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Merbaka (Greek: Μέρμπακα), but officially Agia Trias (Αγία Τρίας, "Holy Trinity"), is a village in the province of Argolis.
The modern church of the Holy Trinity, first built in 1898, was demolished and rebuilt in 1934.
Of more interest is the ancient church of the Panagias built in the twelfth century. Unfortunately, we could not enter.
As a Fleming I read that Merbaka is named after a Flemish monk for William of Moerbeke, a 13th-century Roman Catholic archbishop of Corinth. (Wikipedia).
Nafplio is a seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf. The town was an important seaport held under a succession of royal houses in the Middle Ages as part of the lordship of Argos and Nauplia, held initially by the de la Roche following the Fourth Crusade before coming under the Republic of Venice and, lastly, the Ottoman Empire. The town was the capital of the First Hellenic Republic and of the Kingdom of Greece, from the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821 until 1834. Nafplio is now the capital of the regional unit of Argolis.
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Imagen y música van unidas. Para acompañar la imagen (de la cabeza de la Hidra con la boca abierta...), adjunto una composición de Jean Michel Jarre
Pulsar CTRL al mismo tiempo. ♫♫ electric-flesh -♫♫ ...
Criatura monstruosa de la mitología griega, con la que Hércules mantuvo una lucha encarnizada. De cuerpo serpentiforme, policéfala y de aliento venenoso. Se guarecía cerca de la fuente de Amimone, en la cueva del lago de Lerna en el golfo de la Argólida, y custodiaba la entrada que, bajo las aguas, accedía al inframundo (El Más Allá). Cuando el musculoso Hércules se acercó a la cueva para enfrentarse a la Hidra, cubrió su boca y nariz para protegerse del aliento venenoso, y disparó flechas en llamas para obligarle a salir; se enfrentó con una hoz y cortó cada una de sus cabezas pero inmediatamente le crecían por duplicado. Apolodoro (mitógrafo griego), describe el enfrentamiento: advirtiendo que no podría derrotar a la Hidra de esta forma, Heracles pidió ayuda a su sobrino Yolao, quien tuvo la idea de usar una tela ardiendo para quemar el muñón del cuello tras cada decapitación, cauterizando la herida y evitando así que las dos nuevas cabezas brotasen. Heracles cortó todas las cabezas y Yolao quemó los cuellos abiertos, matando así a la Hidra. Heracles tomó entonces su única cabeza inmortal y la enterró bajo una gran roca en el camino sagrado entre Lerna y Eleia, mojando sus flechas en la sangre venenosa de la Hidra y completando así su trabajo. Grandes pintores han inmortalizado este enfrentamiento: Zurbarán y Gustave Moreau, entre otros…
LUGAR REAL: El río que pasa por la cueva de Valporquero, después de su afloramiento en una estrecha hoz al otro lado del río Torio, y después de pasar las hoces de Vegacervera.
Monstrous creature of Greek mythology, with Hercules maintained a fierce struggle. Serpentine body, policéfala and poisonous breath. Took shelter near the source of Amymone, in the cave of the lake of Lerna in the Gulf of Argolis, and guarded the entrance, under water, acceded to the underworld (the Hereafter). When the muscular Hercules went to the cave to face the Hydra, covered her mouth and nose to protect themselves from the poisonous breath, and fired flaming arrows to force him to leave, was faced with a sickle and cut each of their heads but immediately I grew in duplicate. Apollodorus (mythographer Greek), describes the confrontation: warning that it could not defeat the Hydra in this way, Heracles called for help from his nephew Iolaus, who had the idea of using a burning cloth to burn the stump of the neck after each decapitation, cauterizing the wound, and so the two new heads brotasen. Heracles cut off every head and Iolaus burned the open neck, killing the Hydra. Heracles then took his one immortal head and buried under a large rock on the sacred way between Lerna and Eleia, dipped his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood, completing their work. Great painters have immortalized this contest: Zurbaran and Gustave Moreau, among others ...
The local metre gauge OSE train from Argos arrives at the seaside town of Nafplion. This branch line was reopened in 1992 with a new harbour terminus at Nafplion. The train compostion is formed of diesel motor units AA 5524 and 5526, built 1991 by Hellenic Shipyards.
MYLOI, ARGOLIS, PELOPONNESE - ΜΥΛΟΙ, ΑΡΓΟΛΙΔΑ
Myloi is a village in the southwestern part of Argolis, Greece which acquired significance during the War of Independence. It is where Theodoros Kolokotronis (leader of the revolutionary forces) had his headquarters during the seige of Nafplio (1824). In June 1825 General Makriyiannis was wounded here at the battle in which the army of Ibrahim was defeated.
Taken during a 1 day trip with my English wife Theresa Jane Brown, my brother Andreas and our sister-in-law Gianna.
Thanassis Fournarakos - Θανασης Φουρναρακος
Professional Photographer, retired.
