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Welcome to my Oikos (Home)! Click on my Library, watched over by my pet sphinx, to see my 50 articles and 100+ illustrated posts. (Clicking on the word "Groups" below them shows recent posts in each.) My Library is also my Studio and Workshop, where you can see some of them still in various stages of construction, destruction, reconstruction, even deconstruction! Whatever. It's all "very instructive."
 Boy from Marathon Bay. Bronze. Height 4 ft, 3 in. Late 4th c BC. Athens, National Museum.
WHO IS HE? AND WHAT IS HE LOOKING AT?
Here, from the sea, from a wreck, comes a bronze boy to show how graceful, clean-cut and free-flowing the unimpeded lines of a Praxitelian nude can be. Here, where the thin and hollow bronze needs neither strut nor counterweight, neither massive draped vase nor tree stump to anchor it, some close follower of Praxiteles has, with exquisite sensitivity, delicacy and charm, captured the grace and supple beauty of an adolescent boy. Portrayed as a young athlete from the gymnasium, he wears nothing but a gold-leafed headband. His limestone eyes are set with pupis of glass; his nipples are of inlaid copper. No one knows exactly who or what he is. But his headband holds a single thorn or claw, a sign worn by those who wrestled and worked out in the palaestra; it was also a sign of - who?
The boy's gaze is fixed on something which is no longer there: In the hollow of his open palm is a pin that once held - what?
WE APOLLONIANS
Quite confidentially,
Those Dionysians
Are, irredeemably,
Naughty and odd.
Incontrovertibly,
We Apollonians are
Morally purer and
Closer to God.
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All Posts (206) Messages posted by DIonysia
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DIonysia's 3 Groups
Mt. Olympus
Position: Member
Level 2
"The basic theme of mythology is that the visible world is supported and sustained by an invisible one." ~Joseph Campbell
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The Evolution And Legacy Of Classical Greece
Position: Staff Archon Polemarchos
Level 5
"The Evolution And Legacy Of Classical Greece"
is a group dedicated to the discussion and study of the Greeks from their early migrations through their rise in power, as a culture, economic, and military force, to their
ultimate decline. (ca. 800 BC to 167 BC)
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Celestia
Position: Fellow
Level 2
~* an exploration of the skies and the Hermetic concept "As Above, So Below" *~
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Complete List of DIonysia's 3 Groups
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