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Showing posts with label Greek History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greek History. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Challenging Gender Roles: Hipparchia's Universal Home

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I don’t have a roof, or a house, or a homeland Instead the whole world, both city & countryside are available to me as a home.   -...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Overpowered by a Single Woman: The Spartans vs. The Courage of Telesilla

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Name : Michele Marullo Tarchaniota Date : 1330 – 1408 CE Region :   Constantinople [modern Turkey] / Volterra [modern Italy]...
Saturday, December 9, 2023

I Do Not Owe The State Children: Epaminondas to the Thebans, John Tzetzes Hist. 12.412ff

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I Do Not Owe the State Children Name : John Tzetzes Date :   1100 – 1180 CE Region :    Constantinople [modern Istanbul, Tu...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

M/M: Like Superheroes to Those In Need: Ptolemy and Galetes, Aelian VH 1.30

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Name :  Aelian Date :      175 – 235 CE Region:   Praeneste [modern Italy] Citation :       Various History 1.30 King...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

M/M: Love will Save Us From A Tyrant: Aelian, Hist. Var. 2.4

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Name :  Aelian Date :      175 – 235 CE Region:   Praeneste [modern Italy] Citation :       Various History 2.4 I’m g...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

M/M: The Funeral of Hephaestion: Aelian, Var. Hist. 7.8

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Name :  Aelian Date :      175 – 235 CE Region:   Praeneste [modern Italy] Citation :       Various History 7.8 When ...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

M/M: Alexander the Great at the Tomb of Achilles, Aelian Var. Hist. 12.7

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Name :  Aelian Date :      175 – 235 CE Region:   Praeneste [modern Italy] Citation :       Various History 12.7 Al...
Friday, August 4, 2023

Women Saving their City: Polyaenus, Strat. 8.33

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After killing 7,777 Argive men in battle, the Spartan King Cleomenes headed for the city of Argos to take it by force. The musician Telesill...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Pelopidas, the Leader of the Sacred Band of Thebes: Cornelius Nepos Pelopidas 4

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Throughout this turbulent time period, Epaminondas spent his time at home away from the political drama, so the honor of being the liberator...
Saturday, January 7, 2023

Paternity isn't Patriotism: I Do Not Owe the State Children, Nepos, Epaminondas 10.1-2

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[Epaminondas] never got married. When Pelopidas criticized him for not having children, he reproached Pelopidas back for having a son with a...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Honoring Women Veterans: Telesilla of Argos, Plutarch, Virtutes Mulierum 245c-d

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Challenging Gender Roles: Telesilla, Warrior Poet Name :    Plutarch Date :      46 – 119 CE Region:     Chaeronea [modern Gre...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

The Greeks Honoring the Fallen Amazons: Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.41.7

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  Name :  Pausanias Date :        110 – 180 CE Region:     Lydia [modern Turkey] Citation :      Description of Greece  1.4...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

M/M: Harmodius & Aristogiton, Sacred Names of Freedom Fighters: Aulus Gellius 9.2.10-11

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Name : Aulus Gellius  Date : 125 – 180 CE Region :  Rome [modern Italy] Citation :  Athenian Nights 9.2.10-11 Herodes...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

M/M: Building A New Life Together, Aristotle, Politics 2.1274a

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A Fresh Start Together in a New Home Name : Aristotle Date :     384 – 322  BCE Region :    Stagira / Athens [modern Greece]...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

M/M: My Love Will Protect You...from a Dragon! Pausanias, Desc. Graec. 9.26.7-8

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The Thespian Dragon Name :  Pausanias Date :        110 – 180 CE Region:     Lydia [modern Turkey] Citation :      Descript...