Alan Dugan (1923-2003) was a poet from New York City. He wrote with bemused sarcasm about mundane topics, infusing them with irony. How We Heard the Name The river brought down dead horses, dead men and military debris, indicative of war or official acts upstream, but it went by, it all goes by, that… (συνέχεια…)
Άρθρα με ετικέτα ‘Αρχαιότητα’
Richard Aldington (1892-1962) was a writer and poet from Portsmouth, England. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. To a Greek Marble Πότνια, πότνια, White grave goddess, Pity my sadness, O silence of Paros. I am not of these about thy feet, These garments and decorum; I am thy brother, Thy lover… (συνέχεια…)
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναSphinx: “Which creature has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?” Oedipus: “Man—who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then uses a walking stick in old age.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναLawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) was an American poet, painter, and social activist from Yonkers, New York. He moved to San Francisco in 1951. To the Oracle at Delphi Great Oracle, why are you staring at me, do I baffle you, do I make you despair? I, Americus, the American, wrought from the dark in my… (συνέχεια…)
Ceramic plates by Mara Karetsos
Debunking the Myth of Whiteness
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναExploring the practices and materials used in ancient polychromy, this exhibition highlights cutting-edge scientific methods used to identify ancient color and examines how color helped convey meaning in antiquity, and how ancient polychromy has been viewed and understood in later periods. Polychromy is a significant area of study for The Met, and the Museum has… (συνέχεια…)
Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναPilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera is a painting by French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). He submitted this work to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as his reception piece in 1717. The painting is now in the Louvre in Paris. In the ancient world, Cythera, one of the Greek islands, was thought to be the birthplace… (συνέχεια…)
Thebes, Greece
The relatively small (75 cm high) limestone Cretan sculpture called the Lady of Auxerre at the Louvre Museum in Paris depicts an archaic Greek goddess of c. 650 – 625 BC. It is a Kore (“maiden”), perhaps a votary rather than the maiden goddess Persephone herself, for her right hand touches her solar plexus and… (συνέχεια…)
Ο Μοσχοφόρος Statue of a man named Rhombos, son of Palos. It was excavated in fragments. The body was found in 1864 during construction works for the old Acropolis Museum, while the base and the feet were discovered in the same area in 1887. calf μοσχάρι (δεν προφέρεται το γράμμα l)
Θήβα Η προτομή του Πινδάρου στην ομώνυμη κεντρική οδό The bust of Pindar on the main street of the same name
Ένας Έλληνας ιππέας Στεφανωμένος με σέλινο, άρα νικητής ιππικών αγώνων στη Νεμέα. Crowned with celery, therefore a winner of equestrian games at Nemea.
Ο κήπος με τ’ αγάλματα
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναΑνθολόγιο Ε’ και ΣΤ’ Δημοτικού, σελ. 256-257, «Οι φίλοι μας οι τσιγγάνοι», απόσπασμα από το μυθιστόρημα της Ελένης Σαραντίτη Ο κήπος με τ’ αγάλματα. H μικρή Μαρίλω έπεσε από το άλογό της και χτύπησε. «Την άλλη μέρα οι τσιγγάνοι μαζέψανε τα πράγματά τους, λύσανε τις σκηνές τους και φύγανε. Κρατούσανε τη Μαρίλω στα χέρια. Η… (συνέχεια…)
Acropolis Now Ο Ade Adepitan στην Αθήνα
Stephen Yenser (b. 1941) is a poet and literary critic from Wichita, Kansas. Petition on Santorini Mother of Stone, Cybele, Stone Mother, keep me low, Resigned, involved, confusable As to the novice eye the vine With wild thyme and caper, close To your chemic soil— Ash, tuff, and pumice—twined In on itself to stand… (συνέχεια…)