| Three mycenaean bridges in the Argolid |
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The three signposted Mycenaean Bridges on the
road from Nafplio to Epidaurus. The first and
third have only recently been signposted and
cleaned up, although the third has become
clogged up again following heavy rains. The
bridges were built between 1600 and 1200 BC
using the corbelled technique characteristic
of cyclopaean masonry.
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| Ancient Greece - Grèce antique - Αρχαία Ελλάδα |
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Photos of various archeological sites in
Greece, from every part of the country. From
5500 BC, to 1st century AD.
1. Abdera, Thrace (4th century BC)
2. Acrocorinth, Corinth, Peloponnese (6th-3th
century BC)
3. Acropolis of Athens aerial view
4. Acropolis of Athens, Erechthion detail
with Caryatis (5th century BC)
5. Aegina island, temple of Afea (6th century
BC)
6. Egosthena, classical fort, Attica (4th
century BC)
7. Akrotiri at Santorini island, (destruction
1600BC)
8. Amphipolis wall, Macedonia (5th century
BC)
9. Antikythira island mechanism (around
100BC)
10. Apollo temple at Vassai in Elis,
Peloponnese (5th c.BC)
11. Argos, "Larissa" Acropolis in Argolid
Peloponnese (from 6th c.BC)
12. Chaeronia Lion at Boeotia (4th c.BC)
13. Corinth, Temple of Apollo (7th c.BC)
14. Delos island, Cyclades General view
15. Delos Lions (5th c.BC)
16. Delphi, Tholos, Phocis (4th c.BC)
17. Delos island stoa (3rd c.BC)
18. Dimini Neolithic Citadel, Magnesia,
Thessaly (6th Millennium BC)
19. Dion, Pieria, Macedonia mount Olympus
visible (3rd-1st c.BC)
20. Dodoni Theater, Epirus (4th c.BC)
21. Dodona, Epirus, The Oracle
22. Drakospita of Karystos interior, Evia
(Euboea) island, (6th c.BC)
23. Karystos Drakospito (Dragon House)
exterior
24. Samos island, the Efpalinos tunnel (6th
c.BC)
25. Eleusis,(ELEFSINA) Attica, The
Telesterion (5th c.BC)
26. Epidaurus, Argolid, Peloponnese. Theatre
(4th c.BC)
27. Erechthion, Acropolis of Athens (5th
c.BC)
28. Faestos (Festos) Crete, Palace (1800 BC)
29. Temple of Hephestus ath Athens (5th c.BC)
30. Delphi, Kastalia holy spring, Phocis
31. Knossos, Crete, Palace stairway
(1700-1570 BC)
32. Knossos fresco B (1600 BC)
33. Knossos Palace from the air
34. Kos island, Dodecannese. The Asklepion
(2nd c.BC)
35. Lindos, Rhodes island, Dodecannese (4th
c. BC)
36. Kea island, Cyclades, the Lion (6th c.BC)
37. Lycosoura (Lykosoura) city in Arcadia,
Peloponnese (these ruins from 5th c.BC-most
ancient city in Greece)
38. Walls of Mycaene, Argolid, Peloponnese
(15th c. BC)
39. Mycenae, The Lion Gate (15th c.BC)
40. Atreus Treasury interior in Mycenae (16th
c.BC)
41. Atreus Treasury exterior.
42. Temple of Nike, Athens (5th c.BC)
43 (2 photos). Olympia, Elis, Peloponnese and
the Entrance to Stadium (5th c.BC)
44. Olynthos, Chalkidike, Macedonia (4rd
c.BC)
45. Kerkyra (Corfu) island, Palaiopolis
(various periods)
46. The Parthenon of Athens Acropolis (mid
5th c. BC)
47. Pella, Central Macedonia, mosaic (3rd c.
BC)
48. Philippoi, Eastern Macedonia (3rd & 2nd
c. BC)
49. Dion, Pieria, Macedonia Theater (2nd
century BC)
50. Ramnous, Attica, Temple of Nemessis (5th
c.BC)
51. Rhodes island (4thc. BC)
52. Samos island Heraeum (Ireon) 6th c.BC)
53. Samothrace island, NorthEast Aegean sea,
Temple of Great Gods (5th c.BC)
54. Stagira, Chalkidiki, Macedonia The Walls
(4th c. BC)
55. Temple of Poseidon at Sounion (Sunium-5th
c. BC)
56. Artemis temple at Vravron (5th c.BC)
57. Temple of Zeus at Athens (from 6th c. BC
to 1st c. AD)
58. Thermon, Etoloakarnania (Aetolia),
western Greece (around 1000 BC)
59. Thessaloniki, capital of Macedonia
Ancient town (from 3rd c. BC)
60. Thessaloniki (Salonica) Macedonia, the
Agora (Forum)
61. Thission, Athens Agora (5th to 2nd c. BC)
62. Tiryns, Argolid, the Gallery (1650 BC)
63. Tiryns, the walls
64. Vergina, Macedonia: The Tomb of Alexander
I, King of Macedon (4th c. BC)
Music by Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygene II
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| Kingdom Hearts II -043- The Heroes And The Hydra |
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In the Japanese version of the game the hydra
spews green blood when a head is cut off,
similar to the movie. However in the American
version it is replaced with purple smoke.
