# ![@Athanasius_45 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::992881626605645825.png) @Athanasius_45 Athanasius

Athanasius posts on X about ancient greek, athens, bc, british museum the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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[ancient greek](/topic/ancient-greek), [athens](/topic/athens), [bc](/topic/bc), [british museum](/topic/british-museum), [in the](/topic/in-the), [latin](/topic/latin), [paris](/topic/paris), [if you](/topic/if-you), [greece](/topic/greece), [louvre](/topic/louvre)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@GraecoSyrian Where are these from exactly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1709943821524676750)  2023-10-05T14:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@AntigoneJournal His diaries about the excavations in Troy and Mykenae are a fun read"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1800646335114170479)  2024-06-11T21:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"One of the dancing Maenads (attributed to Callimachus) Museo del Prado Madrid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1868085469428568266)  2024-12-15T00:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The Apotheosis of Romulus Borghese Gallery Rome Italy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1869524997221523787)  2024-12-18T23:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@colingorrie Dragon comes to us from the ancient Greek . Python too it was an old name for Delphi (). And the priestess of Apollo (the Pythia/) might derive her name from the verb "to rot" () after a dragon that was slain by Apollo at the oracle site and left to rot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1869535048468484551)  2024-12-19T00:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Rembrandt's Pallas Athena (1659) Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1874797010504847596)  2025-01-02T12:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The Council of the Gods (1624-25) in the Galleria Borghese Rome by Giovanni Lanfranco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1886154983478849923)  2025-02-02T20:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@AntigoneJournal The Persians approached this a bit differently:     - Moreover it is their custom to deliberate about the gravest matters when they are drunk Hdt. 1.133"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1888287673883689234)  2025-02-08T18:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@theo_nash He does loom incredibly large in the Anglosphere the difference is striking if you come from somewhere on the continent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1889664202760937878)  2025-02-12T13:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@AntigoneJournal Not bad but it used to be even more complicated back when there was only one republic on the peninsula"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1895183576125317461)  2025-02-27T18:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@AntigoneJournal There are still traces of Greek influence left the Afghan central bank still uses Eucratides I in its seal (better not mention the wine though)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1899059900593897980)  2025-03-10T11:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Roman mosaic showing Bellerophon mounted on Pegasus slaying the Chimera (2nd century AD). Discovered in Autun now in the Muse Rolin.   . - for peerless Bellerophon slew them one and all. Iliad [--] 190"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1899520805073277028)  2025-03-11T18:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@KaliYugaSurfCo "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." WarGames"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1899972137575723439)  2025-03-12T23:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The Great Antonine Altar from Ephesos. It shows the succession of some of the Antonine emperors. Hadrian (right) adopts Antoninus Pius (middle left) and has him appoint Marcus Aurelius (left) and Lucius Verus (middle right) as successors. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1902058541151875374)  2025-03-18T18:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"A golden rhyton (drinking cup) in the form of a Lion's head. From grave circle A in Mycenae (ca. [----] BC). Now in the National Archaeological Museum Athens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1902074296752627838)  2025-03-18T19:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The Medusa Rondanini. One of the rare instances from antiquity of a beautiful Gorgon. 2nd century AD Roman copy of a Greek original. Goethe during his Italian travels was smitten with it. Canova later used it as a model for his famous statue of Perseus. Glyptothek Munich"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1902421603050221940)  2025-03-19T18:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@latinedisce I see the Seven Rays the dove (Holy Spirit) the sacred name for Jesus () the ten commandments the holy grail the keys of heaven (Matthew 16:19) + the two figures standing in for the Old and New testament. I'm a little baffled by the fountain with two tiny feet attached"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1902481957092724919)  2025-03-19T22:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"A talisman showing lion-headed Chnoubis . The inscription on the outer ring reads :   (Yahwe lord of armies Abraxas the Great Archon Michael the archangel). On the reverse:  (the archangels Uriel and Suriel). Ca. 3rd century AD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1902784426657943686)  2025-03-20T18:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The Gonzaga Camaeo made from sardonyx. Probably showing Ptolemy II and his sister-wife Arsinoe II which would date the cameo to the 3rd century BC (there is still some debate about who the two figures are). Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1904595214406214111)  2025-03-25T18:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Two tombs in two months after a century of finding nothing. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-tomb-unknown-ancient-egyptian-pharaoh-180986292/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-tomb-unknown-ancient-egyptian-pharaoh-180986292/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1905296448096174340)  2025-03-27T16:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@HellenicVibes Is anyone actually writing long-form pieces on here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1905362177071907019)  2025-03-27T20:51Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@theancientlang This might be the most metal introduction to the Iliad I've ever seen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1906016400138809571)  2025-03-29T16:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"A bust of everyones favorite rascal emperor Caligula with bits of coloring still intact. