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blueiscoool · 5 months ago

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Archaeologists Have Found a Hoard of 2,600-Year-Old Gold Jewelry at Karnak Temple in Egypt

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,600-year-old pot full of gold jewelry, including a rare statuette that depicts a family of gods and may have been worn as an amulet.

A team found the pot at Karnak Temple, a complex near Luxor (ancient Thebes). The temple was initially built around 4,000 years ago and was continuously expanded, renovated and modified over millennia. A number of deities were worshipped at the site, including Amun, the chief god of Thebes.

The finds include beads, amulets and statuettes, many of which are gold, according to a translated statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

They "were discovered in the northwestern sector of the Karnak Temple complex," Abdelghaffar Wagdy, an archaeologist with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities who is co-leader of the team, said in an email. "This area is suspected to have housed administrative and storage facilities."

One of the most remarkable finds is a gold statuette that depicts the deities Amun, Khonsu and Mut standing beside each other. These gods were a family: Amun was the chief god of Thebes, his wife Mut was a mother goddess, and their son Khonsu was a moon god. All three gods were associated with Thebes, and depictions of the three together have been found in previous excavations in Egypt. The statuette may have been worn on the neck like an amulet, Wagdy said.

"The depiction of the Theban Triad on the amulet likely symbolizes the devotion to the divine family of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu," Wagdy said, noting that the person who owned it may have been hoping to receive divine protection.

"The golden triad of Amun, Mut and Khonsu is intricately designed and is right at home in Karnak Temple, as [this] cult temple is dedicated for the [worship] of these three deities," said Shelby Justl, an Egyptologist and lecturer in the critical writing program at the University of Pennsylvania who is not part of the excavation team.

Some of the amulets found in the pot are wadjet (also spelled wedjet) amulets, which are eye-shaped amulets that "for the Egyptians, imbues healing power and symbolizes rebirth," "An amulet in this shape was thought to protect its wearer and to transfer the power of regeneration onto him or her."

Why was the jewelry buried in a pot?

It's unclear why the jewelry was buried in a pot. "The collection appears to be typical of a rare type of 'cache' or 'hoard' of valuable precious metals buried for uncertain reasons," Peter Brand, a history professor at the University of Memphis in Tennessee who is not part of the excavation team, said in an email.

Wagdy said there are a number of possibilities, including that the jewelry could be votive offerings given to the deities during a ritual. Or perhaps they were a donation to the temple treasury. Another possibility is that they were buried for safekeeping during a time of political unrest in the area.

"Finding so many beautifully crafted items of gold together and in a location associated with the living and not a grave is rare," Justl said, noting that it's possible that the jewelry was manufactured in nearby workshops and sealed in the pot to prevent the items from being stolen.

Jack Ogden, a jewelry historian who has conducted extensive research on Egyptian jewelry but is not part of the excavation team, noted that the jewelry seems to have been designed for burial and not everyday wear.

"The goldwork appears from the photos to be fairly flimsy, so one suspects that it was purely funerary," Ogden said. The area near Karnak Temple contains many tombs, Ogden said, and it's possible that an ancient grave robber stole the jewelry but had to unexpectedly hide their stash.

"One explanation is that it was an ancient tomb robber's haul concealed for safety but never recovered," Ogden said. "It would be useful for whoever studies it all to try to work out if the breaks and damage were likely caused by less-than-gentle removal from a mummy."

By Owen Jarus.

#Archaeologists Have Found a Hoard of 2600-Year-Old Gold Jewelry at Karnak Temple in Egypt #Karnak Temple #gold #gold jewelry #ancient jewelry #ancient artifacts #archeology #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient egypt #egyptian history #egyptian art #ancient art

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apoemaday · 1 year ago

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Blackberry-Picking

by Seamus Heaney

Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots. Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills We trekked and picked until the cans were full Until the tinkling bottom had been covered With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s. We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre. But when the bath was filled we found a fur, A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache. The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn’t fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they’d keep, knew they would not.

