Not bad on the eyes.
Posted on 10/18/2005 11:08:43 AM PDT by blam
See The World According to Student Bloopers, by Richard Lederer:
"Actually, Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man of that name."
Don't have a real opinion on her sholarship, but I have to say she was pretty attractive.
Hope this helps :-)
Of course not, but it seems unlikely for a society's rules to assume that most men will live at least twice as long as most women.
There was no shortage of old women in ancient Greece.
Yep, Helen Thomas would not launch even a water wing full of holes.
Spartans and Pelloponesians generally were from northern Dorians and worshipped Apollo ('Phoebus'), like the Trojans.
Athenians were from Ionians, favorites of `grey-eyed' Athena Palla and believed themselves to be the `original' Greeks.
Helen of Sparta was hatched from a egg, so maybe that was why she was such a hot chick. Spartan women had a reputation for beauty, could have sex with their husband's friends, were said by Aristotle to rule their men and were called "thigh-flashers" by other Greeks.
Note that the I haplogroup centers in the Balkans about 12000 years ago, and migrates north as the ice recedes. This haplogroup is associated now with northwestern Germans, Dutch, and the Scandinavians, as well as Anglo-Saxon English. The Celts, by contrast, are represented to some degree by the R1b haplotype, who apparently took refuge in present day Spain during the Ice Ages, and spread back north about the same time. Eventually the two groups mixed in France and Britain.
But it seems apparent that Southeastern Europe used to have a lot of people we would now think of as belonging only to Northern Europe.
Not bad on the eyes.
Yeah, I read that one. Some of the violence got pretty gross.
ROTFLOL... nauseating too ;)
The below link is a DNA map by professor Stephen Oppenheimer, you'll like it.
Is this the face that launched a thousand ships?
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No, that's the face that caused the Hood to blow up.
OK, but counter-factual history is still fun. I haven't read the book.
That's a face that could sink a thousand ships; who says the Greek Gods are a myth; Madusa lives
Sounds like an old Star Trek episode.
That was fun!
***I think it's in the Oddyssey, where Telemachos pays her a visit ***
True! Hellen and her husband Menelaus had many adventures on the way from Troy, being driven to Libya because they didn't offer proper sacrifices.
But more beautiful than Hellen was Penelope, the wife of Odysseus. When she walked among the suitors their knees became weak and they each desired to lay with her.
***Clive Cussler has quoted a book I want to read, "Where Troy once stood," arguing that Troy was Cambridge, England. ***
And some other guy about 150 years ago claimed Edinburogh Scotland was really Jerusalem. ( I'm not making this up!)
***"Actually, Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man of that name."***
What sort of a stupid answer is that! ARE YOU BLIND! (Apologies to Inspector Cleuseau)
Ahhhh that's better
Just so. The earlier civilization appears to have been presided over by the kings of Crete. Then there appears to have been a dark age (after Thera exploded?) followed by a new civilization presided over by the Maecaenians.
It's not unlike the history of Britain, where the first inhabitants were conquered in turn by the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, and Normans, and the various conquering groups ruled over and intermarried with their predecessors.
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