Satyr and Nymph, a Roman copy after the Hellenic original, as seen in La Jetée, by Chris Marker. More info. here.
In fall 1939, museums across Europe evacuated their collections to remote locations in the countryside in anticipation of war. Here, the Winged Victory of Samothrace is carefully moved down the stairs at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Louvre workers constructed a pulley to position the statue before crating it for shipment. (from Monuments Men)
Juba II (52-50BC - 23AD)
Husband of Kleopatra Selene (daughter of Cleopatra VII). His father was Juba I, king of Numidia until Caesar took over. Juba got on Augustus’ good side and was given Mauretania. He was really cool because he went exploring, discovered countries and wrote books. And he was really hot.
Romanae puellae gestantes vesticulas balneares Bikinianas!
Roman Bikini girls!
A Roman mosaic of the fourth century C.E., showing women exercising, sometimes known as “The Bikini Girls.”
ἄπειρον
APEIRON
[noun/adjective]
(ἄπειρον) a Greek word meaning unlimited, infinite or indefinite from ἀ- a-, “without” and πεῖραρ peirar, “end, limit”.
The apeiron is central to the cosmological theory created by Anaximander in the 6th century BC. From the few remaining fragments of his work, it seems that he believed the beginning or ultimate reality (arche) is eternal and infinite, or boundless (apeiron), subject to neither old age nor decay, which perpetually yields fresh materials from which everything we can perceive is derived from. Apeiron, a kind of primal chaos, generated the opposites, hot-cold, wet-dry etc., which creates the momentum for change. All things which exist are generated and destroyed in accordance to fatalistic necessity; in other words, infinite worlds are generated from apeiron and then they are destroyed again.
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