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Aeacus

06/22/2014by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

In his time, the man was renowned for his stalwart probity. He was a just administrator of the island of Aegina, settling disputes without falling prey to the corruptions of […]

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gods

Adonis

11/22/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

Of Adonis, who is called Thammuz, this tale is often told. The goddess of passion Aphrodite, spying Adonis as a babe in Araby, was so entranced by his beauty that […]

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animals, gods, run

Actium

06/07/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

The gulls circled over the cape, the waters below red and brown, flotsam dragging men still groaning into shore, armor shining on the shining sea. The gulls landed on the […]

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history, sea

Acropolis

05/10/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

It was 430 B.C., at night, upon the acropolis. Athena Parthenos, the virgin goddess, admired herself, her aspect carved in solid stone, smooth and fair. In the temple the braziers […]

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gods

Abrasion

05/05/2012by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

On the Colossus of Rhodes there was a deep and multi-laced abrasion, the scored imprint on its inner ankle that led to many tales, and one must have been truth […]

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artifact, gods, history, mystery, sea, time

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"All the while I have been forgetting the third of my reasons for remaining so faithful a citizen of the Federation, despite all the lascivious inducements from expatriates to follow them beyond the seas, and all the surly suggestions from patriots that I succumb. It is for the reason which grows out of my medieval but unashamed taste for the bizarre and indelicate, my congenital weakness for comedy of the grosser varieties. The United States, to my eye, is incomparably the greatest show on earth."

- H.L. Mencken, On Being an American, 1922

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