kougaons reblogged
love reading about the weird words that get invented for ancient comedy. currently very much enjoying the made-up verb sicilissitat from plautus, which means something like "having sicilian vibes," as opposed to atticissat, "having athenian vibes"
kougaons reblogged
litany against the GOTification of history.
thomas cromwell grieved when his daughters died; thomas more made sure his eldest daughter received a quality education. elizabeth i kept a portrait of her mother inside a locket ring; edward vi wrote to his half-sister mary i that "i love you most." stephen of blois (no, not that one, the other one), who fled from the siege of antioch in disgrace, was berated by his wife to go back on crusade, whom he trusted enough to leave as regent in the time he was away. the average medieval peasant did not marry at twelve; those kinds of marriages were uncommon even among the nobility. it's difficult to provide insights on lower class citizens and their lifestyles, since little concrete evidence remains compared to the upper classes, but people have always been fundamentally people, whether rich and modern or late antiquity and poor or georgian and bored.
kougaons reblogged
Patchwork quilt floor!
You just know that some sweet little old Nana who has been making quilts for the last 50 years has seen this photo and gone “challenge accepted” and make a blanket with that pattern
anxious-achillean
Ok, I’ve decided I can’t leave well enough alone, but these pictures really do not do this mosaic justice. It is 9,000 square feet, and is basically patchwork spanning over 15 centuries. Here are some other pictures of the Antakya mosaic:
Also, it is not one of the largest mosaics; it is the single largest intact ancient mosaic in the world.
kougaons reblogged
THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOADABLE PDF OF THE BOOK BTW you don’t have to pay for it!!
kougaons reblogged
THE SIMS ↳ The Goth Family
hot girl goes to the cinema alone fit for anon
kougaons reblogged
ena_inaday_
Source: julieterbang
kougaons reblogged
girls night! beating andrew tate to death
kougaons reblogged
Do you ever eat popcorn out of the palm of your own hand with such ardent desperation that you feel like both a wild horse and the gentle schoolgirl feeding it treats to gain its affection
Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2022, commenting on this post from 2016. There’s been a lot of people on this site lately being like “oooh no don’t make viral uwu I’m so pathetic, little, and defenseless and my poor notifications can’t handle 10k reblogs” well first of all ALL of us are pathetic, little, and defenseless and secondly none of our notifications can handle 10k reblogs and thirdly I’m not a coward and I think this should have a million notes. Not because of its own merit as a post, I just think it’d be funny if when I turn 30 this year and I reflect on the greatest accomplishments of my life thus far, I have to at least consider putting “famous tumblr popcorn post” on the list
kougaons reblogged
You've got this, you can do this, believe in yourself. You've gotten this far and I am so proud!
kougaons reblogged
Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!
Give credit to the 30-year-old who did this shit for free and offers this remarkable thing for free!
kougaons reblogged
a sitting senator who is on basically every committee in charge of regulating the industries elon musks companies work in put out a statement on the checkmark impersonation issue and elon responded by Epic Ratioeing him online. this will surely have positive repercussions in his future
of all the US Senators you could pick on, you chose the dude who's on all the committees relevant to your companies.
nice work dude
Please don't miss the part of the story where Post reporter Geoffrey A. Fowler chose this Senator, of all people, to openly impersonate. Because honestly that is king shit. This wasn't a random Senator, this was a setup.
The linked article includes to the detail that the reporter didn't just choose to impersonate this senator; he asked and was granted permission to do so by Senator Markey.
kougaons reblogged
What I think is really interesting about the papyrus account of the workers building the tomb of Rameses III going on strike to demand better wages is really fascinating to me because if you look at the description given by the royal scribe you see that there was an attempt to satisfy the workers by bringing a large amount of food at once but that was rebuffed by the workers who declared that it wasn’t just that they were hungry at the moment but had serious charges to bring that “something bad had been done in this place of Pharoah” (is poor wages and mistreatment). They understood themselves as having long term economic interests as a -class- and organized together knowing that by doing so they could put forward their demands collectively. It so strongly flies in the face of narratives that are like “in this Time and Place people were happy to be serve because they believed in the God-King and maybe you get some intellectual outliers but certainly no common person questioned that”. If historical sources might paint that sorta picture of cultural homogeneity it is because those sources sought not to describe something true but invent a myth for the stability of a regime.
Since this is getting notes here’s a link to a translation of the papyrus scroll and here’s an article that gets further into the economic situation surrounding the strike and giving an explanation of the events. The workers didnt just refuse to construct Rameses III’s future tomb, they actually occupied the Valley of the Kings and were preventing anyone from entering to perform rituals or funerals. Basically they set up the first ever recorded picket line
Again the workers went on strike, this time taking over and blocking all access to the Valley of the Kings. The significance of this act was that no priests or family members of the deceased were able to enter with food and drink offerings for the dead and this was considered a serious offense to the memory of those who had passed on to the afterlife. When officials appeared with armed guards and threatened to remove the men by force, a striker responded that he would damage the royal tombs before they could move against him and so the two sides were stalemated.
Eventually the tomb workers were able to win the day and acquire their demands and actually set a precedent for organized labor and strikes in Egyptian society that continued for a long time
The jubilee in 1156 BCE was a great success and, as at all festivals, the participants forgot about their daily troubles with dancing and drink. The problem did not go away, however, and the workers continued their strikes and their struggle for fair payment in the following months. At last some sort of resolution seems to have been reached whereby officials were able to make payments to the workers on time but the dynamic of the relationship between temple officials and workers had changed – as had the practical application of the concept of ma’at – and these would never really revert to their former understandings again. Ma’at was the responsibility of the pharaoh to oversee and maintain, not the workers; and yet the men of Deir el-Medina had taken it upon themselves to correct what they saw as a breach in the policies which helped to maintain essential harmony and balance. The common people had been forced to assume the responsibilities of the king.
[…]
The success of the tomb-worker/artisan strikes inspired others to do the same. Just as the official records of the battle with the Sea Peoples never recorded the Egyptian losses in the land battle, neither do they record any mention of the strikes. The record of the strike comes from a papyrus scroll discovered at Deir el-Medina and most probably written by the scribe Amennakht. The precedent of workers walking away from their jobs was set by these events and, although there are no extant official reports of other similar events, workers now understood they had more power than previously thought. Strikes are mentioned in the latter part of the New Kingdom and Late Period and there is no doubt the practice began with the workers at Deir el-Medina in the time of Ramesses III.
There was also a strike at one point where construction workers refused to continue until they were given sufficient “cosmetics.”
This was thought a highly strange thing until somebody deciphered the recipe for the “cosmetics” the workers were demanding and recreated it.
It was sunscreen. Sunscreen.
Making that the first recorded strike over occupational safety.
kougaons reblogged
