“ I Love Delicacy, And For Me Love Has The Sun's Splendour And Beauty

Apollo can dress and solve life's doubts giving responsa to whom ask; he arouses intellectual doubts and then offers men who have philosophical nature.

Plutarch, E of Delphi

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Temple of Apollo Palatinus.

The greatness of Apollo in Rome was not just about arts, but politics and military, since he was tutelary deity of Republican Court.

When, in 36 bC, Octavian August won against Sexus Pompey's troops, he thanked Apollo for his providential action and so built a temple on Palatine Hill. The choice of the place upon which was guided by a divine manifastion, e.g in the same place where a lightning fell inside an August's property on Palatine Hill.

Inside the temple (it says that it had ivory doors and magnificent bas-reliefs) there was a sculptural group, object of worship: Apollo, his sister Diana and their mother Leto.

There were kept Sibylline Books, because Apollo was also God of Divination.

Muin

Today starts and will end on 29th september Muin's arboreal month, the vine, then linked to the Vendemmia and - more general - to the autumnal nature. But also the effects of the good wine produce on people: happiness, carelessness, joy but also toxicity, angry and danger.

It rappresents the period between autumn equinox and all of works linked to: working activities, the second harvest, the preparing of the food to store during winter, etc. At large, Muin reppresents the master through which the knowledge comes, the one who make us try hard to gain a higher level of our personal growth.

Gold Saints and language of flowers

Aries Mu - Marshmallow : sweetness, kindness

Taurus Aldebaran - Magnolia : cheerfulness, strength

Gemini Saga - Sunflower : deceptive appearances

Cancer Deathmask - Nettle : cruelty

Leo Aiolia - Borage : firmness, energy

Virgo Shaka - Lily : purity, nobility

Roshi Doko - King Solomon’s seal : well-kept secret, wisdom

Libra Doko - Daisy : youth, hedonism

Scorpio Milo - White tulip : forgiveness

Sagittarius Aiolos - Elder flower : goodness of heart, enthusiasm

Capricorn Shura - Honeysuckle : loyalty, faithfulness

Aquarius Camus - Hydrangea : cold beauty, indifference

Pisces Aphrodite - Morning glory : coquetry

Pope Shion - Boxwood flower : stoicism, stability

twitter dump! of a list i started in september and i dont think i’ll finish, at least not for a while

‹‹ Καλὸς καὶ ἀγαθός ››

‹‹ beautiful and good ››

In Ancient Greece kindness and beauty go hand in hand. Valorous Heroes and Powerful Gods are always described with a particular beauty and their brightness is one of the most important characteristic.

In Homer's Greek, eyes are sparkling, the skin is bright and etc, those aspects are translated as "blue eyes", "milky white skin", "golden hair". Lexicon of the colours in ancient greek is also pretty problematic, more than the real shades of eyes and hair, in those texts what matters is properly the level of brightness, because Deities are associated to light, so that Gods and Demi-gods shine.

Also in the next eras the binomial "good and beautiful" benefits of great success: in the greek arts, where beauty canons require beautiful and regular lineaments, also in portraiture of real persons, who appear all uniformly beautiful, similar and without defects (wrinkles, moles, receding hairline...)

Pretty different is, however, Roman portraiture, that goes to realism and made it its main goal.

In Homeric Poems, ugliness and deformity are associated to the viles, untrustworthy, envious. Later, the discourse is modified, because ugliness becomes an allegory and is applied to monsters fought by heroes.

"The strenght of the good is refugee in the nature of the Beautiful", wrote Platon. The beauty of physique corresponds to the moral perfection, according ancient greeks.

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