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Io Vestalia everyone!🔥🌿🫓 Heres my illustration of the temple to Vesta in the Roman Forum with worshippers 🏛️ i just love how colourful ancient Rome was! During the Vestalia celebrations women could enter the Temple of Vesta (barefoot) to leave her offerings. Donkeys, sacred to the goddess, were also decorated with flowers and mini loaves of bread (so cute!). Overall the goddess was celebrated to ensure Rome's own prosperity. I've chosen to depict the Severan reconstruction of the temple, built under Julia Domna after a devastating fire. This new build was significantly different from it's predecessor, which was supposedly destroyed completely in the fire. While Ovid (100 years before) stated that the temple had /no/ statue inside, I've seen that Domna's coins depicting her new temple show a figure of Vesta inside. While this could be an allegorical image, the figure is seated, which makes me believe it depicts an actual statue.

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I was bamboozled by this copper merchant. Stay away from these swindlers.

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Still playing around with it, but here’s my Hermes design!!!

And something extra BEJSHEJ //hits play on Wouldn’t You Like

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Okay, going to try this again now that I have the adverts converted to images! Please email me at the email listed in the advert - I have them in both English and Greek (the questionnaire is available in both languages). I'll put the transcription of both under the cut. Looking forward to hearing from those who are keen to participate!

PARTICIPANTS WANTED

Project Title

By Whose Authority: ‘Accuracy’ of Ancient Greek Religious Practices by Contemporary Practitioners – Questionnaire for Ethnography Chapter

This study is being conducted as part of my, Aneirin Pendragon’s, PhD Thesis in the Classics Department at the University of St Andrews.

We invite you to participate in an online questionnaire concerning aspects of religious worship and the role of authority for adults (18+) who identify as Hellenic Polytheists or closely related religions that concerns worship of the Greek gods in a contemporary context. This questionnaire will take approximately 20-30 minutes. Individuals will have the option to elect to do in-depth interviews on a voluntary basis to expand upon what they answered within the questionnaire, to be scheduled with those who volunteer to do so.

If you are interested, please get in contact using the details below. You will then be given a Participant Information Sheet that further details my research and have the opportunity to ask questions, before being asked whether you consent to participate.

Contact Details

Researcher:                     Aneirin Pendragon

                                         Prof Jason König (Supervisor)

                                         Dr Ralph Anderson (Supervisor)

Contact Details:              Aneirin Pendragon

                                         ap362@st-andrews.ac.uk

                                         +44 (0)1334 462600

Prof Jason König (Supervisor)

jpk3@st-andrews.ac.uk

+44 (0)1334 462600

                                         Dr Ralph Anderson (Supervisor)

                                         rta1@st-andrews.ac.uk

                                         +44 (0)1334 462600                   

ΖΗΤΟΥΝΤΑΙ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΕΧΟΝΤΕΣ

Τίτλος Εργασίας

Σύμφωνα με Ποια Αυθεντία: Η 'Ακρίβεια' των Αρχαιοελληνικών Πρακτικών Λατρείας των Σύγχρονων Λατρευτών - Ερωτηματολόγιο για το Κεφάλαιο Εθνογραφίας

Η έρευνα αυτή διεξάγεται ως μέρος της διδακτορικής διατριβής της Aneirin Pendragon στο τμήμα Κλασικών Σπουδών στο Πανεπιστήμιο του St Andrews.

Σας καλούμε να συμμετάσχετε σε ένα ηλεκτρονικό ερωτηματολόγιο που αφορά τη θρησκευτική λατρεία και το ρόλο της αυθεντίας σε αυτήν για ενήλικες (18+) που προσδιορίζονται ως Ελληνικοί Πολυθεϊστές ή ως μέλος άλλης, στενά σχετιζόμενης, θρησκείας που περιλαμβάνει τη λατρεία των Ελλήνων θεών στη σύγχρονη εποχή. Αυτό το ερωτηματολόγιο θα διαρκέσει περίπου 20-30 λεπτά. Οι συμμετέχοντες θα έχουν την επιλογή να λάβουν μέρος σε εις βάθους συνεντεύξεις εθελοντικά, ώστε να αναπτύξουν τις απαντήσεις που έδωσαν στο ερωτηματολόγιο. Οι συνεντεύξεις αυτές θα οριστ��κοποιηθούν κατόπιν επικοινωνίας με τους εθελοντές που θα προσφερθούν.

Αν ενδιαφέρεστε, παρακαλείστε να επικοινωνήσετε χρησιμοποιώντας τα παρακάτω στοιχεία επικοινωνίας. Θα σας δοθεί ένα Έντυπο Πληροφόρησης Συμμετεχόντων, το οποίο αναλύει την έρευνά μου περαιτέρω και θα έχετε την ευκαιρία να κάνετε ερωτήσεις πριν απαντήσετε για το αν συναινείτε για τη συμμετοχή σας στην έρευνα.

