Costume. Chitons.

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

that genuinely is it

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

lets bring back sheetwares

also chlamys:

and exomis:

trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins

Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day

Wear blanket. Conquer world.

That last one looks dope

Squares and rectangles: easy to weave!! No cutting means no hemming.

And easy to construct, you don’t have to have complicated seaming and patterning to turn fabric into clothing!

ancient Egyptian robes

This sort of clothing solution wasn’t just for the Mediterranean, or northern Africa, either. Behold the Belted Plaid:

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Has anyone already reblogged this with saris? It’s cool how many cultures have similarities like this hidden in plain sight.

https://kalaavarsha.com/how-to-wear-or-drape-a-saree/

Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1

It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.

I also know Thailand and Sri Lanka have their versions of a lungi as well.

Obsessed with John's commentary, it's so funny. Actual snitch. It's important to note none of the other gospels mention who cut the guy's ear off, and none mention Judas' thieving either

Shoutout to Michael Cacoyannis again and Θεόδωρος Δημήτριεφ (Theodoros Dimitrief) as Agamemnon for Electra (1962) 😍😍

I mean look at the amazing lion king almost literally! 😍 also shoutout how this movie has a more Mycenean perspective to the armor as well!

Also the way he interracts with his children! Honestly I am gonna cry!

And the way he hands his sword to Orestes to play with and immediately goes to hug Electra! And then the look he gives to his wife! He doesn't speak a single word and yet the look he gives her says it all!

The way he appears just in a few scenes without speaking a single word simply says it all! And the cinematography of the dude is unparalleled! Because we have Agamemnon's shield left on the ground outside the palace and Orestes playing with it by hitting it at a rhythm of a heartbeat! With his FATHER'S SWORD!

And in the bath scene we see first the helmet and then the breast plate being placed down on the ground:

AGAMEMNON IS LITERALLY LETTING HIS GUARD DOWN!!!

And that murder scene with the net! GOSH! Pure brutality and amazing cinematography!

Michael when I catch you!!!

So I cackled the new clip of jorge’s cut song that’s about achilles facing off against hector and this line is so abysmal it wraps back around to perfection and I just… I just had to make this

The triangles are doing WHAT

Things To Never Say To Someone Who Just Came Out : Iliad edition

Lmao I finished the watching the first episode of the House of David

Jonathan is a cutie, but woahh Ishbaal.. 💀 gahhh, he’s fine what. I lowkey like him lol. He’s similar to how I imagine Ishbaal

Not Jonathan’s dead wife tho… 😭

Also, Abner’s hair is so fine to me for some reason.

Also why they gotta do Agag like that, he’s freakyy, I honestly couldn’t stop cracking up whenever he appeared. They tried too hard to make him so grotesque to the point it’s comical. Bro began chanting spells and freaking tf out of Michal

Better see some good Saul torment next episode lol, that weird montage at the end with like Saul dissociating and freaking out after Samuel leaves kinda took me out a little lmao

But yayyy, I finally watched one episode

Odysseus’s ship

(Courtesy of the page people.hsc.edu)

Lo and behold the Penteconter a ship that has 50 oarsmen which most likely is a strong candidate on the ships used by the Greeks at the bronze age. (Known from other writings like Argonauts as well)

This type of boat has 50 oars (25 at every side) and a single mast and a sail. The sail was playing auxiliary purpose (the oars were still needed). So the ship was including 50 oarsmen, one navigator and a captain (roughly 53 people per shift) perhaps we can expect a few more people per ship if there is a change of a shift. We also do not count slaves and livestock.

So we expect that Odysseus started the trip from Ithaca to Troy with a crew somewhere between 625-725 people and counting the bare minimum losses at the trip more or less we get to have the people that oar back home. You can imagine also how tired his men were at the final parts of the journey when we expect the oarsmen were not sufficient even to row the boat (if they were less than 50) and they could not change the shifts

Honestly I understand why they wanted to stop at the island of Helios despite the fact Odysseus told them not to.

Adapted from this text post by @the-delta-42

I normally don't repost stuff but OMFG

if anyone finds the op on douyin I'm grateful 🙏

The way Odysseus places his hand on the shoulder of Agamemnon speaks a lot more than one can realize. Yes Odysseus was the sneaky figure in the movie, constantly coming out of the corners reminding Agamemnon that he knows and he can tell at any moment. Agamemnon called him double-faced and demagogue.

Even after that Odysseus will come to take Iphigenia because he follows the will of the Army and there is not much he can do not even him so he chose the ruthless face and yet if you see my other post you can see here during the private moments Odysseus shows true sympathy. He hesitates to read the note and now here he places a hand on the shoulder of a grieving father; like a father to another!

THIS is when he reveals his emotions and the silence between them even for one second is enough. They are men literally tanned and burnt under the same sun, stuck to a place before they go to a bloody war; two fathers with different distress.

THIS IS HOW YOU TAKE CREATIVE LIBERTIES! The director gave humanity to Odysseus to a play that usually pictures him as the soulless villain who would stop at nothing to get to war. This one is a father. Someone who shows his true colors in private and in distress

Yes I am trying to cleanse my eyes and head from the latest leak on yet another movie and yeah wanna see when people ACTUALLY respect greek myths ancient sources and take liberties that do not fuck the story up but give more dimensions and sides to the story!