Γκλιούχενε τε μος χαρόνι

The description on The Met includes the line ‘The cloth was repaired and laundered in ancient times’ and that also makes me feel light-headed.

Regular days can produce great art

Hahahaha these gotta be hilarious and someone had the weirdest sense of humor and we love them for it! Some more honorable mentions

“For centuries, Ismene has been cast as the inert, drab backdrop against which her more colorful sister stands out. Antigone is active, Ismene passive; Antigone is heroic, Ismene cowardly, argue conventional readings. The splitting of Ismene and Antigone into passive and active characters, human-all-too-human and monstrous, oriented to survival or sacrifice, recurs even when the conventional takes on the two sisters are revalued. For example, Jill Frank argues that Ismene is not withdrawn or weak: she is patient and bides her time while Antigone, by contrast, is too quick to act, too fiery and thunderously loud to be truly effective. But Ismene does more than survive. She sacrifices herself in her own way when she responds creatively to a series of forced choices. When Ismene, who wants to die with Antigone, agrees to go on living without her, Ismene does not choose survival and avoid death. Instead, she performs what Lacan calls an ethical act: she confronts her own limit and does not back down. Her limit is not death but rather a living death: to go on living in the house of her sister’s killer, Creon.”

Happy Greek Independence Day! Remember that our ancestors rose up and fought bravely against the conquerors who oppressed us in our own lands. Remember that they, too, were called terrorists by Western Europe and by the reigning Ottoman Empire. Remember that the Austrian authorities killed the greek immigrant who wrote a song of revolution for his people, who calles them to rise up and fight for their freedom. Remember that it's the duty and the right of all oppressed and occupied peoples to rise up against their oppressors. And remember that NONE OF US ARE FREE, UNTIL ALL OF US ARE FREE.