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The Partial Historians

🏛️Funerary Relief Depicting a Gate🏛️

This gorgeous relief is in commemoration of the wife and children of a husband and father whose name is now lost. The gate is thought to symbolise the entrance into Hades’ realm.

Inscription reads: “[this tomb was built by ...]
for his wife Aurelia Domitia and his children [...
[if anyone...] takes it upon himself and buries another (in it), he shall pay the most exalted [...
...] city to repentance [...
and the trading venue the same share.”

#AncientRome#ReliefWednesday#History
The Partial Historians

✨Perseus and Andromeda, the villa at Boscotrecase✨

This fresco captures moments from the myth of Andromeda and Perseus. Perseus is swooping in stage left to rescue Andromeda—trapped on a crag at centre stage—from the sea monster Kêtus. The monster takes up most of the lower left of the fresco panel. Perseus can be easily identified by his accoutrements: the winged sandals and lyre. The upper right of the fresco shows Perseus in conversation with Andromeda’s father, Cepheus, the king of Aethiopia. This part of the fresco seems to allude to the agreement on the marriage of Andromeda (without her input, which was standard in Greek myth).

#AncientRome#AncientGreece#History
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Estelle Platini

A small minority of well-born men exercised despotic power over their fellow citizens in the name of an aristocratic conception of society, twice around 400 BCE.

After the surrender, the Athenian Ekklesia (assembly) soon divided into three camps:
* supporters of a “patrios politeia” (ancestral constitution),
* preservers of democracy,
* proponents of oligarchy’.
Debate and inaction continued until September 404 BCE, when the Spartans chose to intervene. They asked the Athenians to choose thirty men to manage all the affairs of the polis.

‘The Thirty initially avoided drafting a precise constitution. Instead, they sought to: a) establish a functional interim government; b) eliminate opponents; and c) reform the laws.’

worldhistory.org/The_Thirty_Ty

World History Encyclopedia · The Thirty TyrantsThe Thirty Tyrants (οἱ τριάκοντα τύραννοι) is a term first used by Polycrates in a speech praising Thrasybulus (Arist. Rhet. 1401a) to describe the brief 8-month oligarchy which governed Athens after...
#coup#oligarchy#extremeCentre
Ancient Origins

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 – 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗨𝘀 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗚𝗼 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴
Ancient Greeks invented democracy in Athens around 507 BCE, but it came with warnings from philosophers like Plato about its dangers, and lessons for modern democratic systems.
#greekphilosophy #ancientgreece #democracy #ancienthistory
ancient-origins.net/history-an

Mediterranean Diet

What wine fueled the party?

Drinking wine to the point of ecstasy is something you’ve probably experienced, perhaps in the confinements of your uni halls, perhaps at pub-trips-gone-haywire, perhaps in a field at 3am. We’re not one to judge, and the …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #GreekWine #MediterraneanWine #ancientgreece #AncientItaly #ancientrome #Greekwine #history #Wine
diningandcooking.com/2265256/w

Wine

What wine fueled the party?

Drinking wine to the point of ecstasy is something you’ve probably experienced, perhaps in the confinements of your uni halls, perhaps at pub-trips-gone-haywire, perhaps in a field at 3am. We’re not one to judge, and the ancient Roman god Bacchus wouldn’t have either. In fact, he had a whole cult…
#wine #GreekWine #MediterraneanWine #ancientgreece #AncientItaly #ancientrome #Greekwine #history #Wine
diningandcooking.com/2265256/w

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