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen. Oderint dum metuant. Let them hate so long as they fear me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1906395156246392883)  2025-03-30T17:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"A (possible) restoration of the Lion Hunt Dagger made by mile Gilliron (father and son the elder mile also worked directly with Schliemann). Now in the British Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1907152524831826240)  2025-04-01T19:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Baezantium Heidelberg makes the cut (1365)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1907760518871282039)  2025-04-03T11:42Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"The Minoan era Dolphin Fresco in the Palace of Knossos. It underwent highly controversial restoration work by mile Gilliron. It was originally found broken into fragments in a light well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1907841864776163785)  2025-04-03T17:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@HellenicVibes Hopefully Nick "vulnerable world hypothesis" Bostrom and Eliezer "bomb the datacenters" Yudkowsky are wrong on this one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1908465379631841622)  2025-04-05T10:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Two sling bullets made out of lead from Ancient Greece. The left one shows a thunderbolt emblem the right one bears the inscription DEAI (catch). Ca. [---] BC. British Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1909017342245302448)  2025-04-06T22:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@HellenicVibes A reverse Landflucht if you will"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1910462774745980957)  2025-04-10T22:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@RomeInTheEast Justinian took some columns from the temple of Jupiter in Baalbek for the Hagia Sophia but said temple was already in ruins at that point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1912223157978595772)  2025-04-15T19:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The Horses of St. Mark originally part of a quadriga sculpture in the Hippodrome of Constantinople. They were looted during the Fourth Crusade and brought to Venice. They were looted again by Napoleon and brought to Paris. After the fall of Napoleon they were returned to Venice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1912553234423562681)  2025-04-16T17:06Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@HellenicVibes It even switches between English and German like a (slightly) pretentious grad student would"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1912906929095008764)  2025-04-17T16:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The grave stele of Demokleides son of Demetrios (his name and patronym are inscribed above him). He died at the Battle of Nemea in [---] BC. He is sitting on the prow of a trireme with his hoplite equipment behind him. National Archaeological Museum of Athens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1914814394489319773)  2025-04-22T22:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"An overview of where the principal characters in the Iliad came from and who didn't make it (spoiler warning).   . For illustrious men have the whole earth as their tomb. Thucydides"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1915843344804020407)  2025-04-25T19:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Head of a cyclops that once adorned the Colosseum. Cyclopes were sometimes portrayed with two empty eye sockets and a third eye in between or on their forehead.  ' .  . - Nobody is my name. Nobody is killing me Odyssey [-----] and 408"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1916175440009384414)  2025-04-26T17:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@SperglerAcolyte Analogous to what he did with the two puppies one raised as a pampered pet the other as a hunting dog. That story is in the Moralia somewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1916421226647441744)  2025-04-27T09:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Marble head of a goddess possibly Aphrodite. The eyelashes were made of bronze oxydation of said bronze produced the mournful aspect visible now. From the Odeion of Herodes Atticus. Acropolis Museum Athens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1916539181242740860)  2025-04-27T17:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Reconstruction attempt of the first [--] lines of the Iliad (notice the digamma and instead of ). From August Fick's "Die Homerische Ilias" (1886)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1916865700389412940)  2025-04-28T14:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The Petelia Tablet a golden passport for the dead. Possibly tied to an Orphic cult. Ca. 3rd century BC. Discovered near Petelia in southern Italy. Now in the British Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1916902579511890145)  2025-04-28T17:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AntigoneJournal "they will come and keep on coming" That's what the Trojans said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1917307609167655396)  2025-04-29T19:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The gold phiale (a libation bowl) from the Panagyurishte Treasure. The innermost circle shows acorns the outer ones heads of Ethiopian men in increasing size. One of the most astounding pieces left to us by the ancient Thracians ca. 4th to 3rd century BC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1917627311060574513)  2025-04-30T17:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@holland_tom That the Prussians ended up paying for Neuschwanstein Castle and Herrenchiemsee is the cherry on top"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1918278955364139511)  2025-05-02T12:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@byronicgirl      . - One must indeed by all means prefer the shorter but better life to the worse but longer one. attributed to Plato"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1918364766080209134)  2025-05-02T17:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Now some love for Latin (and Italian) ligatures a complete copy of the Lexicon Abbreviaturarum (1924) by Adriana Cappelli can be found on archive org. Some excerpts: https://archive.org/details/LexiconAbbreviaturarum/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/LexiconAbbreviaturarum/mode/2up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1922376358983877070)  2025-05-13T19:40Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements


"If you are looking for fully scanned and voiced versions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (and scanned versions of other Latin and Greek authors) pay David Chamberlain's website a visit: https://hypotactic.com/homer/iliad1.html https://hypotactic.com/homer/iliad1.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1922721680700441053)  2025-05-14T18:32Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements


