Posts tagged Ancient Greece
You Love Us
We won't die of devotion. Understand we can never belong
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping - Metropolitan Museum
Gold lion-head pendant.
Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water).
Athena and Herakles
(via centuriespast)
Here is your fate, inhabitants of spacious Sparta:
Either your great and glorious city will be destroyed
By men decended from Perseus, or that will not be,
But the borders of Lacedaemon will mourn the death
Of a king decended from Heracles. For neither the might
Of bulls nor yet that of lions will check the foe head on,
Since he has the might of Zeus. Nor, I declare, will he
Be checked until one of the two has been thoroughly rent asunder.
Wisdom is by far
The greatest part of happiness.
No irreverence
Must be shown to the gods.
The mighty words of overproud men
With mighty blows are punished,
And, with old age, teach wisdom
