos palace !!

IPHIGENIA (Cacoyannis, 1977) people get so caught up arguing over american adaptations of greek myths that they don't realize they could just watch a greek adaptation instead (and it'll probably be better)

Sofia Loren singing in Greek is one of the most beautiful things I saw today.. this video is pure nostalgia! Her beauty is stunning but her accent is almost impeccable.. I almost thought it was a voice-over! The song is “Ti Einai Afto Pou to Lene Agapi” (“What Is This That They Call Love?”) in the 1957 film Boy on a Dolphin. This was one of the first major Hollywood movies shot in Greece, on locations like the island of Hydra - one of my favorite destinations!

La precisión histórica está en los detalles. Hacer una coraza griega no consiste únicamente en forjar un torso en bronce, los restos que conservamos tienen sistemas de anclaje muy concretos, muchos aún debatidos, como las corazas de campana, pronto os traeré mis propuestas sobre

🇬🇷 | Pontic Greek Genocide, 353.000 souls seek justice. This was no 'tragedy', it was Genocide. We shall not forget. The 19th of May marks the Pontic Greek Genocide Remembrance Day, a solemn occasion honoring the memory of approximately 353.000 Pontic Greeks who were killed between 1914 and 1923. This genocide was part of the broader campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out against Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire. The Pontic Greeks had lived for millennia along the Black Sea coast of what is now northern Turkey, preserving their distinct culture, language, and Orthodox Christian identity. #Patriots

Reconstitution de la statue chryséléphantine d’Athéna Parthénos. Haute de 11 mètres, elle se dressait dans le Parthénon au Ve siècle avant J.-C.

Rome’s deepest enemy was the comfort that taught Romans to inherit greatness without practicing the virtues that built it. Ammianus Marcellinus saw that Rome’s decline began when discipline, sacrifice, courage, and civic duty became memories instead of habits. The ruling class turned wealth into vanity and replaced learning with entertainment. The people followed the same path, making the circus feel more urgent than the fate of the empire. Once Rome stopped forming its own defenders, it hired outsiders to carry the burden, then found that borrowed strength demands its own price. Rome’s lesson is severe. A civilization can survive Hannibal at the gates, then lose itself when no one bothers to keep the fire lit. Read today's article by @ModernCeasar in The Culture Explorer. newsletter.thecultureexplorer.com

Owl Cafe, Albuquerque NM, 1986.

Xi Jinping asked Trump if the United States and China can avoid the 'Thucydides Trap', a theory that suggests high likelihood of war between rising and established powers, during their summit.

Delphi, 1930

Christopher Nolan has allegedly cast a Trojan Zebra in "The Odyssey"

A great joy, and honour, to bring this into being today.

Medieval scribes would sometimes finish their work by writing: "tres digiti scribunt, totum corpusque laborat" (three fingers write, but the entire body labors) A testament to how immensely arduous and monotonous the scribal process must have been.

Another gem from the MANN. The statuette is a reduced copy of a Hellenistic original, an equestrian statue of Alexander the Great - a part of a bronze group made by Lysippos. It was located at temple of Zeus at Dion. Brought to Rome in 146 BC after the conquest of Macedonia.

Men who sketch at the Met

Earliest known depiction of the famous 'Wooden Horse' of the Trojan War, on Mykonos Terracotta Vase (Pithos) - 670 BC, found at Mykonos island, Cyclades, Greece. Neck of pithos shows descent of Greeks from wooden horse. His hooves rest upon little wheels, and in body and neck of horse are seven windows visible. Pithos was discovered in 1961, during digging of a well in one of houses in centre of town of Mykonos in Greece. Mykonos Archaeological Museum #archaeohistories

The musicality of Horace's Odes is unmatched in Latin literature. Here Professor D'Angour unravels the wonderful rhythm of the famous "Carpe diem" ("Pluck the day") ode addressed to the mysterious Leuconoe. For his full lecture, delivered on the Bay of Naples, see the link below:

Much enjoyed showing @timothy_kenny around my library, talking about different sorts and sets of Classics books, the history of scholarship and publishing, and all sorts of topics that happened to come up here and there. Full YouTube video linked below (it's not short!)

The strongest argument for classical education is not a curriculum chart. It is the kind of young people it produces.

Really entrancing spatial-visual guide to the Iliad’s action > Of the 360 named characters, 232 are warriors killed or wounded, yet the poet is remarkable in his ability to keep his characters on the battlefield straight (the instances of Homer's nodding are strikingly rare).