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© Dimitris G Vasiliou

THE APOTHEOSIS OF STONE (PLEASE VIEW LARGER).


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Moon shot, manual settings on a tripod

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The east pediment of the Parthenon shows the birth of the goddess Athena from the head of her father Zeus. The event was witnessed by various figures shown on either side or filling the triangular space of the gable end of the temple. In the very corners of this triangle, the time of day was set by the chariot of Helios, god of the sun, rising at dawn, and the chariot of Selene, the Moon goddess, sinking beneath the horizon. Selene’s torso is in Athens, while the head of one of her team of horses is in the British Museum.

This is perhaps the most famous and best loved of all the sculptures of the Parthenon. It captures the very essence of the stress felt by a beast that has spent the night drawing the chariot of the Moon across the sky. As the unseen vehicle was shown sinking low in the west, the horse pins back its ears, the jaw gapes, the nostrils flare, the eyes bulge, veins stand out and the flesh seems spare and taut over the flat plate of the cheek bone.

 

Moon shot taken with my Sigma lens 150-500 mm at 500 mm manual focus on a tripod and the horse head with the Nikon 35-70 lens, hand held.

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A fine work of art based on the one of your country's many stories which belong to the category of mythology!

 

I read the story in your comment! Very imaginative!

 

I also have something Greek, it is on the picture above, ha!

 

Best regards

 

PDE

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How right you are my friend...money is respected more than everything by a lot of people. Not paying enough attention to history or prehistory, because this is what mythology is, is denying your self an identity. The drachma is an ancient coin...but we abandoned it...Thank you for your visit and your wonderful comment.

 

I am posting a picture of a coin, since you kindly did so, of a four drachma coin issued around the same time as the Parthenon was build. It depicts the goddess Athena and on the other side, an owl, her bird of wisdom.

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A deeply symbolic image and one that I know means a lot you! 

I like it's links to mythology and the stars themselves is something that we all associate with whether it be from a scientific view or a more fictional role.

Maybe it's time that the British museum handed this back to Greece, or is it safer where it is?

Superb attention to detail!

 

Sincere Best Wishes for Christmas & New Year to you and your loved ones! 

 

Alf 

 

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Thank you very much for your comment. Yes it is indeed of high significance to me, but I also feel that the myth is a universal one and of relevance to us all. Therefore it is immaterial whether the Marbles are here in the British Museum or in Athens, as long as they can be seen by all of us. Thank you for your good wishes my friend and I also wish you and yours all the best for Christmas and 2014.

Warm regards,

Dimitris.

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