#poetry #seamus heaney #blackberry-picking #a personal favorite

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turtle-paced · 27 days ago

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Revisiting Chapters: Tyrion V, ACoK

Once you get to a certain level of management, it's all meetings, all the time.

The story so far…

With so many armies in the field against the Lannisters, and King’s Landing just kind of…sitting there, like some sort of duck… Tyrion’s attempts to plan the defence of the city take a turn to the unorthodox.

Overripe Fruits

The chapter begins with Tyrion freezing in the Guildhall of Alchemists, holding onto a hand grenade. In this pseudo-medieval world, it is in fact a clay pot filled with magic napalm. The danger of these objects is quickly made clear through background details and exposition. Tyrion was told to wrap up warm to avoid shivering. Hallyne the pyromancer carries a sealed glass and oil lamp rather than a torch, and that very carefully. The pottery containing the wildfire is roughened to help prevent slipping. Then we’re told that this stuff can’t be quenched with water and will seep into wood, leather, and steel - still burning. And it only gets more dangerous with age. From the safety mechanisms Hallyne describes (devices to smother the lab in sand), the only thing that works is cutting off oxygen.

We also learn quickly that the Alchemists have fallen out of favour in recent years. They enjoyed more favour with Aerys. Favour enough that Aerys insisted on making the wildfire jars in the shapes of fruits, the sick fuck. Strange thing, but they lost track of a lot of the stores made for Aerys when a whole bunch of the previous leadership was murdered during the Sack of King’s Landing. Just last year a cache of two hundred unstable dynamite/napalm grenades was found beneath the Sept of Baelor! Nobody knows how they got there.

Tyrion cuts off this anecdote, much as he cuts off Alliser Thorne’s explanation about the walking dead. He’s here because he wants to know how much of the stuff the Alchemists have on hand. Cersei commissioned ten thousand jars; the Alchemists believe they can fill the order. Tyrion wants to be sure the order can be filled safely. As Hallyne tries to reassure him:

“The substance flows through my veins, and lives in the heart of every pyromancer. We respect its power. But the common soldier, hmmmm, the crew of one of the queen’s spitfires, say, in the unthinking frenzy of battle…any little mistake can bring catastrophe. That cannot be said too often. My father often told King Aerys as much, as his father told old King Jaehaerys.” “They must have listened,” Tyrion said. “If they had burned the city down, someone would have told me.”

Ha. Ha. Ha.

Tyrion also recalls what he knows of the alchemists, mostly from Jaime, who has indeed passed a few stories on to his little brother about Aerys burning people alive.

But Tyrion does at least take the safety seriously. He asks for spare pots (which we will learn are for practicing with, stepping up from paint to lamp oil to wildfire). Then he departs.

As he leaves, the reader’s view goes from the damp, cold cellar to a grand marble hall lit by wildfire torches. Tyrion notes that the torches were lit that morning and aren’t staying on a minute longer than his visit - wildfire’s expensive and the Alchemists hard up. The author’s led with the danger, not the mystique - and he’s also been careful to make the mystique itself ridiculous. Just as Tyrion lampshades the economics behind the lamps, so he points out how the alchemists use titles, when all they can really do is make magic napalm. There’s also Hallyne himself, his name-dropping, and his palpable eagerness to be back in royal good graces. Tyrion is not caught up in the pretty green flames. He sees a hazardous substance and he takes it seriously.

Alas, Tyrion has too much on his plate, and he can’t waste the time digging into the history of the order or just how so many high explosives came to be stored under the Sept of Baelor of all freaking places, where they have absolutely zero buisiness being at any point.

Outside the Walls

As Tyrion leaves the Guildhall, he’s accosted by Bronn with two competing demands for his attention - more on that later. For the moment, we’ll just follow Tyrion down to the Gate of the Gods, where the markets are usually held. Ser Cleos is there with Robb Stark’s peace offer.

Tyrion gets a secondary report on matters in the Riverlands from Cleos too. Everyone’s burning everything - the Riverlords are burning their own crops, Tywin’s men are burning villagers and putting smallfolk to the sword. And here we see a profound limitation in Tyrion himself.

