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Jul 22

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1/ According to the First Book of Samuel the Israelites fought a decisive battle against the Philistines in the biblical region of Eben-ezer. The Israelites had taken the Ark of the Covenant with them into battle, believing that its presence would help them win, 👉

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👉 but things did not go as they expected, resulting in a humiliating defeat accompanied by the Philistine captivity of the Ark. The loss of the Ark was a powerful blow to the Israelite nation.

2/ The Philistines moved the Ark of the Covenant to Ashdod, placing it in the Temple of the greatest Philistine god, Dagon, where his statue was located. Over the next period of time a series of strange events seem to have brought Philistine society into crisis.

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Hermahai

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Jul 17

1/ The Mycenaeans seem to have had created a powerful navy, which were ensuring their control over the Aegean, in a very similar way that the Minoans had imposed the Minoan Thalassocracy. After all, the Mycenaeans had been significantly influenced in this sector by the Minoans.

2/ Although the evidence, both epigraphic and pictorial, is scarce, we can reconstruct an image of the Mycenaean navy. In various administrative documents of Pylos (but also of Knossos) we find the word e-re-ta / e-re-ta-o, (ερέται, ερετάων, ερέτας), which it means oarsmen.

3/ On the tablet PY An 1, it is mentioned that 30 rowers from five different regions of Pylian territory are going to Pleuron. The tablet PY An 610 lists 442 men. Although the signs are partially damaged, the total number could be as high as 600-700 men.

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Hermahai

@hermahai

Jul 11

1/ Around 1200 BC, i.e. during the turbulent times of the LBA Collapse, a short-lived settlement with special characteristics was founded in a strategic coastal site in western Cyprus. At most two generations were active in Maa-Palaeokastro until its violent abandonment.

2/The settlement was located 25 km NW of the major urban center, Palaepaphos, built on a scratch of a narrow peninsula, which provided an advantageous view inland, but at the same time offered control of the sea routes and the berthing of small ships, having two sheltered coasts.

3/ The settlers forthwith fortified the site by constructing two distinct ramparts with strong cyclopean masonry, one on the northern side where it defended the narrow strip of peninsula that connected the settlement to the mainland and the other in the southern side toward sea.

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Hermahai

@hermahai

Jul 7

1/The Ancient Greeks lived in a linguistically diverse world in which the Greek language had various local dialects and variations, a fact that they recognized as something normal, integrated within their wider cultural context. One such case is the so-called Arcadocypriot Greek.

2/ The term Arcadocypriot Greek is a modern confection to describe a regional dialect of the Ancient Greek language, which was spoken only in Arcadia and Cyprus, and had a clear origin from Mycenaean/Achaean Greek, retaining many archaisms.

3/It is generally considered that the Arcadocypriot dialect was the remnant of the Achaean Greek spoken in the Peloponnese (often referred to as southern Achaean) and used as a lingua franca by all the Mycenaean palatial elites in the Aegean, recorded on the tablets of Linear B'.

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Hermahai

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Jul 3

1/ For the Ancient Greeks, Arcadia was a mountainous wooded area full of mystery, where its inhabitants, living in relative isolation from the civilized world, followed a purely bucolic lifeway. The wooded and in many places unexplored Arcadia was in the imagination of the 👉

👉 Ancient Greeks the ideal place of residence and activity of several deities and various mythical creatures, such as Nymphs, Dryads and Centaurs. Thus Arcadia was also an important religious and cult place with the Arcadian Cults of the Mistresses being more widespread.

2/ Ancient Arcadia occupied a large mountainous area in the central Peloponnese without access to the sea. Specifically, it extended from the Aroania mountain range and Mount Kyllini to Ilida and Mount Lycaion, while Thyreatis (Kynouria) was outside its geographical boundaries.

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Hermahai

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Jun 27

1/ Sissi is one of the most important Minoan sites, located on a small coastal hill, which offered control of land routes to E. Crete and access to several sheltered anchorages. Throughout its existence it was sometimes in competition with neighboring Malia, or under its control.

2/ During the period of the Old Palaces, Sissi was a prosperous settlement, strongly connected to the palace of Malia. However, towards the end of the Middle Minoan period, the palace of Malia is completely destroyed and the city is looted, while Sissi has the same fate.

3/ During the early Neopalatial period, Sissi experienced a period of great reconstruction with the construction of many new buildings, including a monumental complex with a central courtyard, while at the same time the settlement was fortified with a strong cyclopean wall. 👉

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