Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

I’m obsessed with the history Ancient Greece.

Doing furry commissions in ancient Greece be like:

America was meant to be the true heir to... Ancient Greece...show more

Our lineage is rooted in the sacred traditions of... Ancient Greece.show more

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

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

Origins Of Ancient Things Where History’s Greatest Inventions Began... 1. Clocks, Calendars - Egypt 2. Paper - China 3. Coins - Lydia 4. Money, Libraries - Mesopotamia 5. Universities - Morocco 6. Newspapers - Germany 7. Poetry - Mesopotamia 8. Mirrors - Anatolia 9. Telescopes - Netherlands 10. Alphabet - Sinai 11. Democracy, Olympics - Greece 12. Theater - Greece 13. Geometry - Egypt 14. Algebra - Persia 15. Surgery - India 16. Soap - Mesopotamia 17. Silk - China 18. Paper Money, Compass - China 19. Zero, Decimal System - India 20. Pizza - Italy 21. Cities, Temples, Writing - Mesopotamiashow 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

Ancient Greece had the Colossus, one of the Seven... Wonders of the World—a giant statue of the sun god Helios. Today, the United States has the Statue of Liberty, which in reality is Hecate, the moon goddess, the opposite force of Helios, but complementary force for enlightenment. Many associate them with Lucifer, but do you know what Lucifer really means?show more

Why wouldn’t you retire in Greece? Wake up near... the Aegean. Walk to a café for coffee. Buy tomatoes, olives, bread and fish from people who still know where their food came from. Spend your afternoons among whitewashed villages, Byzantine churches, ancient ruins and some of the clearest water in the Mediterranean. Good food. Beautiful towns. Thousands of years of civilization around you.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

Meet the Harpy Eagle—the rainforest’s living myth. Named after... the half-woman, half-bird monsters of ancient Greece, this apex predator owns the Amazon canopy. With 5-inch talons bigger than a grizzly’s claws, a bone-crushing grip, and a wingspan over six feet, it snatches monkeys and sloths mid-branch in total silence. Eyes eight times sharper than ours, patience of a statue, power of a legend. The ultimate aerial assassin of the jungle.show more