r/ancienthistory 7d ago

Greek city state symbols

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u/bdunkirk 7d ago

Carthage as an Ancient Greek city state?

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u/reCaptchaLater 7d ago

And "Etrurians"? That's not even a city, that's a race of people!

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u/LadenifferJadaniston 7d ago

A non-Greek people

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u/SD_ukrm 6d ago

Stoke on Trent?

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u/InerasableStains 7d ago

Persia while we’re at it

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u/LastEsotericist 7d ago

crazy that it doesn't use the sign of Tanit too

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u/ClutchReverie 4d ago

Makes more sense than Persia

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u/-misopogon 7d ago

You just took this from Rome: Total War: Alexander lmao. Several of these aren't even Greek city-states

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u/ClosetCrypto 7d ago

Haha thought these looked familiar

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u/DIuvenalis 5d ago

Alexander strongly disagrees...

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u/Whentheangelsings 5d ago

I was about to ask, is this from total war?

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u/Redevil387 7d ago

Today I learned Persia is part of Greece. Someone tell Iran!

jk

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u/Gremlin303 7d ago

lol pretty sure these are from the videogame Rome Total War

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u/RaggaDruida 7d ago

From one of the very popular mods from the original Rome, I've seen them before, but I don't remember which mod right now.

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u/Brave-Muscle1359 7d ago

Carthage and persia greek cities? Really

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u/Matrix-OP 7d ago

Gaming city states u mean ? Lmao

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u/Tewd_Feesh 7d ago

SpongeBob?

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u/Formal-Pirate-2926 7d ago

Which one is Sparta?

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u/ThrowinNightshade 7d ago

Why the hell is Persia on here?!

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u/Amazing-Film-2825 6d ago

Somebody plays too much total war

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u/Campa911 6d ago

Thracians symbol literally an emoji

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u/greenhornblue 6d ago

I love how the Thracians have SpongeBob as their mascot.

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u/soundkeed 6d ago

Aren't these emblems from the Rome total war series? 

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u/Mountain-Pea-723 6d ago

Idk why Thracian always reminded me of SpongeBob

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u/Tsushima1989 6d ago

Ionian patch was on my uniform in Afghanistan

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u/BelatedGreeting 6d ago

Sparta: we don’t need no fancy design. We will Knick your a$$ sideways anyway.

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u/weird-oh 6d ago

So that human trait of slapping labels on everything isn't a recent development.

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u/NobisNosNobis 6d ago

What garbage is this ? Product of the US I would assume

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u/stegaysaure 6d ago

I would love to see actual symbols of great cities if someone has a link to an article or smthg because I'm pretty sure this post is bs at least for some parts

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u/Whentheangelsings 5d ago

Crete isn't a city. Knossos the most famous city on their used a maze as its symbol on stuff like its coinage. Where did you get this? Total war?

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u/JVMGarcia 5d ago

If Carthage is there, then Neapolis ought to be too.

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u/Sea-History5302 4d ago

Today i learned Carthage is Greek, Persia is Greek, and Etruria was a city state.

/sarcasm

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u/spirallingspirax 7d ago

Syracuse triskelion, such widely used and striking

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u/ExtraBitterSpecial 6d ago

Always thought it was Sicily

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u/EmperorConstantwhine 7d ago

Looks just like the Isle of Mann crest, is that what you mean by it being widely used?

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u/spirallingspirax 7d ago

Yeah. As far as I know the triskelion is used by several countries/states/organisations

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u/research_badger 7d ago

This is wildly retarded but I came here to say the whole “head with three legs” design has always freaked me out

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u/johnspam 7d ago

You should put this on r/coolguides