"Red-figure kylix showing Achilles bandaging Patroclus ca. [---] BC. Altes Museum Berlin.     - he came forth equal to Ares and that was the beginning of his doom Iliad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1923465135277887694)  2025-05-16T19:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Tetradrachm of Eucratides I Greek King of Bactria (reigned 171-145 BC). The inscription reads  (of the great king Eucratides). Oddly enough the coin is still part of the seal of the Afghan Central Bank and you can find it on every Afghan banknote"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1923843692302925912)  2025-05-17T20:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"A recurring problem during Schliemann's excavations in Troy was that the locals would steal slabs of stone for use in the construction of new churches. He eventually fixed this by starting a rumor among his workers that none other than Jesus Christ himself visited Priamos once"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1924930856923152582)  2025-05-20T20:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Mochak123 A pity we'll never get his version of Dune. Orson Welles Mick Jagger and Salvador Dal would've made for a riot of a movie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1925230973462982759)  2025-05-21T16:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Roman mosaic of Neptune and the four seasons. Bardo National Museum Tunisia.      - I begin to sing about Poseidon the great god mover of the earth and the barren sea Homeric Hymn 22"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1925236362648617033)  2025-05-21T17:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Priest wearing a mask of Anubis from the temple of Isis in Pompeii.    . Dying is not shameful but dying shamefully is. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1926322304373469553)  2025-05-24T17:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@Baezantium Some troubled history there between Venice and Byzantium"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1927129776692646155)  2025-05-26T22:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"A Roman marble sarcophagus showing Dionysos (seated on the panther) accompanied by the four seasons and various other mythological creatures commonly associated with him.    - wine greatly increases the might of a tired man Iliad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1927455850517418322)  2025-05-27T20:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Artists impression of what the acropolis of Pergamon looked like in its heyday with the famous altar visible on the left. By Friedrich Thiersch [----].    - First worship the immortal gods as ordained by the law The Golden Verses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1928899849828585864)  2025-05-31T19:42Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@GrecianGirly Similar to the Helmet of Miltiades from the Battle at Marathon (that one is still in Greece in the museum at Olympia though)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1930212266068124030)  2025-06-04T10:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"🧵1/5 A Greek magic sphere decorated with Zodiac symbols and seemingly gibberish writing. The first picture shows Helios in his aspect as Kosmokrator (ruler of the cosmos) the dogs at his feet are likely a reference to the bright dog stars Sirius and Prokyon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1930309841710428240)  2025-06-04T17:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"4/5 A triangle surrounded by letters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1930310191532085317)  2025-06-04T17:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"5/5 And finally a circle containing five intersecting circles being the only legible word (ether the first of the five elements). Acropolis Museum in Athens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1930310270070481226)  2025-06-04T17:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"A new Ancient Greek web library enters the fray. lets you highlight different parts of a text (verbs and cases for example) and offers full lemmatization. You can also create flash card decks from any custom selection of text. https://oxytone.xyz/ https://oxytone.xyz/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1931441032136155386)  2025-06-07T20:00Z [----] followers, 54.5K engagements


"A pair of bronze statues usually identified as runners. From the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. Naples Archaeological Museum.   . Swiftest is the mind for it runs through everything. Thales"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1932847129753530536)  2025-06-11T17:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"A Minoan ivory scepter discovered in [----] in Knossos on Crete covered in the longest known Linear A inscription. Ca. [--------] BC. National Archaeological Museum Athens.  keep secret what should be secret Delphic Maxim 108"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1933210766569611689)  2025-06-12T17:12Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"The Felix Gem. A small Roman sealstone (2.65 x [---] cm/1.04 x [----] inches) showing the theft of the Palladion by Diomedes and Ulysses. Ashmolean Museum Oxford.     - the day shall come when sacred Ilios will be destroyed Iliad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1933572354036146604)  2025-06-13T17:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Marble and porphyry statue of Apollo from the Farnese collection Naples Archaeological Museum. Ca. 2nd century AD.     . The form adorns a statue conduct a man. Plutarch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1934297078035063208)  2025-06-15T17:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Stefftaving Let's see what the Pythia has to say:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1934722152755831274)  2025-06-16T21:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Last school year Bavaria had 124k pupils learning Latin (which is somewhat respectable) but only [----] learning Greek. Those numbers would make Demosthenes cry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1935051369016180976)  2025-06-17T19:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Croesus sitting in the hot seat after trying to take out Cyrus the Great. Ca. [---] BC Louvre Paris.    - should he attack the Persians he would destroy a great empire Herodotus Histories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1935066414685081671)  2025-06-17T20:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@beaglefan888 Rudolf Steiner was of the opinion that a bee hive had already obtained immortal Venus-consciousness while man is still stuck in Saturn-consciousness. Bee hives obviously also run at about the same temperature as human blood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1935690336963293346)  2025-06-19T13:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Athens_Stranger  a man should have his brother standing by (to help) Plato Republic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1936090204474912927)  2025-06-20T15:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"White-ground lekythos showing a young hoplite bidding farewell to his wife. Attributed to the Achilles painter ca. [---] BC. National Archaeological Museum Athens.    . - The right time makes men out of many who are not. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1936106781215793639)  2025-06-20T17:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Fresco of Thales from the baths in Ostia.      . He seems by some accounts to have been the first to study astronomy and to predict eclipses of the sun and the solstices. Diogenes Laertius"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1936469753050116556)  2025-06-21T17:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bell krater showing Orestes seeking sanctuary in Delphi from the Furies.       - We are the eternal children of Night in our home below the earth we are called the Curses Aeschylus Eumenides"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1936514460585234776)  2025-06-21T20:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"Marble statue of Silenus cradling the infant Dionysos Roman copy of a Greek original attributed to Lysippus. Vatican Museum.   ; - The boy I once raised in these very arms Euripides Cyclops"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1937195182551900162)  2025-06-23T17:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@theancientlang "But he that desires to look into the truth of things done and which (according to the condition of humanity) may be done again or at least their like he shall find enough herein to make him think it profitable." Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1937464742861492299)  2025-06-24T10:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Attic red-figure oinochoe with an owl equipped in typical hoplite gear. Used during Anthesteria festivities. Ca. 4th century BC. Louvre Paris.   . A lot of unmixed wine forces small thinking. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1937619686792765653)  2025-06-24T21:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ptolemaic tetradrachm. The obverse shows Alexander wearing an elephant headdress the horn of Zeus Ammon and the aegis the reverse Athena Alkidemos carrying a thunderbolt and shield.   . If we have money we'll have friends. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1937920546609762584)  2025-06-25T17:07Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@dominbydigdug Bald-headed Caesar vs. squill-headed Pericles who would win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1937928670229742047)  2025-06-25T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Fresco from Pompeii showing a scene from the famous Caritas Romana story Pero helping out her father Cimon who was sentenced to death by starvation. Archaeological Museum of Naples.   . Worthless is everyone who is ungrateful. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1938282412078993502)  2025-06-26T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Restored Roman marble statue of Eros. From the Farnese collection Archaeological Museum of Naples.   . A lovers adviser is Eros himself. Chariton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1938315578755748183)  2025-06-26T19:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A gold medallion from the Aboukir hoard. The obverse shows Olympias mother of Alexander. The reverse a Nereid (perhaps Thetis mother of Achilles) riding a hippocamp.     except only for Achilles whom an immortal mother bore Iliad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1938645807068283109)  2025-06-27T17:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Athens_Stranger Very funny considering the first sentence of Aristotle's Metaphysics:   . All men desire knowledge by their nature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1938956547293319228)  2025-06-28T13:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@latinedisce A great pun in Greek - rock - Peter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1939253642256646611)  2025-06-29T09:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A slightly worse for the wear bronze shield from the Hellenistic period with the Vergina Sun in the center and the inscription DHMHTPIOY (of King Demetrios). From a private collection.   either with it or on it Plutarch Sayings of Spartan Women"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1939413554550997206)  2025-06-29T19:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Schliemann trying to suss out the etymology of from  (to look) for other things since Homer uses but not . Plus further speculation on where the precious metals of the Trojans came from (with help from Strabo Plinius and Theophrastus)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1939439779243758039)  2025-06-29T21:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@AncPhi Now I wonder how many hapax legomena Homer uses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1939456154309910664)  2025-06-29T22:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Wiktionary hosts a decent word frequency list of the New Testament with seperate tables for nouns verbs conjunctions etc. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Word_frequency_in_the_Greek_New_Testament https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Word_frequency_in_the_Greek_New_Testament"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1939766547926380574)  2025-06-30T19:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@PhiloCrocodile I don't know if they need any more help in the dissolution department"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1940098093598568787)  2025-07-01T17:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A marble table pedestal made of two griffins devouring a deer. From a Daunian grave in Apulia Italy. Ca. 4th century BC.    . - Fortune lays an expensive table moderation a self-supporting one. Democritus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1940462134347157880)  2025-07-02T17:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Photograph from [----] of the excavation of the temple of Artemis in Sardis highlighting the size of the columns.    . Time reveals everything and brings it to light. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1940488259689500831)  2025-07-02T19:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ArmandDAngour Works with Ancient Greek too it usually takes only a sentence or two to know where the speaker hails from (even without the different pronunciation schemes factored in)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1941098382141047039)  2025-07-04T11:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Aerial view of the Roman theatre and the temple of the Dei Augusti in Leptis Magna.       . - Life is like a theater which is why the worst sort often get the best seats in it. Aristonymus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1941543969072218321)  2025-07-05T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Athens_Stranger Among a great many other things he was the unrivaled master of one-liners.    . - Listen young ones to whom the old listened when he was young. Augustus (from the Sayings of the Romans)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1941556298824417609)  2025-07-05T17:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Helios metope discovered by Schliemann in the temple of Athena in Troy. Ca. [---] BC.      - night and day he creates and openly changes and turns the universe Emperor Julian Hymn to Helios"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1942268951355912463)  2025-07-07T17:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@dominbydigdug Schliemann has a whole treatise on Hera Boopis in his Mycenae diary connecting her originally to Isis then Byzantion and the horns of a cow eventually turning into the Islamic Crescent fun stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1942320459271352503)  2025-07-07T20:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If you were a popular guy in Ancient Greece people would commission the likes of Simonides to write a nice epitaph for you (epigram 7.348):"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1942348454950306018)  2025-07-07T22:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A kymbe in the shape of a duck carved from a single piece of rock crystal. From grave circle B in Mycenae ca. [----] BC. National Archaeological Museum Athens.   - birds are now gods of men Aristophanes Birds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1942671272791663099)  2025-07-08T19:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Malcolm Davies collected the fragmentary evidence we have of the Cypria (a poem detailing the events preceding the Iliad) in an eponymous book. The whole thing is available for free on Harvards website: https://chs.harvard.edu/read/davies-malcolm-the-cypria/ https://chs.harvard.edu/read/davies-malcolm-the-cypria/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1943388601804267991)  2025-07-10T19:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@bronzeagemantis Remnants of a Dacian cult of Silenus/Silvanus maybe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1944695360904941817)  2025-07-14T09:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@dyingempires The signature of the craftsman if I read this right. Can't make out the rest though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1945172435994542123)  2025-07-15T17:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@bronzeagemantis           . - Eratosthenes from Oe did this not only with your wife but he corrupted a lot of others too it is his craft. Lysias 1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1945439842038419514)  2025-07-16T11:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"An Ancient Greek vocabulary frequency list clocking in at [----] words. About 80% of any given text is made up of these (based on the Perseus database). By Wilfred E. Major from Louisiana State University. https://www.promotelatin.org/images/stories/pdf/Greek/GREEKCore-vocabulary80pct.pdf https://www.promotelatin.org/images/stories/pdf/Greek/GREEKCore-vocabulary80pct.pdf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1945927313884930343)  2025-07-17T19:23Z [----] followers, 54.5K engagements


