#Etruscans

Cass Morris ✨

Something I forgot to talk aobut on the episode was the idea of modesty at the dinner table in ancient Rome.https://twitter.com/worldbuildcast/status/1387489298732265473 When we think of Roman banquets, we think of

Razib 🥥 Khan

one of the phenomenon that you notice when looking at genetic and ethnographic data isbtwn group variation in culture >>> btwn group variation in geneticsto anyone familiar with cult evolution

Seek help, Jude

I've got a little shaggy dog tale about etymology. It's a little blue, but I think you'll like it. Let's talk about Fascism.As we know it today, the word fascism

Francesca Tacchi 🫒 Italian history & shitposting

Btw, since I'm too anxious to read fiction I've bought a book about Etruscan religion and mythology. I'll report the most interesting bits on this thread!ETRUSCAN RELIGION AND MYTHSBut first,

𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧With the foreign influence, Roman religion slowly changed from animism to the anthropomorphized version of d

Julia Gottschalk

Hey #CLST6 ! There are many different methods that we can use to understand the four-dimensional puzzle that is ancient Rome. These methods include archaeology, architecture such as temples, maps,

In opposition to one of the few mutuals whose opinion I care about, I shall now be doing a hot takes challenge, but exclusively in the form of factional beef,

1FreeInhabitant

282) Trump, the greatest actor, Part III... 283) If you're new to this thread, you can start w/ Part 1 here:https://twitter.com/1FreeInhabitant/status/1099515180008955904Part 2 here:https://twitter.com/1FreeInhabitant/status/11932116197

For #LookCloser6, I took a virtual tour of Room 70-in "The Wolfson Gallery"-of the British Museum in London. I particularly paid attention to the curation and the arrangement with which

Pallando the Blue

RANT ABOUT THE INDO-EUROPEAN QUESTIONEver since the emergence of historical linguistics as an independent branch of research, we have been aware of the existence of Indo-european languages. The reconstruction of

Suede Santoro 👣

"Italians during this period (1876- 1930) were the targets of mass lynchings & subject to slurs like “guinea” (a person of mixed-race ancestry), “dago”(because Italians were paid as a “day goes”

IMPORTANT THREAD- #ram #RamNavamiSri Ram & Vedic History of the worldShri Rama was worshiped all over the world by people, emperors and Kings in the past during ancient times; and

Αποθέωσις; The Immortal

For me, this shows some things..1. Growing in a "Christian home" can be the greatest obstacle and yet the biggest step to knowing God. It just depends on which side

Towards Synthesis

Where did this child sacrificing "elite" cult come from? If we trace them back a few thousand years we can easily see these same practices being used by the Phonecians.

ur goth dyke mom

also periodic reminder that almost everything you think of as "traditional european food" is actually fusion cuisinehttps://twitter.com/beka_valentine/status/1380579570290552833 pasta is Italian ok but the noodles came from China

So a while back I did this thread about how almost everything we "know" about the Minoans was made up by Arthur Evans to soothe a European inferiority complex about