marianikolaides
𝑷𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒆𝒖𝒔,𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒄𝒆🇬🇷 𝑰𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚⚓, 𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒆𝒓𝒂 & 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆💫
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cosy october weather 🍂
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my mental space
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Luke Skywalker Aesthetic
-Άλμπους Ντάλμπντορ
Χάρι Πότερ,Ο ΑΙΧΜΑΛΩΤΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΖΚΑΜΠΑΝ
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Όσο περνά ο καιρός συνειδητοποιώ πως αυτό που με πονά πιο πολύ στο εμεις δεν είναι το παρόν ή το παρελθόν, αλλά το ουτοπικό μας μέλλον.
Που και που, όταν με κουράζει η δυστοπία κρύβομαι στην ουτοπία μας και για μια στιγμή μονάχα μετανιώνω.
Έπειτα φεύγω όλο και μακρύτερα από εμάς κι εσύ -σαν την ειμαρμένη, με ακολουθείς όπου κι αν πάω.
Αλήθεια, δεν κουράστηκες;
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Daily dose of love quotes here
the economics students
busy streets, the smell of car exhaust
overlapping chatter, the sound of many people talking at once
the bright electric lights of the stock exchange
carefully analyzing possible investments, comparing the pros and cons
tailored suits and dress shirts with crisp collars
monitoring dozens of rapidly changing graphs and figures
hailing a taxi with the wave of one tired hand
reading treatises on various economic philosophies, filling the margins with your own annotations
calculating risk and rewards with a cool objectivity
organized desk drawers, stacks of manila folders
debating different economic models
studying financial collapses, learning from the errors of the past
the elegant logic of supply and demand
keeping an eye on current events, anticipating how markets will shift
a collection of currencies from around the world
understanding the historical context that continues to shape the modern economy
using past data to predict the future
the glow of headlights on wet pavement
examining the forces that shape our modern economy
gaining a deep understanding of deceptively simple concepts
reminders scribbled on notepads in bold black ink
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Vintage Red Heads
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Les actrices rousse flamboyante d’Hollywood
Flamboyant redhead Hollywood acctresses
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“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart.
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Moodboard: Astrology - Libra Sun, Pisces Moon & Gemini Rising.
Requested by: @marianikolaides.
❝She laughed, throwing her head back and opening her mouth wide to drink the night, until she was filled to overflowing with dusk and cicada hiss and the scent of jasmine.❞
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Last one of the week, i promiseee!🧡
One aesthetic about Port and Shipping Management💙💙
🌊💻PORT AND SHIPPING MANAGEMENT💻🌊
I hope you like it <3<3<3
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📚♟BUSINESSES STUDENT MOODBOARD♟📚
@loki-yoursaviourishere
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ENFP - The Champion, The Campaigner, The Discoverer. 🤗🌻🛵
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Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield
Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding
She Way Out - The 1975
Hit The Lights - Selena Gomez
Shut Up And Dance - WALKTHEMOON
I Like Me Better - Lauv
Chiquitita - ABBA
We Are Young - fun. ft Janelle Monáe
Ophelia - The Lumineers
Raise Your Glass - P!NK
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Small Victory - Transviolet
Sunflower - Post Malone & Swae Lee
When Will My Life Begin - Mandy Moore
Boom Clap - Charli XCX
Love It If We Made It - The 1975
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The Pontic Greeks are an ethnically Greek group who traditionally lived in the region of Pontus. Pontic Greek is classified as an Indo-European, Greek language of the Attic-Ionic branch. Pontian music retains elements of the musical traditions of Ancient Greece, Byzantium, and the Caucasus. For this reason the musical style of the east Pontos has significant differences from that of the west or southwest Pontos. More like this
Hypsicratea - Warrior queen of Pontus
Between 88 BCE and 63 BCE, king Mithridates IV of Pontus, in present-day Turkey, fought against the Roman Empire. One of his most stalwart companions was the warrior woman Hypsicratea.
According to Roman writer Valerius Maximus, Hypsicratea was Mithridates’ official wife. Out of love for her husband she:
“(…)was happy to trade her splendid beauty for a masculine style, for she cut her hair and accustomed herself to riding horses and using weapons so that she could participate in the king’s toils and share his dangers. Indeed, when Mithradates was cruelly defeated by [the Roman general] Pompey and fleeing through the lands of wild peoples, Hypsicratea was his unflagging companion in body and soul. For Mithradates, her extraordinary fidelity was his greatest solace and most pleasant comfort in those bitter times and hardships. He considered that even while he was wandering in adversity he was always at home because Hypsicratea was in exile along with him.”
Plutarch gives a slightly more different version of her story. According to him, Hypsicratea was a concubine. She “rode a Persian steed and was dressed and armed like a Persian man. She never tired of rough riding and combat”and cared for Mithridates’ horse. The king apparently liked to call her by the masculine version of her name, Hypsicrates, because of her daring disposition.
Hypsicratea’s existence and rank are confirmed by archeology. An ancient Greek inscription recovered from the Sea of Azov says: “Hypsicrates, wife of Mithradates Eupator. Love and Respect”. Which means that she was indeed his wife and not a concubine.
It’s likely that Hypsicratea joined Mithridates’ cavalry around 68-67 BCE. Indeed, the king recruited many fighters from the nomad tribes of Armenia, Colchis, Caucasia, and the Caspian Sea region. Some of these warriors were female, so Hypsicratea may have been one of them. Or maybe she was among the fighters for Thermodon who joined Mithridates’ army in 67 BCE.