About that Hydra. In Greek mythology, the
Lernaean Hydra (Greek: Λερναία
Ὕδρα) was an ancient nameless
serpent-like chthonic water beast that
possessed numerous heads— the poets mention
more heads than the vase-painters could
paint— and poisonous breath (Hyginus, 30).
The Hydra of Lerna was killed by Hercules as
one of his Twelve Labours. Its lair was the
lake of Lerna in the Argolid, though
archaeology has borne out the myth that the
sacred site was older even than the Mycenaean
city of Argos, for Lerna was the site of the
myth of the Danaids. Beneath the waters was
an entrance to the Underworld, and the Hydra
was its guardian (Kerenyi 1959, p. 143).
The Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and
Echidna (Theogony, 313), noisome offspring of
the earth goddess, Gaia. It was said to be
the sibling of the Nemean Lion, the Chimaera
and Cerberus.
The Second Labour of Heracles
Upon reaching the swamp near Lake Lerna,
where the Hydra dwelt, Heracles covered his
mouth and nose with a cloth to protect
himself from the poisonous fumes and fired
flaming arrows into its lair, the spring of
Amymone, to draw it out. He then confronted
it, wielding a harvesting sickle in some
early vase-paintings; Ruck and Staples (p.
170) have pointed out that the chthonic
creature's reaction was botanical: upon
cutting off each of its heads he found that
two grew back, an expression of the
hopelessness of such a struggle for any but
the hero, Hercules.
The details of the confrontation are explicit
in Apollodorus (2.5.2): realising that he
could not defeat the Hydra in this way,
Hercules called on his nephew Iolaus for
help. His nephew then came upon the idea
(possibly inspired by Athena) of using a
burning firebrand to scorch the neck stumps
after decapitation, and handed him the
blazing brand. Hercules cut off each head and
Iolaus burned the open stump leaving the
hydra dead; its one immortal head Hercules
placed under a great rock on the sacred way
between Lerna and Elaius (Kerenyi1959 p 144),
and dipped his arrows in the Hydra's
poisonous blood, and so his second task was
complete. The alternative to this is that
after cutting off one head he dipped his
sword in it and used its venom to burn each
head so it couldn't grow back.
Hercules later used an arrow dipped in the
Hydra's poisonous blood to kill the centaur
Nessus; and Nessus's tainted blood applied to
the Tunic of Nessus.
Continuing with Pegasus:
In his later life, Pegasus took a mate,
Euippe (or Ocyrrhoe), and had two children
Celeris and Melanippe. This family is the
origin of the winged horses. Celeris is
associated with the constellation Equuleus.
Pegasus was not immortal. Because of his
faithful service Zeus honoured him with a
constellation.[2] On the last day of his
life, when Zeus transformed him into a
constellation, a single feather fell to the
earth near the city of Tarsus.
In modern terminology, the word "pegasus"
(plural "pegasi") has come to refer to any
winged horse, though the term "pterippus"
(meaning winged horse, plural "pterippi") is
also used. Pegasus is also the symbol of the
Mobil brand of gas and oil, marketed by the
Exxon Mobil Corporation. As such, it has also
been a symbol of Dallas, Texas, gracing its
skyline atop the Magnolia building, since the
1930s.
During WW2, the silhouetted image of
Bellerophon the warrior, mounted on the
winged Pegasus, was adopted by the United
Kingdom's newly-raised parachute troops in
1941 as their upper sleeve insignia. The
image clearly symbolized a warrior arriving
at a battle by air, the same tactics used by
paratroopers. The square upper-sleeve
insignia comprised Bellerophon/Pegasus in
light blue on a maroon background. The
insignia was designed by famous English
novelist Daphne Du Maurier, who was married
to the commander of the British parachute
forces (and later the expanded British
Airborne Forces), General Frederick "Boy"
Browning. The maroon background on the
insignia was later used again by the Airborne
Forces when they adopted the famous maroon
beret in Summer 1942. The beret was the
origin of the German nickname for British
airborne troops, The Red Devils. Today's
Parachute Regiment carries on the maroon
beret tradition.
During the airborne phase of the Normandy
invasion on the night of 5-6 June 1944,
British 6th Airborne Division captured all
its key objectives in advance of the seaborne
assault, including the capture and holding at
all costs of a vital bridge over the Caen
Canal, near Ouistreham. In memory of their
tenacity, the bridge has been known ever
since as Pegasus Bridge.
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