THREAD 🧵Celebrating #Halloween 🎃 with some ancient monsters. Let's start with the Gorgon, perhaps the best-known monster from Classical Mythology. The snake-haired Medusa was one of the three Gorgons. Anyone who looked at her face was turned to stone.

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Happy #Halloween This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. 📷 Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper #Archaeology 🏺

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Happy #Halloween! 🎃 This Roman drinking cup features a relief of a skeleton surrounded by the attributes of a drinking party, flanked by two dancing grotesque figures. A Greek inscription reads "Κτῶ χρῶ," which translates to "Acquire and use!", serving as a reminder to enjoy life's...🧵1/2 📷 me

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Güzelce Kemer (“Beautiful Aqueduct”), an aqueduct bridge from the Kırkçeşme water supply system of Ottoman Kostantiniyye. This system probably reconstructed an older system that was first built by Hadrian and later expanded during the Byzantine era.

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Eothen #NewYork #USA 31.10.1872. "In two hours by the "Lightning Train," as the express is called, we reached Poughkeepsie, where the gig met us; and in the afternoon we steamed down the Hudson in the Eothen...We dropped anchor at six o'clock off Hoboken, a suburb of New York." #Brassey #1870s

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