In the Greek myth of Decalion and Pyrrha, the couple recreates mankind after the universal deluge by throwing rocks over their shoulders to let them grow into men and women. Why rocks? And why over their shoulders? Is this how a community, a city is rebuilt? Ovid...
In the ancient Greek and Roman mythologie there is also a story of the great deluge and of an arch. Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – 18 AD) retells it in his "Metamorphosis. Book 1". Infuriated by mankind's brutality, the highest of the Gods, Jupiter, announces: „You might...
Strabo, a Greek geographer and historian whol lived from around 60 BC to 20 AD writes in his Geographica: "For the sea was raised by an earthquake and it submerged Helice, and also the temple of the Heliconian Poseidon, whom the Ionians worship even to this day,...