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Assos, Turkey. Away from dull, grey Istanbul the weather is sunny but cold. Here about 5 deg. C, with all the right atmospheric conditions for the first great sunset of 2011.
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Lovley little harbour village in Northern Kefalonia.
Spent a few days here, drinking ice cold Mythos beer and swimming in its crystal clear sea...bliss
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The first light of the morning breaking through to this little table . . . . breakfast moves on elsewhere, ahead of the sun . . . .
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Ancient Assos.....The city was founded from 1000 to 900 BC by Aeolian colonists from Lesbos, who specifically are said to have come from Methymna. The settlers built a Doric Temple to Athena on top of the crag in 530 BC. From this temple Hermias of Atarneus, a student of Plato, ruled Assos, the Troad and Lesbos for a period of time, under which the city experienced its greatest prosperity. (Strangely, Hermias was actually the slave of the ruler of Atarneus.[4]) Under his rule, he encouraged philosophers to move to the city. As part of this, in 348 BC Aristotle came here and married King Hermeias's niece, Pythia, before leaving for Lesbos three years later in 345 BC. This 'golden period' of Assos ended several years later when the Persians arrived, and subsequently tortured Hermias to death. The Persians were driven out by Alexander the Great in 334 BC. Between 241 and 133 BC, the city was ruled by the Kings of Pergamon. However, in 133 BC, the Pergamons lost control of the city as it was absorbed by the Roman empire. St. Paul also visited the city during his third missionary journey through Asia Minor, which was between 53-57 AD, on his way to Lesbos. From this period onwards, Assos shrunk to a small village, as it has remained ever since. Ruins around Assos continue to be excavated. The pillars from the ancient port lay in the harbor for over a millennia. Eventually they were probably sold. In the early 1900s an attempt was made to move the contents of the Temple of Athena. Much of the art has been moved to museums like the Louvre.[4] The art found includes pictures both of mythical creatures and heraldic events.
e' stato dismesso il tricolore italiano ad uno dei gioielli della marina mercantile italiana.
ahts/v asso ventidue non esiste piu', e' stata venduta ad una societa' canadese...
en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/...
ASSUS [mod. Behram], an ancient Greek city of the Troad, on the Adramyttian Gulf. The situation is one of the most magnificent in all the Greek lands. The natural cleavage of the trachyte into joint planes had already scarped out shelves which it was comparatively easy for human labour to shape; and so, high up this cone of trachyte, the Greek town of Assus was built, tier above tier, the summit of the crag being crowned with a Doric temple of Athena. The view from the summit is very beautiful and of great historical interest. In front is Lesbos, one of whose towns, Methymna, is said to have sent forth the founders of Assus, as early, perhaps, as 1000 or 900 B.C. The whole south coast-line of the Troad is seen, and in the south-east the ancient territory of Pergamum, from whose masters the possession of Assus passed to Rome by the bequest of Attalus III. (133 B.C.). The great heights of Ida rise in the east. Northward the Tuzla is seen winding through a rich valley. This valley was traversed by the road which St Paul must have followed when he came overland from Alexandria Troas to Assus, leaving his fellow-travellers to proceed by sea. The north-west gateway, to which this road led, is still flanked by two massive towers, of Hellenic work. On the shore below, the ancient mole can still be traced by large blocks under the clear water. Assus affords the only harbour on the 50 m. of coast between Cape Lectum and the east end of the Adramyttian Gulf; hence it must always have been the chief shipping-place for the exports of the southern Troad. The great natural strength of the site protected it against petty assailants; but, like other towns in that region, it has known many masters—Lydians, Persians, the kings of Pergamum, Romans and Ottoman Turks. From the Persian wars to about 350 B.C. Assus enjoyed at least partial independence. It was about 348-345 B.C. that Aristotle spent three years at Assus with Hermeas, an ex-slave who had succeeded his former master Eubulus as despot of Assus and Atarneus. Aristotle has left some verses from an invocation to Arete (Virtue), commemorating the worth of Hermeas, who had been seized by Persian treachery and put to death.
