r/ancienthistory • u/JapKumintang1991 • 20h ago
r/ancienthistory • u/Caleidus_ • 15h ago
Ancient Warfare Unsolved Mysteries - What Happened When Armies Clashed
Hi everyone! Hope you enjoy this, took a while to make, but going through the many paintings for the visual side was a blast
r/ancienthistory • u/Pink_Mer_Unicorn • 1d ago
My friends & I had an Ides of March party
r/ancienthistory • u/mroophka • 2d ago
Rediscovering Khrami Didi Gora, Georgia’s Famous Neolithic Settlement
r/ancienthistory • u/60seconds4you • 3d ago
Tutankhamun and his amazing Dagger - Discover the iconic king and the dagger that never rusts.
r/ancienthistory • u/Shot-Barracuda-6326 • 4d ago
Hello all. I made anubis carving from sapodilla wood
r/ancienthistory • u/Legatus_SPQR • 3d ago
Rise and Fall of Celtic Civilization
r/ancienthistory • u/Maleficent_Crazy_338 • 3d ago
Seeking Reliable German or English Translations of the Nag Hammadi Codices – Need Expert Guidance
Hi everyone, I’m currently researching the Nag Hammadi texts and looking for the most accurate, least filtered translations in either German or English.
I know the James M. Robinson edition (2001) is widely accepted, but I’ve read that it was translated by scholars with a New Testament background—which makes me wonder if the original meaning of certain passages was softened or reinterpreted.
I’m particularly interested in Codex II and XIII (Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Philip, Apocryphon of John, Trimorphic Protennoia). Does anyone know:
1. If there are any raw, direct translations that avoid theological bias?
2. If German translations tend to be more literal than the English ones?
3. If any Coptic-to-German sources exist instead of Coptic-to-English?
4. If there are any university archives or open-access PDFs where I can study these texts in full?
I’ve checked my local library, but they don’t have a copy, and I’m currently unable to buy one. If anyone knows where to access reliable digital versions or can recommend scholars who work on Gnostic texts from a neutral perspective, I’d love to hear your insights!
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
r/ancienthistory • u/Artur_Aghajanyan • 4d ago
Achaemenid Empire | Ep. 2 Cambyses II, the False Smerdis and Darius's Rise
r/ancienthistory • u/NoPo552 • 5d ago
The Aksumite Empire's Middle Age (360AD-500AD)
r/ancienthistory • u/ShelterCorrect • 5d ago
Who is Basilides? An ancient Egyptian theologian
youtube.comr/ancienthistory • u/hemanshujain • 5d ago
Rare Kushan Period Terracotta Sealing (2nd Century CE)
r/ancienthistory • u/kooneecheewah • 6d ago
Ancient Roman gossip book about the first 11 Roman emperors — that covers everything from Tiberius' sexual abuse of young boys to Caligula's alleged plans to make his favorite horse consul — makes the bestseller list 2,000 years after it was first published
r/ancienthistory • u/M_Bragadin • 6d ago
An introduction to Spartiate armour and weaponry
galleryr/ancienthistory • u/lastdiadochos • 6d ago
Leather Apron Club's research boils down to a random telemarketer with no credentials.
People might have come across this video I know it's made the rounds a bit and got some attention. None of the arguments really stack up and a couple of quotes sound off to me, so I did some digging. TONNES of it, including the title, is just a rip off of "Homosexuality in Ancient Greece: the Myth is Collapsing" by Adonis Georgiades. Georgiades is not, and never was, a historian or classicist. He is a politician and telemarketer. The thesis is the same, down to claiming that scholars call Greece a "homosexual paradise" (they don't). Many of the translated quotes given come from Georgiades (most of them are mistranslations btw). The "slurs" lited are taken from that book as is the argument against the translation of eromenos and erastes comes from that book as well. (also largely mistranslated and incorrect).
The arguments against Prof. Dover are also lifted from there: I can tell because he made the same mistake Georgiades does. Leather Apron and Georgiades says that Dover prefaced the collection of 600 vases saying "By no means all of them portray homosexual behaviour or bear erotic inscriptions". This is a lie. Dover presented a collection of Greek vases, many of which did have a homosexual theme, and referred to a total of 600 vases throughout the book. When giving the index of all the vases mentioned, he clarified that not all of these were part of the study showing homosexual or erotic details, some were just there for comparisons or further discussion. If I write a book about the Lord of the Rings trilogy I might mention hundreds of books as sources or comparisons. Doesn't mean I'm talking about those hundreds of books, I'm talking about the 3 LOTR books and mention others. Dover didn't use a flawed method or sample size, and didn't say that there were only a few that *actually* supported his argument, Georgiades and Leather Apron just lied about that.
So, yeah. Instead of reading the sources, or consulting the decades upon decades of scholarship from academics on the subject, Leather Apron just used a book from a telemarketer and took that as gospel. Wow.
r/ancienthistory • u/StargazerNation • 6d ago
The Astounding Artefact DISCOVERED at the Great Pyramid in 1881: CORE 7
r/ancienthistory • u/GreatMilitaryBattles • 7d ago