Roman fresco panel showing Odysseus resisting the song of the sirens. The Homeric hero is tied to the mast of the ship while the sirens sing out from high rocks, surrounded by the bones of their previous victims! From Pompeii, c.50 AD
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@OptimoPrincipi Loving that they're showing him the instruments and Odysseus & the Sirens has been signedποΈπ How rare is that for a Pompeii fresco? π
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@OptimoPrincipi A very valuable post. But it would be better to read the abbreviation CE instead of AD from a researcher like you. Otherwise, you might become an instrument of the propaganda of those who destroyed that culture.
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Beautiful Byzantine mosaics of the ceiling of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy.
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Remains of a prehistoric house from bronze age settlement of Akrotiri in Santorini, Greece π¬π· Akrotiri, a 3600 year-old city on the island of Santorini buried by ash from a gigantic volcanic eruption in 1650 BC, frozen in its Bronze Age glory, serves as an exquisite time capsule
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The Alexandrian Complex 'The Alexandrian Complex' could be defined as an unsatiated obsession of seeking knowledge by collecting an ever increasing number of books.
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