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Double Cosmetic Tube with Three-tiered Handle, 5th century
Blown blue-green glass
five things tagged “ancient greece”
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Statue of a Seated Woman from 101 CE–200 CE. “Here the figure’s head and arms, now missing, were made separately and attached by means of dowels, the holes for which are visible.” This was a kind of template (one of a few) for noblewomen, goddesses, and other exalted female figures.…
This is one of many adaptations of the classic tragedy by Euripedes. I highly recommend this treatment1 to anyone as a first appreciation. And it’s quite the story: love, lust, betrayal, spirituality, filicide, redemption, wisdom, general chicanery, geopolitics, racism. The artwork is fantastic an…
45 Jokes from The Laughter Lover
by John T. Quinn
Translation copyright 2001 John T. Quinn; all rights reserved. Introduction # Philogelos (The Laughter Lover) is a collection of some 265 jokes1 likely made in the fourth or fifth century CE. Some manuscripts give the names of the compilers as the otherwise-unknown Hierocles and Philagrios. Other…
The Song of Seikilos
This is the "the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world" and dates from “either from the 1st or the 2nd century AD.” It was found engraved on a tombstone and was “dedicated by Seikilos to Euterpe, who was possibly his wife.” (…