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Greek-Style Stuffed Peppers - Cuisine - Greek One of the few foods that tastes better cold than hot. Delicious and distinctly Mediterranean!!! Soya can be used in place of the meat to make it vegetarian.
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i want to see an adaptation of the iliad that accurately portrays achilles’ grief over the death of patroclus.
i don’t want to see achilles act out in anger and violence as he realizes that patroclus died in his armor.
i don’t want to see achilles remain stoic and emotionless as he carries patroclus’ body back to camp.
show me achilles collapse to the ground when he hears the news. show me achilles sob so loudly that his mother on the bottom of the sea hears him and thinks him dead. show me how another warrior must hold down achilles’ hands so that he does not cut open his own throat to join patroclus in death.
show me achilles carrying back patroclus’ body and sobbing into his chest. show me achilles refusing to leave patroclus’ side to eat or sleep because he can do nothing but cry. show me how achilles looks his mother in the eye and say how he no longer cares if he dies when only a few days prior he said that nothing is worth his life.
i want to see achilles, the most powerful warrior of the greeks, to be completely undone by grief.
“Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other’s arms.” - Homer
a list of very good greek mice names from the battle of the frogs and the mice
Ψιχάρπαξ- crumbsnatcher
Τρωξάρτης- breadnibbler
Πτερνοτρώκτος- hamnibbler
Λειχοπίναξ- platelicker
᾿Εμβασίχυτρος- bowl-visitor
Τυρογλύφος- cheesecarver
Τρωγλοδύτης- hider-in-the-hole
Τυροφάγος- cheese-eater
Μεριδάρπαξ- sliversnatch
i lost my mind when we learned this is my ancient greek class. philips are the OG horse girls
man knowing greek and latin kind of ruins a lot of names. like philip seems like a perfectly good and reasonable name until you realize that it’s literally the ancient greek for “horse girl”
Clay loom weight decorated with an owl, Greek, 5th Century BCE
From the Acropolis Museum
no one:
persephone talking about hades:
by Giorgos Pastrikos on Flickr.The Rion-Antirion bridge is the world’s longest multi-span cable-stayed bridge. It crosses the Gulf of Corinth near Patras, linking the town of Rion on the Peloponnese...
quick reminders about Greek mythology:
Persephone is black/has dark skin
Haphaestus is disabled and has some mental illness(es)
Gaia is black/has dark skin
Hades is disabled
Zeus is a rapist [ on multiple occasions ]
Eros is pansexual
Athena is most likely asexual
Dionysus is bisexual
all of the nymphs are nonbinary
Persephone is the goddess of spring growth
Thanatos is the god of death, not Hades
Needless to say, Seraph is baby😔💕
Quote from Ophelia's official wiki :
"Mother: Nymph
Mother relationship: Currently Ophelia and her mother are ready distansed and they see each other not so often. But in her early years Ophelia was demonstrating unhealthy obsessive behaviour to her mother, where she wouldn't let her speak to the people Ophelia didn't approve. Since her mother was really naive back then, Ophelia was convinced that she was the only person who knew what's best for her."
And here's another colored sketch of Persephone,because I love her and I love how she's portraited in "Lore Olympus" by @usedbandaid
Lemme show you my love and appreciation for this comicsヾ(*´∀｀*)ﾉ
This gal is from bloody awesome webcomic "Lore Olympus" by @usedbandaid
Decided to start anew on tumblr after being gone for years! So all the honors to this Cerberus piece to start off as the first post!
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The Signs as Types of Magic/Divination
The suffix “-mancy” comes from Ancient Greek «μαντεία»(“divination”), coming from either «μάγος»(“mage”, from Persian “al-Maguś” which refers to a Mede tribe known as Mages) or «μαίνειν», “to delirate”, with regards to the divine possession which took part within the oracles: this was called «ενθουσιασμός», (from the preposition εν meaning “inside” and θεός, “god”). In fact, as Cicero said in his work De divinatione, expressing it not as his thought but the opinion of mages, “Si di sunt, est divinatio; sunt autem di, est ergo divinatio.”(II, 41). Oh, and the suffix -kinesis comes from κίνησις meaning “movement”, and the word “cinematography” comes from that, too!
