Graeco-Roman

Imitated from different Parts of his Tristia. Jam mea cygneas imitantur tempora plumas,  Inficit & nigras alba senecta comas:  Trist. Lib. iv. Eleg. 8. MY aged head now stoops its honours low,  Bow'd with the load of fifty winters' snow;  And for the raven's glossy black assumes  The downy whiteness of the cygnet's plumes:  Loose scatter'd hairs around my temples stray,  And spread the mournful shade of sickly grey:  ​I bend beneath the weight of broken years,  Averse to change, and chill'd with causeless fears.  The season now invites me to retire  To the dear lares of my household fire;  To homely scenes of calm domestic peace,  A poet's leisure, and an old man's ease;  To wear the remnant of uncertain life  In the fond bosom of a faithful wife;  In safe repose my last few hours to spend,  Nor fearful nor impatient of their end.  Thus a safe port the wave-wo...

Photographer:Jean Housen @Heritagedaily.com Pella is an archaeological site and the historical capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedon. Pella was founded next to the modern-day town of Pella, near the Macedonian Gulf in northern Greece. Most scholars believe that Pella was built as the capital for Archelaus I, who was King of Macedon from 413 to 399 BC, although some attribute Pella to Amyntas III, who ruled Macedon from 392 to 370 BC. Pella is famed as the birthplace and ruling seat of Philip II and his son, Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great who succeeded Philip II to the throne at the age of 20. Although Alexander’s empire-building made Macedon a major power that stretched from Greece to northwestern India, it was Phillip II who consolidated most of Classical Greece and reformed the Macedonian army into an effective fighting force. Pella became one of the largest cities in Macedonia and was designed to an early grid ...

An obol is an ancient Greek coin that has one-sixth the value of a drachma. The first silver obols were minted in Aegina, most likely sometime after 600 BCE. Previously, the unit of currency was iron cooking-spits. One obol became the equivalent of one spit. Obols in Aegina were produced from one gram of silver. Though some other parts of Greece adopted the obol, the amount of silver was different in obols of different regions. In Athens an obol would weigh only .72 grams, while in Corinth it weighed .42 grams. There were several coins minted which were variations of the obol. Silver obols and triobols (three obol pieces) were among the most common coins in Thessaly, while central Thrace minted large numbers of tetrobols, triobols, and diobols. Macedonia not only had coins of different obol values (the most common were octobols and tetrobols), but had two different types of tetrobols—heavy and light—which were measured on different standards. Light t...