Elke | Hellenistic History 🏺🏛

Ancient history blog and website, trying to promote the interest in the Hellenistic period!

[Elke | Hellenistic History 🏺🏛 @HellenisticHist]

I’m so excited for this week’s episode of @HellenisticPod where I got to geek out a bit more about my favourite research topic! Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think! #hellenistichistory

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Interview: On Hellenistic Federalism w/ Dr. Elke Close

Dr. Close (@HellenisticHist) joins to talk about the nature of the Greek Leagues: those such as the Achaeans and Aetolians, who united cities to defend their autonomy against the Hellenistic rulers.

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I think you’ll enjoy this @HellenisticHist 👀

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[Elke | Hellenistic History 🏺🏛 @HellenisticHist]

And I am so happy you did! It is always such an interesting read when you do! @HellenisticPod

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I wrote an article for https://t.co/GHRpoY2c3B (@HellenisticHist) on Hellenistic Babylonia!

Babylon remained important under the Seleucid dynasty, who accommodated to local customs and practices of kingship to strengthen their own imperial ideology.

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[Elke | Hellenistic History 🏺🏛 @HellenisticHist]

@archeohistories Seems like it should put a watermark on my pictures and posts again :) Thanks for spreading the info though😂

[Elke | Hellenistic History 🏺🏛 @HellenisticHist]

Is there anything better than translating a Greek tragedy? Just got to the bit in the Bacchae by Euripides where Pentheus is dressed up as a female follower of Dionysos. He has no idea..

#ClassicsTwitter #bacchae #ancientgreek #euripides

[Elke | Hellenistic History 🏺🏛 @HellenisticHist]

I am rereading my PhD thesis again after six years. So many details I seem to have forgotten. What a horrible memory I have. Has this happened to anyone else?

#PhD #classicstwitter #ancienthistory #phddissertation #hellenistichistory

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A beautiful statue of Aphrodite from Baiae dated to the 2nd century BC known as the Venus Pudica. At the Archaeological Museum in Athens!

#ancienthistory #archaeology #ancientgreece #rome #roman #aphrodite #venus #athens #ancientrome #classicstwitter

[Elke | Hellenistic History 🏺🏛 @HellenisticHist]

Just discovered that this type of pottery, skyphos, is called a glaux. After the Greek word for owl as they were featured on them as decoration. They are so ugly, it’s cute! I love them!

#ancientgreece #greekvase #classicstwitter #glaux #athens #hellenistichistory

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Unearthing the Past - Some ancient history podcasts you should listen to, curated by a lifelong learner on history, @HellenisticHist ➡️ https://t.co/1Y5NzSzU9E

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How did the ancient Greeks mythologise everyday life? @hellenistichist delves deeper into the different decorative styles, types and techniques used to make ancient Greek pottery, shedding light on crafty methods of storytelling 🏺 https://t.co/cJKgkf2HeB

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I’m all for telling Black stories, but let’s focus on stories of actual Black people. Cleopatra was not Black, she was a white woman with Macedonian ancestry. Let’s get it together @netflix

[Derek | The Hellenistic Age Podcast @HellenisticPod]

So this documentary, as per the trailer, is intentionally trying to stir up a nonexistent controversy over the ethnicity of Cleopatra, who was undoubtedly Greek with Iranian ancestry, to celebrate strong African women rulers.

This looks pretty bad all around.

[Elke | Hellenistic History 🏺🏛 @HellenisticHist]

5. We continue our connection of colours and names as Hagrid’s first name Rubeus exactly describes what happens to him when he drinks a bit too much: ‘rubeo’ means ‘I am red or ruddy’.

#hellenistichistory #greece #ILCD2023

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It’s #ILCD2023! I’m part of this years #LCPantheon and to celebrate, here is a combination of Latin, Lego and Harry Potter! Thanks @LegoClassicists for organising!

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3. The Transfiguration professor and head of Gryffindor house shares her name with the Roman goddess of wisdom, Minerva.

4. Professor Dumbledore’s first name is very fitting for his look, as ‘albus’ is the Matin word for white!

[Elke | Hellenistic History 🏺🏛 @HellenisticHist]

It is thought to have been Perseus holding Medusa’s head in his hand. Another, option is Paris holding out the apple of strife to give it to Aphrodite. Or could be a young Herakles holding the apple of the Hesperides? Or one of the gods: Apollo or Hermes? #greekstatue

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This is a beautiful bronze statue of a youth which came from the Antikythera shipwreck along with other bronze and marble statues, a lyre and something called the Antikythera Mechanism, sometimes seen as the oldest analogue computer.

#antikythera #history #ancientgreece

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This statue, the Antikythera Ephebe, is about 196 cm, slightly above life-size. It has been dated to 340-330 BC and could have been made by Sikyonian sculptor Euphranor. It has undergone several careful restorations but remains a unique example of Greek bronze sculpture.

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We continue our overview of Greek art and architecture with an overview of the Greek building orders!

#hellenistichistory #archaeology #ancienthistory #greekbuildingorders #history