Stephen Fry urges return of Parthenon sculptures to Greece

Just as the title is asking, I was wondering what the word was for this if anyone knew. I’ve heard it before, but that was a long while ago and I just can’t remember the term for it. Ancient Greek theater playwrights and such created this term to describe a play or the idea of creating a play where there is so much comedy in it that it takes away the substance of the plot so to speak, they said it was some form of trying to play it safe and make it so lighthearted that everyone would like it, even if it takes away from the story quite a bit.

Trying to remember this term for months now and I still can’t remember it. Thanks guys.

i'm looking to get a tattoo of a wreath around my forearm and would love some advice on how to incorporate historically accurate/informed elements into its design. from my understanding, laurel wreaths were used at the Pythian games and olive wreaths at the Olympic games. i've also seen wreaths with ribbons hanging on funeral stelai. does anyone have any further resources on their design in art or sculpture that could be of use?

or did they believe it to be the real account of how things went?

As an Alexander the Great geek I've been trying to learn as much about the Macedonian king as I can and I'm always trying to learn more, but here are some fun facts that I've learned about him:

He was 5'7.

He slept with an annotated copy of the Iliad given to him by his tutor Aristotle under his pillow.

He most likely had Heterochromia iridum - one eye was blue, the other was brown.

He smelled GREAT apparently.

Our "short" king apparently had a deep voice lol.

He would sometimes jump off a moving chariot and run alongside it to race it, as he enjoyed running/sprinting.

During his campaign, he once started a staged naval battle using his favorite food as his mens weapons, apples.

During his campaign he and his boyfr- I mean his best friend Hephaestion visited the tombs of Achilles and Patroclus, with them placing garlands on their statues. Alexander crowned Achilles' statue and Hephaestion crowned Patroclus's. Afterward, they anointed themselves with oil and ran around the statues naked.

When his favorite war horse, Bucephalus, a war horse he'd tamed and had since his early teens died he named a city after him, and appears to have done the same thing for his dog Peritas.

When his beloved Hephaestion died of an unknown illness (but seemingly brought on by excessive drinking) it plunged Alexander into despair. He laid over the body and stayed there weeping all day and night, refusing food or drink, and eventually had to be dragged away by his men.

In the following days he either lay in bed in silence or lay there softly weeping. He shaved his head, to them a sign of mourning, and ordered that the fire meant to signify the death of the king (i.e himself) be extinguished.

He ordered that the temple built for the Greek god of healing be destroyed, and had Hephaestion be declared a divine hero.

Still planning monuments nine months later, dedicated to his bro, he too would end up passing away.

He died at age thirty two, after having conquered most of the known world.

To those are knowledgeable on the subject, are there any specific element of the Parthenon marbles that is, so to speak, sliced and split between Athens and London. For example, is there a head of a statue that is Athens and the body in the British Museums? If so, which ones are they?

Hi friends, I'm planning to get a tattoo of Menander's 'Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος' and hoping someone could confirm the capitalised version would be 'ΑΝΕΡΡΙΦΘΩΚΥΒΟΣ'.

All advice much appreciated.

Hello,

Everytime I travel, I'm trying to deepen my knowledge about places, cultures ...
I've been to Ephesus lately, and I took a picture of an inscription in marble, I'm trying to decipher it but I don't know anything about ancient greek, and even with AI I can't find anything satisfaying.

Can you help me with that?
Tank you

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I often get stuck on understanding the Peripatetics even though I have read many works by Aristotle and practically all the surviving works of Aristoxenus and Theophrastus.

Laertius never really makes clear to us what exactly these values are and the whole school seems to me to be more concerned with classifying and explaining things than to espouse some sort of ethical philosophy or concrete dogma.

This also seems to be the case when we hear about Diceaerchus and Heracleides Ponticus, whose works have not really survived.

I’m working on a story that involves a mythological creature similar to a Vrykolakas (a harmful undead creature, sometimes seen as a vampire).

The creature I’m writing would eat the spirit (pneuma) instead of physical flesh and blood. I haven’t been able to find any words or existing mythology around a “spirit eater(phágos)/devourer(grăstḗr)/thief(kléptēs)” to base a name off of.

In a similar fashion that the word nosophoros means “disease-bearing” is there a way I can combine the words above to create a single word that still conveys the general meaning? Any help would be appreciated!