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Shrine To Hercules Unearthed
Kathimerini ^
| 1-21-2005
| AP Valmas
Posted on 01/21/2005 6:30:26 PM PST by blam
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posted on
01/21/2005 6:30:27 PM PST
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/21/2005 6:31:09 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Shoot....I thought this was to honor the C-130.....
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posted on
01/21/2005 6:33:21 PM PST
by
Bombardier
(Jihad, Nazism....Umma, Deutsches Reich.....no diff.)
To: blam
Panayiotis Valmas, the head restorer. . . . Looks like he's restoring more than the head.
To: blam
descriptions by the poet Pindar some 2,500 years ago
Imagine that.
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posted on
01/21/2005 6:39:18 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Bombardier
"Shoot....I thought this was to honor the C-130....."
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posted on
01/21/2005 6:41:26 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
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posted on
01/21/2005 6:42:14 PM PST
by
spodefly
(Yo, homey ... Is that my briefcase?)
To: blam; CarolinaScout
Very cool! It's neat when they find something like this, than can be linked to classical writing. Brings us all together, somehow.
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posted on
01/21/2005 6:42:48 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
("The short, gray-haired lady, with all the kids.")
To: Charles Henrickson
"Looks like he's restoring more than the head ."Well, he is Greek, after all...
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posted on
01/21/2005 6:52:23 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: Redbob
Beware of Greeks baring myths.
To: blam
We're still finding beads, bones and coins.That's paydirt if your an archeologist.
To: blam
When they dig up XENA PRINCESS warrior let me know!
To: blam
I don't know why a Greek paper is calling him "Hercules," which is the Roman version of the name Heracles (Herakles).
The reference to Pindar seems to be to a passage in the 4th Isthmian Ode:
"In his [Herakles'] honor, above the Elektran Gates
we citizens prepare a feast
and a newly built circle of altars and multiply
burnt offerings for the eight bronze-clad men who died,
the sons that Megara, Kreon's daughter, bore to him.
For them at sunset the flame rises
and burns all night long
kicking heaven with its savor of smoke."
(Translated by William H. Race)
In Pausanias' Description of Greece (2nd century A.D.), in describing Thebes (9.11) he says, "There is a Herakleion here, with a white stone statue by Xenokritos and Eubios of Thebes, called the Champion, and an ancient wooden idol the Thebans believe is by Daidalos." There is a footnote in the Penguin translation of Pausanias to the effect that the church of Hagios Nikolaos stands on this site.
To: blam
I'm still burying the beads bones and coins, Herc! Beads bones and coins!
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posted on
01/21/2005 8:09:50 PM PST
by
Mentos
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posted on
01/21/2005 8:17:24 PM PST
by
Aetius
To: blam
If you remember your Greek mythology, Hercules was considered the strongest god around. During his 11th labor, Antaeus challenged Hercules to a wrestling match. Hercules knew that Antaeus drew his strength from the ground so all he would have to do would be to hold him up in the air and he would win. So he did, and Antaeus being held upside down and completely off the ground, had to grab onto whatever he could to try to get down.
The Italian Rennaissance sculptor Vincenzo de' Rossi sculpted the event for the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence:
Who said Rennaissance art was boring?
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posted on
01/21/2005 8:32:36 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: Charles Henrickson
Beware of Greeks baring myths.
You are hereby sentenced to eternity in the pun mines.
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posted on
01/21/2005 9:03:41 PM PST
by
Colinsky
To: blam; All
To: Colinsky
Are you saying that punishment is mine?
To: Verginius Rufus
Herakles...
Didn't he originate the Greek version of the silly walk and the dead parrot?
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posted on
01/21/2005 9:14:23 PM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(Couldn't you have stopped shooting at us and watched your baby grow instead?)
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