Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

I’m obsessed with the history Ancient Greece.

Doing furry commissions in ancient Greece be like:

Swapping Ancient Greece for the rooftops of London, it's... Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson.show more

🇩🇪 "Hobby Horsing" competition in Frankfurt. That's a sport,... right? I mean... in Ancient Greece there were Olympics...show more

"Pythagoras explaining his theorem, in ancient Greece" Sora 2... I love the cinematic style and the more "historically" accurate look.show more

On the top of the modern world’s Olympus✨🌝 If... we were in ancient Greece... Which goddess would I be?💃show more

For centuries, the Ancient Greek Theater of Epidaurus was... buried from a landslide, which is why it’s so well preserved today! One of my absolute favorite places to visit in Greece.show more

SPECTACULAR! In Greece, this hidden gem in Thessaly is... a 14th-century Byzantine monastery known as the Grand Meteora Monastery, featuring red-tiled roofs, ancient frescoes, and soaring sandstone cliffs. maria papa vikishow more

⛏️ The Tunnel of Eupalinos: A 2,500-Year-Old Engineering Marvel... Hidden beneath the island of Samos, Greece, the Tunnel of Eupalinos is one of the most remarkable engineering feats of the ancient world.show more

An unexpected side effect that travelling abroad in Greece... had for my knowledge of the Classics was a better understanding of Aristophanes. Famously he used the onomatopoeia Βρεκεκέξ ("brekekekex") for the chorus of "The Frogs". In the ruins of ancient Dion, I heard them:show more

Greek wrestlers ( pehlivanidis) took to the arena at... the Sochos Oil Wrestling event in Thessaloniki, Greece... After putting on their wrestling attire (kispedis), the Greek wrestlers smeared themselves with pure Greek olive oil. Participants claimed that oil wrestling is an ancient Greek sport and that the Ottomans learned this sport from the Greeks...+++show more

⛏️ The Tunnel of Eupalinos: A 2,500-Year-Old Engineering Marvel... Hidden beneath the island of Samos, Greece, the Tunnel of Eupalinos is one of the most remarkable engineering feats of the ancient world. Stretching 1,036 meters (3,400 feet), this underground passage was carved in the 6th century BCE during the rule of Polycrates. More than a tunnel, it was a lifeline—an ingenious aqueduct that supplied fresh water to the ancient city of Pythagorion. The extraordinary precision of excavating from both ends to meet perfectly in the middle continues to amaze historians and engineers even today.show more

🕉️ 4,500 years ago… the Indus Valley was already... sculpting eternity. Before Rome, before Greece, before the pyramids reached their final glory, our civilisation carved a yogic figure into stone. Horned, meditative, surrounded by animals. The Proto-Shiva. The Pashupati seal. Yoga. Dhyana. Cosmic consciousness. Not inventions of today, but practices alive here thousands of years ago. Civilisations rise. Civilisations fall. But some legacies never fade. Silent. Ancient. Immortal. Shubh Ratri 🙏🏽show more

Black American says that if you have a backyard... swimming pool, that’s a racist act. Because backyard swimming pools are “rooted in racism” Here’s the thing, the earliest known swimming pools data back to 2600 BCE. This is 4,375 years before the establishment of the United States The Ancient Greece and Romans even had private heated swimming pools. Historically it was a sign of luxury. Not racism Every day is a day to be a victim in America….show more

For thousands of years, civilizations have preserved stories of... beings who drank blood to prolong life—from the blood-drinking demons of ancient Mesopotamia, to the Lamia of Greece, and the vampires of Eastern Europe. The Bible states that the blood contains the life force: "For the life (nefesh) of the flesh is in the blood." — Leviticus 17:11 The consumption of blood is forbidden in the Old Testament. In ancient Egypt, this concept is associated with the life force known as the Ka. Today, billionaires have openly funded anti-aging research involving transfusions of plasma from young donors in the hope of slowing aspects of aging. Peter Thiel publicly expressed interest in parabiosis research—the idea that factors found in young blood might influence aging—while startups such as Ambrosia attracted widespread mediashow more

