The one guy is really pushing the boundaries of business casual.
When you have it bigger than Hercules
Looks very similar to the outfits of our old kings, especially the crown. We must’ve got it from them then. Looks 🔥.
Edit: after some digging apparently he was part of the Orontid dynasty that was founded by his great grandfather who was king of Armenia. They were originally of Iranian descent and when the famous Atraxiad dynasty split off from the parent Oronotid dynasty and became rulers of Greater Armenia they kept the Iranian style dress so that’s why this looks so familiar, TIL.
Has the statue been dated?
Edit: Some jokers seem to have pretty poor grasp of English language 🙂
Persian wear clothes and Greek no, what’s the age ?
Looks to be in too good shape to be the original
The one guy has balls so big he needs rope to hold them in place
Why would this “Persian” have greek name and Hellenic era clothing?
Antiochus: “So…” [trails off] “…I see you’ve got wood…” [Further long pause].
Watch out for his Holy Hand Grenade.
“bro why you naked? You didn’t know we were meeting? I knew”
yeah… he wasn’t really Persian…
He was pretty Hellenic
Britannica: Antiochus IV Epiphanes, (Greek: “God Manifest”) also called Antiochus Epimanes (the Mad), (born c. 215 BCE—died 164, Tabae, Iran), Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian kingdom who reigned from 175 to 164 BCE. As a ruler he was best known for his encouragement of Greek culture and institutions. His attempts to suppress Judaism brought on the Wars of the Maccabees.
Greeks really did walk around stark naked? That’s a cultural trend I would love to see come back.
Greeks on that chad meme thousands of years ago
Added.
Probably the “Persian”is Antiochos II so called ” Theos” aka GOD(Greek King of the Seleucid Empire grandchildren of Seleucous one of the generals of Alexander the Great) having appreciation and acceptance of his forefather Heracles the Greek Demigod for his rule as a successor of Macedonian dynasty…
Just me or do they look very short
I found interesting the fact that Hercules is presented as some kind of barbarian in Greek art. I think that he is the only hero presented that way and in general this barbarian look was seen as inapropriare by Greeks. Am I right?
Hercules gifting the Persian Antiochus his turd from the gods.
Sad its turkey today…
so for greeks clothes were a later invention
Reminds me of the Michael Scott handshake meme
*subreddit icon*
And Americans are still saying: “we made that / those statues”
very cool stuff in Anatolia, home to many civilizations
“Persian”? Antiochus was a Greek/Macedonian, Seleucid dynasty of the Syrian kings…
you can smell the olive oil on heracles body from here
The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, that wgile area, all sharing God’s they admired.
Then the Israelites came in with their, no false idols, no other god, rules and ruinednit for everyone.
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The one guy is really pushing the boundaries of business casual.
When you have it bigger than Hercules
Looks very similar to the outfits of our old kings, especially the crown. We must’ve got it from them then. Looks 🔥.
Edit: after some digging apparently he was part of the Orontid dynasty that was founded by his great grandfather who was king of Armenia. They were originally of Iranian descent and when the famous Atraxiad dynasty split off from the parent Oronotid dynasty and became rulers of Greater Armenia they kept the Iranian style dress so that’s why this looks so familiar, TIL.
Has the statue been dated?
Edit: Some jokers seem to have pretty poor grasp of English language 🙂
Persian wear clothes and Greek no, what’s the age ?
Looks to be in too good shape to be the original
The one guy has balls so big he needs rope to hold them in place
Why would this “Persian” have greek name and Hellenic era clothing?
Persian: Yo dude, gonna put on some clothes?
Greek: No.
Persian: Understandable, have a nice day.
The first Chads’ meme.
Some more views from that location: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.9811478,38.7417107,0a,75y,197.83h,103.92t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sAF1QipNjqk-g0vm6POVw4irAQySv3dYbJXRjGbq98Bnx!2e10?utm_source=mstt_0
Antiochus: “So…” [trails off] “…I see you’ve got wood…” [Further long pause].
Watch out for his Holy Hand Grenade.
“bro why you naked? You didn’t know we were meeting? I knew”
yeah… he wasn’t really Persian…
He was pretty Hellenic
Britannica: Antiochus IV Epiphanes, (Greek: “God Manifest”) also called Antiochus Epimanes (the Mad), (born c. 215 BCE—died 164, Tabae, Iran), Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian kingdom who reigned from 175 to 164 BCE. As a ruler he was best known for his encouragement of Greek culture and institutions. His attempts to suppress Judaism brought on the Wars of the Maccabees.
Greeks really did walk around stark naked? That’s a cultural trend I would love to see come back.
Greeks on that chad meme thousands of years ago
Added.
Probably the “Persian”is Antiochos II so called ” Theos” aka GOD(Greek King of the Seleucid Empire grandchildren of Seleucous one of the generals of Alexander the Great) having appreciation and acceptance of his forefather Heracles the Greek Demigod for his rule as a successor of Macedonian dynasty…
Just me or do they look very short
I found interesting the fact that Hercules is presented as some kind of barbarian in Greek art. I think that he is the only hero presented that way and in general this barbarian look was seen as inapropriare by Greeks. Am I right?
Hercules gifting the Persian Antiochus his turd from the gods.
Sad its turkey today…
so for greeks clothes were a later invention
Reminds me of the Michael Scott handshake meme
*subreddit icon*
And Americans are still saying: “we made that / those statues”
very cool stuff in Anatolia, home to many civilizations
“Persian”? Antiochus was a Greek/Macedonian, Seleucid dynasty of the Syrian kings…
you can smell the olive oil on heracles body from here
The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, that wgile area, all sharing God’s they admired.
Then the Israelites came in with their, no false idols, no other god, rules and ruinednit for everyone.