A big thank you to our sponsor Babbel! To discover its offers and benefit from a 50% discount on a lifetime subscription, it's here that it happens: https://bit.ly/42Nqf1x Without smartphones, their mms, sms and other gifs, how could you insult someone remotely in Antiquity? How can you be sure that your opponent receives the message? The ancients took things very seriously: for example, by engraving an insult on a wall, like Roman graffiti, or directly on a Greek slingshot ball, which you sent straight into your enemy's face! Or, even better, you used the ancestor of social networks: the public square! ???? Writing: Benjamin Brillaud and Jean de Boisséson ???? Editing: Dead Will / Wilfried Kaiser / deadwill Summary: 0:00: Babbel 0:58: Yes, the ancient Greeks insulted each other like rappers ————————————————————————————————————————————————— ➤➤➤ Sources at the end of the description ———————————————————————————————————————————————— ????To subscribe and support my channel???? / @notabenemovies ????Nota Bonus channel???? / @notabonus ——————————————————————————————————————————————— ????Discover my online store???? ➜ https://nota-bene.creator-spring.com/ —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ????You can buy my books by following this link ???? ➜ https://www.notabenemovies.com/ouvrages/ —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ????Join me on social media!???? ➜ Twitch: / notabenemovies ➜ Facebook: / notabenemovies ➜ Twitter : / notabenemovies ➜ Instagram : / notabenemovies ➜ TikTok : / notabenemovies ➜ Snapchat : / nv73qsxl ➜ Tipeee : https://www.tipeee.com/nota-bene ➜ Website : https://www.notabenemovies.com/ ➜ Podcast : https://www.notabenemovies.com/podcasts/ ➜ Dailymotion : https://www.dailymotion.com/notabenem... —————————————————————————————————————————————————— ???? Images used in the episode : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... —————————————————————————————————————————————— ➤➤➤ For more information: ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Horace (aut.) and Ulysse de Séguier (trans.), Odes et Epodes, Paris, 1883. Translation adapted by us, for the musical setting. Paul Schubert, Ancient Poetry – The Origin of Iambic Poetry (Course Université Genève, 2020), in: Éclair Brut, course given on February 17, 2020, posted online on March 1, 2021. Auguste Barbier, Iambes et poèmes, Paris, 1898. Vincent Azoulay and Aurélie Damet, “Threatening Words and Forbidden Words in Ancient Greece: Anthropological and Legal Approaches”, Cahiers “Mondes anciens” [Online], 5, posted online on February 14, 2014. Ralph M. Rosen, “Effectiveness and Temporality of Invective and Satire in Greek Poetry”, Cahiers “Mondes anciens” [Online], 5, posted online on February 14, 2014. Pierre Destrée, “Heraclitus: Philosophical Insult and Mockery”, Cahiers “Mondes anciens” [Online], 5, posted online on February 14, 2014. François Kirbihler, “P. Vedius Rufus, Father of P. Vedius Pollio.” in: Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 160, 2007, pp. 261–71. Benoît Lefebvre, “Making War with Words: The Example of the Plumbeae Glands” in: Make Way for Objects! Presentification and Life of Artifacts in Ancient Greece [online]. Paris-Athens: Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2018. Imago Mundi Encyclopedia, “Iambic Poetry,” “Archilochus,” and “Hipponax,” in: cosmovisions.com. Melanie Chereau, “Mysteries of Eleusis: the initiatory cults of Greece”, in inexplore.com, March 30, 2023. Chrystelle Berthon, “Eleusis and its Mystery Cult”, in Odysseum, April 10, 2022. Olivier Masson, “On a papyrus containing fragments of Hipponax (P. Oxy. XVIII. 2176)”, in Revue des Études Grecques, volume 62, issue 291-293, July-December 1949. Marie-Andrée Colbeaux, “Woman, Evil offered to men by the gods”, in Insula, the blog of the Library of Ancient Sciences (University of Lille), October 9, 2010. Amédée Hauvette, Herodotus, historian of the Persian Wars, Paris, Hachette, 1894.