That was the way of war. The smallfolk were slaughtered while the highborn were held for ransom. Remind me to thank the gods that I was born a Lannister.

This is just how it is, per Tyrion. His response is not to address the unfairness but to show gratitude for the benefits he enjoys. The idea that everyone should have those privileges does not cross his mind. It’s a way in which he’s like Cersei. Though again, and as usual for the Lannister siblings, this is also a product of an abusive home. Tyrion’s only protection against the various injustices he faces in life due to his disability come from being a Lannister. The idea that everyone should have Lannister-level privileges is a threat to him - which in turn is a belief born of despair that of course everyone will hate him for his disability, and this can never change.

But going back to the terms. Robb’s asked for “half the realm”, the hostages the Lannisters have taken, and his sisters returned to him. It’s clearly an opening position. Cleos asks if Tyrion will trade Sansa and Arya for Cleos’ brother Tion plus Willem (another cousin). On its face that one is not possible, and Tyrion says so immediately - without letting Cleos know that the Lannisters do not have Arya to trade and therefore can’t make good.

Cleos also offers some analysis of the situation. Since Robb has allowed the Riverlords to scatter to defend their own lands (one of his worst mistakes), Cleos thinks Robb is afraid to face Tywin in the field. At the same time, Cleos also tells Tyrion that he doesn’t think Robb will yield easily, noting that Catelyn’s the voice for peace in his camp. Tyrion, who’s spent more time with Catelyn, says that Catelyn wants her daughters. He will be proved right on this.

Tyrion gives us an internal monologue on what he hopes to achieve here. In short, to stall. These peace negotiations are not good faith but a delaying tactic, meant to occupy Robb while Ser Stafford trains new Lannister armies.

Now if only Robert’s brothers would be so obliging…

The problem with this is that Tyrion has ignored what he’s been told: Robb does not want peace. Tyrion’s right that Catelyn’s principal motivation is getting her daughters back. It does not follow from that fact that Robb is the driving voice behind peace. Tyrion’s missed the part where Catelyn’s agitating for peace as a means to get her daughters back. He’s missed Catelyn having developed plans, a fuller agenda, not just “woman want family”. In spite of the fact that Catelyn has outsmarted him already! If he allows here that Catelyn has “plan to retrieve daughters, step 1 negotiations”, then he maybe doesn’t fall into the trap of thinking that Robb’s the one after peace and truly is afraid of facing the Lannisters in the field. Maybe he doesn’t assume that a man is the driving force behind any given political action. In this, Tyrion is very much a product of his society.

Needless to say, Robb is not going to be so obliging. What Robb does next, what he’s got in motion now, is going to shape the circumstances of the siege Tyrion’s anticipating.

There’s more on the broad strategic situation when Tyrion catches up with Cersei. Cersei asks plaintively what Tywin is doing. Tyrion outlines the waiting game Tywin’s engaged in, hanging out at well-defended Harrenhal, waiting for fresh levies to be trained and Renly to make a move on King’s Landing. Once anyone moves, Tywin will swoop.

Since Tyrion's spelled it out for us, that's definitely how it's going to go down.

Within the Walls

We learn during the pyromancer visit that Tyrion’s banned feasts until the war is won. The order was issued in Joffrey’s name, but it is most definitely Tyrion’s order.

Pretty much as soon as Tyrion pokes his head above ground, we see that he might not be the most popular man in King’s Landing. He’s got the full guard - Burned Men, who Tyrion chose specifically because they scare the smallfolk of King’s Landing. Tyrion needs someone to keep the "rabble" off his back because there was another food riot three days ago, one that Joffrey dispersed by having his guards shoot at them and telling them to eat the dead. We see the problems further as Tyrion heads to the Gate of the Gods, usually packed with farmers selling vegies, now deserted. Tyrion orders that Ser Cleos and his men are not to be allowed inside the city so they don’t see what’s going on here and how desperate the food situation is.

