![]() ![]() Now the sound of shovels digging the rocky soil in unison, syncopated and fast, is like hot jazz. When they hit something, the team turns and works on that point. Long poles with spikes ( spillones) piercing the earth rhythmically like the V8 engine in a 33 Stradale. A man stops here to comb his hair, another, perhaps, takes off his sunglasses for a second to massage the bridge of his nose. Sports jackets, the day to day uniform of Italians from that time, lying nonchalantly on rocky walls. Their muscles bulging beneath their sweat stained Salvatore Piccolo shirts. The healthy glean of their sun kissed skin, kept young with a healthy Italian diet, visible from the light of their torches. We can imagine them- handsome and nattily dressed. Omertà , the ancient code of honour has prevailed to this day. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.On a dark and stormy night, in Etruria in late December 1971, a ragged band of diggers called the tombaroli unearthed a masterpiece of Greek art: the Sarpedon Krater. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press London, William Heinemann Ltd. Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press London, William Heinemann, Ltd. Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T.Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360. Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J.Greek text available from the same website. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press London, William Heinemann Ltd. Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S.A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.216. ![]()
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