The gynaeceum, a term from ancient Greek gunaikon, was a part of an ancient Greek home designated for women’s quarters. It is associated with the classical period (c. 500-323 BC) and Athens. In 1858, Jean-Léon Gérôme helped decorate Prince Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte’s Paris house in the Pompeian style. Gérôme also contributed to the painting of Ave Caesar! Morituri te Salutant, which was shown at the Salon of 1859.
Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor known for his academicism style, which included historical and exotic art. His work includes the Greek Interior (1850 or 1860s), an oil on canvas depiction of a brothel. The Gynaeceum or ancient Greek Interior is a 19th-century painting in the Academic and Orientalist style by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. The painting shows the women’s area or gynaeceum within a large Greek house, where unmarried women relaxed and socialized.
The gynaeceum is associated with the classical period and Athens. In 1858, Gérôme helped decorate Prince Bonaparte’s Paris house in the Pompeian style, which was later purchased by the prince. Gérôme’s work, including his famous painting “Ave Caesar!”, showcased his ability to combine scholarly and popular appeal in his art.
📹 A day in the life of an ancient Athenian – Robert Garland
It’s 427 BCE, and the worst internal conflict ever to occur in the ancient Greek world is in its fourth year. Athens is facing a big …
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“A ship was immediately dispatched to Mytilene to countermand the execution order sent out the previous day. The Mytilenean representatives in Athens offered a sizable reward to the crew if the ship arrived in time to prevent the executions. Rowing day and night, sleeping in shifts, and eating at their oars, the rowers of the second trireme managed to make up the first ship’s one day lead and arrive at Mytilene just as Paches was reading the original order, in time to prevent its execution.” – Wikipedia page on Mytilenean revolt, Thucidides account
I’d love the Ted-Ed articles 2,000 years from now, talking about a day in the life of someone today…. “Andy, a student, drank too much the night before, so he slept in today. Although he was meant to be working on his dissertation, he sat and watched articles about people in Ancient Athens. ” That’s literally it.
As a Greek student who has been taught about the Peloponnesian war at school an awful amount of times, I find this way of learning about it much more interesting than just reading straight from a book. You focus on the main events of the war and also get to see what everyday life was like back then. I wish classes were more like that, students would be way more interested in the subject Great article though ~
I live in Mytilene and its nice to see that you mentioned us. But there is something wrong here: Mytilenians did not betray their alliance with Athenians. Athenians instead controlled the alliance in a harsh way towards its members, forcing them to pay annually either by giving money or ships. Mytilene and other cities protested trying to leave the alliance but Athenians didnt let them, and ended up violently stopping them as it was mentioned in the article.
Like the Greeks, my ancestors in Iran were also organized. They innovated and had great culture. Not so sure about now though. Let’s not even start with how they are now. Our Greek brothers and sisters are in the same boat with corruption and sell out officials. Here’s to a better Greece and Iran. We will all rise again.
This is a great article with alot of reasearch and hard work done. The only small thingy that is wrong is the translation from ancient Greek to English. “Τοίς αγορεύσει βούλετε;” means “Who wants to talk?” not “Who wants to address the assembly?”. But other than that very small mistake everything other is perfect.
Discussing and deciding all together in public space like Agorà is the highest and only true form of democracy, but this will never be possible until people won’t be free from working. You simply don’t have time to partecipate to public meetings, as well as educating yourself to make true conscious decisions (those made by the people in our democracies are probably not). I wonder if Artificial Intelligence will ever truly free humans from work, giving us the chance to establish a true democracy. What do you think guys?
As a Greek, I am fascinated by our history, yet I can’t help but think what would our ancestors think of us if they ever saw us what have we become today? A mere shadow of the country that existed before everything, and gave birth to civilizations on the planet. I am proud and ashamed at the same time….
