Classical Greece

When someone inquired how many Spartans there were, he said, "Enough to keep all bad men away".

The Fates – or Moirai – are a group of three weaving goddesses who assign individual destinies to mortals at birth. Their names are Clotho (the Spinner), Lachesis (the Alloter) and Atropos (the Inflexible). In the older myths, they were the daughters of Nyx, but later, they are more often portrayed as the offspring of Zeus and Themis.They had enormous power and even Zeus was unable to recall their decisions.

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When Androcleidas was being initiated into the mysteries at Samothrace, he was asked by the priest what especially dreadful thing he had done during his life, and he replied, "If any such deed has been committed by me, the gods themselves will know it"

"War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free."

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their words

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like!!!

"Dig it out for yourselves."

King Xerxes had sent no heralds either to Athens or Sparta to ask earth and water, for a reason which I will now relate.
When Darius some time before sent messengers for the same purpose, they were thrown, at , into the pit of punishment, at into a well, and bidden to take therefrom earth and water for themselves, and carry it to their king.
-Herodotus, Histories, Book 4

Do you own any artwork inspired by Ancient Greece?

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The Temple of Erectheion of .
The artwork belongs to Richard Pococke. "A Description of the East, and some other Countries"(1745)

Why Oedipus is considered as a wise man of the world?
Because he is the first man to point out and teach mankind that such kind of sexual relations are not acceptable. To stand with dignity, humanly in front of death and mishap.
"Edipo Re-1967" is one the favourites and would really recommend watching,it's a masterpiece!
What do you think of the artwork of ?

Gordian knot, commonly used to describe a complex or unsolvable problem.The phrase likely alludes to Gordius, the king of Phrygia, who tied a knot that an oracle proclaimed would only be cut by the future ruler of .

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Good morning people.
Just a reminder. . .