Swansea Uni Ancient Worldさんのイラストまとめ

Here is a fantastic ancient creature: the #hippalectryon, or #horse-#rooster.

If you consider that horses were crucially a object for wealthy men to show off, this could be the ultimate #fantasy: if you could soup up a horse, it's hard to beat adding the back end of a rooster.

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - DAY 9

🎶 On the ninth day of #Christmas my true love sent to me...
nine ladies #dancing.... 🎶

OK, there are only eight of them, but aren't these Peucetian women (from modern Apulia, late 5th to early 4th century BCE) doing an excellent job?

[5/5] This one actually points out the finer details of the (very historical) disagreements with the Arian version of Christianity, focusing on views about the nature of Christ.

#NicheHumour

#EarlyChristianity #Arius #LateAntiquity #CouncilOfNicaea

But there are also lions which proudly proclaim strength and power....

#WorldLionDay #worldlionday2021 #AncientAnimals

But there is more..../

#SwanseaAncientSeminars
TODAY
Monday 26th April 5pm (GMT+1)

Lawrence Kim
Trinity University, San Antonio @Trinity_U

"Archaic" Laughter & the Simple Life in Dio of Prusa's Euboean Oration (Or. 7)

To attend, write to ancientworldswanseaseminar@gmail.com

ABSTRACT 🧵👇

#Janus - Roman God of beginnings, passages and change; looking forwards and backwards, and the god who gave his name to January.

First January was his feast day - Romans exchanged good wishes and small gifts of dates, figs, honey and coins.

#NewYear2021 #January #HappyNewYear

Dancing Peucetian women. Tomb of the dancers, Ruvo di Puglia, Italy. C5th/C4th BCE. Now @MANNapoli

Peucetians - people in ancient Apulia (between Bari & Tarentum).
#ItalyBeforeTheRomans

The colours & movement of this painting are so spectacular!

#MuseumsUnlocked #Dance

@unescowhc Zercon the Moor: enslaved north African, described as 'a dwarf' with multiple disabilities; court jester to Bleda, brother of #AttilatheHun. Tried to escape a few times, married to a woman of the Hunnic court. Passed on from Byzantines to Huns & back; Deserves a movie. #BHM2020

Cloudcuckooland - Nephelokoggygia - Νεφελοκοκκυγία
The great city in the sky created by the birds in #Aristophanes' comedy The Birds (written 414 BCE).

Some of the #AncientPlacesWeLike are just a flight of fancy, like this place.
#AncientFiction #Kyknos #GreekComedy #Classics

The Land of Punt - on the east coast of Africa, perhaps as far south as Somalia. Egyptian trade expeditions from the C25th to the C11th BCE for gold, ivory, rare trees, spices etc. Later it became the stuff of legends.
#AncientAfrica #AncientEgypt #AncientPlacesWeLike