"@vocalcry If a mouse could afford all the experimental treatments for its kind it would outlive Bryan Johnson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1946663902248423763)  2025-07-19T20:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@nchlsswft Just [----] years old. One hopes the craftsman got paid his due"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1947011605939564763)  2025-07-20T19:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@vocalcry Thank god for motorcycles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1947330619215589441)  2025-07-21T16:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The Ai-Khanoum plaque. Nike drives a lion chariot accompanied by Cybele Helios and the moon are visible in the sky. National Museum of Afghanistan.    . - There is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1947706245168673027)  2025-07-22T17:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Athens_Stranger @HellenicVibes "There is but one way for the moderns to become great and perhaps unequalled; I mean by imitating the antients." Winckelmann"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1947934968706949379)  2025-07-23T08:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Possibly the oldest known photograph of the Pantheon taken sometime between 1848-1852 by Eugne Constant (notice the bell towers).     . - You make me cheerful by building as if Rome is to be eternal. Augustus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1948430307725611213)  2025-07-24T17:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Athens_Stranger Maybe only surpassed by Schopenhauer constantly dunking on Hegel as far as academic brouhahas go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1948436695042445710)  2025-07-24T17:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@byronicgirl Being able to directly monetize your feed plus generative AI taking off at the same time is a bad combination"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1949147073707639255)  2025-07-26T16:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Mosaic of eight of the nine Muses. From Antioch.       . - Some say the Muses are nine but how carelessly Look at the tenth Sappho from Lesbos. Greek Anthology 9"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1949517734091354292)  2025-07-27T17:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@nchlsswft Odyssey [---] would like a word"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1949581520706150626)  2025-07-27T21:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Red-figure kylix with a young man playing the flutes and a girl dancing. Ca. [---] BC. British Museum.      - and in turn music is with regards to harmony and rhythm knowledge of love matters Plato Symposium"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1949915832303145284)  2025-07-28T19:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The columns of the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek in Lebanon (mind the lady in the middle).    . - great deeds are accomplished by great thoughts. Chariton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1950287064622121364)  2025-07-29T20:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Vowel contraction rules of (Attic) Ancient Greek red highlights the rules for regular contract verbs. Since this would be too easy there are of course exceptions like  or  "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1950641610997277134)  2025-07-30T19:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Athens_Stranger          - and to harm one's enemies in any way before gods and men is vastly better than to be just Cleomenes (via Plutarch's Sayings of the Spartans)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1950920742884835491)  2025-07-31T14:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A Roman gold and sapphire ring with a female portrait. Once thought to depict Caligulas fourth wife Caesonia.   ; - is she not worthy of being honoured with a golden prize Sophocles Antigone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1950967665759310155)  2025-07-31T17:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Spear tips and arrowheads from the Battle of Thermopylae. National Archaeological Museum Athens.       - if the Persians hid the sun he could fight them in the shade Herodotus Histories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1951727199876440161)  2025-08-02T19:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@GrecianGirly       . - O shining and violet-crowned and celebrated in song bulwark of Hellas famous Athens divine citadel. Pindar Fragments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1952044109549445497)  2025-08-03T16:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"If you are wondering what to name your dog Xenophon has got you covered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1952091793459188123)  2025-08-03T19:38Z [----] followers, 130.4K engagements


"@jinijane_ @isa2001m "You brought me violets for my furs And it was spring for a while remember You brought me violets for my furs And there was April in that December""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1952097969374691414)  2025-08-03T20:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@carolemadge ;  ; - What Whos brought an owl to Athens Aristophanes Birds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1952404229894660487)  2025-08-04T16:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Onyx cameo of Ptolemaios II Philadelphos and his sister-wife Arsinoe II. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.    ' . Women know everything even how Zeus married Hera. Theocritus Idyllia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1952823693958365498)  2025-08-05T20:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Athens_Stranger I'll add Hanging Leg Raises with weights and Windshield Wipers hanging from a pull up bar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1953167347772211321)  2025-08-06T18:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"No matter how hard you work Schliemann is still way ahead. He wrote [-----] letters [--] diaries and a dozen books he learned [--] languages and travelled the world (not to mention Troy Mykenae Orchomenos and all his business ventures in Germany the United States and Russia)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1953894685879218640)  2025-08-08T19:02Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements


