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I'm inviting participants 18 years or older who identify as Hellenic Polytheist practitioners or closely related religions that include worship of the Greek gods to participate in a questionnaire for my PhD thesis. If interested, I will send over the participant information.
#Hellenic Pagan#Hellenic Polytheism#Hellenismos#tagamemnon#tagitus#personal#drop me a line and I'll send over email#feel free to spread far and wide
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Ancient Recipes: Apricot Dessert (Apicius, De re coquinaria)
Did you know when you Google Apicius, they call him a professional chef?
Given that he was the closest thing Ancient Rome had to Betty Crocker or Martha Stewart, we guess it makes sense. These apricots are a fantastic dessert from De re coquinaria (c. 5th cent. CE), arguably the best-known Ancient Roman cookbook. They likely would have been enjoyed at room temperature, but taste fantastic after being chilled. We make this at every rendition of our Ancient Food Day, and it's always a hit.
Latin: duracina primotica pusilla precoquiis purgas, enucleas, in frigidam mittis; in patina conponis; teres piper mentam siccam; suffundis liquids; adicies mel passum uinum et acetum; refundis in patina super precoquia, olei modicum mittis et lento igni ferueat, cum ferbuerit, amulo obligas, piper aspargis et inferes. (De re coquinaria, 4.177)
Translation (by John Liao): Wash firm, early or small apricots, pit them, and put them in the cold [water]. Arrange them in a pan. Crush pepper and dried mint, pour over liquamen and add honey, passum, wine and vinegar. Pour over the apricots in the pan. Add a little oil and heat on a low flame. Thicken [the sauce] with starch while it simmers. Sprinkle with pepper and serve.
Ingredients
10-12 apricots (pitted and halved if fresh, rehydrated in water overnight if dried)
1 ½-2 tbsp freshly cracked black pepper (plus extra for garnish)
1 tbsp dried mint flakes
1 tsp garum/liquamen (substitute fish sauce if you can't find/make it yourself)
3-4 heaping tbsp of honey
3/4 cup of red wine
3/4 cup of passum (also known as raisin wine. Substitutes can include cranberry juice (less sweet), grape juice (more sweet), or ice wine (if you don’t have to make this for a school event).
1 tsp of vinegar (2 tsp if you're not using passum/alcoholic passum substitute)
1 ½ tbsp of olive oil
½ tsp corn starch
3-4 tbsp cold water
Our Recipe
Soak halved, pitted fresh apricots in cold water for 15 minutes (skip if using rehydrated fruit)
In a wide pan (at least 3 inches deep), lightly toast the black pepper and mint at medium heat until fragrant.
Add the liquids: honey, passum, wine, vinegar, and liquamen. Bring to a simmer and stir until well incorporated, and the honey has dissolved. Continue simmering to cook off the alcohol. If the mixture begins to reduce too much, add water in small amounts.
Once the desired amount of alcohol has been cooked off, add the apricots. Continue simmering until apricots reach your desired texture (usually 8-12 mins).
Remove the apricots from the pan. Mix cornstarch with cold water into a slurry, and add to the remaining liquid. Stir and cook until thick, then pour over reserved apricots. Let cool.
Serve chilled or at room temperature, with fresh black pepper sprinkled on top.
Below, we served them with libum (Roman cheesecake) and statites (Ancient Greek spelt crepes).
Some more anachronistic ways to serve this can include using it as pie or tart filling, mixing it with Greek yogurt, or serving it with vanilla ice cream while it's still hot (sort of like a poached pear situation).
Some FAQs
Q. "How long do I actually boil the sauce?"
A. As long as you want, depending on how much alcohol you want in the dish (we serve these at school events, so we have to boil it to hell and back to get rid of all the alcohol).
Q. "The ancient recipe says to cook the apricots first, why do you make the sauce first?"
A. When we tried the apricot-first method, the apricots fell apart and turned the whole thing into a jam-like stew because of how long we had to cook the sauce. It tasted great but lacked the nice texture of the whole apricots.
Q. "Can I substitute ingredients 1-1?"
A. Generally, yes. For our passum substitute, we use cranberry juice for its tartness, but any of the three substitutes work. However, if you have the ability to make/buy garum and passum, definitely give it a try!
#the pie version slaps btw i made it for thanksgiving#you just put the apricots and sauce (with cornstarch slurry but no extra cooking) in a blind baked pie shell#and then tuck it into the oven at 375 for about 10 minutes or until the sauce is thick#ancientfoodday#tagamemnon#classics#apicius#ancient rome#classics recipes#cooking#ancient cooking#recipe#ancient history#history#roman history#tagitus
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I have just learned that in the new, 5th edition of the Cambridge Latin Course, in Book 2, King Cogidubnus has been renamed King Togidubnus, "in line with updated research". Life will never be the same. Source below.
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ROUND 1, Part 39
#Round 1#Magia Record#Kovalev#Khlestakov#Tagori#Tagitu#Leila Ibuki#Seika Kumi#Konoha Shizumi#Hazuki Yusa
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“Archaeologists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have decoded and recreated millennia-old perfume worn by the ancient Egyptians, perhaps even the famed Queen of the Nile herself, Cleopatra.”
“The recipe for the scents was drawn from a series of ancient Greek texts that speak of two Mendesian and Metopian perfumes. Along with a sprinkling of other fragrant oils and natural ingredients, the base note of the two perfumes is myrrh, a tree resin obtained from a flowering plant grown in parts of Africa and Asia.”
