From the sea, Goddess Aphrodite emerges and in a panic, she submerges. For Mount Olympus had been seized by the IRS it happened so fast, none of the twelve gods were able to guess. Zeus the ruler of Mount Olympus, sky, and thunder god, accused as well as the other eleven gods and goddesses of fraud because they concealed from the tax office data and now all the gods had to pay everyone pro rata.. In Athens after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC, the Thirty Tyrants, an oligarchy installed in Athens by a Spartan decree they taxed hard all citizens, rich and poor, even the gods, and this, with much vindictiveness and malevolence Sparta applauds..
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The above nightmare tormented me last night because earlier, a letter from IRS [threatened me with plight and they will come after me if I don't pay!!! What a coincidence ! I was watching the same play in the national theater of our history, like that day, where Aphrodite left panic from a world with shades of gray*
* shades of grey, Τhe fact of it not being clear in a situation what is right and wrong:
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. According to Athenaeus, the idea of Aphrodite rising from the sea was inspired by the courtesan Phryne, who, during the time of the festivals of the Eleusinia and Poseidonia, often swam nude in the sea. A scallop shell, often found in Venus Anadyomenes, is a symbol of the female vulva.
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
Venus Anadyomene, by Titian, ca.
1520 (Scottish National Gallery).
* Aphrodite: According to Greek mythology, Aphrodite was born as an adult woman from the sea, which also perpetually renewed her virginity. A motif of the goddess wringing out her hair is often repeated. The subject was often repeated in Antiquity, a fourth-century sculptural representation from a Gallo-Roman villa in Aquitania (Louvre) testifying to the motif's continued viability in Late Antiquity.
* Venus Anadyomene,(from Greek, "Venus Rising From the Sea") is one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in Pliny's Natural History, with the anecdote that the great Apelles employed Campaspe, a mistress of Alexander the Great, for his model. * The Thirty Tyrants(Ancient Greek: οἱ τριάκοντα τύραννοι, oi triákonta týrannoi) were a pro-Spartan oligarchy installed in Athens after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War in 404 BCE. Upon Lysander's request, the Thirty were elected as a government, not just as a legislative committee. The Thirty Tyrants maintained power for thirteen months. Though brief, their reign resulted in the killing of 5% of the Athenian population, the confiscation of citizens' property, and the exile of other democratic supporters.They became known as the "Thirty Tyrants" because of their cruel and oppressive tactics. The two leading members were Critias and Theramenes.
The Birth of Venus, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, c. 1879 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).
*Athenaeusof Naucratis (/ˌæθəˈniːəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀθήναιος Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; Latin: Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD.
Several of his publications are lost, but the fifteen volumes Deipnosophistae mostly survives.
The image of Venus Anadyomeneis one of the very few images that survived in Western Europe in its classical appearance, from Antiquity into the High Middle Ages. Jean Seznec instances two images of Venus among constellations illustrating 14th-century Provençal manuscripts of Matfre Ermengau of Béziers' Breviari d'amor, in which Venus is represented nude in the sea: "This extraordinary conservatism may perhaps be explained by the fact that the culture of the last pagan centuries remained alive longer in Provence than elsewhere."
Pablo Picassorecast the image of Venus Anadyomene in the central figure of his seminal painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), a modernist deconstruction of the icon, and one of the foundation stones of Cubism. Venus Anadyomene offered a natural subject for a fountain: the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC has a lifesize bronze plumbed so that water drips from Venus' hair, modelled by a close follower of Giambologna, late sixteenth century.
The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel, 1863 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).
It was a movie playing οn TV which I had seen when I was wee... But now my view was different. it was not a child's glance, [it was no longer indifferent. Last night, I had terrible insomnia, after my return from Bosnia, while I needed sleep and leis, after fun and nights out, in Banja Luka, for five days. At two hours past midnight the "late - late show" of that night was the old movie Spartacus, on the famous rebel slave. As I was half asleep watching, my mind traveled to another brave, Aristomenis, who lived 300 years before the Roman Gladiators. A rebel who forced the Spartans to send mediators to the Athenians enemies and rivals. ______ In Athens... the mediators and messengers were the arrivals. All they were asking for was direct military aid for Sparta, stressing that this time the common danger was not coming from Asia but from the rebellious slaves and Aristomenis who headed and the probability of prevalence of revolutionaries is dreaded..