As Tyrion heads back towards the Red Keep, he almost runs into a crowd in the streets. The people of King’s Landing are listening to a prophet in Cobbler’s Square, a man preaching of curruption in the Lannister regime. The incest is a rumour prevalent enough to be shouted in the streets, and Tyrion himself is depicted as a “twisted little monkey demon” pulling Joffrey’s strings. Tyrion, critically, ignores this. Not just the depiction of himself, which leaves him deeply vulnerable as a scapegoat when things go wrong, but the increasing religiosity of the people.

How Tyrion interacts with Cersei and her political influence is also a strong theme in this chapter, and is even before Cersei appears in person. Cersei ordered the wildfire; Tyrion makes those orders effective without involving Cersei herself. Cersei orders Tyrion to attend her immediately; Tyrion decides to let her stew because that makes her mad, and mad makes her stupid. Tyrion instead heads to the edge of the city where he’s clearly made some arrangements to intercept Cersei’s own guests. As we see with Ser Cleos and his message, Tyrion yoinks it right out of Cleos’ hands.

“I was told to bring the message to the Queen Regent,” Ser Cleos said as the door shut. “I shall.” Tyrion glanced over the map that Robb Stark had sent with his letter. “All in good time, cousin.”

This incident tells us something about Cersei’s handling of information - she doesn’t consider the logistics. She doesn’t conceive of information as something with labour attached to delivering it, she assumes that information will be brought to her as directed in a timely fashion. It is a small lack of imagination and a small manifestation of her belief in class superiority. So Tyrion, who does understand that someone has to physically carry messages, gets loyal people at the gates and goes to meet the message as it arrives.

And then we get to Cersei herself. Like Tyrion anticipated, she’s fuming that Tyrion left her on read for a few hours. What she’s mad about is Tyrion’s offer to Dorne with a marriage for Myrcella. Combined with events of previous chapters, this tells Tyrion that Pycelle is the one going straight to Cersei with information.

Tyrion’s ready in a heartbeat to justify the offer on solid political grounds, reiterating to the readers that Doran has recent, good reason to hate the Lannisters. Tyrion puts it in those words, too: “every cause to hate us”. He does not beat around that particular bush. What he’s hoping is that a hefty bribe and some wedge politics with Doran’s Reach-hostile bannerpeople will sway Doran in favour of accepting the offer. We get our first impression of Doran’s personal character here, as Tyrion observes that Doran’s a man of honour who won’t kill a child out of spite. Especially not when Tyrion’s offered Gregor Clegane as well.

The reasons for this dysfunctional approach to power in King’s Landing are manifestly apparent as Tyrion tries to justify a reasonable decision, while Cersei insists he’s overstepped his authority and offered Doran too much. What’s her alternative? She doesn’t have one. What’s Tyrion doing to assuage her concerns? Misogynistic attacks on Cersei. (And yes, asking her if she was planning to use “that hole between her legs” is misogyny - he could have left it at “what would you have offered” for exactly the same point.) Which results in Cersei outright hitting Tyrion and threatening his life. This is not a pair of people who can work together effectively. There’s a long and toxic history here, and the pain of it is apparent when Cersei starts to cry, overwhelmed by fear for her life, fear for her children’s lives, and fear for Jaime:

Awkwardly, he took a step toward her. When your sister cries, you were supposed to comfort her…but this was Cersei! He reached a tentative hand for her shoulder. “Don’t touch me,” she said, wrenching away. It should not have hurt, yet it did, more than any slap.

Cersei genuinely hates Tyrion. Tyrion does not hate Cersei. So while Cersei is out there like a wrecking ball, Tyrion’s position in his thoroughly abusive family means he both has to work around her and with her. While also dealing with the heavy feelings.

As we might expect having read AFFC, though, Tyrion gets a lot further with Cersei when he’s buttering her up. When he turns to reassurance, when he explains to Cersei what their father is planning, and offers her the token of Robb’s peace offer (which he’s already decided on an approach to), Cersei’s resolve softens instantly. This is someone Cersei hates and who she believes hates her speaking, and she’s gone as soon as they show the slightest amount of deference. Not for no reason does Tyrion end the chapter believing he’ll be able to wrangle consent to the Dornish marriage out of her, with the bonus knowledge of who’s feeding her direct, high-level information.