Hindutva is now protesting that the Taj Mahal was... originally a Hindu temple stolen by Muslims 🤣 They also believe ancient Hindus had spaceships used to travel the universe, but all the technology was lost when Muslims invaded.😆 Many literate cultures developed traditions of history, writing based on empirical data. Good examples are China, Greece, Rome, Christian Europe, the Muslim world, and Buddhist Sri Lanka. By contrast, Hindu India never developed historical writing. Rather, they simply wrote and rewrote pure mythologies to justify contemporary social and political projects. Those who still think in this manner can simply produce a new mythology about the Taj Mahal. For them, the Taj Mahal becomes a glorious Hindu temple and a great achievement comparable to ancient Hindu Vimana spaceships. According to this mythology, Muslims later took over the Hindu temple and then destroyed the Vimana spaceships - preventing Hindus scientists from travelling around the universe and making new discoveries. On this perspective, contemporary Indians Muslims must be punished for these crimes. The Taj Mahal temple should be returned to its HIndu owners, and Muslims should have to pay reparations for derailing the ancient Hindu space program.show more

The four seasons of Earth change because of its... axial tilt. When the North Pole is oriented away from the Sun, it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and when it is oriented towards the Sun, it is summer. Just as there are four seasons in one year, there are four long seasons in the Great Year, which lasts approximately 26,000 years. These four long seasons are known as the Four Ages of Man (in Ancient Greece) or the Four Yugas (in Hinduism), and this is the secret behind the lost antediluvian civilizations and the lost civilization of Atlantis. Deep rabbit hole thread that should change your perception of reality! (1/13)🧵show more

🇬🇷 The funniest thing I’ve seen in my life... is nationalist Greeks desperately trying to convince the whole world that they’re whiter than Turks. They genuinely seem to hate themselves. The video was shot in a village coffeehouse in Greece and shared on a European page. The comments under it were pure comedy because people hadn’t imagined Greeks like that at all — everyone compared them to gypsies. Greeks trying to portray themselves as white and European is really pathetic, because there are no real Greeks left in Greece. It’s entirely a composite nation gathered from various Balkan peoples. They stole their language from the Ancient Greeks, who disappeared 3,500 years ago. Until about 100 years ago, almost no one spoke this language, which is why it only became the official language in 1976. Their flag actually comes from the British East India Company. The original flag was red, but because all Greek kings were German starting with the first one, Bavarian Otto they changed the color to Bavarian blues. (So it has no real meaning.) All their kings were German. Their population consists of Christian Turks, Albanians, Slavs, and Vlachs. No need to say anything else. It is a fake project state, artificially created by the great powers of the era as a buffer zone against the Turks.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​🤷‍♂️show more

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is not just ridiculous because it’s... woke, it falls flat even from an artistic, cinematographic perspective. Watching Ellen Page try to depict an ancient Greek soldier running through the desert, is as visually absurd as watching an elderly Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, playing a young Frank Sheeran. Ellen Page as a male Greek soldier, carries the same level of absurdity as watching the Grocery kicking scene in The Irishman, where Robert De Niro is supposed to be depicting a male in in his 30’s, while he’s visibly and mechanically in his late 70’s. Every kick stiff and old, the same way “Elliot” flops through the desert like an adolescent child. Every time we have to call Ellen, Elliot, every time we’re supposed to pretend Lupita Nyong'o represents Helen of Troy, and every time we’re supposed to pretend The Odyssey looks like ancient Greece, it hits home with the same level of absurdity as watching Joe Pesci say “What’s the matter, kid?” to a 76 year old Robert De Niro. In both instances, there is a common theme. The theme is selfishness and self-centeredness. Sure Robert De Niro could have given a portion of his role to a young up and coming actor, and sure Christopher Nolan could have used this film to promote some talented Greek actors, but that would be too rational, too audience-focused. Who care what the audience wants? Who cares how absurd this is visually, and conceptually, it’s what we want — and we’ll force feed it to you! We live in the world of “truths”, where everyone’s “truth” is more important than the actual truth.show more