#Thera

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Chairopoleia.

Date: A.D. 1-50

Place of origin: Thera, Santorini

Medium: Marble

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 10: Ancient History III

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration. I'm combining some similar ones, so some are going to be a little vague. I'm going to also split into a whole lot of different polls because there were so many good and creative ideas. (Seriously, I love the people of Tumblr).

Please add new suggestions for this category below if you have them for future consideration.

You are welcome to suggest specific things from the Library of Alexandria. There will be polls for that.

[no-barbarians-here]

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

[epestrefe]

Σαντορίνη,μία εξαιρετική φωτογραφία από την δεκαετία του 1930 και το παλιό λιμάνι των Φηρών.

[victusinveritas]

Minoan fresco in the House of Women in Thera - Akrotiri-Santorini-1600 BC.

[life-spire]

Thera, Greece (by Senad Dzinic Dzine)

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[whencyclopedia]

Foundation Decree of Cyrene

The Foundation Decree of Cyrene (c. 322 BCE) is a covenant between the citizens of Cyrene in North Africa in the 4th century BCE and those of their mother-state of Thera granting any who wish to become Cyrenean citizens the same rights and freedoms as those who settled the colony in 631 BCE.

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[meadowmood]

Not sure if anyone remembers my old college work (specifically my exhibition project) but I've actually been developing the heck out of the world I created back then. It actually has a plot and characters now!

This is Haushlaya, last archmage of the Paragin (with a Mornshova cameo at the bottom there).

[uwmspeccoll]

Excavations at Thera

The destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Vesuvius has become synonymous with the nature disaster of volcanic eruptions. The eruption of Vesuvius, among the deadliest in history, was the first natural disaster of its kind to have a first-handwritten account and this documented event has persisted in the public consciousness for nearly two millennia. Yet, despite being the one of the most famous and the deadliest, the eruption of Vesuvius is far from the most destructive. That honor might well go to the eruption of Thera in the 16th or 17th century BCE.

Excavations conducted on this Cycladic Island (among the Aegean Islands), such as the ones recorded in Excavations at Thera a seven-volume set of reports written by by the noted Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos and published by Archaiologikē Hetaireia en Athēnais between 1967-1971, showed that during the Minoan period (2000-1200 BCE) Thera once held an integral port city. Remains showed that though the city was flourishing, its inhabitants abandoned the island for reasons that would soon become apparent to the excavators. It didn’t take long for archaeologists to discover that Thera once held an oval shape, differing greatly to the crescent it is today. Further inspection revealed that several ancient structures were far underwater, pointing to the island collapsing in on itself after their construction. It wasn’t long before the pieces were put together, leading to the discovery that Thera once held an active volcano that erupted in the Minoan period, destroying the island in its entirety.

The collapse of the Minoan civilization has been a mystery that persists to this day, yet finding this once active volcano led many to draw lines of connection between the two events. The reports written by Professor Marinatos reference this theory as near fact when describing the history of the ancient civilization. Such a theory does make a good amount of sense as this eruption would have been much greater than that of Vesuvius with estimated effects reaching all the way to China with reports of a series of harsh winters. Yet as excavations on both the Cycladic Islands and Crete continued, the date for the eruption got pushed back as the fall of the Minoan civilization crept forward. Currently the most accurate date for the eruption of Thera is 1628 BCE with some room for error while the fall of the Minoans sits between 1200-1100 BCE.  

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– LauraJean, Special Collections Undergraduate Classics Intern

[orange-coloredsky]

aotc incant list growing . my crops are thriving

[kyousystem]

It is with great pleasure that I bring you THERA 2!

Watch along as Hera and Despera bring you a Halloween special, joined by a new co-host and some visiting guests!

There may or may not be some bonus content as well~

>>> https://kyousystem.itch.io/thera <<<

[psychedex]

stuck with an insane therapist what will she do

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 37: Ancient History XVII and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[no-barbarians-here]

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

[michael-svetbird]

2 HEADS | Female [Aphrodite?], Male [portrait]: Both from Thera [Santorini, Cyclades], Marble Female : Roman-Hellenistic Period, ca 1-2 BC [?] Male : 2 AD.

[Loan from] Archaeological Museum of Thera | AMT Exhibited [06|23] in Baths of Diocletian, Museo Nazionale Romano "The Instant and Eternity, Between us and the ancients" exhibition • Web : https://museonazionaleromano.beniculturali.it/en/baths-of-diocletian • IG : @museonazionaleromano

AMT BOD | Michael Svetbird phs©msp | 18|06|23 6200X4100 600 The photographed object is the collection item of AMT and subject to copyrights. [non commercial use | sorry for the watermarks]

📸 Part of the "HEADS.Sculpture" MSP Online Photo-gallery:

👉 D-ART: https://www.deviantart.com/svetbird1234/gallery/78520831/heads-sculpture

👉 FB Album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set?set=a.1400262423675664&type=3

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[justplainmels]

4.10 | Beneath the Surface

“That’s different, it’s called stamina.”