“In truth at first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of al the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest…
FOOD FOR THE DEAD
As a puff of wind, the psyche leaves the body at the moment of death. Marble grave stele of a little girl, ca. 450–440 B.C (commons.wikimedia.org/) Then, either enjoying the easy life in the Elysian Fields or wandering as weeping shadow among the…
FISH SOUP FOR THOUGHT
Behind this fish -soup there is a long history of fear and courage. Because, in the ancient thought the sea was a hostile, lonely world with sea monsters and fishes which were frightening to humans…. the only animal eaten in eastern Mediterranean…
BREAD
Theodoros Papagiannis : Tribute to the bread. Installation (clay & metal). 1998
I really eat bergamot for day to dawn…
…. and I write poems so as to fall in love rightly, Odysseas Elytis says.* To fall in love you have to write poems of course, and the bergamot’s flavor explosions do pull the night away! In another poem, he writes: You…