[Steppes] Challenge

[willow Taylor]

She is now a 13th century Duchess. the century changed, sorry.

Willow

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:42:01 -0500 ED Reese <edreese at m7bedlam.com>
writes:
> Your Grace,
> 
> If the poets of the time are to be our guide, the Greeks would bear 
> the 
> emblems of antiquity -- the Medusa, the Pegasus, the Owl, Wise 
> Athena, or 
> jagged lightening bolts for warlike Sparta, etc. Byzantium was not 
> the 
> Empire in question, and moreover was a Christian Nation, (more or 
> less! ;-)
> 
> I had the pleasure of spending most of my day at the Dallas library, 
> and 
> their excellent research librarians assisted me to no avail to find 
> arms 
> assigned to any worthy (legendary) ancients other than those 
> representing 
> Christ, Mary, and King Arthur.
> 
> So we's just gonna have to make 'em up ourselves, in the allegorical 
> style 
> of our persona -- or of that 12th century Duchess. Where ARE my art 
> history 
> books?!
> 
> BTW, is the actual date 1203, or did I misread -- is she a 12th 
> century 
> Duchess, so living in the 1100s? That can make a difference in the 
> style of 
> allegory.
> 
> Esther
> 
> At 03:43 PM 7/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >Greeting to all the good scholars in Steppes.
> >
> >I think the Catholic Bible calls them Greeks So the information a 
> 12th
> >century person would have was that Judas Maccabbeus was fighting 
> Greeks.
> >Would a 12th century put the arms of the current Greek empire on a 
> shield
> >in an illustration? If so what are the arms of the Greek empire?
> >
> >Willow
> >
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