Among the people

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Chiaroscuro

Imbibing light

πηνελόπη ΙI

η ζωή μίας γυναίκας έχει ζωή
όμως θεοί εσείς το ξέρετε
ποτέ τον χρόνο
η γυναίκα δεν ξεχνά
τον πόλεμό της
τον ανταλλάσσει με μία στιγμή μπροστά
στο κύμα τον ανταλλάσσει με μία στιγμή μέσα
στο κύμα ανταλλάσσει τον χρόνο με υφάσματα
στολίδια τραγούδι
κάθε γυναίκα είναι υφάντρια
τραγουδίστρια
αλλά αίφνης το κύμα την ξεβράζει
στην ακτή
γυμνή
χωρίς στολίδια δίχως όπλα δίχως φωνή
κι ευτυχώς τότε
πρέπει να επιστρέψει
έχει να μαγειρέψει

ποίηση Φοίβης Γιαννίση

Ballet dancer II

Helectra's despondency II

THE ELECTRA OF EURIPIDES

" ...Brother, brother, on some far shore          
Hast thou a city, is there a door
That knows thy footfall, Wandering One?
Who left me, left me, when all our pain
Was bitter about us, a father slain,
And a girl that wept in her room alone.
  Thou couldst break me this bondage sore,
    Only thou, who art far away,
  Loose our father, and wake once more....
    Zeus, Zeus, dost hear me pray?...
The sleeping blood and the shame and the doom!
O feet that rest not, over the foam
Of distant seas, come home, come home!..." 

see also Helectra's despondency I: click here

Looking into my pocket

Chiaroscuro

Antikythera Ephebe (youth)

Vlavianos Haris poetry

ACHILLES' HEEL
 
If you believe in the myth
(given its source is the one left behind –
the one who was abandoned)
he must have suffered greatly.

In his tent
alive he grieves now for the one killed;
yet the gods know
that he too is already dead,
betrayed by that part of the body
that could desire,
the part that's mortal.   
                                   

Translated by David Connolly Click here


                                                                                                                                                                 


 The Antikythera Ephebe is a bronze statue of a young man of languorous grace that was found in 1900 by sponge-divers in the area of an ancient shipwreck off the island of Antykithera. It was the first of the series of Greek bronze sculptures that the Aegean and Mediterranean yielded up in the twentieth century which have fundamentally altered the modern view of Ancient greek sculpture. The Ephebe does not correspond to any familiar iconographic model, and there are no known copies of the type. He held a spherical object in his right hand, and possibly may have represented Paris presenting the Apple of discord to Aphrodite however, since Paris is consistently depicted cloaked and with the distinctive Phrygian cup other scholars have suggested a beardless, youthful Heracles with the Apple of the Esperides. It has also been suggested that the youth is a depiction of Perseuw holding the head of the slain Gorgon. At any rate, the loss of the context of the Antikythera Ephebe has stripped it of its original cultural meaning.
The Ephebe, dated by its style to about 340 BC, is one of the most brilliant products of Peloponnesian bronze sculpture; the individuality and character it displays have encouraged speculation on its possible sculptor. It is, perhaps, the work of the famous sculptor Euphranor trained in the Polyclitan tradition, who did make a sculpture of Paris, according to Pliny:
"By Euphranor is an Alexander [Paris]. This work is specially admired, because the eye can detect in it at once the judge of the goddesses, the lover of Helen, and yet the slayer of Achilles. "

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_Ephebe

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