Wednesday, February 11, 2009

John William Godward Dolce far niente

John William Godward Dolce far nienteRembrandt Belshazzar's FeastRaphael La Belle Jardiniere
the idea of Zeus himself, said the project's senior research scientist David Romano, of the University of Pennsylvania.
"This new evidencefather of a slew of other deities and mortals, such as Athena, Apollo, Heracles, Aphrodite and Helen of Troy, say the legends.
The heroic figure was born on either the island of Crete or on Mount Lykaion, according to two competing accounts written in ancient times. While the myths are just that — stories — historians and archaeologists have always been interested in discovering what elements of the stories might be at least loosely based strongly suggests that there were drinking (and perhaps feasting) parties taking place on the top of the mountain in the Late Helladic period, around 3,300 or 3,400 years ago," Romano said.Worship of lightning god unbrokenZeus is the most important figure in ancient Greek mythology. He is the supreme ruler of Mount Olympus, the god of the skies and the

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