Ithomi, the stronghold of the rebels
The heroic slaves fought against all for five years, and year by year the prestige of the Spartans disappears.. Eventually these undefeated Spartans were forced to sign a treaty in which they would return to the city and the slaves would migrate to Naupactus*, far away, to live free in a beautiful green bay.
Naupactus, 2400 years after Everyone knows the Spaniard Cervantes * and statue stands in the harbor. On the contrary nobody there knows the liberator Aristomenis.. an historic murder.
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*Banja Luka, Bosnia, As the second largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina after Sarajevo, it is situated in the northwest of the country and is home to traditions and cultures of its kind. Banja Luka’s citizens buzz throughout the city’s tree-line avenues, boulevards, gardens and parks. As the day retreats to darkness, a vibrant nightlife awakens where people can drink and dance away to their traditional folk music and other genres of music in bars and clubs around town. *The true origin of the name Helot is truly unknown but a common theory is that is relates to the village of Helos, located in the south of Sparta where it is thought that the first Laconian slaves would be formed under the state of Sparta. The beginnings of the helots It was after the First Messenian War that started in 743 BC and lasted for around 20 years, that the Spartans would claim the Messenian people as their helots. Any Messenian that didn’t escape, move or travel to a new land would be declared a helot, a worker for the Spartan state. The future family and children of the Messenian people that become helots would find their offspring born into this new role as a servant to the might state of Sparta. Thus the population of helots in Sparta soon grew to a considerable size, much larger than the full citizens, the Spartans.
*The uprising of the helots (slaves)Some authors make responsibility for the uprising with the helots of Laconia. This is the case of Plutarch in his Life of Cimon: the helots of the Eurotas River valley want to use the earthquake to attack the Spartans whom they think are disarmed. The intervention of Archidamus II, who calls the Lacedaemonians to arms, simultaneously saves them from the earthquake and the helot attack. The helots fold, but revert to open warfare joined by the Messenians.
It is difficult to reconcile these versions. It is nevertheless clear that in any case the revolt of 464 BC represented a major traumatic event for the Spartans. Plutarch indicates that the Crypteia and other poor treatments of the helots were instituted after this revolt. If there is any doubt in these affirmations, they at least underscore the immediate Spartan reaction: allies are gathered and war ensues with the same Athens that would be faced later in the Peloponnesian War.
*Cervantes By the 1500s the Ottoman Empire’s naval fleet had become very powerful. They controlled most of the Mediterranean and often attacked parts of the Spanish and Italian coastlines, forcing the Christian inhabitants into slavery in North Africa. On Sunday, October 7, 1571 The fleet of the Holy League, a group of naval forces from Spain, Naples, Sicily, Venice and Genoa, led by Don Juan of Austria, met the Ottoman forces in the Gulf of Lepanto, off of Western Greece. The Holy fleet (about 200 galleys, not counting smaller ships) consisted mainly of Spanish, Venetian, and papal ships and of vessels sent by a number of Italian states. It carried approximately 30,000 fighting men and was about evenly matched with the Ottoman fleet. The battle ended with the virtual destruction of the Ottoman navy (except 40 galleys, with which Uluç Ali escaped). Approximately 15,000 Turks were slain or captured, some 10,000 Christian galley slaves were liberated, and much booty was taken. The victors, however, lost over 7,000 men. Lepanto was the first major Ottoman defeat by the Christian powers, and it ended the myth of Ottoman naval invincibility. It did not, however, affect Ottoman supremacy on the land, and a new Turkish fleet was speedily built by Sokollu, grand vizier of Selim II. Nevertheless, the battle was decisive in the sense that an Ottoman victory probably would have made the Ottoman Empire supreme in the Mediterranean. Among the allied wounded was Cervantes, (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) who lost the use of his left arm. Cervantes’ own ship, the Marquesa, was part of the Christian fleet.. Yes the known Cervantes of the famous Don Quixote…
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* During the 1950s and 1960s, West Germany signed bilateral recruitment agreements with Italy on 22 November 1955, Spain on 29 March 1960, Greece on 30 March 1960, Turkey on 30 October 1961, Morocco on 21 June 1963, Portugal on 17 March 1964, Tunisia on 18 October 1965, and Yugoslavia on 12 October 1968. These agreements allowed the recruitment of Gastarbeiter to work in the industrial sector for jobs that required few qualifications. There were several reasons for signing those contracts. First of all, during the 1950s, Germany experienced a so-called Wirtschaftswunder or "economic miracle" and needed laborers. The labour shortage was made more acute by the creation of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, which reduced the large-scale flow of East German immigration virtually to zero overnight. Secondly, the Federal Republic saw it as a form of developmental aid. It was hoped that the Gastarbeiter would learn useful skills in Germany, which could help them build their own countries after returning home. The first Gastarbeiter were recruited from European nations.
