Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

Back to the tweet game! 🏛✍️🏺 Joined November 2019

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

8 months ago

Just watched The Return (2024)—a brilliant reimagining of Odysseus' life after returning to Ithaca. A tale of homecoming, legacy and facing the ghosts of the past. #thereturn🏺🎥 But where were the gods?

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

11 months ago

In Greek mythology, Typhon, the father of all monsters, was a storm giant with a hundred serpent heads who unleashed devastating storms and terror. But Zeus made sure this storm didn’t last long. 🌪️ #hurricanemilton2024

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

2 years ago

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. Anacharsis,6th BC #SocialJusticeDay

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

2 years ago

When Darius III of Persia offer of an alliance, the hand of his daughter in marriage and all Minor Asia, Parmenion,one of Alexander's generals, said "If I were Alexander, I should accept what was offered" . To which Alexander replied, "So would I, if I were Parmenion."

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

2 years ago

When King Midas judged a satyr’s music superior to Apollo’s, the god turned Midas's ears into those of a donkey. Unable to keep the secret, his barber whispers it into a hole in the ground. Reeds grew and one can still hear them whispering : "Midas has donkey's ears". 👑 🌾 🎶

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

2 years ago

Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists,we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death,there is awareness. Epicurus

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

2 years ago

"Cancer" comes from the Greek word for crab, karkinos. The Greeks, describing it, saw swollen blood vessels and tumors, thinking it resembled the limbs of a crab. 🦀 #WorldCancerDay

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

2 years ago

Anaxarete was a princess of Cyprus who rejected the love of the shepherd Iphis. She made fun of his feelings until he hanged himself . . When she mocked his funeral, Aphrodite turned her into a statue, preserved at Salamis in Cyprus, within the temple of Aphrodite. 💔 🗿

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

2 years ago

Carat derived from ‘keration’. ‘Keration’ itself literally means ‘carob seed’. The ancient Greeks used this as the standard for weighing precious stones, giving rise to 'the caret weight' we know today. 💎⚖️

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

2 years ago

In Plato's vision of the ideal Republic: 'Either kings become philosophers, or philosophers kings. 📚 👑

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

2 years ago

The Claw of Archimedes, also known as the "Iron Hand", was an ancient weapon designed by Archimedes to defend the Greek city-state of Syracuse. 🏗️ 𓊝

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

2 years ago

Young Hercules found himself at a crossroads, faced a crucial choice. Virtue beckons, promising honor and service, while Vice seduces with pleasures. Hercules chooses the noble path, becoming a symbol of strength and righteousness. 💪

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

2 years ago

In medieval legends, Alexander the Great, possesses a submarine! 🌊🚢 Conquering on land wasn't enough?🤭

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

3 years ago

A Dance to the Music of Time Nicolas Poussin (c. 1634) The Hours accompany the god of Sun in the sky. The Time plays a lyre on the right. The dancing quartet represent the 4 Seasons. On the left, the two faces bust of Janus (hence January) is looking both into past & future.🎶⌛

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

3 years ago

Tetracyts is a sacred Pythagorean symbol. A central belief of Pythagoras was that "all things are number". With this mystical triangular symbol he could explain this theory. 👁⃤

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

3 years ago

#WorldSightDay and Echetlaeus is keeping the traditions with the Cyclops! 👁 🩸

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Michael Lambda @Michael_Lambda

3 years ago

Magistrate:May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil! Lysistrata:If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.