Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Aristarchus of Samos
the Greek astronomer who maintained that Earth rotates on its
axis and revolves around the Sun.
Monday, May 1, 2017
Sunday, April 30, 2017
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 MarathonFriday, April 28, 2017
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
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