In 67 BCE, Hypsicratea contributed to Mithridates’ victory at Zela. She was by his side when Pompey attacked his camp in 66 BCE. Mithridates charged at the Romans with his horsemen, but they were soon dispersed and he found himself with three companions, including Hypsicratea, left. They endured a long winter march and were finally sheltered by neighboring tribes.
In the meantime, the Romans were attacked by hostile tribes on the borderland of Iberia and Albania (near Tbilisi, Georgia). Among them were reportedly warrior women since Appian wrote that Pompey’s soldiers discovered “many women”on the battlefield and among the prisoners and that “the women’s wounds showed that they had fought as vigorously and courageously as the men”. Graves of warrior women were indeed excavated in this area.
Mithridates and Hypsicratea survived this dangerous journey and Mithridates’ regained his throne. In 63 BCE, a revolt led by his son allied with Pompey forced him to commit suicide. Hypsicratea’s fate remains mysterious, but she may have survived. Indeed, her name was extremely rare and there were only two occurrences of it, the two being contemporary. The first was the queen herself, and the other a shadowy prisoner of war named Hypsicrates. This Hypsicrates was a war prisoner freed by Julius Caesar in Pontus in 47 BCE and later served him as an historian. This person was reportedly an expert on two subjects: fortifications of the Borporan Kingdom and the Amazons of the Caucasus region. Could this Hypsicrates be, in fact, Hypsicratea? If this was the case, she would have lived up to 92 years old.
Bibliography:
Mayor Adrienne, The Amazons, Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
Plutarch, Parallel Lives
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𝑨𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑳𝑫 ⤷ Greece (as requested by @augureyblackgaunt)
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AROUND THE WORLD ⤷ Japan pt.II
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“Now your hair, I don’t know what it is like! It’s as bright as copper and gold, as red as burnt copper, and it has gold threads where the sun shines on it.”
— D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
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Greek traditional Costumes from Pontus
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Greek traditional costumes from Anatolia 🇬🇷
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Underrated Female Ruler
• Empress Theodora of the Byzantine Empire
Theodora,empress, and wife of the emperor Justinian I, was probably the most powerful woman in Byzantine history. Her intelligence and political strategy made her Justinian’s most trusted adviser and enabled her to use the power and influence of her office to promote religious and social policies that favoured her interests.
Theodora is remembered as one of the first rulers to recognize the rights of women, passing strict laws to prohibit the traffic in young girls and altering the divorce laws to give greater benefits to women.This represented unparalleled social mobility for women at the time. It gave many women access to power.
Before becoming empress, she had once been a concubine in the service of one of these provincial governors. She knew only too well the kind of power these men had over women.
That's why she spent much of her reign trying to mitigate the laws against the miaphysites. She saw to it that women could own and inherit property, which was quite a breakthrough because it gave daughters and wives real social power.
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Και με ταξίδευες, σαν το καράβι κι έλεγες:
Θα σ' αγαπώ, μη μου συννεφιάζεις
σαν αμαρτία και σαν γιορτή
Μάθε στα μάτια μου να διαβάζεις
ότι με λόγια δε σου 'χω πει.
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Βάζω την Μητροπάνος playlist ξανά & ξανά
Έχω μια λίστα Μητροπάνος(my) στο iPod, 15, 20 τραγούδια που τα χω συνδέσει με ανθρώπους, στιγμές, καταστάσεις. Την ακούω συχνά…Σήμερα τη βάζω ξανά και ξανά. Λες πέθανε… Ξέρεις, όμως, ότι θα τον ξανακούσεις. Θα σου δημιουργήσει τα ίδια γιατί, τα ίδια αχ, τα ίδια ναι! Αλλά ο ίδιος δεν θα ζει πια και είναι παράξενο γιατί ενώ δεν τον γνώριζες, σφίγγεται η καρδιά σου.
Αρχίζουν και φεύγουν άνθρωποι που συγκίνησαν τη γενιά μας και κάποιες γενιές πριν από εμάς και νιώθεις για μια, δυο μέρες περίεργα. Δεν είναι ότι μεγαλώνεις, αλλά ότι δεν έχει συνέχεια. Δεν θα ακούσεις το καινούργιο τραγούδι του Μητροπάνου… Θα κρατάς την παλιά λίστα, την παλιά ιστορία:
Έλα πάλι απ᾽την αρχή. Στην Καζαμπλάνκα το όνειρο τέλειωσε νωρίς…. Χάσαμε κ᾽ οι δυο! Ποιος φταίει μην ρωτάς… Κλείνω και έρχομαι, φτάνω… Για να σ᾽εκδικηθώ; Αντίο; Θες; Περίεργο παιχνίδι… Πάντα επιστρέφεις. Πες μου τ᾽αληθινά σου! Αγάπη μου, αδιόρθωτη, μοναχική και σπάνια, απόψε θα θελα να κόψω το κεφάλι σου. Σβήσε το φεγγάρι, για σένα μόνο. Είναι όσα ξέρεις και μου λες που χουν πεθάνει… Σαν δίδυμα φεγγάρια, πάντα γελαστοί και γελασμένοι…
Είναι που έχουν πει τις καλύτερες ιστορίες μας, ή τέλος πάντων ιστορίες που έμοιαζαν με τις δικές μας, ή ακόμα και ιστορίες που έφτιαξαν τη δική μας. Τον Μητροπάνο δεν τον ακούς μόνο. Τον νιώθεις, στα όμορφα, που κάνει τα μάτια χαμογελάνε, στα δύσκολα, που δακρύζουν, στα δυνατά, που όλα τα μπορείς, στα έντονα, που αναστατώνεσαι, στ᾽αληθινά γιατί τα λέει καλύτερα.
Βάζω την playlist ξανά… Έλα πάλι απ᾽την αρχή!