Chapter Function

GRRM here is showing Tyrion preparing for the imminent siege of King’s Landing. This is an immediately important thing to do. Since the Lannisters are going to win this battle at the end of the book, the author needs to put in the work showing how it’s possible. This is even as the characters principally involved think they’re more likely to be fighting Renly than anyone.

On a character level, Tyrion’s entire storyline in this book shows us his resilience and creativity in the face of some severe adversity. The creativity is on full display in this chapter, both in his approach to securing wildfire and ensuring his side could make practical use of it, and in his outthinking Cersei. It also shows us some of Tyrion’s more profound limitations - his lack of appreciation for his public image (since he came in with the belief it’s a lost cause) and his lack of empathy for the common people of Westeros (again, a reaction to his deeply internalised belief that they are always going to hate him).

As discussed above, this is also important prep work for Cersei’s future action and character development. She’s watching Tyrion work around her - even if she doesn’t know how to stop it or the full extent of his manipulation, she knows that he’s doing it, resulting in outcomes she’s not keen on. Her hatred of Tyrion isn’t going away. While from Tyrion’s PoV this is an obstacle to his goals this book, it’s also the basis of her accusations of regicide next book, and feeds into her AFFC and ADWD plot later still.

Combined, the chapter inches Tyrion and Cersei ever closer on their collision course. Tyrion's trying to stave off this conflict out of love for his family - and Cersei's just making a longer and longer list of reasons for her to hate Tyrion.

And longest term of all, the reason we get to see this particular visit with the pyromancers and not, say, a meeting with the smiths making Tyrion’s chain across the harbour? It’s set-up for both the reveal of Jaime’s motivations for killing Aerys, and foreshadowing for the missing wildfire that remains underneath King’s Landing. It’s right up front of the chapter that Aerys was a wildfire enthusiast and that improperly stored caches have been found. Tyrion’s just lacking the context, because he was a child a continent away when these decisions were made. The dramatic irony is the fact that Jaime could have told anyone, at any time…

Miscellany

Cersei’s attitude to gender roles and her family comes out in a quote near the end of the chapter.

Cersei sniffed. “I should have been born a man. I would have no need for any of you then. None of this would have been allowed to happen. How could Jaime let himself be captured by that boy? And father, I trusted in him, fool that I am, but where is he now that he’s wanted? What is he doing?”

Patience is for weak women. Hell, misfortune and the consequences of one’s own actions are for weak women (‘weak women’ being redundant terminology, if you ask Cersei). At the same time, we’re seeing Cersei perceives that every man in her life has failed her. The AFFC attitude does not come from nowhere.

Also in Cersei-related miscellany, that slap was not nothing. She hit Tyrion so hard her nails drew blood.

Clothing Porn

Tyrion wears heavy quilted breeches, a woolen doublet, and a striped shadowskin cloak far, far too long for him.

Food Porn

Banned by order of King Joffrey.

Next Three Chapters

Eddard X, AGoT - Sam V, AFFC - Tyrion IV, ASoS

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #revisiting chapters #cw: abuse #tyrion lannister #cersei lannister #a clash of kings

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natalievoncatte · 10 months ago

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4. Garden

Kara waited as long as she could. Taking to the air, she lifted herself to cloud-height, ignoring the bite of the upper-atmospheric chill as the high winds snapped at her cape. Hovering in the air, she took a moment to unbind her senses, expanding her awareness to let in the cacophony of sounds she usually suppressed through years of focused willpower and concentration.

She rocked in the air, shocked by the sensitivity of her own ears. Jeremiah and then Eliza had taught her this, made the world in its vastness small enough that she could live in it.

Clark had taught her to reach out, to hear, as well as see and smell and taste and feel, beyond. Sol’s gentle kiss did more than expand her awareness and multiply her strength, it activated pathways in her brain itself, giving her a control over her senses that she could never match under a red star.