Athens, Greece
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Europe, Netherlands, Drenthe, Aa en Hunze, Balloo, Hunebed (uncut)
The landscape of Drenthe…..its long history is evocated by the lazy rhythm of the pushed moraines (stuwwallen), ancient burial mounds, megalithic dolmen (hunebedden) and ‘Celtic’ fields….they give it a slightly mysterious feel, especially when you hike through it with the sun low in the sky with a little mist above the horizon.
The Hunebed (dolmen / portal tomb) on display here is number D16 (there are 54 in Drenthe) and is near Balloo. It’s a single-chamber megalithic tomb, consisting of 2 rows of 9 upright stones which support 8 capstones (one stone is missing). At both ends of the hunebed are closing stones. Hunebedden are an artifact of the Neolithic 'Funnelneck beaker' culture (ca 4300 BC–ca 2800 BC) – it was a sedentary culture formed by the first farmers of Northern Europe.
The stones used for the hunebedden were not local, they originated from the Baltic and were pushed to this region by the giant gletschers of the second ice age, 150.000 years ago.
After assembly, the big stones were either covered with dirt or with smaller stones to form a barrow or a cairn. In many instances, that cover disappeared thru erosion, leaving only the stone skeleton of the burial mound intact. Hunebedden were probably not used as primary graves but as ossuaries.
(During our Peleponnesos (Greece) tour in 2013 we visited ancient Lerna in the Argolis, which was founded in the Early Neolithicum. Long before that that we visited the Oppidia d'Ensérune & de Nages in the Languedoc (France) which were founded at about the same time. When we were exploring Lerna we remembered that and realized that we still hadn't visited the Neolithic Hunebedden in Drente which are basically 'round the corner'. It took a while to 'correct' this, but now we did.)
Early evening after sunset, Nauplio, Greece, looking northwest at the gulf of Argos and the island castle of Bourdzi.
Nafplio is the first capital of Modern Greece. Build by the Venetians, the historrical center is pretty much intact. It is a very pretty town with thousands of visitors every year.
In Greek mythology, the Naiads (Greek: Ναϊάδες) are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.
They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers, and the very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes, such as pre-Mycenaean Lerna in the Argolis.
Naiads were associated with fresh water, as the Oceanids were with saltwater and the Nereids specifically with the Merranean, but because the ancient Greeks thought of the world's waters as all one system, which percolated in from the sea in deep cavernous spaces within the earth, there was some overlap. Arethusa, the nymph of a spring, could make her way through subterranean flows from the Peloponnesus to surface on the island of Sicily.
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Narcissus was the mortal child of the nymph Liriope and the river-god Cephisus. When he was young, his mother consulted the prophet Teiresias about his life, hoping to hear that her son would be long-lived. Teiresias answered that the boy would have a long and happy life, "If he never knows himself." This response would have been especially riddlesome in the ancient world where the exhortation to "know thyself" was revered, even carved onto the temple of the oracle at Delphi.
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See also the album: www.albelli.nl/onlinefotoboek-bekijken/3af1427e-1eae-4620...
First off I would like to say that I love the way these two turned out.
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Developed In the early 70s in a joint project between the city of Argolis and Rhodes herself the Fox comes in two variants, one with a heavy hitting 100mm Smooth Bore and the other a 30mm gun, perfect for trucks, APCs, and infantry alike. While the 100mm Serves more as a light tank The two ATGMs on the "Small Fox" allow it to serve as a tank hunter and its 30mm auto cannon allows it to wreck lighter targets.
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Perks And Quirks
"Red Fox"
100mm +2
30mm 0
40 kph -1
Low Combat Endurance -1
Low Maintenance +1
Uncomfy -1
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Small Fox
30mm -1
25mm 0
40 kph -1
Low Missile Capacity +1
Low Maintenance +1
Nafplio is a seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf. The town was an important seaport held under a succession of royal houses in the Middle Ages as part of the lordship of Argos and Nauplia, held initially by the de la Roche following the Fourth Crusade before coming under the Republic of Venice and, lastly, the Ottoman Empire. The town was the capital of the First Hellenic Republic and of the Kingdom of Greece, from the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821 until 1834. Nafplio is now the capital of the regional unit of Argolis.
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Tiryns was a hill fort with occupation ranging back seven thousand years, from before the beginning of the Bronze Age. It reached its height of importance between 1400 and 1200 BC, when it became one of the most important centers of the Mycenaean world, and in particular in Argolis. Its most notable features were its palace, its Cyclopean tunnels and especially its walls, which gave the city its Homeric epithet of "mighty walled Tiryns".
There's something rather brown and purple and underworldish about this old slide transfer, and I like it.
Taken from one side of the Tiryns archaeological site, looking south toward the port of Nauplia (Nafplio, Navplio, etc.).
