How did ancient Greek music sound?
Listen to the first choral performance with reconstructed aulos of reconstructed ancient scores of Athenaeus Paean (127 BC) and Euripides Orestes chorus (408 BC), with the evidence presented and explained by Professor Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour - Jesus College Oxford.
— Julius Caesar (100 BC – 44 BC)
• Based on the Tusculum bust (Museo Archeologico di Torino, Museo di Antichità).
Discovered in Tusculum, Italy and generally dated to the mid-1st century BC (c. 50–40 BC), likely produced during Julius Caesar’s lifetime or shortly thereafter.
“The outward appearance of Alexander is best represented by the statues of him which Lysippos made, and it was by this artist alone that Alexander himself thought it fit that he should be modelled.”
— Plutarch, Life of Alexander
• Hermes Azara (attrib. Lysippos), Louvre Museum
@tafphorisms Individuality shouldn’t exist in this circle, because your virile forefathers did the dirty work, now you’re expected to preserve it through collectivism. The “penguin” or the “Übermensch” is a necessity in the theocratic societies, those which does not exist in your blue circle.