It took only moments to sift out the quiet sounds of Lena’s pulse and her gentle, hissing breaths as she fought back sobs.

Air folded around her as she shatters the sound barrier, flying high enough that the boom that followed her would be a mere puff to the ground. Another trick she picked up from Clark, using the earth’s rotation to speed her flight.

Kara touched down at a familiar but foreboding place: the Luthor estate.

All that had been the property of her family was hers now, a gift and a curse. Lena had talked about making it an orphanage or a long-term care hospital or a new children’s medical campus, but the building itself had held her back. What malevolent secrets had Lex left behind? Booby traps? Sentinel robots hiding in the walls? Caches of weapons or Lexosuits?

A Kryptonite bomb, to spit death at her for hate’s sake?

Kara hesitated, but Lena was here and upset. She went inside.

It was immediately obvious where Lex had reinforced walls and lined rooms with lead. Kara listened for Lena, finding that the trail of sound led her outside.

She had to use her x-ray vision.

Lena was kneeling in an hidden place, a walled off section of the formal gardens. Kara found the entrance cleverly disguised, a section of wall where one slipped through a gap and turned left then right and came out in a tiny, overgrown courtyard.

Kneeling, Lena was surrounded by pruning shears and garden implements, dressed to work outside. She looked so out of place it was almost a little silly to see, but there she was.

Kara could see that Lena had already been working on cleaning and clearing. She knelt before a small plumeria plant, resting in a well kept pot.

“Lex let it all die,” said Lena. “He knew it was here. He could have kept it for me, but he didn’t. I suppose I’m lucky that Lillian didn’t rip it up and install a septic tank.”

Kara walked over, standing next to her.

“My father built this. It’s a replica of my mother’s garden. We had a little walled garden next to the cottage where I lived with her before I came to live with the Luthors.”

Kara said nothing, instead brushing a lock of Lena’s now-curly hair back from her shoulder.

“He never showed it to me.”

“Why?”

“My parentage was his dirtiest secret. Lillian didn’t even tell me until she thought she could use it.”

“Do you think he loved her?”

“I have no idea. He loved me, I think. He loved Lex but in a different way. I don’t think he even liked Lillian.”

“You’ve never told me about him.”

“It wasn’t easy being his child. He drank too much, neglected the company, and drank more when things went badly for us. The family was actually in trouble until Lex turned it around. He started managing things when I was in grade school. By the end, he’d spend all day in his study and I’d spend half the night sitting with him while he talked and told me stories. Lillian hated him for it.”

“You miss him.”

“I miss them both. I miss Lex. I miss him so much. I mourn him every day.”

“I know,” said Kara.

“My mom died, my father died, my brother went insane.”

“Lena…”

“Is it me?”

“It’s not, you know it’s not.”

“Is it my witch blood? Am I cursed?”

Kara knelt beside her, pulling her cape across Lena’s shoulders to fight the autumn chill. Lena leaned into her.

“What if it is a curse? What if it gets our little one too?”

Kara put her hand on Lena’s belly, spreading her fingers. There was no bump yet. Kara listened intently, eagerly awaiting a moment she would never forget, when a second heartbeat joined Lena’s. It hadn’t come yet but it would.

“Nothing is going to get our baby,” said Kara. “Their moms are Supergirl and Lena Luthor. We can do anything.”

“It’s going to be a children’s hospital,” said Lena. “The house. A lot of the grounds are going to be torn out, but I’m keeping this garden. I’m going to give my mom a memorial. I think I might put one in for my dad, too.”

“I love you,” Kara murmured. “I love you so much.”

Lena leaned into her and Kara sat down to pull her in.

They sat for a long time, and listened to the wind that shook the leaves.