Under its Turkish name of Behram, Assus is still the commercial port of the southern Troad, being the place to which loads of valonia are conveyed by camels from all parts of the country. Explorations were conducted at Assus in 1881-1883 by Mr J. T. Clarke for the Archaeological Institute of America. The main object was to clear the Doric temple of Athena, built about 470 B.C. This temple is remarkable for a sculptured architrave which took the place of the ordinary frieze. The scenes are partly mythological (labours of Heracles), partly purely heraldic. Eighteen panels were transported to the Louvre in 1838; other fragments rewarded the Americans, and a scientific ground-plan was drawn. The well-preserved Hellenistic walls were also studied.
On a typical British summer's day, when the rain is pouring down outside, it is nice to revisit my holiday photos and imagine that Greek sunshine! This is Assos in Kefalonia, taken from the path to the castle.
A couple more shots below.
Ieri era il compleanno del mio gatto Asso, è nato il 5 marzo del 2008, perciò ha raggiunto un decennio. Augurissimi, tesoro mio! Lui è l' "Ammmmore" mio con 4 e più "m", e lo sa. L' ho visto proprio nascere quella mattina di 10 anni fa intorno alle 7,00, perché la mamma Petronilla, aveva difficoltà a partorire e l' avevo aiutata dalla notte, massaggiandole la pancia e tenendola al caldo. E' uscito normalmente di testa, con grande sforzo soprattutto della mamma, ma poi i suoi fratellini no, e allora ho portato d' urgenza Petronilla in clinica insieme a lui che era appena nato, perché non potevo fare più niente per lei. Le hanno fatto il taglio cesareo, perché gli altri due sarebbero morti, ma alla fine era andato tutto bene ed era sopravvissuta sia Petronilla che i suoi tre figlietti. Ora l' unico rimasto della famigliola è Asso, e spero tanto che possa vivere ancora a lungo e senza problemi. Buon Compleanno, tesoro mio!
Yesterday was the birthday of my cat Ace, he was born on March 5, 2008, so he reached a decade. Congratulations, my darling! He is my "Ammmmore" with 4 and more "m", and he knows it. I saw him born that morning of 10 years ago around 7.00, because his mother Petronilla, had difficulty giving birth and I had helped her by night, massaging her belly and keeping her warm. He came out of the head normally, with great effort, above all of his mother, but then his brothers did not, and then I urgently brought Petronilla to the clinic with him who was just born, because I could not do anything for her. they made the Caesarean section, because the other two would have died, but in the end everything went well and both Petronilla and her three children survived. Now the only one left of the little family is Ace, and I hope so much that he can still live long and without problems. Happy birthday, my darling!
Ancient Assos.....The city was founded from 1000 to 900 BC by Aeolian colonists from Lesbos, who specifically are said to have come from Methymna. The settlers built a Doric Temple to Athena on top of the crag in 530 BC. From this temple Hermias of Atarneus, a student of Plato, ruled Assos, the Troad and Lesbos for a period of time, under which the city experienced its greatest prosperity. (Strangely, Hermias was actually the slave of the ruler of Atarneus.[4]) Under his rule, he encouraged philosophers to move to the city. As part of this, in 348 BC Aristotle came here and married King Hermeias's niece, Pythia, before leaving for Lesbos three years later in 345 BC. This 'golden period' of Assos ended several years later when the Persians arrived, and subsequently tortured Hermias to death. The Persians were driven out by Alexander the Great in 334 BC. Between 241 and 133 BC, the city was ruled by the Kings of Pergamon. However, in 133 BC, the Pergamons lost control of the city as it was absorbed by the Roman empire. St. Paul also visited the city during his third missionary journey through Asia Minor, which was between 53-57 AD, on his way to Lesbos. From this period onwards, Assos shrunk to a small village, as it has remained ever since. Ruins around Assos continue to be excavated. The pillars from the ancient port lay in the harbor for over a millennia. Eventually they were probably sold. In the early 1900s an attempt was made to move the contents of the Temple of Athena. Much of the art has been moved to museums like the Louvre.[4] The art found includes pictures both of mythical creatures and heraldic events.