Στην Ελλάδα βρέθηκε το αρχαιότερο αλφάβητο της Ανθρωπότητας! Στο Δισπηλιό Καστοριάς ανακαλύφθηκε το 1993 μ.Χ. από την Αρχαιολογική ομάδα του Πανεπιστημιακού Καθηγητή Γεωργίου Χουρμουζιάδη Νεολιθικός οικισμός της λίμνης, που είχε γραφή κι αλφάβητο, και μία ξύλινη πινακίδα του 5260 π.Χ. με γράμματα. Η ξύλινη πινακίδα με την επιγραφή χρονολογήθηκε επακριβώς με τη μέθοδο του άνθρακα-14 στον «Δημόκριτο» στο 5260 π.Χ., δηλαδή στο τέλος της μέσης Νεολιθικής Περιόδου. Πρόκειται για την αρχαιότερη γραφή που έχει βρεθεί παγκοσμίως. Τα γράμματα μπορούν να ενταχθούν στο σύστημα της παλαιοευρωπαϊκής γραφής και μάλιστα στην πρώιμη φάση της. Ανατρέπεται η θεωρία πως οι Έλληνες-όπως μας διδάσκουν- έλαβαν το φως εξ’ ανατολάς (από Βαβυλώνιους, Σουμέριους, Φοίνικες, κτλ) όταν δηλαδή, εκείνοι οι Ανατολικοί λαοί εκφράζονταν με ιδεογράμματα. Πολύ προγενέστερα οι Έλληνες έγραφαν με συλλαβές. “Στην Πινακίδα του Δισπηλιού, τα σήματα δεν έχουν ιδεογραφικό χαρακτήρα (με μορφές ανθρώπων, ζώων, του ήλιου κτλ) αλλά παρουσιάζουν προχωρημένο χαρακτήρα αφαίρεσης, άρα είναι προϊόν διανοητικής επεξεργασίας”, είπε ο καθηγητής Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας στο ΑΠΘ Χουρμουζιάδης. researchgate.net/publication/262049596_Radiocarbon_Dating_of_the_Lakeside_Settlement_of_Dispilio_Kastoria_Northern_Greece tsig.gr/media/kunena/attachments/672/1_2021-03-07.jpg tsig.gr/media/kunena/attachments/672/2_2021-03-07.jpg tsig.gr/media/kunena/attachments/672/3_2021-03-07.jpg tsig.gr/media/kunena/attachments/672/4_2021-03-07.
As a girl who loves history its always so disappointing when ancient cultures are so sexist like that. Like imagine living in such an interesting place and time period only to not even be aloud to leave the house 😭 Thats why is always so interesting to me to see more matriarchal or at least not thaat sexist ancient cultures, like i want to imagine myself at that time😭 ancient minos is my fav
The Spartan land army was nothing compared to the Athenian land army. It wasn’t the Spartan army alone that invaded Athens. but the entire Peloponisian army.Most often every single peloponisian city would send two thirds of their army for the invantions. While Spartans where better trained than Athenians, their numbers where too tiny to be compared to the Athenian military, while Athenians soldiers/citizens where extremely war expirienced.
Women in ancient Greecd were treated as being worth nothing though. Even being called ‘vermin’ in some ancient texts. The man in this article would never even have thought to listen to his wife and I’m quite sure she wouldn’t have dared open her mouth. Women were practically locked up in the house and weren’t allowed to wat much, move much or do much at all. I’ve read texts in which the writer longed for a world where women would not be necessary for reproduction and we could do away with them. At most they were seen as a drain on resources.
2:35 yeah but you didn’t say that Lesvos revolted because they had been subjected to great taxation by Atheneans. Also not only they were treated like that by Atheneans. So not saying that, imparts perception that Mytileneans revolted because they didn’t want to fight Spartans. Dispite that the rest of the vid was very nice
TED, I truly enjoy your articles, but I wished you didn’t leave the audience on a cliffhanger. I would love to learn what happened after the second ship was ordered to set sail, but the article just ends there. I understand if your articles must be limited to a certain amount of time, but if you could produce longer articles, I think the the audience and myself would greatly appreciate it.
O número de cidadãos atenienses ( homens) no século V a.C. era aproximadamente 40 000. Isso não significa que esse número estivesse sempre presente nos debates da Eclesia. O número de 5000 cidadãos que aparece no vídeo não esta correto. The number of Athenian citizens (men) in the fifth century BC was approximately 40 000. This does not mean that this number was ever present in the debates of Ecclesia. The number of 5000 citizens that appears in the article is not correct.
In the Name of Allaah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.. The Creator is Allaah Exalted and Most High ☝️🕋 as is well known. To whom belongs the Kingdom of the Seven Heaven’s and Earth 🌎 and all in Between. Everything comes as his Creation so Worship is only for him for which we are Created too. Idol Diety and Statue Worship or Norse,Sumerian,Aztek,Avatars and Greek Gods or Goddesses are no more than Untrue Myths that have no right to be Worshipped and so why all False Dietys are forbidden by the Prophet Ibraheem until the last day.. God’s Grace and Mercy comes free so nobody needs to go through any Idols. Prophet Ibraheem was the Father of the Prophet’s and all The Prophet’s were Paternal Brothers so no exemption can be made, even with the Final and Seal of the Messengers. Prophet Muhammad. Peace be upon them all and families.
To those confused on how could Greeks have “invented” democracy while having slaves.Democracy was not about equality like its today it was about being involved in making choices about the well-being of the city.Only Athenian free men had political rights and they were the “rulers” of their home .So its not about equality its about how many people were involved in the ruling of the city so democracy =( δημος) the city is ruled by many people making just choises oligarchy= (ολιγοι) the city is ruled by fewer people who are wealthy and tyrany =the city is ruled by one tyrant who usually doesn’t care about anyone to put it simply sorry for any errors i am greek
Why do you have to give the dowry to the boy instead of vice versa? The father knows his name won’t get passed on by his daughter so there seems little benefit to go out of your way to marry one of them off. Also It seems like that women are treated more like property at this point in time. To me it seems like all evidence should point to the son’s father giving a tithe to the daughter’s father.