The Ancient World

superfluidity asked: I'm a graduate student in Classics, currently living in Athens, who studies Greek literature and language (especially Linear B, Greek linguistics, Homer, Pindar, Strabo), and intellectual history (especially ancient linguistics, Alexandrian science and scholarship, and book history), which are regular topics of my personal tumblr.

Thanks for the message. It’s very cool that you live in Athens. I’d like to live there as well some day.

Check out this blog, everyone. It has a lot of information, quotes, and art of the ancient Greeks.

Helmeted head of the god Mars (Ares) Roman Provincial, Imperial Period, about A.D. 135

Helmeted head of the god Mars (Ares)

Roman Provincial, Imperial Period, about A.D. 135

Strigilated vase with snake handles and lid, second half of 2nd century a.d.; AntonineRomanMarble

Strigilated vase with snake handles and lid, second half of 2nd century a.d.; Antonine
Roman
Marble

Head of a goddess or queen Greek, Ptolemaic, Hellenistic Period, about 300–270 B.C.

Head of a goddess or queen

Greek, Ptolemaic, Hellenistic Period, about 300–270 B.C.

Short sword (duan jian), ca. 4th–1st century b.c.Eastern Central AsiaSteel, bronze, and gold

Short sword (duan jian), ca. 4th–1st century b.c.
Eastern Central Asia
Steel, bronze, and gold

Section of a pilaster with acanthus scrolls, first half of 1st century a.d.; Julio-ClaudianRomanMarble

Section of a pilaster with acanthus scrolls, first half of 1st century a.d.; Julio-Claudian
Roman
Marble

Fragment of a military diploma, Mid-Imperial, Trajanic, 113/14 a.d.RomanBronze Most surviving Roman military diploma belonged to army veterans. These discharge papers, however, were issued by the emperor Trajan to sailors on a warship, a quadrireme, in the imperial fleet based in Misenum on the Bay of Naples. The ship may have formed part of the flotilla that escorted the emperor from Italy to the East for the Parthian War (114–117 A.D.).

Fragment of a military diploma, Mid-Imperial, Trajanic, 113/14 a.d.
Roman
Bronze

Most surviving Roman military diploma belonged to army veterans. These discharge papers, however, were issued by the emperor Trajan to sailors on a warship, a quadrireme, in the imperial fleet based in Misenum on the Bay of Naples. The ship may have formed part of the flotilla that escorted the emperor from Italy to the East for the Parthian War (114–117 A.D.).

Wedjet eye, Ptolemaic Period (ca. 304–30 b.c.)EgyptianGold

Wedjet eye, Ptolemaic Period (ca. 304–30 b.c.)
Egyptian
Gold

a-world-at-war asked: Also I've recently started a blog about the ancient world that mainly focuses on warfare in the ancient world, although I try to write as much as i can about the people I'm studying.

Nice beginnings of a blog. Thanks for sending a message. Hope you continue to post.

A new blog on warfare, weaponry, and the like in the ancient world. Detailed descriptions of the subject matter.

Statuette of Nike (personification of victory), late 5th century b.c.; ClassicalGreekTerracotta

Statuette of Nike (personification of victory), late 5th century b.c.; Classical
Greek
Terracotta