#400 bc

Title: Sword (Falcata)

Date: 5th–1st century BCE

Culture: Iberian

Medium: Iron alloy

Dimensions: H. 20 15/16 in. (53.2 cm); H. of blade 17 in. (43.2 cm); W. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); D. 13/16 in. (2.1 cm); Wt. 1 lb. 0.7 oz. (473.4 g)

The falcata was a popular type of sword in the Iberian Peninsula from the fifth to the first century B.C. Closely related in form to slashing weapons found in Greece, it is distinguished by the fact that its blade is double-edged for about half of its length, whereas Greek specimens normally have a single cutting edge.

Although its old patina was removed and an inaccurate modern wood grip was added sometime before it was acquired, The Metropolitan Museum's falcata occupies an important place among the examples known to survive because of the otherwise fine state of preservation of its blade, which is structurally intact and only superficially corroded.

An Exceptional Greek Late Classical Silver Rhyton in Form of a Stag"s Head (partially gilt), Late Classical, 400 BC. From the Black Sea Region

A Greek merchant ship called Odysseus discovered more than a mile under the surface of the Black Sea has been radiocarbon dated, and it has been confirmed that it is from approximately 400 BC, making it the world’s oldest known intact shipwreck.

The vessel was located by the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project as they surveyed the seafloor some 50 miles off the coast of Bulgaria with a remote deep-sea camera system.

~ Snake.

Culture: Greek

Period: Classical Period

Date: 400 B.C.

Electra and Phylades? They aren't really around for long but seem like the 'nice but troubled' kind of young people.

The ending? Fine, everyone is happy and a satisfying solution was introduced.

Me reading Orestes from Euripides: Oh no Orestes, the one who killed his mom because she was an 'evil woman' and uses his mysogonistic mindset to justify murder on women.

Electra and Phylades? Whoo boy those kids clearly have a knack for planning murder and they seem to really hate Helen of Troy. Also Phylades gave off some pretty gay vibes when he told Orestes that he could not go on living without him.

The ending? Felt like reading a two thousand year old LSD Trip. First the three kids want to murder Helen before Electra and Orestes have to commit suicide as retribution for the killing of their mom, because Helens Hunsband wasn't any help in saving them from their fate. Second the decide to take Hermione, Helens daughter, hostage and threaten to kill her. When Menelaos, Helens Husband and father of Hermione, comes and tries to get them back, Orestes orders Electra to set fire to the house. The house is burning. Helen has mysteriously disappeared after the attempted murder. Orestes is still standing on the roof, holding a sword to Hermiones neck, all the while screaming at Menelaos. Who the hell knows what Phylades is up to.

And then, before everyone can die, Apollo appears. Together with Helen, who be has saved from murder. He declares the perfect solution: Orestes will go into exile for one year and then he will go to Athen where his case will be judged. When he is done with that he can come back to Argo and reign as a King. Oh yeah, and he can marry Hermione, the girl whose mother he nearly killed amd who he held hostage.

Helen will become a star and chill with the gods. Oh yeah Menelaos, guess you will need a new wife. But hey, you can keep Sparta, as it kinda was Helens dowry.

Phylades and Electra - the couple who is so good at planning murder it is a wonder no one locked them up yet - they should marry each other.

And you know what's even more messed up than whatever is going on in Apollo's head? The fact that everyone just agrees with this solution. And that's the end.

Discoveries just beginning. The 140 painted wooden sarcophagi and gilded statues unearthed in Saqqara are just the beginning, says Egypt's Minister of Antiquities: "Whenever we empty a burial shaft of sarcophagi we find an entrance to another."