oh to be a young, beautiful boy walking barefoot and carefree as his hair is softly blown by the fresh winds of north under the bright sun, in his way to his secret encounter with his lover, a lovely boy with dazzling eyes, in the mesmerizing and far away lands of ancient greece
Jurassic Jaunt 6: Corfe Castle - Escape from the Model Village
Jurassic Jaunt 6: Corfe Castle – Escape from the Model Village
Previously to Corfe Castle – Corfe Castle!
The next day, prepared with the knowledge that Thy Hot Food Shall Be Eaten Between Thine Hours of 12-3 and that things are rather strict regarding food times, I went looking for breakfast (I’m as bad as Frodo talking about breakfasts!) I noticed the massive queue for the Bakery – very good, I had bought a few gluten free biscuits there the day before. I…
Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus. Date/Period: ca. 1200–1100 BC. Culture: Helladic, Mycenaean. Heavily influenced by the preceding Minoan culture of Crete, the city of Mycenae became the dominant power on the Greek peninsula from 1400 - 1100 BC.
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Our t-shirt design “ Owl of Athena (2nd version)” is now available on the Amazon US and Redbubble (worldwide) One link for US (Amazon)＋other countries (Redbubble): https://geni.us/owlofathena2
This design inspired by an ancient Greek kalpis (a form of Greek pottery) decorated with Owl of Athena. (ca. 470 BC.)
“Someone is taking, is taking me (don’t you see him?) away to the court of the dead. It is winged Hades, glowering from beneath his dark brows. What do you want? Let me go! Ah, what a journey it is that I, unhappiest of women, am making!”
EuripidesAlc. 259-263, trans. David Kovacs
A girl from Thrace who died at the age of twenty in the influenza epidemic of 1917 was heard to shout out, an hour before she died, “There he is! A young man is coming with a spear to cut me up! Bring me the long knife. He is going to slaughter me.” She then engaged in an imaginary but fierce fight.
The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition by Margaret Aleixou, 37-38.
Hellenistic gold and garnet ring, dated to the 4th to 3rd centuries BCE. The garnet is an intaglio inscribed with the image of a hero. Source: Timeline Auctions.