LED ZEPPELIN - IMMIGRANT SONG
Immigrant Song" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It is built on a repeating riff and features lyrical references to Norse mythology, with singer Robert Plant's howling vocals mentioning war-making and Valhalla. The song was included on their third studio album, Led Zeppelin III, and was released as a single, which charted in several countries. Several live recordings have also been issued on Led Zeppelin concert albums and other artists have recorded renditions of the song.
Though regarded as an album-oriented group, "Immigrant Song" is one of the band's several hit records on singles radio, and the song's popularity has led to its featuring in compilation albums by the band such as in 1992's Led Zeppelin Remasters and 1999's Early Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin. This song overwhelming refers the viking invasion/raids of the British isles. The 1st two lines are self explanatory “we come from land of ice and snow…” similar to the vikings place of origin. “The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!”-
The warriors/raider pray to their gods (Norse god Thor who carries a hammer) for safe passage to new richer territories to fight small settlements( mostly rich monasteries). “Valhalla” is a Norse version of heaven, a place where battle bound viking hoped to end up, sooner or later.
“So now you’d better stop and rebuild all your ruins For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing” Now the last lines may be bit confusing but it refers to the post raid/ conquest assimilation of Nordic raider into the society, many of the ‘earls’ converted to Christianity and adopted varies christian practices. This song overwhelming refers the viking invasion/raids of the British isles. the 1st two lines are self explanatory "we come from land of ice and snow..." similar to the vikings place of origin. "The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!"- The warriors/raider pray to their gods (Norse god Thor who carries a hammer) for safe passage to new richer territories to fight small settlements( mostly rich monasteries). "Valhalla" is a Norse version of heaven, a place where battle bound viking hoped to end up, sooner or later. "So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing" Now the last lines may be bit confusing but it refers to the post raid/ conquest assimilation of Nordic raider into the society, many of the 'earls' converted to Christianity and adopted varies christian practices. isos...
Τhe year one thousand five hundred sixty-three, in an impressive synod hall lined with beech, after very stubborn and strong dissent, the ''Concilium Tridentinum'', ie Council of Trent managed with difficulty to give vent but many members certainly resent.... It took twenty one days to decide (finally the council not shied) that women have souls indeed.. Since then the chains were freed and theyexcelledso muchin each area somany misogynistcaught uphysteria..
Womenhavealwaysbeen οppressed from the depthsof centuries, inEast andWest. Despiteall this some of them,since ancient times, have forcedmen tofeelinferior sometimes. My mind inevitably runs to the wisdom of Hypatia of Alexandria andatthe twofamousqueensElizabeth I andVictoria
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I will mentionsome more womenlike Marie Curie
which let us consider there as an honoree... Also Indira Gandhi orCatherinethe Great,
ormy belovedwife Cathy who is alwaysirate,
ormybrilliantsister Kelly in Michiganstate,
ormygorgeousmuses, Maddy, Elina, Kate, whichin order toseducea man should be the perfectbait.. Inour timeswomenare activeeverywhere but until recentlyno onewasaware that the lastmalecastle wasuntouched and aGreekwomana few days agobreached. Intheultramarathonfrom AthenstoSparta, MarkakouStella runninginthe footstepsof ancientrunnerslikegazella, finished first, sending out toall womenthe message,
that the blockedroad withobstacles, is now a freepassage.
