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So much more than just white-sand beaches. I’d love to visit the baths, it looks like such a cool experience. Reply Junior Pena Mar 3, 2016 at 10:50 PM Hey! I have to distribute 10 full days between Athens and the islands. What is your recommendation on getting the most out of ...
Most of the vases that we commented are craters, used to mix wine and water during feast, sometimes wedding banquets60. Such images painted on craters could have had a special meaning to the feast participants or for the owner of the vase by reflecting, even if indirectly, on their own ...
Forthwith shall you have raisin-wine porridge, white frumenty, and the waxen fruits of the bee;and this kind of porridge, according to Sosibius, is all-seeds boiled in wine of raisins, frumenty is boiled wheat-corns, and the waxen fruits are honey.98...
Then the [shades of the] monsters he had conquered are in a panic, the fierce Centaurs and the Lapithae whom too much wine had inflamed to war; and, seeking the farthest fens of the Stygian swamp, Lerna's labour plunges deep his fertile heads."...
to, towards (adductor) When used as a prefix the d is sometimes changed to the first consonant of the following word, e.g., acclimate, afferent, assimilate; As a suffix it means towards the part of the body indicated by word to which it is suffixed, e.g., cephalad, towards the ...
myth name of a blind bard DEMOGORGON: myth name thought to be the name for Satan DEMOPHON: myth name of a son of Theseus DEUCALION: myth name of a son of Prometheus DHIMITRIOS: myth name DIOMEDES: myth name of an evil king GREEK NAMES: Male DIONYSIUS: myth name of a god of wine....
Indeed, the Greeks had another basic export besides olive oil and wine, and that was warriors. Since the Greek cities fought among themselves all the time, the occasional peace left many of them seeking to continue the wars by other means. The Egyptian kings of the XXVI Dynasty found plenty...