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When Plato saw the inhabitants of Akragas (Agrigento, Sicily) built lavish homes & dined in equally lavish style he remarked that "they built as if they were to live forever and dined as if they would die tomorrow"

*from Aelian Varia Historia (3rd c. AD)

"It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence."

Magna res est vocis et silentii tempora nosse

Pseudo-Seneca, *De Moribus 74

The mark of genius in a draughtsman is not solely life-like accuracy but the striking immediacy of the sitters allowing spectators 100s of yrs hence to catch a glimpse of their elusive personality.

*Renaissance faces drawn by Italian masters: Bonsignori, Mantegna [2,3] & Bellini

"Forgiveness is better than revenge"

-Pittacus, ruler of Mytilene ca. 600 BC & one of the 'Seven Sages of Ancient Greece'

"No blessing lasts for ever"

Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum

-Plautus, Curculio Act I

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Self-Reliance', 1841

"Learn about pines from the pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo"

-Basho

"He who does not know how to be silent, will not know how to speak."

Loqui ignorabit, qui tacere nesciet

-Ausonius, Septem Sapientum Sententiae, Pittacus 4th c. AD

According to Pliny (H. N. XIV) οἰνόμελι or "wine-honey" was invented by Aristaeus, Greek rustic deity who was also the first beekeeper, son of the huntress Cyrene & the god Apollo

Aristaeus Inventor Mellis holding a beehive, 1565 engraving by Cornelis Cort after Frans Floris

These are fantastic vintage Greek travel posters proud of their Hellenic past.

Rhodes 1935, Greece 1956, The Aegean 1956, Greece 1938