Making Sense of Nonsense Inscriptions Associated with Amazons and Scythians on Athenian Vases

Mayor, Adrienne; Colarusso, John; Saunders, David

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“…In 675 BC, when the Greek traveler, Aristaeus, visited Scythian nomads in the Gobi deserts, the nomads told him about an area beyond Sidonia where griffins defended gold from the nomads. Aristaeus wrote that the nomads would battle the griffins and that Issedonian accounts portrayed these creatures as lion-sized, with curved beaks like eagles (Mayor et al, 2014).…”

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From Thermopiles to Marathon: Teaching the theory of evolution through a short tour to paleontology of Greece

Athanasiou

2023

AQUADEMIA

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The present work is an attempt at a bibliographic overview in the field of paleontology and specifically in the field of fossils regarding their value and connection with history and mythology, and how it has been used to teach theory of evolution through natural selection (TENS) in a university course. To make our case, we use as our paradigm two well-known historical locations of Greece, namely Thermopiles and Marathon. The area of Marathon includes the location of Pikermi, which is very well known for its fossils that historically have been one of the first locations rich in fossils that have been studied so extensively. Before we make a short tour of other similar locations of the Greek peninsula that are good cases for teaching evolution using paleontology, we present an example of how fossils can be formed via sedimentation. For that, we are using the case of Thermopile, while in antiquity was chosen as the field of the famous battle as it was a very narrow strip of land between the mountain and the sea, nowadays, due to sedimentary alluvial deposits, has become a rather large field. To make the reader familiar with the fossils found around Greece and their topology, we present a short tour and some history about the fossils found throughout its territory. And finally, we argue about how the fossils and the museum education could be used to prepare the pupils for first contact with TENS.

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From Thermopiles to Marathon: Teaching the theory of evolution through a short tour to paleontology of Greece

Athanasiou

2023

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The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy

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Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece

Hurwit¹

2015

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The Greeks inscribed their works of art and craft with labels identifying mythological or historical figures, bits of poetry, and claims of ownership. But no type of inscription is more hotly debated or more intriguing than the artist's signature, which raises questions concerning the role and status of the artist and the work of art or craft itself. In this book, Jeffrey M. Hurwit surveys the phenomenon of artists' signatures across the many genres of Greek art from the eighth to the first century BCE. Although the great majority of extant works lack signatures, the Greek artist nonetheless signed his products far more than any other artist of antiquity. Examining signatures on gems, coins, mosaics, wall-paintings, metalwork, vases, and sculptures, Hurwit argues that signatures help us assess the position of the Greek artist within his society as well as his conception of his own skill and originality.

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Making Sense of Nonsense Inscriptions Associated with Amazons and Scythians on Athenian Vases

Cited by 13 publications

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From Thermopiles to Marathon: Teaching the theory of evolution through a short tour to paleontology of Greece

From Thermopiles to Marathon: Teaching the theory of evolution through a short tour to paleontology of Greece

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Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece

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