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Council of Trent,At Council of Trent (1545-1563) in Trento, Northern Italy, it took one day to decide that animals don’t have souls but 21 days to decide that woman actually do have souls. Latin: Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento (Trent) and Bologna, northern Italy, was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils.
Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.[1] Four hundred years later, when Pope John XXIII initiated preparations for the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), he affirmed the decrees it had issued: "What was, still is." As well as decrees,[3] the Council issued condemnations of what it defined to be heresies committed by Protestantism and, in response to them, key statements and clarifications of the Church's doctrine and teachings. These addressed a wide range of subjects, including scripture, the Biblical canon, sacred tradition, original sin, justification, salvation, the sacraments, the Mass and the veneration of saints.
The Council met for twenty-five sessions between 13 December 1545 and 4 December 1563, all in Trento (then the capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Trent in the Holy Roman Empire), apart from the ninth to eleventh sessions held in Bologna during 1547.
Pope Paul III, who convoked the Council, presided over these and the first eight sessions (1545–47), while the twelfth to sixteenth sessions (1551–52) were overseen by Pope Julius III and the seventeenth to twenty-fifth sessions (1562–63) by Pope Pius IV.
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Marie Curie
* Marie CurieNobel Prize in Physics 1903 Born: 7 November 1867, Warsaw, RussianEmpire (now Poland) The 1897 discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel inspired Marie Curie to investigate further this phenomenon. She examined several substances and minerals for radioactivity and found that the mineral pitchblende was more active than uranium and concluded that it must contain other radioactive substances. She managed to extract two previously unknown elements: polonium and radium, both of them more radioactive than uranium.
Have Women Always Been Oppressed? For centuries biologically based arguments have been used to portray as ‘natural’ and ‘eternal’ inequality and the ‘division of labour’ between men and women – with women having responsibility for children and the family and men being the economic providers. Today, most women would burst out laughing if they were told that they earn less money than men because they have broad hips, because their brains are smaller or because of their reproductive organs. Science and social attitudes have moved on! But, even in the 21st century, evolutionary psychologists tell us that ‘universal’ behaviours such as male promiscuity, rape and violence against women, and even men not ironing, are determined by our genes, which are the product of natural selection. The arguments may have become more ‘sophisticated’ but the idea that ‘biology is destiny’ has not disappeared.
Hypatia of Alexandria
* Hypatia of Alexandriawas the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics. Hypatia was the daughter of the mathematician and philosopher Theon of Alexandria and it is fairly certain that she studied mathematics under the guidance and instruction of her father. It is rather remarkable that Hypatia became head of the Platonist school at Alexandria in about 400 AD. There she lectured on mathematics and philosophy, in particular teaching the philosophy of Neoplatonism. Hypatia based her teachings on those of Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, and Iamblichus who was a developer of Neoplatonism around 300 AD.
Plotinus taught that there is an ultimate reality which is beyond the reach of thought or language. The object of life was to aim at this ultimate reality which could never be precisely described. Plotinus stressed that people did not have the mental capacity to fully understand both the ultimate reality itself or the consequences of its existence. Iamblichus distinguished further levels of reality in a hierarchy of levels beneath the ultimate reality. There was a level of reality corresponding to every distinct thought of which the human mind was capable. Hypatia taught these philosophical ideas with a greater scientific emphasis than earlier followers of Neoplatonism. She is described by all commentators as a charismatic teacher.
Elizabeth I Queen of England and Ireland
* Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death.
Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
*Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she had the additional title of Empress of India.
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
* Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was the first female Prime Minister of India and central figure of the Indian National Congress party. Indira Gandhi, who served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, is the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office.
Stella Markakou
* Stella MarkakouTouching moments unfold on Agora Thissio with the arrival of Stella Markakou when she fell into the arms of her coach, wrapped both with the Greek flag.
She had completed the ultra marathon Athens - Sparta in 106 hours and 45 minutes...
* Muse,A person who serves as an artist's inspiration. Often filmmakers talk about a certain actor being a muse — meaning the actor inspired a movie. Writers, painters, musicians, and other artists have muses. Muse can also refer to thinking deeply. If you muse about something, you're giving it serious thought. You can't muse in five seconds. People muse on certain ideas for years.