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#classics#tagamemnon#tagitus#history#ancient history#egypt#ancient egypt#archaeology#archaeologists#university of hawai'i#manoa#perfume#cleopatra#she MAY have worn the perfume#the title is misleading#research#mendesian perfume#metopian perfume#jay silverstein#university of tyumen#recipe#ancient greek#texts#recreation#Tell-El Timai#chemical analysis#Ptolemaic Kingdom#National Geographic Museum#queens of egypt#exhibit
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Julius Caesar, turn on your location. I just want to talk about bringing my brother back from exile.
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No one asked but at work today, I met a one-year old Saint Bernard who brightened my day by just existing, but his name was Caesar. Amazing and fitting name—I may have gushed about how good it was to his owner. Anyway, the very next customer I helped? He had the sweetest Rottweiler named Brutus. CAESAR AND THEN BRUTUS??? Y’all I lost my mind. Both very good boys, for the record
#me talking#tagamemnon#tagitus#are the gods telling me something?#is CAESAR TELLING ME SOMETHING?#i love dogs#but when theyre named after classics related things?#gets me every time
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So, I saw a Facebook post this morning from a UNIVERSITY classics department encouraging people to buy the Iliad and suggesting the best translations (excellent!). And they used a really really beautiful quote that I’d never really come across before:
Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
— Homer
And I thought, hmmmm. That’s very very beautiful and I like it a lot. But that sounds far more like *that* Orestes quote that we should never have let out of Classics tumblr than Homer. I know my Homer, and I like to think that I can spot him when I see him. However I was pretty excited because I thought maybe there was some new romanticised translation that I could obsess over and so I did a bit of googling.
And everywhere, and I mean everywhere, attributes this quote to Homer. So I tried to find a line reference, or even which book of the Iliad it was from. And there’s nothing. In fact, it turns out this quote can be attributed to the 2004 film Troy, and not Homer. I was distraught.
Yet, the entire internet seems entirely convinced that this is an actual quote from Homer. If you google “Iliad quotes” it’s the first thing that comes up. Homer’s most popular quote isn’t even Homer.
And it turns out this is a pretty common occurance when it comes to Homer. According to Bill Beck (who I like very much so please go check him out) “Of Homeric quotations in popular circulation, roughly a third can be classified as not Homer, the wrong Homer, or Homerically-based but, really, not Homer.”
I’ll probably write a list of ‘Homeric counterfeits’ at some point but until then, the moral of the story is: if a quote attributed to Homer looks more like it was written by Anne Carson than a poet over 2 and a half millennia ago, then it probably was.
#its been a productive morning#as you can tell#tagamemnon#tagitus#this is what i do since all my friends have abandoned me for uni
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Graecia: Redde mihi Marmora Parthenonis!
Anglia: ΜΟΛΟΝ ΛΑΒΕ!
#Parthenon Marbles#Elgin Marbles#tagamemnon#tagitus#Greece#England#latin#latin language#latin fandom#latin translation#lingua latina#latin meme#latin memes#meme#memes
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Please help I'm trying to write something in Latin where I want to say that a friend of mine gave me something but this friend is non binary so I can't use amicus/amica, does anyone know of another word I could use/how to rewrite in a way where I don't need to gender the person??
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Hello, all! I just wanted to bring your attention to Queering the Past(s)! (https://classicalassociation.org/queering-the-past/) It's an interactive online resource that addresses LGBTQ+ subjects and the gaps in education about them. This is an ongoing project, as the online resource continues to grow, and more chapters and other guides are in the works. The two current chapters that are up are Sappho and Elagabalus, as well as a Teacher's Guide. If you're a teacher focusing on the ancient world and would like to incorporate any of the information into your curriculum, please check it out! If you use any of the resources and would like to give feedback or have ideas on what could be added, please contact Nancy Rabinowitz ([email protected]).
#tagamemnon#tagitus#LGBT#LGBTQ+#Queering the Past#teaching#ancient history#Ancient Greece#Ancient Rome#Sappho#Elagabalus
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Just reminding everyone that this exists.
(It's probably the best Boudicca related thing from Horrible Histories)
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Things happening next week:
On Monday, I am giving a lecture about Classics at my school.
On Wednesday, I am leading a trip to the British Museum.
On Friday, I have an interview for a job that's less than 20 minutes from where I live.
Me right now:
#lone-rhapsodist#classics#tagamemnon#tagitus#personal#work#job#jobs#teacher#teaching#school#this is fine
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The first clip of Derek Jacobi as Claudius in the HH movie is in this trailer.
#i claudius#tagamemnon#tagitus#emperors#derek jacobi#claudius#horrible histories#horrible histories movie#rotten romans#livianafigs
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Many Brazilians wept after their 200-year-old National Museum was destroyed in a devastating fire last September. Twenty million objects, many of them irreplaceable, were thought to have been lost. But eight months later, staff have salvaged more treasures than they expected, and there are hopes that one of the great museums of the world can be brought back to life.
Suddenly, a shout echoes round the blackened, roofless shell of the once-elegant room.
A tall young man in white helmet and black gloves is standing triumphantly on a pile of smashed tiles and plaster. Cradled in his palm is a small piece of carved stone with ancient hieroglyphics.
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#classics#tagamemnon#tagitus#history#ancient history#brazil#national museum#brazil national museum#brazil national museum fire#fire#recovery#salvage efforts#artefacts#antiquities#Pedro Luiz von Seehausen#archaeology#archaeologists#Paulo Buckup#Aparecida Vilaça#luzia#Murilo Bastos#Victor Bittar#Pedro Dias
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