"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden."
Painting of Maria Alexea
"#Parthenon"
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“The Romans and Greeks used to call her a Dryad; but we don’t understand that: out in the sailors’ quarter we have a better name for her; there she’s called Elder Tree Mother...' A tale from Hans Christian Andersen https://t.co/X1YGHycMdi

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Super day with super star kids ! Greeks, space, Highwayman, crime and animals-phew! Well done everyone 🙌🏼🥰🙌🏼

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I am thrilled that has on the curriculum. You will love my forthcoming book about to the city of & it's out in May! https://t.co/qQ0H8VMFNW

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The Ancient Greeks Had Alternative Facts Too https://t.co/EjJwx7ePq4

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Thanks to a friend for purchasing this wonderful art print from the Tales of the Greeks: https://t.co/FLheSbEOvU

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как говорится, “It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?”
https://t.co/bcoMgzQfGM

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dead in the background. The Battle of the Hydaspes was fought in 326 BC between Alexander the Great and King Porus of the Paurava kingdom on the banks of the river Jhelum (known to the Greeks as Hydaspes) in Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent (modern-day Punjab, Pakistan).

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Well, and clear evidence that the Ancient Greeks enjoys a good joke, too...🤔😂

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Fact for The ancient Greeks would have put a liver not a heart on romantic cards as they thought it was the organ of eros. That's why Euripides' Medea threatens to stab her cheating husband and his new woman through the liver.

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舞芸時代はピザ屋役の同期二人の似顔絵を描いたピザ箱を作ったりTシャツ作ったりしてました🍕

卒公(GREEKS)の絵も結局していないんだけどみんながグッズ化したいって言ってくれてとっても嬉しかった。思い出~。

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Spartans = Greeks
Legionnaires = Romans

Had a quick summary on this with Ssonana earlier, and suddenly remember those famous words

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As a volunteer-run organisation, would be impossible without the Greeks, the Spanish, the Germans, the Dutch, the French, the Irish, the Swedes, the Slovenians, the Romanians, the Latvians, the Bulgarians, the Italians, the Dutch and of course the Poles.... 1/3

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Was reading 'Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks' and got the idea that the Balafre statue from the ancient Oxus culture was maybe a God/spirit for people with incurable conditions (instead of an evil dragon God) that maybe main chara from the Bactria comic can visit

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Really KEY point about doing consultation work with families to understand their NEEDS and WANTS to get them interested in ceramics. Stories and linking to curriculum like Greeks and Romans for over digital! https://t.co/7ZYYgWgvaG

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記事を更新しました。 [MOD]ステラリス Space Greeks and Romans Portraits ギリシャ・ローマの衣装 https://t.co/N2kU3LS0r0

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A cyclops (meaning 'circle-eyed') is a one-eyed giant first appearing in the mythology of ancient Greece. The Greeks believed that there was an entire race of cyclopes who lived in a faraway land without law and order.

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As promised earlier, this is a thread about one of my favourite gods. I recently saw claims that he was born of a virgin on 25 December. This is not true. While the date of his birth is uncertain, the ancient Greeks did usually celebrated the birthdays of their gods.

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Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses (1891) by J.W. Waterhouse (England, 1849-1917). The goddess of magic offers a potion to the famous king to bring him under her spell. One of his crew has already been transformed into an animal. [Note: Ulysses was called by the Greeks]

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The battle of Lade 494bc Persians defeated the Greeks at sea, its hard to imagine hundreds of triremes being smashed to bits and thousands of men fighting and drowning in what is now rolling green fields. The bay completely silted up just like at Thermopylae.

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