The white-and-maroon-striped flowers in the foreground are those of Asphodelus ramous, the Branched Asphodel. It's a species native to this area that at the time of my visit was behaving the way Kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata) does in the American Southeast—it had taken over all the ground it could, and then some.
The ruins of this famous Late Bronze Age community are sited on a knoll of Cretaceous-age Tiryns Limestone (that being my own informal name for it). This carbonate sedimentary rock, quarried on nearby hills, is also the most common type of building stone used for in the cyclopean masonry here, though there is also some conglomerate present.
In the distance stand the lavender-tinted forms of Mount Palamidi (the larger, at left) and the Acronauplia. They also are masses of relatively resistant Lower Cretaceous limestone, part of an upthrust crustal block adjacent to a graben.
Also note the freighter at right, in the haze of the Gulf of Argos. Given its course, I'm guessing it was getting underway from a port call in Nauplia.
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One of the most beautiful towns in the area of Argolis (in eastern Peloponnese) as well as one of the most romantic cities all over Greece, Nafplio was the first capital of the newly born Greek state between 1823 and 1834.
According to mythology, the town was founded by Náfplios, the son of god Poseidon and the daughter of Danaus (Danaida) Anymone. The town’s history traces back to the prehistoric era when soldiers from here participated in the Argonautic expedition and the Trojan War alike. The town declined during the Roman times and flourished again during the Byzantine times. Frankish, Venetian and Turkish conquerors left their mark in the town and strongly influenced its culture, architecture and traditions during the centuries. Ancient walls, medieval castles, monuments and statues, Ottoman fountains and Venetian or neoclassical buildings mesmerize the visitor with their unique architecture and beauty.
Nafplio is the first capital of Modern Greece. Build by the Venetians, the historrical center is pretty much intact. It is a very pretty town with thousands of visitors every year.
Mycenae (#6) Petsas House Group Female Figurine Psi Type LH IIIA2 1350-1300 BCE
Archaeological Museum of Mycenae.
Heracles second labor: the Hydra of Lerna.
On the side A) of this Attic black figure amphora attributed to the Michigan Painter there's the representation of one of the twelve labors inflicted on Hercules by Eurystheus: the killing of the Hydra of Lerna, one of the most ancient mythological subjects in the Greek art. The Hydra, an aquatic monster with multiple heads (from five to a hundred, according to ancient sources), son of Echidna and Tifone, was raised by Hera in the marsh of Lerna, in Argolis, under a plane tree, near the Amymone springs, just to be used as a trial for Hercules. The heads of the monster cut oft with the sword were able to regrow, nevertheless the hero managed to defeat it thanks to a trick inspired by Athena and calling for help his nephew lolaus: while the hero held the monster, lolaus cauterized every wound with embers taken from the fire set in the nearby forest, and this is the exact moment of the challenge reproduced in the amphora. It was well known that the head in the middle was immortal: Hercules cut it off, buried it and placed on it an enormous rock, then dipped his arrows in the blood of the Hydra, thus making them poisonous to the slightest scratch.
On side B) Hermes between two women.
Source: exhibition catalogue
Attic black figure amphora
H. 28.6; L. max. 18 cm.
Attributed to “The Michigan Painter”
530500 BC.
From Cerveteri (Caere)
Rome, Villa Giulia, Museo Nazionale Etrusco, Inv. No.106465
Exhibition “Colors of the Eruscans” - Cat N. 41
Rome, Centrale Montemartini
Archäologische Stätte Mykene / Nordtor
Mykene auf den Peloponnes / GRIECHENLAND /
Mykene ist eine der bedeutendsten archäologischen Stätten in Griechenland. Sie liegt in der Region Argolis im Osten des Peloponnes.
Nafplio is the first capital of Modern Greece. Build by the Venetians, the historrical center is pretty much intact. It is a very pretty town with thousands of visitors every year.
Mycenae is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.
In the second millennium BC, Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece, Crete, the Cyclades and parts of southwest Anatolia. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae. At its peak in 1350 BC, the citadel and lower town had a population of 30,000 and an area of 32 hectares.
Source: Wikipedia
The Acropolis of Tyrins is located 20 km South-East of Mycenae, in Argolis.
Tradition says that the citadel was founded by the prince of Argos, Proetus, who, pursued by his brother, Acrisius, fled to Lycia and returned bringing with him the Cyclops who constructed these enormous walls.
The fortification of the hill, completed at the end of the 13th century BC, surrounds the citadel with a total perimeter of approximately 750 m. The impressive walls, built of stones even larger than those of Mycenae, are up to 8 metres thick and 13 m high.
They can rightly be regarded as an amazing feat of engineering for the time, with the walls being called “cyclopean” – built by Cyclops, the mythical giants from Lycia and it is described by Homer as 'Mighty Walled Tyrins'.
Tyrins is also the place where Hercules is said to have resided during his Labours.