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In Ancient Greece, hospitality was considered an act of virtue. The foreigners were protected by Zeus. The guests had to respect the hosts too. In Iliad, when Paris took advantage the hospitality of Menelaus it was an insult to Zeus' authority. #WorldTourismDay #SundayThoughts
Gym is a shortened form of gymnasium, which comes from the Greek word gymnós and means “naked”. The ancient Greeks called the place where they exercised the “naked place” because they did all their athletic activities naked. 🤼♂️🏋️🏃🏻
#NationalFitnessDay #WednesdayThoughts
I was always wondering who was the man with the helmet in Raphael’s School of Athens.. Alexander the Great or Alcibiades?
Or, perhaps Alexander is the figure on the right of the fresco, walking up the steps away from Diogenes. Any suggestions? 🤔😶
#WednesdayThoughts
Aphrodite, the goddess of love in Greek mythology, has been the inspiration of more works of art than any other figure in classical mythology.
#SundayThoughts
Euclid is known as the "father of geometry". Once one of his student asked what he could gain from learning geometry. Euclid ordered to give the student 3 gold coins, because "he must profit from what he learns”. Then he drove the student away.
#SundayThoughts #SundayWisdom
On a day like this (Sept.12,490 BC) 9000 Athenians and 1000 Plataeans defeated the more numerous Persians at the Battle of Marathon. With the stunning victory began the Golden Age of Athens. Possibly the world would be different if the Greeks weren’t victorious.
#SaturdayMorning
In ancient Greece, the athletes covered themselves with oil before their exercise. After exercise they scraped the oil and sweat on their body with a scraper called ‘strigil’. This mixture was called ‘gloios’ and sold for medical purposes. 😓🏺
#SundayThoughts #SundayVibes
Pythagoras proposed that the Sun, Moon the planets, all celestial bodies produce notes of their own but we humans can’t hear the unique celestial music. 🎶 🌍🌕🪐☀️✨🎵
#internationalstrangemusicday #StrangeMusicDay #MondayThoughts #MondayMorning
It is said that when the Muses were born the song was created. Some the men of that time, were so ecstatic that they sang to the point of neglecting their food and drink. They died without even realizing it and the race of cicadas emerged after them. #MondayThoughts 🎶 🎵