#athenodorus

Watch as a video instead: Greek Myth Comix tells an Ancient Ghost Story feat. Pliny The Younger

https://youtu.be/mLLo8Y5ZZyM

Teachers: get this as a poster or PDF for class: https://greekmythcomixshop.wordpress.com/2020/11/06/an-ancient-ghost-story-comic-pdf-or-poster/

Athenodorus of Rhodes

Polydoros of Rhodes

Agesander of Rhodes

Athenodoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros

"the prototypical icon of human agony" in Western art.

Laocoön and His Sons / Laocoön Group, most likely dating to the 1st c. B.C. or1st c. C.E., made of six blocks of Greek Parian marble max H: 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Today in the Octagonal Court / Cortile delle Statue, Vatican.

The "wrong" and full version of it from a 1795 "Royal Academicians in General Assembly" painting by Henry Singleton

Excavated damaged in 1506 and has undergone speculative interventions to show the whole work (all missing parts creatively restored). Since 1980s the group is rid of Jacopo Sansovino's (1st) and Michelangelo's apprentice Giovanni Antonio Montorsoli's extencive restorations, after Ludwig Pollak discovered a missing part of the much debated Right arm, in 1906 (which confirmed Michelangelo's rejected initial view).

Pliny attributed the work (still in Emperor Titus' palace then) to three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes: Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, but he did not mention date or patron. An enigmatic Hellenistic "baroque" masterpiece [a unique surviving instant of huge visual impact, without any intermediate, possibly offensive restoration. It seems almost Doric in comparison with Gian Lorenzo Bernini's baroque view]

Paradox: Laocoon seems convinced by Cassandra's already delivered but never-to-be-believed Trojan Horse accurate prophecy [?]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n_and_His_Sons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agesander_of_Rhodes

https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/museo-pio-clementino/Cortile-Ottagono/laocoonte.html

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/greek-art/hellenistic/a/athanadoros-hagesandros-and-polydoros-of-rhodes-laocoon-and-his-sons

Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941)

Athenodorus and the ghost, c.1900

Athenodorus Cananites (c. 74 BC – 7 AD) was a Stoic philosopher.

Pliny the Younger, tells us of Athenodorus' renting of a haunted house in Athens. Athenodorus was wary because the house was exceptionally cheap for its size. When Athenodorus was writing a book of philosophy, late at night, a ghost is said to have come to him. The ghost, who was bound with chains, beckoned Athenodorus to follow him, leading him to a courtyard, where the ghost suddenly vanished. Athenodorus marked the spot, and the next day, with the permission of the city magistrates, he dug up the earth from that spot, where he found the skeleton of an old man, bound with chains. After the skeleton was given a proper burial, the ghost was said to have never haunted that house again.

Known for his comprehensive writings that provided a vivid view of Roman society, Pliny the Younger was a notable Roman author and statesman. His letters are notorious for their level of detail. An intriguing narrative from one of his essays revolves around the philosopher Athenodorus and a renowned haunted villa. Pliny's writings contain this story, captivating readers for generations with its combination of intellectual investigation and otherworldly occurrences. In the beginning of the novel, Athenodorus, a Stoic philosopher from Tarsus, relocates to Athens in the hopes of finding a suitable spot to reside. He discovers a villa available for rent at an incredibly low cost. There are rumors of the villa's haunting. As a result of his curiosity rather than his fear, Athenodorus decides to investigate. Upon his arrival, he discovers that an elderly man in chains, haunting the grounds, drove the previous inhabitants out.

one of my outdoor cats died.