But at nights (Tassos Leivaditis) And look, we got here without luggage but with such a beautiful moon And I dreamed of a better world Poor humanity, you couldn’t write even one more chapter Like a piece of wood from a sad shipwreck our elder continent travels But at nights...
In Greek antiquity, Hermione was the daughter of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and his wife, Helen of Troy. Prior to the Trojan War, Hermione had been betrothed by Tyndareus, her grandfather, to her cousin Orestes, son of her uncle, Agamemnon. She was just nine years...
Many years after Sin which they called Virtue in the churches and which they blessed. The tempest that man's mind shall give birth to sweeping away relics of old stars and cobwebbed corners of the sky. And Creation paying for the works of thd ancient...
The intrusion of the economic motive into sex is always in a greater or lesser degree disastrous. Sexual relations should be a mutual delight, entered into solely from the spontaneous impulse of both parties. Where this is not the case, everything that is valuable is absent....
I thank all those who laughed at my dreams; You have inspired my imagination. I thank all who wanted to squeeze me into their scheme; They have taught me the value of freedom. I thank all who have lied to me; You have shown me the power of truth. I thank...
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. There is a deep-seated fear, in most people, of the cold world and...
The Greek philosopher Proclus wrote of the fascination that Ptolemy I, Egypt's pharaoh in 300 B.C., had with geometry. He invited Euclid, the Greek mathematician called "the father of geometry," to Alexandria to teach him. After a week or so, Ptolemy told Euclid that the process...
A farmer’s favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice; He can’t pull it out no matter how hard he tries; The donkey is looking at him in the eyes waiting for help !But the farmer needs to be a realist. He decides that he can...
Pelops' father was Tantalus, king at Mount Sipylus in Anatolia. Wanting to test the Olympians, Tantalus cut Pelops into pieces and made his flesh into a stew, then served it to the gods. Demeter, deep in grief after the abduction of her daughter Persephone by...
Greek mythology and literature include the histories of several dynasties—those based in Thebes, Crete, Athens, and Mycenae—whose inveterate moral failures brought down retribution upon generation after generation. The curse placed upon the House of Atreus started before the time of Atreus himself, and was first brought...