"@Athens_Stranger "There is but one way for the moderns to become great and perhaps unequalled; I mean by imitating the antients.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1954586453238792233)  2025-08-10T16:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's that time of the year again.   - When the Atlas-born Pleiades rise start the harvest Hesiod Works and Days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1954980458225340924)  2025-08-11T18:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@SperglerAcolyte A list that covers the core vocabulary comes in handy here like the one from DCC: https://dcc.dickinson.edu/greek-core-list https://dcc.dickinson.edu/greek-core-list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1955292151014707693)  2025-08-12T15:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A grave stele of a young girl the so-called Giustiniani Stele. It shows her spreading incense from a small box. Ca. [---] BC. Altes Museum Berlin.   . Whom the gods love dies young. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955314349280530758)  2025-08-12T17:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Variations of Greek letters and their origins from Leonard Palmers The Greek Language"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955350102937108864)  2025-08-12T19:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A red-figure kylix showing Jason being saved by Athena from the jaws of the Colchian Dragon. Ca. 5th century BC attributed to Douris. Vatican Museum.   . - Gratefulness ages as soon as it is given. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1955678084738466056)  2025-08-13T17:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A Laconic black-figure kylix with the two Titan brothers Atlas and Prometheus showing their respective punishments. Ca. 6th century BC.     - so it is not possible to deceive or outwit the mind of Zeus Hesiod Theogony"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1956072506303111461)  2025-08-14T19:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Roman statue of Hermes showing him in his role as Psychopompos (guide of souls). Ca. 2nd century AD. Vatican Museum.     - and gracious Hermes led them down damp pathways Odyssey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1956401061586976965)  2025-08-15T17:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@theo_nash The reverence with which the pronounciations of the Machine are treated by certain people gives us a glimpse of what awe the Pythia must've inspired"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1956430632017408313)  2025-08-15T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@dyingempires I'd like one Acropolis of Pergamon please"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1956458232672903349)  2025-08-15T20:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A painted bronze medal of Athena from the 2nd century BC. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.   - always grave is the wrath of Athena Callimachus Hecale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1956764953383407642)  2025-08-16T17:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@theo_nash Some of us are trying to pick up the slack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1956775196976705829)  2025-08-16T17:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Philip Peek of Bowling Green State University published a free [---] page Ancient Greek textbook (a print version is also available). https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0264 https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0264"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1956814536889037027)  2025-08-16T20:25Z [----] followers, 18.3K engagements


"A red-figure kylix showing the goddess Eos chasing her young lover Tithonus. By Hieron ca. 5th century BC. MFA Boston.   . - A pleasant evil is a woman for a man. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1957126099923619895)  2025-08-17T17:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Bronze Statue of a Satyr pouring wine from a wineskin. From the House of the Centenary in Pompeii.   . - There is no dithyramb if he drinks water. Epicharmus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1957851284427411813)  2025-08-19T17:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A sketch from [----] of the Acropolis with the temple of Hephaestus in the foreground. By Themistokles von Eckenbrecher.    . The will of Zeus the hand of Hephaestus. Aeschylus Prometheus Bound"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1957885373419516187)  2025-08-19T19:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ClaudiaBocchini A good question there's unfortunately no digital collection of Winckelmann's writing that I'm aware of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1958076737977225585)  2025-08-20T08:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"A Roman mosaic showing the birth of Venus ca 3rd century AD. Bulla Regia Tunisia.   - most beautiful and queen of goddesses Aphrodite Theocritus Idyll"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1958214032520880193)  2025-08-20T17:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A Roman mosaic of the Titan Oceanus Museu Municipal de Faro Portugal.     - I am going to visit the limits of the bountiful earth and Oceanus from whom the gods are sprung Iliad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1958247259180581334)  2025-08-20T19:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Athens_Stranger "No shepherd and no herd. Everyone wants the same everyone is the same he who feels differently voluntarily commits himself to an asylum." Zarathustra"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1958603912002371638)  2025-08-21T18:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Apollo Belvedere showing the god moments after releasing an arrow.     :   . - arrows rattled on the shoulders of the wrathful god as he moved his coming was like the night Iliad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1958979871004037301)  2025-08-22T19:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A red-figure kylix showing the various deeds of Theseus. Ca. 5th century BC British Museum.    . - For either men must work or they must eat the fruits of other mens labour. Xenophon The Cavalry Commander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1959696254310678689)  2025-08-24T19:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Athens_Stranger You have my vote"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1959714916245651799)  2025-08-24T20:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@nchlsswft Those Zetas really are too squiggly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1959981229279002766)  2025-08-25T14:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The first photograph of the Parthenon a daguerrotype from [----]. By Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinire. Notice the little Ottoman mosque.    - not to be the thrown away are the splendid gifts of the gods Iliad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1960396226727436425)  2025-08-26T17:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A fresco from Pompeii showing Platos Academy. National Archaeological Museum of Naples.  . - Let none untrained in geometry enter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1960423505474019531)  2025-08-26T19:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A bronze bust of a young Octavian. National Archaeological Museum Florence.    . - Listen (he said) young men to an old man to whom the old listened when he was young. Plutarch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1960783874012930332)  2025-08-27T19:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A Roman mosaic showing Dionysos and his retinue during his conquest of India. Stif Archaeological Museum Algeria.   - the Bacchants roared triumphantly around unconquerable Dionysos Nonnos Dionysiaca"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1961112345586925827)  2025-08-28T17:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A silver dish with a raised relief of Cleopatra Selene II. 1st century AD Louvre Paris.     . - A feast without company and wealth without virtue offer no pleasure. Plutarch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1961837695421870138)  2025-08-30T17:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The so-called Memento Mori Mosaic from Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum Naples.    . - Our life is balanced like a scale. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1962928318887395551)  2025-09-02T17:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Mark Twain on the reception Theodor Mommsen received at a banquet in Berlin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1963683438403485729)  2025-09-04T19:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Enigma is a handy tool for deciphering Latin manuscripts. By using placeholders for unidentifiable letters you can generate a list of possible words. http://enigma.huma-num.fr/index.php http://enigma.huma-num.fr/index.php"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1963709141530345894)  2025-09-04T21:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Roman statue of Pan 1st century BC. Capitoline Museum.     . - Muse tell me about Pan the dear son of Hermes with his goat's feet and two horns a lover of merry noise. Homeric Hymn 19"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1964012145311363197)  2025-09-05T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"An ivory lion figure from Mycenae ca. [----] BC. Archaeological Museum of Mycenae.   . - The lion's old age is more powerful than fawns in their prime. Apostolios"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1964374017881587813)  2025-09-06T17:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BorealBaron "For if the city of Lacedaemon were now desolate and nothing of it left but the temples and floors of the buildings I think it would breed much unbelief in posterity long hence of their power in comparison of the fame." Thucydides"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1964428835077923278)  2025-09-06T20:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The restored entrance to the Roman bath and gymnasium complex in Sardis.     . - Perhaps then it's only the dust (of the exercise arena) that gave them wisdom. Galen Thrasybulus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1964768220700901652)  2025-09-07T19:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A marble statue of Hermes holding the infant Dionysus 4th century BC.      . - I took him to Nysa and gave him to the Nymphs to raise. His name is Dionysus. Lucian Dialogues of the Gods"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1965098768476635492)  2025-09-08T17:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A gold ring showing a woman nursing her baby (a rare motif among the ancients). 4th century BC Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.   . - Genuine love bears fruit shortly. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1965490854338187546)  2025-09-09T19:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@dyingempires Time to restore the Tower of Babel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1965736974104555707)  2025-09-10T11:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Statue of a dying warrior from the eastern pediment of the Temple of Aphaia.     . - Asked how one could remain a free man he answered By looking down on death. Plutarch Sayings of Spartans Agis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1966548554639397159)  2025-09-12T17:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A selection of Ancient Greek verbs with Second Aorist forms:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1966593993761808769)  2025-09-12T20:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A blueprint for a Roman mausoleum complex (carved in marble of course). National Archaeological Museum of Umbria.   . For illustrious men have the whole earth as their tomb. Thucydides"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1966956169521754153)  2025-09-13T20:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Gold artifacts from Mycenae excavated by Schliemann. 16th century BC.      . - First of all a golden race of articulate men the immortals who dwell on Olympus made. Hesiod Works and Days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1967273421714464995)  2025-09-14T17:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Ninnion Tablet. It shows Iacchus leading a procession during the Eleusinian Mysteries. 4th century BC National Archaeological Museum Athens.  . - Iacchus lover of choruses escort me on my way. Aristophanes Frogs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1967636311029817803)  2025-09-15T17:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Indefinite Relative Pronouns of Ancient Greek. From "Classical Greek - A New Grammar" by Juan Coderch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1968754149694058669)  2025-09-18T19:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A Roman symposium mosaic of the unswept floor type ( ). Chteau de Boudry Switzerland.    ; - Good evening gentlemen will you welcome a very heavily drunk man as your drinking buddy Plato Symposium"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1969086531840123234)  2025-09-19T17:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A red-figure krater showing Cadmus about to slay the dragon of the Ismenian spring. 4th century BC. Louvre Paris.    . - A serpent will not become a dragon unless it devours a serpent. Adagia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1969452980802842917)  2025-09-20T17:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The only stigma in the Bible is found in Revelations 13:18 when the number of the beast is mentioned. Papyrus [---] here from the 3rd century renders it as [---] but [---] is more common. ".    .""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1969466485895471589)  2025-09-20T18:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Stefftaving I'm willing to trade the Italians Heidelberg for some nice beachfront property"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1969707962479296587)  2025-09-21T10:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Roman marble statue of Eros and a Dolphin originally part of a fountain. 2nd century AD.   . - unattainable desire is keen madness. Pindar Nemean 11"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1970173719969710300)  2025-09-22T17:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A Nereid riding a cetus (sea serpent). From the Villa Pausilypon 1st century AD.      - these were the issue of noble Nereus fifty daughters who know how to perform noble works Hesiod Theogony"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1970539287239131183)  2025-09-23T17:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Aesop paraphrasing Hesiod (Vitae Aesopi 22): "Fate has shown two paths in life one of freedom that starts with difficulty but ends smoothly the other one of slavery that starts easily and accessibly but ends painfully.