Echetleos: The Mysterious Warrior

According to historical records a mysterious warrior appeared on the battlefield of Marathon (490BC) on the side of Greeks fighting against the Persians. The name given to this mystery man is Echetleos.
 Pausanias in his book “Attika” describes the whole incident.
” They say that a man happened to be present looking like a farmer. Killing many of the foreigners (Persians) with his plow handle (a plow handle looks like a modern day gun as shown in the image below), he disappeared after the battle. When the Athenians asked the oracle, the god just gave the order to honour Echetleos as a hero. They constructed a monument made of white marble. Although the Athenians testify that they buried the Persian as the divine laws in any case commands that the dead body has to be buried, I was not able to locate a tomb.”

Echetleos: The MysteriousHigh-Tech Warrior of the Battle of Marathon

The legent of Daidalus

Daedalus is a figure from Greek mythology famous for his clever inventions and as the architect of the Minotaur’s labyrinth on Crete. He is also the father of Icarus who flew too close to the sun on his artificial wings and so drowned in the Mediterranean. By the Roman period, Daedalus had acquired a long string of accomplishments and he came to represent, in general, the supreme master craftsman. The myths of Daedalus appear in the works of such noted writers as Homer, Herodotus, Ovid, and Virgil.

Daedalus and Icarus

Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle

But such a life would be too high for man; for it is not in so far as he is man that he will live so, but in so far as something divine is present in him; and by so much as this is superior to our composite nature is its activity superior to that which is the exercise of the other kind of virtue. If reason is divine, then, in comparison with man, the life according to it is divine in comparison with human life. But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything. This would seem, too, to be each man himself,since it is the authoritative and better part of him. It would be strange, then, if he were to choose not the life of his self but that of something else. And what we said before' will apply now; that which is proper to each thing is by nature best and most pleasant for each thing; for man, therefore, the life according to reason is best and pleasantest, since reason more than anything else is man. This life therefore is also the happiest. 

Book X

Plato-Phaedo Socrates True earth

The true earth, viewed from above, is a sight to behold. It is marked by bright colors, some different from any colors we know. The plants are also pure and beautiful, and the mountains are smooth and made entirely out of rubies, emeralds, and other precious stones, as well as stones more precious than any of which we know.

Socrates, the earth from above 

Great Alexander diving bell

Alexander the Great's diving bell. 15th-century manuscript illustration of the 4th-century BC ruler Alexander the Great (356 BC-323 BC) being lowered into the sea in a glass barrel, an early form of diving bell. Alexander, from Macedon, become emperor of most of the known world. He was a student of the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle who mentions diving bells, and Alexander is said to have used them in the siege of Tyre in 332 BC. Such stories were re-told in the Middle Ages in a tradition called the Alexander romances. This illustration is from a French translation known as the Shrewsbury Talbot Book of Romances, produced in Rouen prior to 1445.

Time line underwater exploration

Ancient Greek Pottery - Cyclops

Introduction
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Ancient Greek Pottery



Cyclops Eleusis neck-amphora 

Cyclops Calyx Bristish Museum

Blinding of Polephymous Louvre Museum

Sirens

Sirens were dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island.

Odysseus and the Sirens, eponymous vase of the Siren Painter, c. 480–470 BC, (Greek vase, British Museum)

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Sirens Wiki

Sirens pictures archaeology

Death in Archaeology

The death of Sarpidon  New York Metropolitan Museum ,  Wikipedia
The Orphic myth teaches that the soul with the birth goes down to the material and sinful world as a divine foreigner. Enters to body, what becomes the "sign" (“to sima”, means “to soma” means the body) that is to say her grave. The soul however should be released from this prison, so that to return again to her spiritual homeland. That is why the Orphics put to the hands of deads small golden plates, to which they engraved the sign or emblem of faith: "Aytar emoi gender celestial" that is to say,  I come from the ground, but my origin is celestial. The deads would show this plates as a type. . passport, as soon as they would reach to the gates of the other world!

Figurine of a Mourning Woman7th century BC, Terracotta, H. 15.5 cm; Diam. base 9 cm
Crete, Cemetery of Arkades, tomb B
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Π 7995
The woman is depicted as sitting with hands on her head, a typical gesture of female mourning that represents the ultimate expression of anguish at loss of the deceased.

Figure of a Mourning Woman, 
7th century BC, Clay, H. 31.5 cm, W. 12.5 cm
Santorini, Cemetery of Ancient Thera
Archaeological Museum of Thera, 392
"The rituals of death, the leading role played by women in them, and the emotions that death arouses—above all the fear of death—have remained the same from the first moments of human consciousness right up to our own day."
Read more: (in Greek)

http://www.egolpion.net/musthrio-thanatou.el.aspx 



The oldest depiction of the soul, the tiny rider form surrounded by mourners. Protoattiko cup with high foot from the Kerameikos of Athens. 680 BC Ceramic Museum (1153). 
Source: http://www.archaiologia.gr/
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Ancient theories about the Soul

The Cave of Revelation - Patmos

Mt. Athos

Meteora monasteries

Medieval Byzantium Greek Orthodox monasteries, built on top of stunning sandstone peaks

Cycladic frying pans

ASTRONOMICAL AND MATHEMATICALKNOWLEDGE AND CALENDARS DURINGTHE EARLY HELLADIC ERA IN AEGEAN“FRYING PAN” VESSELS

Plato's allegory of the cave

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Minoans and Creta-Knossos and Acrotiri-Thera

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Minoans Civilization

Akrotirion Thera, the Santorini Volcano and the Middle and Late Cycladic Periods in theCentral Aegean Islands

Archaeology Santorini

Thera frescoes

Greece an eternal journey

Dreams of a Damne Soul

Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home…. Maybe it is a good thing for us to keep a few dreams of a house that we shall live in later, always later, so much later, in fact, that we shall not have time to achieve it. For a house that was final, one that stood in symmetrical relation to the house we were born in, would lead to thoughts—serious, sad thoughts—and not to dreams. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Three times my will urged me to clasp her, and I started towards her, three times she escaped my arms like a shadow or a dream.  And the pain seemed deeper in my heart. Then I spoke to her with winged words: “Mother, since I wish it why do you not let me embrace you, so that even in Hades’ House we might clasp our arms around each other and sate ourselves with chill lament? Odysseus in Hades, Odyssey

But what is someone, and what he is not ? A dream of a shadow... Pindaros

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The Damned Soul

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven (Michelangelo)
Michelangelo's draw for me is ...
What is for you ? 

Golden Ratio

The Golden ratio is a special number found by dividing a line into two parts so that the longer part divided by the smaller part is also equal to the whole length divided by the longer part. It is often symbolized using phi, after the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. In an equation form, it looks like this:
a/b = (a+b)/a = 1.6180339887498948420 …