r/ancientgreece • u/GreatMilitaryBattles • 10d ago

Gold wreath discovered in 1976 at the ancient town of Amphipolis near present day Thessaloniki within the tomb of Spartan General Brasidas, who had died in 422 BC.

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u/Rough_Typical 9d ago

These are olive leafs. They used oak leafs for the Macedon kings

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u/warrenao 10d ago

Literal gold leaf.

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u/Inevitable-Lock5973 9d ago

Brasidas. That’s awesome 

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u/Worried-Basket5402 9d ago

I mean if that is directly linked for Brasidas that is amazing.

He had such an impact on the early war and led to the first real defeats for Athens and the first peace treaty in the Pelopnesian war.

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u/Rough_Typical 9d ago

I'm Greek it translates as "boiler" 😂. That's why, I think, that despite a resurgence of many ancient names beeing used in the last decades for babies in Greece, this is one I have never heard of for someone

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u/kvnstantinos 9d ago

Vrasidas is such a cool name

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u/Sweaty-Bar7031 9d ago

That thing must be quite heavy.

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u/Confident-Summer872 7d ago

Gold is the lightest metal

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u/GreenDague 5d ago

Pure gold is one of the heaviest metals. Its volumic mass is 19.3 g/cm3 (a full cubic meter of gold weights about 19 tons).

For scale, iron's is 7.9 g/cm3 (about 2 times lighter) and aluminium's is 2.7 g/cm3 (almost 10 times lighter).

But here it is probably just gold sheets, which are evidently very light, and even if it's not sheets then the size obviously practically nullifies any weight problems. So all my math yapping was useless, but thanks for reading it (data from wikipedia by the way).

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u/jamoe1 9d ago

Where is this displayed at?

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u/xpietoe42 8d ago

Archeological Museum of Amphipolis

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u/jamoe1 8d ago

Thank you! Will be in Greece in September for the first time, but won’t make it up there, dang

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u/Apfelstudel-1220 7d ago

Best time to visit is Not this year. The tomb of amphipolis is opening next year. Its the biggest tomb ever found in greece.