#history posting

[troythecatfish]

The chart does not capture the astonishing fact that these accomplishments were achieved under brutal sanctions imposed by the world’s superpower. Viva la revolución.

They also have ad-free TV ✌️📺 (you don’t need commercials with Socialism).

[felixwhetsel]

did u know it wasn't confirmed that the titanic broke in half until the wreckage was discovered in 1985

[the-good-spartan]

Posts about Ancient Greek History

Things I write to help process information and assemble my notes and thoughts for future reference.

This is an ongoing project. I will add more over time.

My focus is primarily the Arkhidamian (Archidamian) War with a particular emphasis on Sparta, but I'm currently widening my focus to include the First Peloponnesian War, the Messenian Wars, and the lives of Demosthenes (the General) and Thucydides (the Historian).

Sparta

Their Culture

Spartan scholars be like

Introduction and List of Chief Sources

Becoming a Spartan Citizen, Part One: The Agoge.

Becoming a Spartan Citizen, Part Two: The Phiditia & Contributions to the Mess

Food for Warriors.

Spartan Social Structure: Part One - The Helots || Rent? Contracts?

Spartan Social Structure: Part Two - The Perioikoi

Spartan Social Structure: Part Three - Spartan Women

Spartan Social Structure: Part Four - The Hypomeiones

Stalkers in the Night: The Krypteia || Primary Sources: Krypteia

The Horses of Lakedaimon

The Spartan Political Structure: Damos, Ephors, Gerontes, Kings.

Spartan Men and their Hair || Examples of likely hairstyles

Felt Helmets

Rethinking the scale of Spartan mess and barrack buildings

Spartan Games

Ask: Did Homoioi Travel?

Military History

Background to the Third Messenian War

The Third Messenian War c. 464 BCE

The Battle of Tanagra c. 457 BCE

Maps (Mostly Related to Brasidas' Campaigns during the Arkhidamian War)

Sparta || Amphipolis 1 || Amphipolis 2 || Koryphasion (Pylos) & Sphakteria || Korinth/Nisaia || Brasidas' Campaign in Makedonia

Sparta in Pop Culture

A Cry of Frustration

Response to Anti-Spartan Sentiment

A Few Notes on God of War: Ragnarok (the Spartan Stuff)

Spartan Armour (this ain’t it)

Thinking About Spartans Thinking

A Distinction Between Sparta and Lakedaimon

Contracts? Rent?

Spartans and Their Aversion to Ranged Warfare?

Posts About Figures in the Arkhidamian War

Brasidas, Son of Tellis.

Probable Timeline of Brasidas' Life

Brasidas' Ossuary

Demosthenes, Son of Alkisthenes (The General):

As a Catalyst to the Battles of Spahkteria and Pylos?

A Few Notes

Alternative to Thucydides' Version of his Death

Thucydides, Son of Oloros (The Historian):

The Way Thucydides Thinks

A Few Notes

Posts about Polytheism and Mythology (Roman & Hellenic) :

Lakonian Royal Lineage (Mythological) || Sparta in the Catalogue of Ships || Helen, Kastor, Polydeukes

Chief Gods worshipped at Sparta (Not Ares!) || The Gods Worshipped at Sparta - further details.

Related Posts:

Roman and Hellenic Mythology: They are not the Same Thing

Mythology, the Gods and Gatekeeping: A Personal Take

Viewing History Through a Modern Lens

Graeco-Roman Art: A Cautionary Tale

[if-not-now-tell-me-when]

At this time 111 years ago today, 2,240 people were preparing to sail on the grandest ship in the world. Bags were being packed, goodbyes said and well wishes given as Titanic's passengers set off for her three ports of call: Southampton, Cherbourg and Queenstown. For 1500 of those people, it would be the last goodbye they ever gave their loved ones 💔

[the-rolling-libero]

just found out that the 18th century had a trend of burying smaller rivers beneath the city or diverting them entirely, and seeing that progression of maps slowly eating the river is so fascinating and also. so ghosts. did you know that you can walk along streets named after those rivers and relive the paths they took? did you know that some of these rivers still flow under the roads named after them, as if the architects burying them couldn't bear to let go of the river at all? that when you walk them you're shaping yourself into an echo of the lost landscape?

[earlgrey24]

If you've ever felt low-key stupid I hope this helps:

I have been reading about the Roman calendar for days now as a preparation for my exam, and I have only just realised it's still called a calendar today because of the kalends.

[irithnova]

Anyways sneak peek of my fucking huge upcoming post on Oirat Mongols

[cleaningbones]

[troythecatfish]

[felixwhetsel]

THE PARATROOPER WHO TURNED STRIPPER AFTER JUMPING BEHIND ENEMY LINES IN EUROPE, GI HAS SEX OPERATION, TURNS INTO WOMAN AND DISPLAYS 'HER' FIGURE TO CURIOUS BURLESQUE AUDIENCES BY DAN CHRISTOPHER Back in 1943, a lithe young figure pulled a rip-cord after dropping from a big Army plane and danced in the air, dangling from a parachute. There was a war in Europe and Robert Rees, a many-times decorated paratrooper, was jumping into enemy soil. Now 12 years later, the same figure does a considerable amount of dancing in a different setting. Instead of a ripcord, a G-string is now involved. And now the figure belongs to a young lady named Tamara Rees whose transition from paratrooper to stripper is one of the strangest chapters in the numerous sex-change operations in recent years. Unlike some others who have changed sex in a flurry of international publicity, Tamara describes herself as "a person who always was a woman and who has finally found the means of fitting properly into my own sex." Raised as a boy, then a man, Tamara never was either.

She was one of the tragic group called hermaphrodites, belonging physically to both sexes, but mentally only to one.

"It wasn't until three years ago that I had full medical proof of my conditions," Tamara explains. "I was what is technically called a pseudo-hermaphrodite. There is a person who appears to belong to one sex on the surface, but who actually has the interior physical characteristics of another."

After a sex operation in Europe, Tamara returned to the States and went into burlesque on a dare from friends.

"It was after I had done some lectures on psychology and sex that the idea occurred," Tamara relates. "I had appeared at the University of California and later before some private and American Legion groups to lecture.

"Then a friend talked me into appearing at the Alameda Theater, a dolly house in Sacramento. Believe me when I say that it was a real bump and grind education."

(continued in reblog)

[if-not-now-tell-me-when]

Hate watching Titanic documentaries that try to pin blame for the sinking on my favorite crew members. Like the one that tried to blame hitting the iceberg on Harold Bride. First of all, Bride never did anything wrong in his life, so write that down! My boy didn't stay in the wireless room until the power went out, get pinned under Collapsible B, spend the night with his feet in the freezing water, end up unable to walk due to frostbite and then spend days helping Harold Cottam send wireless messages instead of resting, only to be blamed for the sinking! 😡

[nodudeshutup]

reading reviews from mozart's contemporaries on his work is mostly just 'that was beautiful! sure was a lot though.'

[natequarter]

Executioner £200 Masses for the dead £150 Palaces £800 War with France £3,600 Banquets £150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my advisor is dying. nothing to do with the budgeting, but his execution is next week and i thought you should know

[sylvies-kablooie]

so deep in the metaphorical trenches of life that the gangrene is rotting my feet away. and brother, the lieutenant is approaching rapidly with a saw in hand.