Aries: Runecasting, viking practice used, similarly to Tarots, for predicting a likely outcome by examining cause and effect of a situation. The word rune comes from Nordic raunen, meaning to whisper.
Taurus: Haruspicy, the inspection of the entrails, a practice that came to Rome from the Etruscan civilization; an example of instrument used is the Liver of Piacenza (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Piacenza_Bronzeleber.jpg), and the term comes from Archaic Latin haru, meaning entrails and the root “spec-“, to observe.
Gemini: Crystal ball reading, used by Druids who would partake in it with beryl balls. It was also used during the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages (hey, one was even found in King Childeric 1st’s tomb!). Used to acquire symbolical visions of the present or future.
Cancer: Phyllorhodomancy, a method consisting in taking omens from rose leaves and rose petals. It was common in Ancient Greece to smack a rose’s petals against the hand and observe how loud the sound was, but in the 18th and 19th century it was also really common to pluck the rose on Midsummer’s Eve, wrap it in white paper and hide it until someone, who was then bound to marry the person, found it.
Leo: Solaromancy, an oriental type of divination consisting in the observation of the sun’s rays and its movement to understand possible important events in the future.
Virgo: Tarots, their ancestors were said to be wooden tablets found around 1st century AD in Palestine, and in ancient populations from the Near East these symbols were drawn on the walls of a temple’s room, where men who came to know their fate would spin around themselves until the dizziness made them fall in front of the chosen symbol. Widely spread and used for their rich details and quasi-infinite correspondences.
Libra: Cheiromancy, consisting in the reading of one’s lines of the palm in order to foretell. Bumps are also examined and the dominant hand is usually seen first, as the second one is thought to represent past life and the karmic consequences.
There are four types of hands corresponding to the four elements, and in Greek mythology for example every part of the hand is associated to a divinity (such as Apollo to the ring finger). The first witnesses of cheiromancy come from the Hindu sage Valmiki, whose teachings spread across the Mediterranean.
Scorpio: Necromancy, the art of calling the deceased from the otherworld to receive answers to one’s questions. In the Bible’s Book of Deuteronomy, for example, King Saul asks the Witch of Endor to summon Samuel’s spirit, who will foretell great and imminent destructions. The Caldaeans were also known for their practices and so the Mages, feared by the Arians. The Roman author Lucan also mentions the story of Erychtho, a famous Thessalian sorceress who foresaw the Battle of Pharsalus’ outcome. In the Middle Ages, it was also believed that necromancy would allow three things: will manipulation, illusions and knowledge.
Sagittarius: Theriomancy, method of observing an animal’s movements to predict the weather shifts, and also of predicting future events by studying mutated animals, such as a red calf or a bright yellow hen, both symbols of the gods.
Capricorn: I Ching divination, based on an 1000 BC divination text known as the Classic of Changes, in which three coins were thrown in the midst of a design of 64 hexagrams made with stems of bloodwort.
Aquarius: Rabdomancy, from Greek ράβδος (rhàbdos), rod, it consisted in watching where a stick (usually made of wood) would fall to take a decision or find a path. Used by Väinämöinen, the demigod and protagonist of the heroic poem Kalevala, it was also known in Ancient Greece.
Pisces: Oneiromamcy, form of divination through dreams that is also present in the Bible and in Middle Eastern works, it was also the main theme of Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica. Generally we can say about these predictions that each animal, type of natural element, plant or person (distinguished by blood ties or social occupation) had a different meaning.
Traditional Gyros Layer homemade gyro meat, hummus, tzatziki sauce, tomatoes, and feta cheese on a big pita to make your own gyro sandwich.
Spicy Baked Feta Feta Psiti - Spicy This appetizer is so simple to make but always wows guests! People are familiar with feta, but they may not be as familiar with this traditional Greek preparation. Don't be afraid to pile on the chili flakes because the salty/sour flavor of the feta balances out their heat.
Soups, Stews and Chili - Greek Lemon Chicken Soup
Curry Salad - Curried Chicken Salad with Greek Yogurt This chicken salad's secret ingredient is Greek yogurt, which is balanced with delicate almonds, lemon juice, and a smidge of curry in this quick, low-fat lunch option.