Debussy - L'embarquement pour Cythere
Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Claude Debussy's 'Island of Joy," (originally 'L'embarquement pour Cyt...
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Gaia, Uranos, Kronos, Aphrodite.
[[picture:"Gaia, freize.jpg" ID:8807]] Gaia Gaia (Lat. terra: "The earth") was the first bei...
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Excellent Myths site.
Particularly for APHRODITE http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/gods/aphrodite_t.html Aphrodite...
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Barbarossa. References to the infamous pirate from the web.
[[picture:"Barbarossa, pirate.jpg" ID:5755]] http://www.cindyvallar.com/havens2.html © Cindy...
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Alexandre Cabanel's - Birth of Venus
[[picture:"Aphrodite cabanel venus.jpg" ID:3601]] Although I have never fully understood why; thi...
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Venus - the PLANET - Facts and stats
[[picture:"Venus with Visible and Radar Illumination.jpg" ID:3588]] Venus with Visible and Radar...
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Venus - the PLANET - Venusian landscape - Gula Mons and Crater Cunitz
[[picture:"Venus Landscape.gif" ID:3586]] Gula Mons and Crater Cunitz Target Name: Venus Spa...
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Venus - the PLANET - pelican in motion, across the face of the rising sun, with the planet Venus, as seen from Flagler Beach Pier in Daytona Beach, Daytona, USA.
[[picture:"Venus Transit as seen from Flagler Beach Pier in Daytona Beach. Jim Tiller. Daytona.jpg....
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Venus - the PLANET - from Sydney, Australia.
[[picture:"Venus Transit - The transit of Venus. Photo Nick Moir.jpg" ID:3581]] Venus, the PLANE...
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Venus - the PLANET - seven-year-old Jodie McGowan, of Artarmon, (Australia, has her turn at the telescope at Sydney's Observatory Hill.
[[picture:"Venus Transit - Seven-year-old Jodie McGowan of Artarmon has her turn at the telescope at...
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Venus - the PLANET - crowds gather at the Melbourne Observatory, Australia, to gain a unique view of the Transit of Venus through the telescope.
[[picture:"Venus Transit Crowds gather at the Melbourne Observatory. Photo Michael Clayton-Jones.jp...
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Venus - the PLANET - the Transit of Venus, 8th Jun 2004, looking East across the River in Manhattan, United States of America.
[[picture:"Venus Transit East River of Manhattan as Venus crosses its face. Photo AFP.jpg" ID:3575]...
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Venus - the PLANET - Transit of Venus [Jun 8, 2004] - the view across the Sydney Harbour Bridge
[[picture:"Venus Transit Sydney Harbour climbers.jpg" ID:3573]] "Its a pretty big turnout for a d...
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Venus - the PLANET - named after Kythera's goddess
[[picture:"Venus Hemispheric view.jpg" ID:3571]] Venus, the PLANET, was named after the Romanised...
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IONIAN - origin of the word from mythology
[[picture:"Detail of a Greek red-figure stamnos the cow Io, Hermes, and Argus. Vienna, Kunsthistori...
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Homers Odyssey and Kythera
Odysseus derives from Kythera's island neighbour in the eptanissia - Ithica. Odysseus journey kep...
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The Birth of Cytherea (Aphrodite) in Hesiod's 'Theogony' (8th Century BCE)
In Western culture Kythera is connected to a literary archive of idealised representations of the fe...
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Pilgrimage to Cythera
In Western culture Kythera is connected to a literary archive of idealised representations of the fe...
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The Embarkation for Cythera
In Western culture Kythera is connected to a literary archive of idealised representations of the fe...
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Agios Kosmas
Not far from Drymonas is a private church called Agios Kosmas, which was formally the site of a mona...
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