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galusandmalus · 1 month ago

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collective list or random shit medea did outside the whole child murdering/famous argonaut feats/saving medus stuff

just a collective list of all da fun facts of medea I've found so far cuz shes so interesting and weird and retellings and modern medea don't do her justice, shes like a BIG hero guys. disguise statue drug cache

"Medea, the tale goes on, fashioning a hollow image of Artemis secreted in it drugs of diverse natures, and as for herself, she anointed her hair with certain potent ointments and made it grey, and filled her face and body so full of wrinkles that all who looked upon her thought that she was surely an old woman." tricked others into thinking she was blessed by the gods "and showing herself to the king, she amazed those who gazed upon her, and they thought that a kind of Providence of the gods had transformed her old age into a maiden's youth and striking beauty" made dragons appear probably via illusions. "Also, by means of certain drugs, Medea caused shapes of the dragons to appear" asked heracles to act as a mediator "made her way safely to Heracles in Thebes. Her reason for doing so was that Heracles had acted as a mediator in connection with the agreements which had been entered into in the land of the Colchians and had promised to come to her aid if she should ever find them violated" her son lived and became king "Thessalus, they say, who had escaped being murdered by his mother, was reared as a youth in Corinth and then removed to Iolcus, which was the native land of Jason; and finding on his arrival that Acastus, the son of Pelias, had recently died, he took over the throne which belonged to him by inheritance and called the people who were subject to himself Thessalians after his own name." Cured heracles of his madness "Now as for Medea, he says, on finding upon her arrival in Thebes that Heracles was possessed of a frenzy of madness and had slain his sons, she restored him to health by means of drugs. But since Eurystheus was pressing Heracles with his commands, she despaired of receiving any aid from him at the moment and sought refuge in Athens with Aegeus," Found innocent/in the right of murdering her children in court "but certain writers give the account that, when her person was demanded by Hippotes, the son of Creon, she was granted a trial and cleared of the charges he raised against her." - Diodorus Siculus

Possibly a creator for GREEK FIRE/ some other type of chemical fire weapon.

"And they had filled pots with sulphur and bitumen and the substance which the Persians call "naphtha" and the Greeks "Medea's oil," "so the flame rising little by little, fed by the oil which bears Medea's name " -Procopius, History of the Wars

cursed the people of Crete/has beef with thetis

"says that Thetis and Medea had a dispute in Thessaly as to which was the most beautiful; their judge was Idomeneus, who gave the victory to Thetis; Medea in anger said that the Cretans were always liars and in revenge she made the curse that he would never speak the truth, just as he had lied in his judgement" -Photius, Bibliotheca excerpts Being a freak in the sheets saved her.

"Alcinous at once allowed the armed ships to lead the girl away so that she could receive her punishment. The famous Queen Arete felt sympathy for Medea, and coaxed her husband, speaking thusly: "It is not pleasing to break a marriage, to disturb the nuptial bed, to extinguish the torch of love. Aphrodite, daughter of Dionaea, will become violently angry at the man or woman who undertakes such an effort

(weird speech about virginitty i cut out for length) …Alcinous absorbed this speech in his soul, and ordered that everything should be done as the queen had said" -Orphic Argonautica

Magic water powers saved the day "the Argonauts were at a loss about the passage when Triton, the son of Poseidon, appeared and guided them, to whom Medea gave a golden mixing bowl as a reward, which she had from her father's spoils. Or, being a sorceress, Medea saved the situation by using her magic to water the place where the ship was stuck, so that it was as it had been at first" john tzetzes

has winged dragons

Ovid, Metamorphoses "[Medea flees Thessalia (Thessaly) after the murder of King Pelias :] Had she [Medea] not soared away with her winged Serpents (Serpentes), she surely must have paid the price. Aloft, over the peak of shady Pelion . . . she fled, and over Othrys . . . [Until] at last, borne on her Vipers' (Vipereae) wings"

Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica "[Medea] with Winged Serpents cleaves the air, dripping with murder"

discovered the herb that would resurrect her cousin "and she observed the herbs by Ossa born, the weeds on lofty Pelion, Othrys, Pindus and vast Olympus — and from here she plucked the needed roots, or there, the blossoms clipped all with a moon-curved sickle made of brass — many the wild weeds by Apidanus, as well as blue Amphrysus' banks, she chose, and not escaped Enipeus from her search; Peneian stretches and Spercheian banks all yielded what she chose: — and Boebe's shore where sway the rushes; and she plucked up grass, a secret grass, from fair Euboean fields life-giving virtues in their waving blades, as yet unknown for transformation wrought on Glaucus" -ovid

she went to persia "of Medea in Greece, and of her flight thereafter into Persia,"-Lucian: Of Pantomime, Of Dancing Invented hair dye

