...................................................................Workers at a coking plant that has been under heavy rocket fire because it is situated close to the 'contact line' between government and rebel forces near
Donetsk, eastern Ukraine: photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters, 23 June 2015
That good shield I threw away
beside a bush is making
some Thracian proud.
.............................T
with both of them.
.........................I'm here
and I'll get me a better one.
beside a bush is making
some Thracian proud.
.............................T
with both of them.
.........................I'm here
and I'll get me a better one.
Archilochus (active on the island of Paros, mid-seventh century BC): Fragment 6, translated by Barriss Mills in The Soldier and the Lady: Poems of Archilochus and Sappho, 1975
..............................................................................................................
.................................Tehran.
A child looks on as Iranian mourners attend the funeral of Mohammad
Hamidi, Hasan Ghafari and Ali Amrai, killed in Syria fighting
against Islamic State jihadis: photo by Atta Kenare/AFP, 25 June 2015
ἀσπίδι μὲν Σαίων τις ἀγάλλεται, ἣν παρὰ θάμνῳ
ἔντος ἀμώμητον καλλίπον οὐκ ἐθέλων,
αὐτὸν δ’ ἐξεσάωσα. τί μοι μέλει ἀσπὶς ἐκείνη;
ἐρρέτω· ἐξαῦτις κτήσομαι οὐ κακίω.
Archilochus: fr. 6: text from Elegy and Iambus, ed. J.M. Edmonds, vol. 2 (1931)
ἔντος ἀμώμητον καλλίπον οὐκ ἐθέλων,
αὐτὸν δ’ ἐξεσάωσα. τί μοι μέλει ἀσπὶς ἐκείνη;
ἐρρέτω· ἐξαῦτις κτήσομαι οὐ κακίω.
Archilochus: fr. 6: text from Elegy and Iambus, ed. J.M. Edmonds, vol. 2 (1931)
A woman walks past a graffiti by Greek street artist Cacao Rocks in Athens. Greece
failed again to clinch a deal with its international creditors on
Thursday, setting up a last-ditch effort on Saturday to avert a default
next week or start preparing to protect the euro zone from financial
market turmoil: photo by Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters, 26 June 2015
....................................................Workers
at a coking plant that has been under heavy rocket fire because it is
situated close to the 'contact line' between government and rebel forces near
Donetsk, eastern Ukraine: photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters, 23 June 2015
3 comments:
Tom, is it over for Greece? Is it the kind of Europe they'd want to be in anyway?
Perhaps a tentative yes to the first question, an emphatic no to the second?
Meanwhile in Athens (Vassilis Zambaras: Web)
(... although "out" is maybe not quite the same thing as "over"...)
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