Στοιχεία Επικοινωνίας

Ερευνήτρια:                    Aneirin Pendragon

                                         Καθηγητής Jason König (Επιβλέπων)

                                         Dr Ralph Anderson (Επιβλέπων)

Στοιχεία Επικοινωνίας: Aneirin Pendragon

                                         ap362@st-andrews.ac.uk

                                         +44 (0)1334 462600

Καθηγητής Jason König (Επιβλέπων)

jpk3@st-andrews.ac.uk

+44 (0)1334 462600

                                        Dr Ralph Anderson (Επιβλέπων)

                                         rta1@st-andrews.ac.uk

                                         +44 (0)1334 462600         

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Atalanta#8 "Aphrodites Revenge"

The marriage between Hippomenes and Atalanta proves strong and true, and Hippomenes doesn’t stifle his wife’s wild independence. On the contrary, he loves her the more for it. Many days they hunt together in the forests, and before long they have a son, Parthenopaeus. However, Hippomenes made an unforgivable mistake. He forgot to honor and sacrifice to Aphrodite for helping him win the foot race. The Olympians do not forget such things easily, and the goddess plans her revenge. One day the pair rest inside a cave dedicated to the mother goddess Cybele, where Aphrodite bewitches the two with lust, and they lay together within site of the gods. Furious at the blasphemous act, Cybele turns the lovers to lions, and put them under the harnesses of the Goddesses chariot.

Atalanta and Hippomenes son, Parthenopaeus, has his own epic life and story, as he goes on to be one of the captains in “The Seven Against Thebes” play. The third in a trilogy by “the father of Greek tragedy”, Aeschylus, the play concerns the two sons of King Oedipus of Thebes, Eteocles, who refuses to relinquish the throne, and Polynices, the other son who leads a revolt army led by seven Argive (from city-state of Argos) captains.

Cybele, a mother goddess of fertility, motherhood, and wilds, has her roots in Anatolia (Turkey), also knows as Asia Minor, in the kingdom of Phrygia. Using the title of Meter Theon, or “Mother of the gods,” the Greek equivalent would be Rhea. The goddess was born a hermaphrodite, but the other gods, fearing this duality, cut of her penis and discarded it. Later, when her mortal lover, Attis, spurns her, she drives him crazy and he amputates his penis and bleeds to death at the base of a pine tree. Thus, Cybele’s cult was run by transgender eunuch priests; the Galli. The orgiastic rites of the cult of Cybele share similarities with the cult of Dionysus. Apparently the priests and other followers, in honor of Cybeles castration, would work themselves into a frenzy, and mutilate and bleed themselves upon violets (representing Attis blood) adorned on a sacred pine tree.

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I'm inviting participants 18 years or older who identify as Hellenic Polytheist practitioners or closely related religions that include worship of the Greek gods to participate in a questionnaire for my PhD thesis. If interested, I will send over the participant information.

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Beware the Ides of March

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Going to the Scottish Pagan Federation Conference in Glasgow today. If you see me, feel free to say hi 🥰

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one last job

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A call for papers for postgraduates for the ICS Work in Progress Seminar. Speakers will give a paper of about 45 minutes’ duration, dealing with any subject connected with the ancient world (broadly defined), the reception of antiquity, or classical scholarship. Abstract should be 300 words, a working title for the paper, your preferred term, and your attendance preference (online, in person). We are also accepting panel sessions of two coordinated papers. These sessions consist of two closely related 25-minute papers. Submissions for coordinated panels should include two abstracts of around 200 words each and an overview of the panel of around 100 words. Submissions should be directed to the seminar’s joint chairs at postgradwip@gmail.com.

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The double herma with the two major ancient Greek historians, Herodotus and Thucydides

Portrait double (twin) herma of Herodotus and Thucydides, archetype from 400-350 BC. Plaster cast. Gallery of Classical Art in Hostinné. Original: Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (inv. 6239)

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herma_of_Herodotus_and_Thucydides,_Thucydides,_Plaster_cast,_Hostinn%C3%A9,_188444.jpg

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Sons Of The Labyrinth or The Things Our Fathers Do To Us

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I legitimately need the 20 volume run of a manga for an academic reason

In the States, I was used to my uni library carrying fiction in general, and being able to request ILLs for them if they didn’t have it. And yes, I do realise that the USA is bigger than the UK (trust me, I’m aware, I used to take 12 hour road trips every summer and if I did that here, I’d be in the sea), but it’s weird to me that their response to ‘I’m requesting these three books’ (because I didn’t want to overwhelm them with a request for TWENTY all at once), and their response was to tell me to buy them myself.

They told me because all of the ILLs would be outside of the UK (which I find hard to believe that they’re not ANYWHERE here? At all???), they would be too expensive. I went to the Public Library, and I wasn’t prepared for how small it was. I asked them if they could check for me to see if any other libraries had it. No one in Fife had it. I asked if they did ILLs. They did, but they cost £6 for each one outside of Fife. And, again, at that point, I might as well buy them myself. Which, again, I cannot afford to do. (If I could buy every book/series I wanted to in order to write up my research, I would. Alas!)

I put in my request to the university library to buy the entire series, knowing they’ll probably deny it (which, again, I’m confused if they think it’s so cheap I can buy it, and if they come back with it’s too expensive for the library, I might freak out), even though I need it for legitimate academic reasons.

Please remember that a lot of humanities students use fiction in their research and relevant academic work, and to tell a student to just buy the books themselves because they’re ~so cheap on eBay~ is not the right response to an ILL request.

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Actual roman epitaph for a dog