r/ancientgreece

the title pretty much summarizes it, I’m doing a project on Ancient Greece and was wondering if there were any significant differences in how Ancient Greeks would’ve worshipped the gods rather than how we do now. mainly asking this because im trying to make this accurate and use sites that teach about Hellenism however since my project is Ancient Greece, I wanted to make sure I’m getting time accurate information. if possible, recommend some helpful sites that could push me in the right direction?

A little-known history about the ancient Greeks theorizing Antarctica to counterbalance the Northern Hemisphere.

#AncientGreece #maps #Antarctica

There was once a guy named Theagenes who was so good at every possible sport that when he died, his rival would beat the crap out of a statue made for him. One day, the statue fell, killing the rival, and then witnesses took the statue to court, convicted it of murder, and then threw the statue into the sea off a cliff

A plague then struck, and when people consulted the oracle at Delphi, she was like, "Well, you pissed off Theagenes..." so they went out to pull the statue out of the water.

Does anyone know the earliest original Greek or Roman source where Cenchreis is said to have boasted that her daughter Myrrha was more beautiful than Aphrodite/Venus?

I can find the incest myth in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book 10), but Ovid doesn’t seem to explicitly mention the bragging motif.

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I remember learning in Classics about a woman in Ancient Greece, or possibly Mycenaean, (I think) who's city was taken by an invading army, and the leader who took over the city was so taken with her that he allowed her to release all the men and boys of the city (who were held hostage) so they could flee to freedom, in exchange for her (I think for hand in marriage). She then after the men had left, arranged for all the women and girls to also escape under the cover of darkness. When the invaders discovered what she had done, the leader (if i recall correctly) said he would overlook this if he could only have her be returned.

I am trying to remember this from over a decade ago and have had no luck online, but i would love to research this more.

She was talked about for 10 minutes in one lesson when the teacher went on a tangent, and I have asked the teacher but she can't remember either.

Does anyone have any ideas?

this is not an insult to the art form of rap and hiphop. they are many great artists in that genre

travis scott =/ hiphop and rap.

calling travis scott a circus chimp is to insult his vulgarity and negligible artistic credential.

20 years ago such artistic choice will be laughed out of court as a sort of misdirected attempt at dark humor or just straight up trolling. Now it’s even becoming debatable in mainstream media. I found Nolan’s justification an insult to anyone with decent intelligence and slightest respect for historical accuracy and art.

Western civilization has hit a new low…

#for people who say the post is racist:

I would call Travis Scott a circus chimp no matter what race he is. It’s an insult directed at his minimum artistic credential and vulgarity. Indeed, the fact that you automatically associate circus chimp with black people say a lot about your racial unconscious…

Ancient Greeks do not know the concept of race. They would see him as a circus chimp as well. Let’s not bring race into the conversation.