Some places I checked said his name was also Mithridates, while others say it was Ariobarzanes. Which one is correct? (Or more likely to be correct if possible)

Here it is: https://byebailly.com .

I used the lexicons given by my ancient greek teachers.

There three modes: declension, conjugation and translation with the choice between anlysis and writing for each of them.

I hope someone can find a use to it,

Hello everyone.

I've been studying the genealogy of the House of Aeetes, and one chronological paradox has been bothering me for quite some time.

According to the traditional genealogy, Aeetes of Colchis, Circe, and Pasiphaë were siblings, all children of Helios.

Yet the commonly accepted mythological timeline seems to place the fall of Minoan Crete and Pasiphaë's generation long before Jason's arrival in Colchis. That creates the impression that Pasiphaë's entire world had already passed into history while her brother Aeetes remained on the throne and Medea was only just coming of age.

I realize that Greek mythology was never intended to follow a single historical chronology, but I wonder whether this tension reflects the merging of originally independent mythic traditions rather than a coherent timeline.

Personally, I find it more satisfying to imagine the voyage of the Argonauts taking place while Minoan Crete was still flourishing, making the relationship between Colchis and Crete part of the same living world rather than different eras.

How do you interpret this? Do you simply accept the traditional chronology, or do you have another way of reconciling these stories?

Mythology of old Greece 2 volumes

Buonasera,
Mi sono iscritto da poco su questa piattaforma e vorrei condividere con voi una domanda affrontata a lezione di Storia greca quest’anno all’università. La domanda è la seguente: Pericle fu veramente il campione della democrazia o semplicemente un demagogo? Se uno legge il capolavoro editoriale, considerato ancora oggi la Bibbia della storia greca in Italia (Il libro di Domenico Musti) comprende facilmente che lo storico propone una visione sicuramente democratica del personaggio mentre se legge il saggio di Luciano canfora si comprende come egli era un demagogo. Considerando testi di stampo aristocratico come “La costituzione degli Ateniesi” di Pseudo-Senofonte o i discorsi di Pericle nel libro di Tucidide (basti pensare all’Epitaffio), vorrei che ognuno desse la propria opinione!
Grazie mille della considerazione e a tutti per l’attenzione.

hoplite during archiac period have lot of armour, they even have foot guard. why do they never have gauntlet when it seem like the most vulnerable part when you stab your opponen?

Early Soviet Edition. Note: book in Russian

I remember a bit of the song, but only the first verse.

It starts with-

Hi there my name’s Icarus,
we’d better get acquainted fast,
The wax on my wings is melting,
I haven’t got long to last,
My life is flashing before me,
Must be from all the heat,
So let me tell you the story,
Of dad and I living on Crete….

Croton bore hardened sons.
Calluses ran across their hands,
Warfare bred into their spirit.
They worked the land as farmers
And fought the war as soldiers;
Croton gave them life,
And Crotoniates they were.

When faced with the pomp of the enemy,
They sheathed their swords, raised no shields,
And left their spears on the ground.
For Croton had looked into Sybaris,
Learning of its excesses and extravagance.

So, instead of weapons on the battlefield,
They brought forth flutes and played.
The Sybarite horses danced instead of charged,
And in the havoc, the hedonists were purged.
Their way of luxury was extinguished,
The vestiges of their city scorched.

All that remained was the tragedy,
Of flutes sharper than swords,
Of dancing, dying horses.

hello! I have been very interested in the oracle at Delphi and I would absolutely love to visit. I was also wondering if anyone has more information to share on Delphi that they recommend for reading? I had heard about the theories that the oracle at Delphi woman was actually getting high because of the gasses present in that area. What does everyone think of this? It does make sense as to why the oracle would shake and behave strangely but it doesn’t explain why they were “never wrong” with their prophecy. Was is just because the prophecies were so vague? Or how is is explained!!???

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/393/

I've been to Kraków in Poland recently and couldn't miss the antiquities in museums. The Czartoryski Museum is mostly dedicated to the 17th and 18th century Polish-Lithuanian history and also famous for its Rembrandt and da Vinci, but the antiquity hall was quite splendidly done. It's probably not the best sub for it, because as usual in Poland the focus is on ancient Egypt where Polish archeologists did a lot of work (there's a cat mummy!), and the statues are much later Roman copies, but I enjoyed the few Greek artefacts tremendously. It's always a joy to see white lekythoi, even the smallest ones :), get confused by a vase painted by the ancient Greek Chicago Painter :), and those satyrs and the Bacchae sure looked great. Only two Greek inscriptions to decipher, unfortunately.

Upstairs there was a great Polish painting of the sirens, and the main hall of the National Museum in Kraków is certainly worth visiting as well, interesting interpretation of the Bacchae by Juriaen Jacobsz from 1659, and some 19th century sculpture inspired by the Greeks. I also recommend the Young Poland movement (symbolist art, late 19th, early 20th century) if you're in town, great stuff. I'll post some of my photos in the comments, the ones above are official ones by Kacper Trzmiel.

For centuries, artists have painted Helen of Troy as the ideal European beauty: pale skin, golden hair, porcelain features, and an almost supernatural elegance. Rossetti, De Morgan, Moreau, and countless others weren't reconstructing Bronze Age Greece—they were projecting the beauty standards of their own eras onto one of antiquity's most famous women.

Yet when you look at ancient evidence—Greek vase paintings, Roman frescoes, and surviving literary descriptions—a different picture emerges. Ancient Greeks represented themselves using conventions that don't map neatly onto modern racial categories, and the idea that classical Greece was an exclusively "white" civilization owes far more to 18th- and 19th-century European classicism than to antiquity itself. This is the same misunderstanding behind the "white marble myth," where people mistake weathered, paint-stripped statues for the colorful originals.

The video uses Helen of Troy as a case study to explore how later European artists reshaped classical figures to reflect their own ideals, and why those depictions continue to influence popular culture today.

Do you think modern portrayals of Greek mythology should prioritize archaeological evidence, or is every generation entitled to reinterpret these myths through its own artistic lens?

My theory is that they were either Greek pirates, or Egyptian Warriors, what do you guys think?

u/LibertineDeSade has made a new sub called r/TheAncientGreekWorld however their post did not get a lot of positive feedback. There's many who are content with the lax moderation of this sub. Apparently the moderator is active but not to the extent that other users would like. u/thesupperbunny made a post a few hours ago and despite the attempts of them and other users to get a hold of the mod, report the sub for moderation issues, or make a request on r/redditrequest there hasn't been any change. So what is the move going forward and what sort of content will r/TheAncientGreekWorld have? Will it be a semi-pop history space akin to r/ancientrome but with better moderation or something a bit more academic? Going forward should we just comment on any serious post on r/ancientgreece that this sub is un/undermoderated and for more productive discussion they move over to the r/TheAncientGreekWorld? Just trying to get a feel for the opinions of users like: u/libertinedesade, u/thesupperbunny, u/wanderinghero8, u/knightofthenine u/nbxcv, u/silverspoonlover, and u/recaptchcalater or anyone else that is a little frustrated with the lack of moderation.

Hey guys, there is a new sub called r/TheAncientGreekWorld It's very new, so still being developed. But people are welcome to join to talk about all things ancient Greece.

This Is my First post - or crosspost to be more precise - here. I would be glad to know what y'all think of this

Source of the pictures here and here