The legend inspired JMW Turner to paint a grand canvas entitled 'Lake Avernus ? The Fates and the Golden Bough', now held by the Tate Collection
The legend inspired JMW Turner to paint a grand canvas entitled 'Lake Avernus ? The Fates and the Golden Bough', now held by the Tate Collection
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Mirabile dictu!
I picked up an old copy of The Golden Bough at the used book store. Been trying to get through it, but I’m thinking I’m going to resort to a continuous coffee IV.
Interesting that the oak was sacred to so many ancient peoples.
Ok, but their headline is a teensy-weensy bit misleading if this golden bough they found isn’t the one that actually went down to Hades with Aeneas.
2. another problem I have with the story is why no pics of the golden bough they found itself? Wouldn’t you like to see photographs of the archeological team hacking the golden bough out of the tufa? You know they had to be taking pictures to show it in situ.
3.I checked the original website doe pics and they only had two artists’ renditions of the golden bough legend. In the second one, the representation of one of the Fates looked pregnant and Aeneas himself looked a little chunky with those boobs an old guy gets as his pec muscles atrophy. Oh well, that just adds to the realism of the mythical story.
Prince’s Palace Found in Volcanic Crater [where Romulus and Remus were educated]
Discovery News | Friday, February 26, 2010 | Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 02/26/2010 7:50:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2460331/posts
