The Gorgeous theatre of Miletus 🇹🇷

Expanded from a 5k capacity Hellenic theatre to a 15k capacity theatre during the reign of Trajan around c2 AD

See more of it in our episodes on Western Turkey >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWc0Plux0eM

#Roman #Miletus #Ancient

I don't do well in the direct sunlight.

All that's missing from this picture are my headphones. But the sound in the amphitheatre was quite amazing. Little bird and insect noises.

#ActuallyAutistic
#Miletus #ThingsIsawTurkey

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this pedestal inscription, in Greek. Theatre of Miletus.

#miletus #turkiye #inscription #greek #pedestal

Today's poem:

Old Songs
- by Timotheus of Miletus

I won’t sing the old songs any more
because
my new ones are far better.

The new king is
Zeus
and the old one is
Kronos.

His rule is over long ago
and so,
Let me abandon the old
Muse

Leader of men

#timotheus #miletus #poetry #change #innovation #confidence #bravura #individuality

Today's poem:

A Delphic prophecy about Miletus.

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/729008448750141440/a-poem-about-miletus?source=share

#didyma #poem #pythia #oracle #delphi #apollo #miletus #latin #poetry #prophecy

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits - the bouleuterion of Miletus. in present day Turkiye. The bouleuterion was the seat of the city assembly / council.

#archaeology #GreekCity #miletus #RomanEmpire #turkiye #ArchaeologicalSite #bouleuterion

Today's poem:

The Lost Tails of Miletus
- by Francis Bret Harte

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/719374755092971520/the-lost-tails-of-miletus?source=share

#miletus #poetry #sheep #myth #origin #FrancisBretHarte #turkiye #shepherd #loveless #despair #metaphor #meekness #asexual #timidity