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One way you can tell Chiron isn't like *other* centaurs is that he shows up an entire upper and lower body of a human... but with horse back legs.

Learn more about this #mythological character in our #podcast all about the #constellation #Centaurus : https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-myths-and-retconstellations/

📷 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiron#/media/File:Golden_porch_-_a_book_of_Greek_fairy_tales_(1914)_(14569094819).jpg

#GreekMythology #GreekMyth #Myths #StarLore #StarryTime #StarLore #Storytelling #GrecoRoman #art

Image in terracotta and black. On the left side is the centaur Chiron, recognizable as he has the upper and lower body of a human and the hindquarters o fa horse. Across from Chron on the right is a dog and a figure holding a child.

When the artefact is from a place facing cultural or political unrest, I use to think that the item could stay in a quiet and safe #museum, given how we lost the Buddhas of Bamiyan or the ruins of Palmyra. This time though, something deeper seems to say: ‘yes, this 2nd century’s #GrecoRoman bronze #statue is as safe in its original place in Bubon (in ancient Lycia, modern #Turkey) as it is in a United Statesian museum’.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/17/cleveland-museum-art-returns-looted-greco-roman-bronze-turkey

#archaeology #archeologie #RomanEmpire

Artemis of Ephesus: The “Mother” Goddess Everyone Gets Wrong
#ReligionForBreakfast #Culture #Art #Antiquity #Religion #ReligiousArt #GrecoRoman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9IF4vE9UGE

Marble Head Uncovered in Egypt at Taposiris Magna

https://archaeology.org/news/2025/01/22/marble-head-uncovered-in-egypt-at-taposiris-magna/

#archaeology #history #ancienthistory #ancientegypt #grecoroman

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#IonicOrder is medium in complexity among the 5 orders of #ClassicalArchitecture from the #GrecoRoman world ➡️ https://graphics.social/@Alankar/113738762656511432

Once you've mastered it, it is easy to drop down to the less complex #DoricOrder and #TuscanOrder. It is more work to take on the #CorintianOrder and #CompositeOrder.

Complete Ionic Order with pedestal, column, and entablature

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick, 2009

Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general.

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#nonfiction
#history
#Christianity
#women
#GrecoRoman

Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always identified by leadership titles nor did their gender always determine their level of participation. The book corrects our understanding of early Christian women by offering an authentic and descriptive historical picture of their lives. Includes black-and-white illustrations from the ancient world.

Like stories about "misbehaving" & wild women who dance like no one is watching?!

Then, check out our #podcast episode about the #mythology of the Maenads here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-the-maenads-in-mythology/

📷 :https://hvrd.art/o/288089

#GreekMythology #WildWomen #GreekMyth #myths #GreekArt #GrecoRoman #Museum #storytelling #dionysus #GreekGods

Terracotta cup in orange, white, and black showing a woman (maenad) in ancient dress dancing with her arm above her head.

Human, demigod...kids are kids, and they would like their parents to acknowledge them. Thank you very much!

#camphalfblood #percyjacksonandtheolympians #percyjackson #percyjacksonandthelastolympian #grecoroman #mythology #newpurchase #midureads #bookstagram #bookskysocial

Watching #Kaos & want more about the original #GreekMyths of:

#Oprheus & Riddy (aka #eurydice)?
🔗 https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/lyra-myths-and-retconstellations/

#Ariadne & #Theseus (and also #Dionysus)?
🔗 https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/corona-borealis-myths-and-retconstellations/

Or #Dionysus's mom??
🔗 https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/corona-australis-myth-and-ret-constellations/

#GreekMythology #TVShows #JeffGoldblum #Mythology #PopCulture #Netflix #podcast #constellations #StarLore #GrecoRoman #myths

I loved Stephen Fry's take on the Greco-Roman world of myths. Can't wait to see if I'll like Neil Gaiman's piece on the Norse pantheon as well.
#newpurchase #neilgaiman #norsemythology #norse #mythology #retelling #midureads #bookstagram #stephenfry #grecoroman

Fumita claimed the first wrestling gold of the Paris Olympics by beating Cao Liguo of China, who settled for silver. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/olympics/2024/08/07/japan-fumita-greco-roman-gold/ #olympics #kenichirofumita #teamjapan #grecoroman #wrestling #2024parisolympics

Recent museum visits and studies have shown me that cultural differences between historical periods are less pronounced than I thought. The #GrecoRoman heritage transformed after the fall of the #RomanEmpire, influencing both medieval #Christian culture and #Gandhara #BuddhistArt. Here’s a summary of my findings and opinions so far:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2024-07-06-cross_cultural_echoes_of_hellenism/

#RomanArt #GreekRomanArt #ChristianArt #GandharaArt

Statue of the so-called Aphrodite on the Tortoise (Aphrodite Brazzà), clothed, standing, c. 430 - 420 BC, found: Attica? (Greece). The statue is probably a late Hellenistic or early Imperial copy of a Greek original from around 430 - 420 BC. The turtle is a post-antique addition, but it may well correspond to the attribute of the original, as Pausanias and Plutarch mention an Aphrodite Urania in Elis, who placed one foot on a turtle. Altes Museum, Berlin.

