Enemy of Stupidity

The most embarrassing tombstone of all time! 🤭 Greek and Roman epitaphs can be touching. They can also, in the case of Allia Potestas, even be risqué. But they can also be horribly, incredibly embarrassing- as in the case of Aphrodisios of Alexandria Troas. This tombstone at the Louvre, recently translated into English by Chaniotis and posted on X by Roko Rumora, has to be seen to be believed. "Passer-by, Aphrodisios is my name; I'm a citizen of Alexandria Troas and a leader of the chorus. I die a most pathetic death because of my wife, the dirty adulteress (whom Zeus will destroy). Her secret lover Lychon—a member of my own family!—slaughtered me, still in my youth. He threw me from the heights like a discus. I was twenty years old, so full of beauty, when the Moirai spun my fate and sent me as a delight to Hades." © The Archaeologist #archaeohistories