Showing posts with label Io. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Io. Show all posts

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Prehistoric Mysia

























































































































Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Eleusinian Mysteries


Caryatis Kistophoros from the Lesser Propylaea.
On her head she carries the kiste (a box) ornamented
with the Eleusinian symbols (a kernos, wheat and poppies).









Sunday, April 29, 2012

Monday, April 9, 2012

Prehistoric Greek genealogies, art and music


Venus of Laussel, France
Source: Wikipedia








     The "Thinker" of Karditsa and a clay pitcher (6000 BC) - National Archaeological Museum of Athens  (own work).



The "Thinker" of Cernavoda (5000 BC) - National Museum of Romania.
Source: Wikipedia

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Cecropia



       Cecrops I, King of Cecropia                                         Cecrops - from an Attic red figure (440 BC) - Berlin





The three wise daemons (half snakes) from the pediment
of the Old Parthenon. They are holding fire, water and a bird.
Acropolis Museum






Herakles and Antaios - Crater by Euphronios
HERAKLES is written with the old Greek alphabet,
and ANTAIOS from right to left.
On the upper part we read... ΕΦΡΟΝΙΟΣ ΕΓΡΑΦΣΕΝ.











Τutankhamun


One of my oil paintings (1985)
60 cm x 80 cm
From the back cover of my book
"Cheops, the great Architect" (1990).

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Greek Mythology





































*Correction:
Pelasgos was contemporary of Demeter...












































































































*Correction:
in his family tree, the "generations" are
about 750 years....