Tag: ancient

amntenofre:

“O You Gods, I am Isis, Osiris’s sister, Who wept for the father of the Gods, Osiris, Who put an end to the massacring of the Two Lands. His seed is within my womb. It is as son of the foremost of the Ennead Who will rule this land, become heir to Geb, speak on His father’s behalf, and slay Seth, the adversary of His father Osiris”
(from spell 148 of the Coffin Texts, translation from “The Literature of Ancient Egypt” by W.K.Simpson)

detail from one of the coffins of King TutankhAmon (now in the Cairo Museum):
the Goddess Isis with outstretched wings and kneeling on the hieroglyphic symbol for “gold”

accusativeofexclamation:

thoodleoo:

thoodleoo:

do u ever wish you could be like. a greco-roman lady in a 19th century painting. just lounging all day, looking bored. probably got ur tiddies out. thats the life

every neoclassical/early romantic piece of art is the dream honestly like

hang out in this rose garden with your girlfriend while she dumps flower petals on you. nice

alternatively hang out with your whole squad of nymph gfs in some water. just you and your gal pals, and this guy i guess. letting your tiddies hang out and all that

take a nap on these pillows surrounded by beautiful ancient frescoes, what’s not to love

tiddies out, nap game on, divine boyfriend, not a care in the world. these ladies have it so good

Dressed in gorgeous flowing clothes, hair game on point, sitting on warm marble by the seaside, responding ambiguously to yet another handsome suitor’s advances

h*ck yes

“date a roman” suggestions

ancient-rome-au:

date a roman who…

  • upholds the mos maiorum
  • is cool with worshiping your gods, too
  • can tell you everything the Romans have ever done for your province
  • can tell you everything your province has ever done for Rome
  • doesn’t laugh at your accent when you speak Latin
  • makes an equal effort to learn your language
  • is committed to resisting barbarian invasions
  • doesn’t participate in palace coups or civil wars
  • performs his/her civic duties gladly
  • pays his/her taxes
  • has ascended
    suo anno

    through the entire cursus honorum

  • will instinctively form a testudo with two dozen other random countrymen if you give them tower shields and start shooting arrows at them
  • favors the same color as you at the chariot races
  • has an education in the trivium and the quadrivium

thoodleoo:

fortidogi:

historyfilia:

Arphrodite had the epithet
καλλίπυγος

(
kallípygos

),
of beautifully shaped buttocks, and after reading so many greek myths I cannot be surprised

Aphrodite of Dat Ass

okay but you cannot leave of the story of aphrodite of kallipygos, whose temple was built by two sisters having an argument over who had the most beautiful asses after they asked the opinion of some passing son of a rich dude and fell in love with him and his brother respectively

ancient greece is fuckin great

sumerianlanguage:

prokopetz:

thesparkofrevolution:

blacktyranitar:

thesparkofrevolution:

jakovu:

dama3:

tastefullyoffensive:

Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)

old school hate mail

Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock

Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead.
The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.

Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole

More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.

And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:

  • He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.
  • The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.

Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters – hundreds of them – and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

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every time this post comes across my dash (which is often) it has even more cool info attached to it

ahencyclopedia:

LOVE, SEX AND MARRIAGE IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA: 

Marriage in ancient Mesopotamia was of vital importance to the society, literally, because it ensured the continuation of the family line and provided social stability. Arranged marriages were the norm, in which the couple had often never met, and there were even bridal auctions where women were sold to the highest bidder, but human relationships in ancient Mesopotamia were just as complex and layered as those today and part of that complexity was the emotion of love. The historian Karen Nemet-Nejat notes, “Like people the world over and throughout time, ancient Mesopotamians fell deeply in love” (132).

The popularity of what, today, would be called `love songs’ also attests to the commonality of deep romantic attachment between couples. A few of the titles of these poems illustrate this: `Sleep, begone! I want to hold my darling in my arms!’ `When you speak to me, you make my heart swell till I could die!’ `I did not close my eyes last night; Yes, I was awake all night long, my darling [thinking of you]’ (Bottero, 106)

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Article by Joshua J. Mark on AHE