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Love-Making And Marriage In Ancient Greece A Brief History - A Day In History

Love-Making And Marriage In Ancient Greece A Brief History - A Day In History

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Ancient engagements in Ancient Greece were not really for romantic reasons, rather to create reciprocal relationships between the two families. Marriage transactions were often arranged by a womans male kin or kyrios and involved a series of property and dowry payment exchanges. They even had a name for it - o, a verb used to describe the process of giving brides to their new husband. This was also reflected in the marriage ceremony itself. According to Rebecca Hague, special wedding vases, the lebes gamikos and loutrophoros, often depicted scenes of the wedding ceremony for which they were created. Surviving examples reveal that the ceremonies commenced with sacrifices and dedications to the gods to protect the bride and groom. The happy couple would bathe and cleanse in ritual waters, and both would dress elaborately in robes. Brides would adorn themselves with a crown and girdle as a mark of virginity. After the wedding couple were dressed, the festivities began with a delicious feast for both families and their friends. At the end of the feast, the bride would travel by cart to her new home. One of the most bizarre explanations for romantic love originates in a philosophical text written by Plato, the Symposium. Symposia were hosted and attended by notable men of the classical and Hellenistic periods to eat, drink and be merry with music and scantily clad entertainers, or hetaerae. At this fictional event, the comic playwright Aristophanes offers a speech in praise of Eros, god of love and desire. He tells a strange story that all humans were conjoined in the mists of time, until Zeus decided this was too threatening and cut people in two! Love is humans inherent desire to find their other half in order to become a whole person on earth. Lets go back in time and check out the love-making and marriage traditions of Ancient Greece!
Date: 2022-09-18

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Interesting! History really have many origins! Such a rich and datailed version of the life of your ancestors! As you mention on the video, around 4: 20 from the start, these ancient ppl were mainly a patriarchal society. That explains alot! As we are now on the 21th century and you, as the sons of these ideals, should finally ask your sisters, mothers and grandmothers what they think about those days and how they could finally find peace and live with love and care for this milenial culture you have! I'd love to hear 'bout it. Hope we can thrive together and share the amazing stories we all share as humans living in the same planet! Hope we can reach a understanding and find common ground to thrive instead of a more destructive way. Thanks!
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Interesting in Ancient Greece, undersized male parts were considered the mark of Civilized Men.
Oversized ones were considered the marks of Barbarians.
My proof?
Just look at their still surviving nude Statutes.
Hey, do you how they separated Men from Boys in the Greek Army?
With a Crow Bar!

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Having read a number of the Greek texts on which this video is based (years ago, I am struck by the degree to which the past is seen as if it were present day pop American culture. Disappointing.
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Man this just similar yo Indian wedding of today several days of ceremony and girl cry leaving the house of parents
Life to me: -Nothing has changed much

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Seems like people don't change much through the centuries. We'll probably be more or less the same when we are spread throughout the Milky Way galaxy.
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A wonderful Explained &Historical Coverage of This interested &complicated Matter of Human Society in Ancient Greek
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