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1970564830965670259)  2025-09-23T19:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On the benefits (or perils) of drinking:    . Many things occur between a cup and the tip of a lip. Greek Anthology 10.32"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1970930404715806755)  2025-09-24T19:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A proverb by an unknown author more popular in the singular as of late.    . - The mills of the gods grind for a long time but they grind fine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1970956457375039533)  2025-09-24T21:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Stephen310C If you do it on your own what textbook or method you start with doesn't matter all that much in the long run (in my opinion). But you will need a lot of perseverance and time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1971124490085302543)  2025-09-25T08:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"A vase in the shape of a hedgehog from the Cycladic period. Ca. 2800-2300 BC. National Archaeological Museum Athens.    . - The fox knows many tricks the hedgehog one but its a big one. Archilochus fragment 126"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1971259951747301864)  2025-09-25T17:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Learning Greek with Aesop (Vitae Aesopi 10). can mean both after and from and either bath or bathwater"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1971303930199195815)  2025-09-25T20:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A red-figure kylix depicting a young gentleman on his way to school hes carrying a bundle of writing tablets. 5th century BC.    . He who knows his letters also has a subtle mind. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1971622174751703134)  2025-09-26T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Confusion ensues after Aesop cooks a single lentil. originally meant a dish of lentils but eventually also came to be used as the singular form"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1971669968359174372)  2025-09-26T20:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Machine_Civ I'll absolutely have to steal that inscription for later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1972282099110649890)  2025-09-28T12:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I'm pursuing a Booktok Doctorate thanks for asking. https://x.com/theo_nash/status/1972297876786287027 Sometimes I feel that the university has already died and were all just out here pretending. https://t.co/CNUT34Mp7j https://x.com/theo_nash/status/1972297876786287027 Sometimes I feel that the university has already died and were all just out here pretending. https://t.co/CNUT34Mp7j"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1972321007932465289)  2025-09-28T15:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A Byzantine mosaic from the Great Palace of Constantinople.      vp. - One eagle scares away ten thousand birds and one well-bred man a vast and cowardly multitude. Sositheus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1972383705508520296)  2025-09-28T19:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Hermaphroditus taking a nap in the Louvre.   . - Nothing is worse than a woman even if she is beautiful. Menander"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1973072973515911629)  2025-09-30T17:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"An amphora painted by The Running Man Painter. Ca [---] BC British Museum.        . - Time runs runs down us wretched men bringing each one's life to an end. GA 10.81"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1974159106366972347)  2025-10-03T17:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Thanks Prometheus.   .   ;   . - I stopped humans from foreseeing their death. What balm did you find for this sickness I gave them blind hope. Prometheus Bound"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1974186985557536816)  2025-10-03T18:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In [---] years we have gone from teaching Greek and Latin in schools to teaching reading in universities (paraphrasing Joseph Sobran here). https://x.com/ArmandDAngour/status/1974706770124918831 What are you reading at University has become Are you reading at University https://t.co/W0ymVjhOff https://x.com/ArmandDAngour/status/1974706770124918831 What are you reading at University has become Are you reading at University https://t.co/W0ymVjhOff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1974774741111336968)  2025-10-05T09:52Z [----] followers, 50.6K engagements


"@AGROS_edu The English and Frech just copied pachyderm(e) the always literal Germans say Dickhuter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1975154159273025879)  2025-10-06T11:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The inscription on the Nemesis of Phidias (GA 16.263):"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1975625096757965273)  2025-10-07T18:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@nchlsswft The mud of Missolonghi is a far cry from that description"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1975630382994497625)  2025-10-07T18:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Corinthian capitals of the unfinished temple of Artemis in Gerash Jordan. Ca. [---] AD.      . - As the masons say without the smaller stones the bigger ones do not sit well. Plato Laws"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1975646677726847099)  2025-10-07T19:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@visualsancients Nice of Hadrian to honor him with the inscription from the original Pantheon when he had it rebuilt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1975962300843794654)  2025-10-08T16:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A mosaic from a synagogue depicting King David as Orpheus. 6th century AD Israel Museum Jerusalem.     . - From Apollo came the lyre playing father of songs much-lauded Orpheus. Pindar Pythian 4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1976742299850666147)  2025-10-10T20:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"On Stepmothers (GA 9.67):"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1977079247140528371)  2025-10-11T18:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AntigoneJournal @lectorintende @PhiloCrocodile @artworldcurator Congratulations to the winners. And to everyone else (myself included) better luck next time  . Hdt. 1.32.4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1880771807487184940)  2025-01-19T00:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AGROS_edu There are just more rules and exceptions (like some Aorist II Imperatives  or in reduplicated verbs but )"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1890024639784759606)  2025-02-13T13:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss by Antonio Canova Louvre Paris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1890462167633178880)  2025-02-14T18:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Ben Crowell created a neat online edition of Xenophon's Anabasis with vocabulary and grammatical notes (think Perseus but considerably faster). Plus similar .pdf versions of the Iliad and Odyssey. https://bitbucket.org/ben-crowell/ransom/src/master/WORKS.md https://bitbucket.org/ben-crowell/ransom/src/master/WORKS.md"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Athanasius_45/status/1890730114037485950)  2025-02-15T11:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

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