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Lletty'r Filiast Prehistoric Burial Chamber, Great Orme, Wales
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In many ancient cultures and religious traditions, rulers and elite members of society not only had wives, they also had concubines.
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Panteón, Roma
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In the heart of ancient Mexico, from the 14th to the 16th century, a vibrant and powerful civilization thrived. The Aztecs, which are also known as Mexica or Tenochca, were most likely originated as a nomadic tribe of hunters and gatherers in northern Mexico. While searching for a permanent home which, according to their believes, would be determined by the appearance of an eagle perched on a nopal cactus with a serpent in its beak, in 1325 C.E. they arrived on a marshy land located around Lake Texcoco.
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An attempt was made to see how this IVC priest king would really look like irl :)
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HOW DID GREEKS AFFORD THE THEATER SHOWS?
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In Ancient Greece, during the classical period, theater was born. Of course, it was very different from the modern one, but that's where everything started.
Theater is the most interesting part of Greek literature and has so many peculiarities and characteristics that are really fascinating, but I wanna talk about one in particular.
How did they afford it?
Before getting into it, we have a couple of considerations to make.
Plays were represented only during religious festivals that were held every year: play writers had to present 3 tragedies and 1 satiric drama, which were acted out for the public and the judges who then had to choose a winner.
At these festivals, everyone participated: theater was the first form of public education and all citizens, didn't matter rich or poor, had to be there. To make sure that everyone could participate, the government paid the ticket for citizens who couldn't afford it.
So, each religious festival brought a lot of expenses.
But Ancient Greeks found a way to find the finances for them.
The government of the πόλις (= the city) knew how rich each citizen was, so they went to the richest and asked them to pay for the festival.
Usually, they didn't refuse, because it was a great honor, but it could happen that the chosen citizen said that he wasn't the richest. If that was the case, this citizen A had to indicate the actual richest citizen. So the government went to this citizen B and asked him to finance the festivities.
If citizen B then accused citizen A of lying and so on, it was applicated the αντιδοσις (antidosis): the two citizens had to switch their possessions, so the truth would have come out, as one would became poorer and the other richer.
However, this only happened in the theater of the V century.
In fact, in the IV century, apart from all the other changes, the government didn't pay for poor citizens anymore for money problems. So the public wasn't the πόλις (= the city) that needed to be educated anymore, but the already educated leading class.
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Earthenware female figurine, Chupicuaro culture (central Mexico) , 300 BC - 100 AD
The Walters Art Museum
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Tartessian Culture: the Tartessian was a near-mythical culture in Iron Age Iberia which was rich in resources and relatively advanced forms of technology, including shipbuilding and metallurgy - and then it disappeared.
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Do you know much about Thracians and their worship of Ares?
I have scarce knowledge about the Thracians so I had to do some research about their religion and.... they did not worship Ares??? The Thracian religion had two deities, a female one (Bendis) and a male one (Zis) and then a demigod (Zalmoxis / Orpheus). These deities encompassed all the qualities traditionally associated with their sex, so Zis was a father god and he had multiple sides to him, he was celestial, chthonic, a hero, a hunter, a royal ancestor of humanity and a warrior. Warrior Zis took a wolf-like appearance and was riding a horse. He was often described in the Thracian language as "bestial".
There is something in ancient literature described as interpretatio graeca, which means that a load of info we have about ancient cultures come from the descriptions of the Greeks and not the other ancient cultures themselves. In this case, Herodotus wrote about the Thracian religion and it is believed his works are a prime example of interpretatio graeca as he was trying to make the foreign religion easily comprehensible to his contemporary Greeks. So, Herodotus would say things like "this is their Ares", "this is their Artemis" and so on. However, the structure of the Thracian mythology appears quite different from the Greek one, especially in its origins.
What could also perplex matters is that Greeks from their side considered the Thracians descendants of Ares, because they were renowned warrior people, but that doesn't mean Thracians worshipped the exact "Ares" Greeks had (and barely even worshipped).
This is an interesting difference. The warrior quality is given to the Thracian father god. Greeks reserve this role for the father god's son who was not all that worshipped either. While Greeks really admired good warriors either among themselves or in other nations, they did not acknowledge themselves as appreciative of the frenzy of war and this is even reflected on how often gods, even Zeus, appeared to dislike and avoid Ares. On the contrary, it is clear that Greeks considered Athena as their primary deity of war, since they viewed themselves as supporters of the defensive war or the war that is inescapable or fully justified or a war that is based on strategy and the evaluation of cost and benefits rather than the wild manly joy or sheer force that was associated with war in some ancient cultures. Furthermore, Ares is portrayed as a young, handsome and strong warrior who however has an unpleasant attitude and does not possess many heroic qualities. So the worship of warrior Zis and the, well, more lukewarm worship of Ares were different.
However, Greeks extensively moved and settled north and a few Thracians did move south (some became mercenaries in Greek armies) and at these points their myths were blending a lot. Usually there are significant differences in the various tellings but there is also a lot of overlap. After the Greco-Thracian interaction, it was often that Thracians would use Greek equivalent names to address the aspects of their gods more easily, so if they wanted to talk about the warrior Zis, they might have said, "Ares". But he was actually a different god.
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Achnabreck Prehistoric Rock Art Panels, nr. Lochgilphead, Argyll, Scotland
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House of the Vestals, Forum, Rome
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Mesopotamia, the Cradle of Civilization. Grown around the fertile lands of Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the historical region Mesopotamia housed some of the world's most ancient highly developed civilizations, such as Sumerians and Akkadians
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