Hiera Iulia Minervina wrote:So I live in NY! (well most of the time, 9 months of the year) but I'm not originally from the U.S. I was born and raised -mostly- in Istanbul (where I am right now, until August), what was then Byzantium and Khalkedon as you know. Herodotos lived in Halikarnassos, which is now called Bodrum, a very popular holiday town in the Turkey's side of the Aegean. Speaking of which, I shortly came back from there after spending 3 weeks, visiting my dad and places like the Mauseleon, the Myndos gate and the recently restored Amphitheatre.
Aha, I see. It strikes me as not so obvious to love Greek civilisation for a Turkish citizen, but it seems that this old vendetta has withered a lot over the past years. In fact, in SVR's history we've had no Greek members yet and two who were Turkish!
I heard the weather's extremely hot there right now. It's been a staggering 35°C here today, but I heard that around the Mediterranean temperatures went as high as 50°C?
Helena Eleutheria wrote:So I am in company with a few so called " tyranos"
Yes, but in ancient Greek "tyrannos" simply meant "sole ruler" with no negative connotation attached to the word. The word tyrant, derived from it, is of course no neutral word at all. If someone called Piscinus the "tyrant of SVR" I don't think he'd be pleased at all!
Kat'èrènèn,
Drakon
