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Protecting your grain in 700 BC (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2000 year later and things haven't changed:

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ngl, I would give a few bags of flour ...

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has there been any serious research into 700 BCE buttock decorating? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Here is his friend. Anything please?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m wondering if Hesiod was referring to jewelry, fancy clothes, or tattoos.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Butt plugs. The kind with the jewels. Or tails.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Something something sparta stuffing a fox under their tunic, I don't remember how it goes.

[–] someguywithacomputer 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind of buttock decoration methods did they even have in 700bc?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always interpreted this as a willful mistranslation considering what a granary looks like.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

I think that's how they said "gold digger" ~2700 years ago

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is grain code for seed?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Back in the day being rich means owning lots of land and harvesting lots of crops from it. Grain means money.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Hesiod, Works and Days (370) or 373. Also Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think decorated butt means it's a big butt

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait a second.... were there even buttocks in 700 BC?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Watch out! She's after your seed!