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Iphigenia the heroine of Athens 1 Sep 2012 | 06:45 pm
The sacrifice is a term purely drawn from the vocabulary of religious practice. It practically means the loss of an ‘element’ we need so much. It then became an offering in honour of the gods – or god...
Female Power In Antiquity - Athens Exhibition 1 Sep 2012 | 06:17 pm
Female Power In Antiquity 'Worshipping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens is part of the celebrations marking the 120th anniversary of the inauguration of the museum’s Patission building, ...
Athenian tragedy: celebrating the gods 6 May 2012 | 06:20 am
Dionysos mask, found in Myrina (now in Turkey). Terracotta, 2nd–1st centuries BC. Louvre Museum Myr 347. © Joseph Jastrow 2005 / Wikimedia Public Domain Recently I am enjoying the company of a new bo...
Hegeteria, the fig-cake of purification 3 Mar 2012 | 05:27 am
Peplos scene. Block V (fragment) from the east frieze of the Parthenon, ca. 447–433 BC. British Museum, main floor, room 16. Source: Wikimedia under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 On the 25th of T...
Gods sacrificing: iconography and divine ritual praxis 29 Dec 2011 | 02:00 pm
Libation of Artemis and Apollo at the omphalos. Master of Shuvalov (?), ca. 440 BC. Pushkin Museum. Ⓒ Wikipedia user Shakko 2009 I had the immense pleasure to read the book by Kimberley Christine Pat...
Plato In A Nutshell 17 Dec 2011 | 02:42 am
For TROPAION readers with an interest in all things Socratic and Platonic: In this essay Tim Addey of the Prometheus Educational Trust suggests that: 'Of all the philosophers whose writings have...
Angels in Greco-Roman Religion and Polytheism 15 Dec 2011 | 04:43 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Lekythos with Winged Victory with Incense Holder at Metropolitan Art Museum. 2009 © Sharon Mollerus. I had the pleasure to read through the Rang...
Apuleius - Tales of Truth (Lecture - London - Jan. 2012) 27 Nov 2011 | 04:01 am
Apuleius - Tales of Truth A lecture by Tim Addey, 24th January 2012 – London.Apuleius (125-180 AD) was a Platonic philosopher of some note: two Platonic works of his survive – On the God of Socrates ....
The offering for the Gods: plakous cooking recipe 24 Sep 2011 | 04:22 am
Phineus defending himself from the Harpies, the second Harpy from the right holds in her right hand a cake that can be identified as plakous. Collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California...
The ritual boundaries of household worship 23 Sep 2011 | 02:00 am
In between two columns that represent the interior of an oikos stands a woman, reaching to an altar; a wreath is hung on the wall behind her. A scene comparable with Menanders discription of a domesti...