'The Carthaginians were the first to fit out a quadrireme, and it was built off hand by Bosporus. Medea of Colchis, the daughter of Aeetes, first devised the dyeing of the hair.- Eusebius: Preparation for the Gospel Book 10 thicc also medus got raised by charon.

"he came to Iolcus after long toil bringing the coy-eyed girl with him on his swift ship, and made her his buxom wife. And she was subject to Iason, shepherd of the people, and bare a son Medeus whom Cheiron the son of Philyra brought up in the mountains. And the will of great Zeus was fulfilled."-Hesiod: Theogony HYMN TO THE MUSES

ENGINEEERRRR????!!! (if this is the same Medea)

"For it is said that a woman, Medea, was formerly queen of those parts, who spanned the river underneath in a manner in which no river was ever bridged before; for she got stones, it is said, and copper and pitch and all that men have discovered for use in masonry under water, and she piled these up along the banks of the river. Then she diverted the stream into lakes; and as soon as the river was dry, she dug down two fathoms, and made a hollow tunnel, which she caused to debouch into the palaces on either bank like a subterranean grotto; and she roofed it on a level with the bed of the stream. The foundations were thus made stable, and also the walls of the tunnel; but as the pitch required water in order to set as hard as stone, the Euphrates was let in again on the roof while still soft, and so the junction stood solid."-Philostratus: The Life of Apollonius built a temple to venus to stop him from loving THETIS?? THE BEEF

"For it was a thing divulged abroad, concerning which Simonides made an epigram to be inscribed on the brazen image set up in that temple of Venus which is said to have been founded by Medea, when she desired the Goddess, as some affirm, to deliver her from loving her husband Jason, or, as others say, to free him from loving Thetis. The tenor of the epigram follows: For those who, fighting on their country’s side, Opposed th’ imperial Mede’s advancing tide, We, votaresses, to Cythera pray’d; Th’ indulgent power vouchsafed her timely aid, And kept the citadel of Hellas free From rude assaults of Persia’s archery." -Plutarch: Of Herodotus' Malice can cure infertility

"Aegeus also, and his whole private family, laboring under the same distemper; for Medea, having fled from Corinth, and promised Aegeus to make him, by her art, capable of having children, was living with him."-Plutarch: Life of Theseus

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"It is remembered of Medea that she lived in Corinth and stopped the famine afflicting the Corinthians by sacrificing to Demeter and the Lemnian nymphs. There Zeus fell in love with her, but Medea did not yield, turning aside the wrath of Hera. Therefore Hera promised to make her children immortal. And after they died, the Corinthians honor them, calling them Mixobarbaroi ("mixed-barbarians")." "But that Medea was loved by Sisyphus, Theopompos says." -scholia to pindar

"is also expounded . But since Medea was the queen of Corinth , Eumelus [frg. 3] Simonides also tells [frg. 48] that Medea was also immortal

"Pelias' daughter : Medea , the daughter of Peleus , persuaded her father to slaughter and roast him as if he were a younger son , she roasted an older ram and made him a lamb with the medicines " BRO WHAT THE FUCK

"She was pleasing indeed: She was pleasing to the Corinthians, since when they were starving she healed them with certain incantations, and she herself also was pleased with Corinth, since the Corinthians are also said to be skilled in drugs. And we know that like things are dear to like things, and that they take delight in one another." -scholia to pindar yo ngl I really like this version like of course they would like medea she is magic

#greek mythology #ancient greece #ancient greek mythology #medea #medea of colchis #medus son of medea #thessalus #aegeus #thetis #heracles #hercules #I DONT CARE THAT SHE KILLED HER KIDS #all the best heros kill thier kids

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