* Kelly, National Director, Sales Contract National Accounts Whirlpool Corporation // Regional Sales Director, Central States //Director Whirlpool Corporation //Sales Academy
* Kelly wrote: Women are not superior and Men are not superior, but we are superior together. You did an exceptional job this week! You do a great job every week, but you did an exceptional job this week. Hardly any corrections were needed. And of course you can use me in your poem I am honored to be mentioned. And honored that you wrote a women about women and our fight to have a place in the world. * Kelly is ''Language adjustments and text adaptation'' of our blogs
* Maddy...
* Maddy wrote: If I am not mistaking... you mean that I am a timeless muse who takes us back to our youth...
Elina, a source of artistic inspiration
* Elina wrote: Thank you for asking me always before you write about me.It was an honor to be invited. I enjoy every word of it.
Kate, web designer Digital adaptation and text editing
* Kate wrote: Beautiful Inspirations. I was honored to have been mentioned in your poem... Your blog is a place of life's beauty, love and hope. I so much appreciate your work,
* Odysseas wrote: “A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.” ― Shannon L. Alder
Month in, month out and I haveno longerdoubt that this woman is time itself [in the human form,
beyond anylogicand anynorm. For me she issomethinglikea database, becauseI can readmy whole lifein herface...
I wasthirtyshewas seventeen. I was sulky, but Maddy was [constantly in a cheerful mien.
I wasalready acrummybreadwinner while for her life had just been launched, [a real beginner.
She encouragedher friend Cathy
[to becomemy wife,
with that result I expected to live a happy life...
Apieceof thishappinessis due totheMaddy... I amhappyalthoughI lookgrumpyandfaddy. Maddydisappearedfromour lives out of the blue*, immediatelyafter the wedding like a birdthat flew....
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Forty years later, [through Facebook, me and Cathy, metagainwith [ouroldgoodfriendMaddy, the wordy.
I was seventy and... Maddy was fifty six .. in life all three of us made good and bad picks.
Ineverywrinkleof her face, Icould readfrom mylifesomecase. In everywrinkleof herface, Icould see thatwe participatedin thesame race, a race with the prize our recollections, ie ourpassions,romances andaffections...
“When I sometimes feel overwhelmed by the problems of the modern city, I go to the Acropolis,” Constantinos Doxiadis in 1964.
Doxiadis kept the Acropolis in his sights by building both his offices and his home on a quiet street in the foothills of Mount Lycabettus with dazzling views of the Parthenon.
Constantinos Doxiadis,In the late 1950s, one of the leading figures of modern Greek architecture, was looking for a site to build his new company’s Athens offices. He selected a plot in the pine-clad foothills of Mount Lycabettus, a vantage point that afforded sweeping views of the city as far as the sea.
Doxiadis calculated that his top-floor office would be the same height as the Parthenon, so the view would be not only phenomenal – it would be unique. Doxiadis Associates’ headquarters expanded as the architectural practice grew. The complex eventually consisted of four wings built around an atrium.
One wing was devoted to the first schools of design in Greece. Another wing housed the Graduate School of Ekistics, or the science of human settlement, a new concept in urban planning developed by Doxiadis.
Transparent, open, and engaging, the building was designed to integrate with the urban fabric. The courtyard was modelled on the traditional Greek village square to instil a sense of community among staff and students. A fountain marked the ancient source of the Iridanos River. Beyond it was an emblem of the future: the first computer in Greece installed behind a glass screen. Poets and painters presented their work in a spectacular lecture hall on the ground floor. The building was a hub of creativity, a hotbed of ideas, a place where new theories took shape.
Now days divercity architects were inspired by Doxiadis’ philosophy in converting his former headquarters into 21st century 26 residences named ''One Athens''. ONE ATHENS can accommodate a variety of homes to suit different lifestyles: apartments, duplexes, penthouses, and townhouses. One Athens comes as a natural addition to the district's array of prestigious establishments and residences, since it brings a new lease of life into the famous listed ‘Doxiadis Office Building’. Erected between 1958 and 1972, the building once housed the Athens Technological School, the Graduate School of Ekistics and the offices of the Doxiadis architecture and urban planning firm (which at its peak employed some 400 staff who worked on projects on five continents). Soon after Doxiadis’ death in 1975 however, both the school and his firm closed down, and the building fell into disuse.
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