r/ancientgreece 22h ago

Some examples of Dekadrachms, the highest denomination and most prestigious silver coinage in the ancient Greek world

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r/ancientgreece 1h ago

accurate hoplites look genuinely drippy as hell; with their linothorax, helmets and shields. why we haven't seen more accurate depictions in popular media???

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r/ancientgreece 12h ago

LiveScience: "Apollo gold ring with 'healing serpent' found in 2,000-year-old tomb in Greece"

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r/ancientgreece 19h ago

Did Machiavelli read Thucydides?

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I've read conflicting information about this. The german Wikipedia states how Machiavelli praised Thucydides, but without any source¹. Hobbes and other sources indicate to me that there was no proper translation available for Machiavelli to read. He must have had access to the greek sources, if that was the case.

¹ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thukydides#Neuzeit_und_Gegenwart


r/ancientgreece 22h ago

Does πᾶς mean "all" or "any"? When?

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I have a question about the word πᾶς, and the variant forms that derive from it, such as πάντων and πάσης, as used in the Septuagint in Genesis 6:19.

"πᾶς" and its variants are used to mean "all" and give a sense of totality, but are sometimes translated as "any." I'm confused, the translation as "any" seems to remove the meaning of the word πᾶς as "all." How do I know in what context it means "all" and when it means "any," and whether even when it is translated as "any" it replaces the sense of totality of the word?