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Herodotus Book IV – The Scythians

Posted by gregole on June 26, 2016
Posted in: High Culture, History. Tagged: . 1 Comment

 

Example of Scythian Gold Work Excavated from Southern Russia

http://spongobongo.com/her9710.htm

I’ve always had an interest – actually more of an intense fascination for far-away exotic peoples from long-ago.  One of those peoples exerting a draw to my curiosity are the so-called Scythians, an ancient wildly nomadic peoples located roughly north of the Persians in that vast expanse of land from the Danube river across the north shores of the Black Sea to the River Don in present day Russia.  A huge land expanse. Continue Reading

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Ancient Greek Timeline

Posted by gregole on February 22, 2016
Posted in: History, Uncategorized. Tagged: , . 4 Comments

While working my way through a plan to continue and eventually complete my review of The Histories by Herodotus I started getting stuck on all the names and dates; the places, the battles, the people, the customs;  not to mention the architecture, the sculptures, the poetry, the dramas, the pottery.  Yes, even the pottery made history.  The Greeks were awesome!5th century, the parthenon, the acropolis, greek architecture, ancient greece, athena parthenos, athena the virgin

http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-greece/pictures/greek-architecture/the-parthenon-at-dusk-3 Continue Reading

Book Report Double-Header

Posted by gregole on May 5, 2015
Posted in: Poetry and Literature. Tagged: . 1 Comment

Here are two book reports; one on:

http://www.amazon.com/Verse-Universe-Poems-Science-Mathematics/dp/1571314075

And one on:

http://www.amazon.com/In-Dybbuks-Raincoat-Collected-Poems/dp/0826337872

I’ve posted poems from both these books and am afraid if I don’t stop and review these books I am inadvertently going to serialize both books in their entirety!  And that would not be right. Continue Reading

The Art of Botanical Illustration Part 2 – The Art of the Woodcut

Posted by gregole on February 19, 2015
Posted in: Science. Tagged: . 1 Comment

“Konrad von Megenberg00” by Konrad von Megenberg (1309–1374) – http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Onlinexhibits/exhbtcata.html. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konrad_von_Megenberg00.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Konrad_von_Megenberg00.jpg

Moving from and building upon the naturalism of the late Renaissance, full book-length Herbals with highly realistic botanical illustrations evolved. Propelled by the invention of the movable type printing process in Europe in 1439 coupled with the art of woodcut, book-length Herbals showing reasonably realistic portrayals of plants, flowers, trees, and all manner of things botanical began to make their way into the world. Continue Reading