Definition: Bier, Amphora, Slipware

A handful of ancient Greek pottery terminologies today…

 

Bier

(read like “beer”)

A stand on which a corpse, coffin, or casket containing a corpse is placed to lie in state or to be carried to the grave.

 

Amphora

A jar with two vertical handles used in antiquity for the storage and transportation of foodstuffs such as wine and olive oil

 

Slipware

Pottery identified by its primary decorating process where slip is placed onto the leather-hard clay body surface before firing by dipping, painting or splashing. Slip is an aqueous suspension of a clay body, which is a mixture of clays and other minerals such as quartz, feldspar and mica.

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1217612809300848641

Definition: Intertemporal Choice, Resumé Virtue, Eulogy Virtue

Three really cool and really useful terms to know today, along with a powerful understanding of gratitude’s impact on willpower, which is far harder to cultivate for the same impact gratitude can give you.

 

Intertemporal Choice

Process by which people make decisions about what and how much to do at various points in time, when choices at one time influence the possibilities available at other points in time (i.e. 1 marshmallow now or 2 later).

Basically what the classic Marshmallow Experiment on 4 year olds for emotional intelligence tests. But some people never really master this in real life situations more complicated and complex than this simple test.

 

Resumé Virtue

Virtues you want on your resumé that are like skills you bring.

 

Eulogy Virtue

Virtues talked about at your funeral that you might want to be remembered by.

 

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1217607366381838336

Definition: Phyllobolia, Pankration, Pankriast

Phyllobolia

Showering of winning athletes with leaves and flowers like ticker tape today

 

Pankration

A type of all-in wrestling (except gouging eyes and biting) in ancient Greece.

Maybe like ancient MMA? lol

 

Pankriast

Athletes who participated in pankration

And a nice pun for pancreas if you could find a way to pun it! Challenge for you punners out there! 😉

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1217566986114236416

Definition: Tholos, Dromos, Shaft Grave / Tomb

I love cool sounding words from ancient times! You could write sci-fi with tholos and dromos for futuristic tech and nobody would know any better that those terms didn’t belong in those times, to possibly aliens! But these words belong to humans who are part of our human history.

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1216919919675265024

Definition: Pudica

A word as lovely as Venus. I knew never such a word existed!

https://twitter.com/digitalcitizen/status/1217299498692571136