Fragment of a robed figure, late 10th cent. / 1st third 11th cent., shelly limestone, Cologne, St. Pantaleon. After the burial of Archbishop Bruno in the Church of St. Pantaleon in 965, the Benedictine abbey he had recently founded underwent extensive reconstruction, during which the remains of St. Maurinus were discovered. Some twenty years later, a gift from Empress Theophanu also brought the relics of St. Albinus to the Church of St. Pantaleon. The Albinus altar, near which the empress was buried in 991, occupied a central position in the western annex of the church. Perhaps as early as the end of the 10th century, but no later than the 1020s, the westwork was renovated. The facade of the build-ing was decorated with an elaborate, monumental sculptural programme, of which three special fragments are on display here. The figure of Christ occupied a central position in the three-storey structure. The larger-than-life head of his sculpture has survived. The fragment of a beardless head probably belongs to an angel. The fragment of the life-size robed figure of a male saint could have been one of the church’s patrons or even Albinus.

Standing Buddha, Pakistan, Gandhara, Takht-i-Bahi, 2nd -3rd c., schist, exhibited at the Humboldt Forum, Berlin. A deep sense of peace pervades the face of this standing Buddha. His eyes are lowered, and the facial features are completely smooth, free from any passion. The left hand hangs down, clasping a small loop of his robe, and the right arm is raised. The missing hand was probably raised in the gesture of protection (abhaya mudra).

Our #mythology and retcons(tellations) episode for #CoronaBorealis is out now!

You may be wondering why there is a *second* myth about a crown, but (spoilers) it's hardly about a crown at all & the #GrecoRoman myth of this #constellation is actually about #Theseus #Ariadne and the #Minotaur!

Listen for more: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/corona-borealis-myths-and-retconstellations/

#podcast #Mythology #GreekMythology #myths #StarLore #legends #GreekGods

I’m on a bit of a western euro classics kick these days. I have a two-volume set of The Greek Myths from The Folio Society that I got 23ish years ago and never read, though I did read that Daulaires Greek Myths book when I was a kid. But in between the books I’m reading and documentaries I’m watching about Rome, I think I might read some Greek originals.

Maybe put some Polybius on tap next to Marcus Aurelius.

#classics
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TL;DListen #myths of the #constellation #auriga edition:

1) Erichthonius: King of Athens, invents 4-horse chariot, has a v. weird, v. gross, v. #GreekMyth origin story involving Hephaestus and Athena.

2) Myrtilus: Son of Hermes, charioteer for an overprotective dad-king, dies for helping kill the king (either for true love or other v. gross v. #GreekMyth reasons)

3) Hippolytus: Son of Theseus, his stepmom falls in love with him, he's not interested, dies by spooked horses wished upon him by his dad (via Poseidon) b/c... #GreekMyth reasons.

Intrigued? Check out our latest #podcast here: https://starrytimepodcast.com/episodes

#Storytelling #GreekMythology #StarStories #StarLore #Myths #GrecoRoman

Jordan & I talking about the #myth / #tragedy of Hippolytus (a third possible identity for #Auriga):

Learn more about the myths of this #constellation here: https://starrytimepodcast.com/episodes

#Mythology #Myths #GreekMyth #GreekMythology #StarStories #StarLore #Stars #Chariot #GrecoRoman #meme

Bad pun dog meme showing a cute dog looking happy with an "ah-ha" expression with the text "It's about a curse!"

"A Forgotten Song"

One of a handful of photos of mine that is not for sale. In this case the reason being the ever changing copyright laws regarding photographs and paintings of statuary. It's better safe than sorry, but I still like this photograph.

#Statuary #Pan #GrecoRoman #Autumn #Fall #Forest #Garden #Photography #Rejects #Portrait #Mythology #NewEngland

A statue of Pan with pipes in hand against an autumn forest of deciduous and fir trees.

These are beautiful.

Afro-Cuban American artist Harmonia Rosales seamlessly entwines the tales and characters of the #Yorùbá religion, #GrecoRoman #mythology, and Christianity with the canonical works and artistic techniques of European Old Masters.

https://mymodernmet.com/harmonia-rosales-master-narrative/

Philae Temple - Greco-Roman period monument in Egypt that was built in 280 BC

#philaetemple #egypt #beautifuldestinations #travelphotography #wanderlust #explore #visitegypt #ancientegypt #grecoroman #temple #unescoworldheritage #nile #aswan #nasser #historicalsite #archaeology #travelblogger #traveladdict

Roosevelt — Everywhere ✨💗✨

#Roosevelt #FleetwoodMac #synthpop #GrecoRoman

https://youtu.be/JYMXndhJX8E

> Something's happening, happening to me
My friends say I'm acting peculiarly
Come on, baby, we better make a start
You better make it soon before you break my heart

#GrecoRoman

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